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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
$9.36
For the past six years, Stephanie Nolen has traced AIDS across Africa, and 28 is the result: an unprecedented, uniquely human portrait of the continent in crisis. Through riveting, anecdotal stories, she brings to life men, women, and children involved in every AIDS arena, making them familiar. And ..
A History Of The World In Six Glasses
$12.45
From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history.Throughout human history. certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becomi..
A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revit...
$8.43
"No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs to the living generation." Thomas Jefferson"A constitution intended to endure for years to come [is] consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." John Marshall"This book will ask readers ..
A Murder of Quality
$11.72
A bloody and apparently senseless murder had been committed at Carne School, one of the oldest and most glittering ornaments in the British public school system. George Smiley, whose connections with Carne were complicated by sentiment, had had a curious forewarning of the crime and, in a private ca..
Alan Turing: The Enigma
$9.91
Alan Turing (1912-54) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. But Turing's vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept of ..
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the...
$7.95
From one of the world's greatest humanitarian activists comes a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms.Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering, dispassion, and evil we hope never to encounter, James Orbinski still believe..
Black Hornet (A Lew Griffin Mystery)
$12.92
A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been fatally shot. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. He's black and she's white, and though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge..
Call for the Dead
$14.85
With the incomparable opening chapter of Call for the Dead, titled "A Brief History of George Smiley," John Le Carré introduces his legendary spy and immediately ensnares you in the shadowy world Smiley inhabits.Pulled back from overseas duty during World War II, Smiley was redirected to face the th..
Cave Canem: A Miscellany of Latin Words and Phrase...
$9.50
Latin is alive and well!Latin may be called a dead language, but it is currently experiencing a renaissance. In this spirit, Oxford-trained classicist Lorna Robinson introduces readers to the wonderful, chimeric world of the Latin language and what better forum for this than the world of ancient Rom..
Clear and Lively Writing: Language Games and Activ...
$9.02
This book is for all those who want to improve writing skills or play with different forms of written expression. It is for teachers or tutors in classrooms and resource rooms. It is for those who run enrichment programs for gifted and talented students. It is for those who provide extracurricular e..
Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in...
$8.58
On a stiflingly hot day in August, 30 B.C., the thirty-nine-year-old Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life, rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavian, the future emperor Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had died in her arms f..
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the Worl...
$9.09
The codfish. Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies and livelihoods have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. To the millions it has sustained, it has been a treasure more precious than gold..
Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers
$9.32
From the time of the ancient pharaohs to the modern world of Internet banking, civilization has relied on codes and ciphers to keep its secrets. The 4,000-year history of cryptography has been a kind of arms race: Each time a more complex encryption has been developed, it has been attacked and, more..
Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the...
$13.55
"Cuisinier, architect, and one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century, Carême was the founder of a classic cuisine that would influence generations of chefs. In this well-researched book, Ian Kelly deftly recounts the exploits of this remarkable man." JACQUES PÉPINAunique feast of biograp..
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits and the Struggle fo...
$12.31
An eye-opening examination of America's foundationOn September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation..
Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle f...
$9.70
On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-ninemen from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signedAmerica's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last. Most weredriven more by pragmatic,..
Dowsing: A Journey Beyond Our Five Senses (Wooden ...
$19.56
Dowsing is an art used for millennia to find water, minerals and metals, and today employed by builders, plumbers, and electricians the world over. Although it remains one of the most widely used paranormal skills, little is understood about it. Dowsing tells the story of this ancient science and it..
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equa...
$10.61
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's miracle year of discoveries, a new edition of the bestselling "biography" of his famous equationGenerations have grown up knowing that the equation E=mc2 changed the shape of our world, but never understanding what it actually means, why it was so sig..
Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of Fran...
$27.93
Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politi..
Epilepsy: A New Approach
$10.09
This book is a unique collaboration between a gifted writer with epilepsy and a skilled physician who has brought new insight into the treatment of this condition.At the age of twenty-six, when Adrienne Richard was seven months pregnant, she was diagnosed with epilepsy. For years she took anticonvul..
Family Britain, 1951-1957
$17.25
As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abund..
Fusiliers: The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment ...
$9.01
The American Revolution from a unique perspective--as seen through the eyes of a redcoat regiment.From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one British regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Their story, an..
George Washington's America: A Biography Through H...
$16.10
From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington drew and purchased were always central to his work. After his death, many of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas. The atlas remained in his family for almost a century before it was sold and eventually ended up a..
Herschel Walker's Basic Training
$129.02
Herschel Walker's basic training Author: Walker, Herschel Publisher: Main Street Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0385265042 ISBN-13: 9780385265041..
In The Shadow of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final St...
$11.13
At the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation on January 7, 1891, Lieutenant Edward Casey (the last white soldier to die in the Indian Wars) was assassinated by Lakota warrior Plenty Horses. Four days later peaceful Lakota hunters were ambushed by rancher Pete Culbertson and his brothers. According to frontie..