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Documents That Changed the Way We Live
Joseph Janes · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 273
Format: Hardcover
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Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines dozens of compelling stories... |
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The Story of America: Essays on Origins
Jill Lepore · Princeton University Press; First printing. edition
Format: Hardcover
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In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history... |
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The Iconic Interior: Private Spaces of Leading Artists, Architects, and Designers
Dominic Bradbury · Harry N. Abrams
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The Iconic Interior features 100 of the most important and influential interiors from around the world. Designed by a broad spectrum of fashion designers, artists and architects, set designers and decorators, these private spaces represent a wide range of styles, periods, and aesthetics.... |
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Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry: 50 Designs Using Leather, Ribbon, and Cords
Lorelei Eurto · Interweave
Format: Paperback
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Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry showcases beautiful designs that explore the rapidly growing trend of using cords and ribbon in jewelry Inside this colorful instruction book are clear steps for incorporating these trendy materials into designs as well as troubleshooting tips for finishing the ends... |
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The Politics of the Pantry: Stories, Food, and Social Change
Michael Mikulak · Mcgill Queens Univ Pr
Format: Print book
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"What's for dinner?" has always been a complicated question. The locavore movement has politicized food and challenged us to rethink the answer in new and radical ways. These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream.... |
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Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel
Jamie Ford · Ballantine Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls - a boy with dreams for his future and a woman... |
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The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
Elizabeth Wayland Barber · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance. From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. So appealing... |
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The Birds of Pandemonium
Michele Raffin · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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A remarkable book. Reading about the birds of Pandemonium will make you laugh and cry it will make you see more clearly the need to take care of our planet and it will confirm that one person with a passion can make a difference. —Jeff Corwin, nature conservationist and host of Animal... |
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Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Taras Grescoe · Times Books; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America... |
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Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
Hilary Spurling · Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China. |
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
William Dalrymple · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From William Dalrymple—award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer—a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the Wests greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time. With... |
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Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Mark Hertsgaard · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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A fresh take on climate change by a renowned journalist driven to protect his daughter, your kids, and the next generation wholl inherit the problem For twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming for outlets including the?New Yorker, NPR, Time, Vanity Fair, and The Nation.... |
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