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A Day with Claude Monet in Giverny
ADRIEN GOETZ · Flammarion Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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This beautiful slipcased volume offers an intimate tour inside Monet's home and through the idyllic Giverny garden that inspired his most iconic paintings. Monet first spotted the village of Giverny from the window of a train and then relocated to the rural haven outside Paris in 1883.... |
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Bangkok: Recipes and Stories from the Heart of Thailand
Leela Punyaratabandhu · Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony Pages: 368 Format: Print book
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From one of the most respected authorities on Thai cooking comes this beautiful and deeply personal ode to Bangkok, the top-ranked travel destination in the world.Every year, more than 16 million visitors flock to Thailand's capital city, and leave transfixed by the vibrant culture... |
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A Land Without Borders: My Journey Around East Jerusalem and the West Bank
Nir Baram · Text Publishing Company Pages: 200 Format: Paperback
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"From horror to fatigue to indifference, an important look forward and back that provides a grass-roots sense... An honest and troubling snapshot of Israel - both Palestinian and Israeli - that reveals the creeping realization that a two-state solution may no longer be possible."... |
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Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York
Justin Davidson · Spiegel & Grau Pages: 256 Format: Paperback
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From New York magazine's architecture critic, a walking and reading guide to New York City - a historical, cultural, architectural, and personal approach to seven neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, including six essays that help us understand the evolution... |
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The New Midwest: A Guide to Contemporary Fiction of the Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Rust Belt
MARK ATHITAKIS · BELT PUB Pages: 104 Format: Print book
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In the public imagination, Midwestern literature has not evolved far beyond heartland laborers and hardscrabble immigrants of a century past. But as the region has changed, so, in many ways, has its fiction. In this book, the author explores how shifts in work, class, place, race, and culture... |
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Geography: Ideas in Profile
Daniel Dorling · Profile Books Pages: 175 Format: Paperback
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Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsGeography gives shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing. Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant mortality in inner cities... |
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