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  • Raising Empowered Athletes
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    Raising Empowered Athletes

    A timely and down-to-earth guide for parents navigating the difficult decisions and extraordinary pressures of youth sports.Today's youth sports experience provokes countless questions for well-intentioned parents. How young should kids start playing...
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    Ed Kranepool
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    Ed Kranepool

    No origin story of the New York Mets is complete without Ed Kranepool.The lefty first baseman known as "Steady Eddie" made his major-league debut at age 17 during the team's inaugural season and would eventually depart, nearly two decades later, with his...
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    The Trials of Madame Restell
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    The Trials of Madame Restell

    The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century-and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rightsFor forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, "Madame Restell," the nom de guerre of the...
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    If You Give an Elephant Edibles
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    If You Give an Elephant Edibles

    Light up and laugh out loud at this adult parody of a favorite children's series. A hilarious gift for your favorite stoner.A humorous play off of the bestselling If You Give a Moose a Muffin, this new installment of the Addicted Animals series reveals...
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  • Chinese Silk Gift Wrapping Papers 12 Sheets
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    Chinese Silk Gift Wrapping Papers 12 Sheets

    This fine-quality tear-out wrapping sheets features twelve traditional and modern prints, suitable for craft projects as well as for gift wrapping. The tasteful designs are suitable for any occasion, and offer a wide variety of color schemes and patterns...
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  • At the Edge of Mysteries
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    At the Edge of Mysteries

    THE JOURNEY OF THE PIONEERS OF IMMUNOLOGY FROM SMALLPOX TO COVID-19In December 2019 a new virus emerged, one that caused a global pandemic. Millions were infected. In the recesses of their fragile bodies a battle raged: between the immune system and the...
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  • RULES TO LIVE BY
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    RULES TO LIVE BY

    RULES TO LIVE BY FOR WEALTH, HEALTH & HAPPINESS "There is a lot in this book that can turn lives around, towards fulfillment and happiness."-The Jewish Press Born in Spain during the height of the Middle Ages, Maimonides, also known as Rambam, is...
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    Heroes of the Metal Underground
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    Heroes of the Metal Underground

    The only encyclopedic and definitive book on American indie metal!If all you know about metal music was what was heard on commercial radio, then you don't know metal at all. Heroes of the Metal Underground profiles over 1100 American bands from every...
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    Zombie Cat
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    Zombie Cat

    Tiddles is a suave, carefree kitty cat whose only pleasures in life are eating mice, wooing the ladies, and being generally apathetic toward his owner, Jake. But when a toxic spill occurs outside of town, Tiddles finds himself savagely attacked by a...
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    The Treehouse Book

    The Treehouse Bookis a global round-up of the best in modern treehouse living.Tree houses have come of age. The image of a few planks nailed into the branches of a tree has changed into a new generation of specially designed and built structures,...
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    The Asian Hot Pot Cookbook
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    The Asian Hot Pot Cookbook

    Gather your family and friends for the ultimate communal dinner! In Asia, hot pots have long been a cornerstone of home-cooking--a one pot meal, shared at the table, with family and friends helping themselves from the communal pot. The key to a...
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    An Insiders Guide To The Japanese Martial Arts
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    An Insiders Guide To The Japanese Martial Arts

    The ultimate guide to the Japanese martial arts by the world's foremost expert! Author Alexander Bennett is the ultimate insider, having lived in Japan for decades. He holds multiple black belts in Kendo and Naginata, as well as PhDs in Japanese...
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    A Beginners Guide To Japanese Haiku
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    A Beginners Guide To Japanese Haiku

    An old pond; a frog jumps in: the sound of water Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for anyone wanting to learn about haiku. Compiled and with commentary by William Scott Wilson, the book...
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    Conan the Barbarian
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    Conan the Barbarian

    Official retrospective hardback book telling the story of the making of Conan The Barbarian, including interviews with cast and crew and featuring behind-the-scenes photography from the shoot.In 1982, Robert E. Howard's iconic literary...
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    Unearthing the Underworld
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    Unearthing the Underworld

    Unearthing the Underworld reveals the hidden world of rocks the secret-keepers of past environments, of changing climates and the pulse of life over billions of years. Even the most seemingly ordinary stone can tell us much about the history of this...
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    Ulisse Aldrovandi
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    Ulisse Aldrovandi

    The Bolognese naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi was a prolific writer, polymath and prodigious collector who amassed the largest collection of naturalia in sixteenth-century Europe, as well as hundreds of coloured drawings detailing them. Many of these...
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    Travellers through Time
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    Travellers through Time

    Romany Gypsies have been variously portrayed as exotic strangers or as crude, violent delinquents; this book is the first real history of the Romany people, from the inside. Jeremy Harte vividly portrays the hardships of the travelling life, the skills...
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    The Ruling Families of Rus
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    The Ruling Families of Rus

    This is a new history of the region known as Kyivan Rus', a state in eastern and northern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variety of polities and peoples, including Lithuanian, Polish, Ottoman and...
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    Simulating the Cosmos
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    Simulating the Cosmos

    Simulating the Cosmos is a behind-the-scenes look into one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of astrophysics today: simulations of cosmology and galaxy formation, which illustrate how everything we see in the universe arose out of the primordial...
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    Shells
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    Shells

    Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a shell. As well as containers for food, shells have been used as tools, jewellery and decorations for dwellings, and to bring good luck or to ward off spirits...
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    Rowan
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    Rowan

    Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this...
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    Photography and Korea
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    Photography and Korea

    Photography and Korea is the first history of Korean photography for a Western readership. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, when Korean travellers brought photographic technology home from China, Photography and Korea presents multiple visions...
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    The Monkees
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    The Monkees

    The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop, and perhaps the major question: is it the music that matters or the personality and image of the performers? This book explores the system behind the Monkees, the controversial made-for-tv band that...
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    Lamestains
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    Lamestains

    This book is a critical history of Sub Pop, the Seattle independent rock label that launched the careers of countless influential 'grunge' bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses in particular on the languages and personas...
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    Astray
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    Astray

    This book explores how, far from being limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning - a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our...
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    Navigations
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    Navigations

    Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in...
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    Ford Madox Ford
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    Ford Madox Ford

    Ford Madox Ford (18731939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad, Ford was a leading figure of the avant-garde in pre-WWI London,...
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    The English Actor
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    The English Actor

    The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays - through the flourishing of the...
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    Duchamp's Telegram
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    Duchamp's Telegram

    In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that...
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    Double Nation
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    Double Nation

    In this major new account Ian McLean traces the history of Australian art, from colonial art practice to the search for a national art in the twentieth century. Two key themes structure the narrative: the transformation of a British art practice into an...
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    'Race Is Everything'
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    'Race Is Everything'

    'Race Is Everything' explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but...
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    Breakfast Cereal
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    Breakfast Cereal

    Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history - around 10,000 years ago, with the advent of agriculture, people began breaking...
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    The Art Public
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    The Art Public

    Although the idea of a collective audience for art - an 'art public' - is highly significant in the art world, this is the first book to enquire into the actual history of the art public. The book explores both written and pictorial...
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    Arc of Feeling
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    Arc of Feeling

    In Arc of Feeling Javier Moscoso investigates the pleasure of oscillation and explores the surprising history of the swing through its meanings and metaphors, noting echoes and coincidences in remote times and places, from the witch's broom to...
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    Animal Architecture
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    Animal Architecture

    A provocative call for architects to remember and embrace the nonhuman lives that share our spaces.A spider spinning its web in a dark corner. Wasps building a nest under a roof. There's hardly any part of the built environment that can't be inhabited by...
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    About England
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    About England

    'England' and 'Englishness' have received much attention in the twenty-first century, not least in debates over Brexit. About England explores how these concepts have been imagined since the 1960s, covering themes...
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    Water Beings
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    Water Beings

    Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic - and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities:...
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    Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing
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    Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing

    A critical biography of one of the most celebrated prose stylists in early modern English.This book provides an overview of the life and work of the scandalous Renaissance writer Thomas Nashe (1567c.1600), whose writings led to the closure of theaters...
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    Pet Revolution
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    Pet Revolution

    A history of pets and their companions in Britain from the Victorians to today.Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has...
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    Pazazz
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    Pazazz

    From bridal gowns and White Parties to shrouds, an illuminating look at the power of our palest apparel. Pazazz examines the complex meanings of white clothing throughout history. Delicate and impractical, white cloth in the past was difficult to...
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    The Hittites
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    The Hittites

    An accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor.Famed for their skill in battle, the Hittites flourished in central Anatolia from the seventeenth to the thirteenth century BC. They were much more than a military power, however - their...
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    Descartes
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    Descartes

    A critical biography of Ren Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called 'the father of modern philosophy', Ren Descartes' contributions to philosophy, mathematics and natural science set the...
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    Byron
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    Byron

    In this new book, David Ellis traces Byron's life from rented lodgings in Aberdeen to the crumbling splendours of Newstead Abbey and then on to his grand tour of the East. Describing his exile from England after a disastrous marriage, and subsequent...
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    The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe
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    The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe

    This book is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks, and artists understood and depicted human anatomy. Taylor...
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    Merchants of Style
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    Merchants of Style

    Merchants of Style explores the accelerating convergence of art and fashion, looking at the interplay of artists and designers - and the role of institutions, both public and commercial - that has brought about this marriage of aesthetic industries...
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    John Ashbery
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    John Ashbery

    Mysterious, esoteric, and baffling, John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous, even charming, and ever responsive to his shifting social and political contexts. This biography charts...
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    The Natural Beauty of Brooklyn
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    The Natural Beauty of Brooklyn

    When you think of Brooklyn you probably think of it as the world capital of hip, with its bars, restaurants, stores and bridges. You think of the hustle and bustle of people, traffic and construction 24/7. Do you ever imagine that there's another side to...
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    Plug-Ins
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    Plug-Ins

    This book's central argument is that plug-ins, situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities, are a solid yet supple conceptual framework for rethinking how design can be a key agent in city...
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