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Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club
$50.00 Read moreThe first book to feature Jacob Lawrence’s Nigeria series, this richly illustrated volume also highlights Africa’s place as a global center of modernist art and culture
This revelatory book shines a- Author: Gant, Kimberli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0300263171
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille
$16.00 Read moreThe original English-language translation of ? Cadhain’s raucous masterpiece Cr? na Cille, which Colm T?ib?n has called the “greatest novel to be written in the Irish language”
“An audacious novel ren- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: O. Cadhain, Mairtin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0300219822
- Language: English
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Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician
$15.00 Read moreFor fans of Bradley Cooper’s film Maestro, an appreciation that gives Bernstein his due as composer as well as conductor
Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Shawn, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0300219857
- Language: English
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Joy: 100 Poems
$28.00 Add to cartOne hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet
“Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow ne… [more below]- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 030022608X
- Language: English
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Medieval Europe
$20.00 Add to cartA spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and t- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228821
- Language: English
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Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams
$50.00 Read moreAn unprecedented and eye-opening examination of the early career of one of America’s most celebrated photographers
One of the most influential photographers of his generation, Ansel Adams (1902-1984)- Author: Senf, Rebecca A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0300243944
- Language: English
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The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse
$25.00 Read moreA wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry–itself written entirely in verse
“Reading this book, you get to know poetry from the inside, without the alienating or distr- Author: Newlyn, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0300251912
- Language: English
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The Story of the Country House: A History of Places and People
$25.00 Read moreThe fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present
“An eclectic scholarly account, tracing the evolution of the country house from the hun- Author: Aslet, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0300255055
- Language: English
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Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
$20.00 Read moreThe critically acclaimed Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer Cees Nooteboom pays tribute to Venice–the city, its history, and its treasures
“Mr. Nooteboom . . . [has] a highly distinctive voice–- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Nooteboom, Cees
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264607
- Language: English
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North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution
$35.00 Read moreHow the United States was created–a complex and surprising story of patriots, Indigenous peoples, loyalists, visionaries and scoundrels
The story of the Thirteen Colonies’ struggle for independence- Author: Lennox, Jeffers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0300226128
- Language: English
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Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
$18.00 Read moreThis #1 New York Times best seller remains the most informative and objective account of the Taliban available
This modern classic brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanista- Author: Rashid, Ahmed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0300266820
- Language: English
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The Long, Long Life of Trees
$18.00 Read moreA lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings
Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankin- Author: Stafford, Fiona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228201
- Language: English
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Exiled Shadow
$30.00 Read moreA virtuoso collage novel about narrative, identity, and exile, from international literary sensation Norman Manea
“One of the most eloquent living witnesses of the European 20th century, Norman Manea,- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Manea, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0300265727
- Language: English
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I Live in the Slums: Stories
$26.00 Read moreLonglisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize
A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature “There’s something inescapably- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Can Xue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0300247435
- Language: English
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Of Solids and Surds: Notes for No? Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, MIA Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
$18.00 Read moreIn the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction
“Delany’s prismatic output is among the most sign- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0300250401
- Language: English
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A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China
$60.00 Read moreA lively tour through experimental Chinese photography from the early 1990s to today
The past thirty years were dynamic, transformative decades in Chinese photography. Artists exposed to recent work- Author: Chiu, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300269889
- Language: English
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Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed
$23.00 Read moreThe first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire
“[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth’s learned,- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Baudelaire, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270496
- Language: English
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
$30.00 Read moreHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II
“A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today’s right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are u- Author: Olmsted, Kathryn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0300256426
- Language: English
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God After Einstein: What’s Really Going on in the Universe?
$28.00 Read moreA leading theologian presents a hopeful account of the universe after Einstein, exploring it as a meaningful drama of awakening
“This book is a deep and provocative piece of theology that proposes we- Author: Haught, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 030025119X
- Language: English
