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How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair
$21.15 USD
A tale of greed, lust, deceit, theft on an extraordinary scale, charlatanry, kidnapping, assassination and escape from priso by : Jonathan Beckman
Humankind: A Hopeful History
$28.20 USD
– Sold Outby : Rutger Bregman (Author), Erica Moore (Translator), Elizabeth Manton (Translator)
I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity
$28.20 USD
– Sold Outby : Izzeldin Abuelaish (Author, Afterword), Marek Glezerman (Foreword) "A necessary lesson against hatred and revenge" ―Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate"In this book, Doctor Abuelaish has expressed a remarkable commitment...
Ian McHarg: Conversations with Students / Dwelling in Nature
$14.10 USD
One of the legendary figures in twentieth-century design, Ian McHarg transformed the fields of landscape architecture and planning through his personal methodology, his unique curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania,...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One (Library of Arabic Literature, 12)
$28.20 USD
by : Muḥammad al-Tūnisī (Author), Humphrey Davies (Translator), R.S. O'Fahey (Introduction)
In the Midst of Civilized Europe
$28.20 USD
by : Jeffrey Veidlinger (Author)
Inside the Priory of Sion
$21.15 USD
For the first time, inside sources from the reclusive Priory of Sion--thrust into the limelight by Dan Brown's bestselling The Da Vinci Code--share their best-kept secrets, including proof of the...
Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers
$18.33 USD
This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant's serendipitous discovery of a travel narrative published in Venice in 1558 by the Renaissance statesman Nicolo Zen: the text and its fascinating...
Isaac Newton's Freemasonry: The Alchemy of Science and Mysticism
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Freemasonry, as a fraternal order of scientists and philosophers, emerged in the 17th century and represented something new - an amalgam of alchemy and science that allowed the creative genius...
Italian Architecture from Michelangelo to Borromini (World of Art)
$11.28 USD
The years from 1520 to 1630 were crucial in the development of Western architecture, but to label as Mannerist the transition from Michelangelo's "licentious" New Sacristy in Florence to Borromini's...
Jordan: An Archaeological Reader
$70.50 USD
– Sold Outby : Russell Adams (Author, Editor)
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
$31.02 USD
– Sold OutThe Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a sideshow'. Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western...
Louis: The French Prince Who Invaded England
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n 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with the weak and despicable King John, decided that they needed a new monarch. They wanted a strong, experienced man, of royal...
Luck, Fate and Fortune
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The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how the ancient Greeks tried to foretell the outcome of the...
Mao Zedong Thought (Historical Materialism)
$28.20 USD
by : Wang Fanxi (Author), Gregor Benton (Translator)
Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts
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by Lucy Creagh (Editor), Helena Kaberg (Editor), Barbara Miller Lane (Editor), Kenneth Frampton (Introduction) Although modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary influence on international architecture and interior furnishings since...
On Palestine
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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with...
Orientalism
$26.79 USD
– Sold OutBy : Edward W. Said More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a...
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
$21.15 USD
– Sold Outby : Jimmy Carter (Author)
Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
$22.56 USD
The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public...
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
$18.33 USD
by : Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Author)
Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City
$28.20 USD
Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange...
Prussian Regular Infantryman 1808-15 (Warrior)
$7.05 USD
by : Oliver Schmidt and Steve Noon
Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times
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Not long after co-authoring The Port Huron Statement, the charter document of 1960s activism, Tom Hayden completed, at the University of Michigan, an intellectual biography of eminent scholar C. Wright...
Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther,
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When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the...
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change,
$18.33 USD
by : Joshua Eisenman (Author)
Renzo Piano Museums
$28.20 USD
Hardcover Creating space for the display of works of art has intrigued Renzo Piano throughout his thirty-five years of architectural practice. Today he is acknowledged the pre-eminent designer in this...
Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War
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In the followup to his "vivid, ardent, and engaging" John Donne: The Reformed Soul (New York Review of Books), John Stubbs finds his next subject in the turbulent period of...
Secret Societies: Their Influence and Power from Antiquity to the Present Day
$15.51 USD
– Sold OutAn overview of how esoteric brotherhoods have shaped history • Examines the secret chronology and clandestine causes of seminal world events • Shows how secret societies feed into one another,...
Selected Writings of Thomas Paine (Rethinking the Western Tradition)
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A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his...
Serpent in the Sky: High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt
$18.33 USD
This revised edition of West's revolutionary reinterpretation of the civilization of Egypt challenges all that has been accpeted as dogma concerning this ancient and enigmatic land. It features a new...
Silent Witnesses
$14.10 USD
A crime scene. A murder. A mystery. The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most...
Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World
$28.20 USD
– Sold OutA detailed portrait of the Turkic people explores events since World War I that have rendered the nation a vital NATO ally and the site of a secular Islamic democracy,...
St. Anthony: The Wonder-Worker of Padua
$14.10 USD
– Sold Outby : Charles Warren Stoddard (Author)