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Plant: Exploring the Botanical World

Phaidon Editors. · Phaidon
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images everFollowing in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map: Exploring the World, this fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity...
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Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy

Brett M Rogers · Oxford University Press
Pages: 367
Format: Paperback

Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy is the first collection of essays in English focusing on how fantasy draws deeply on ancient Greek and Roman mythology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and cult practice. Presenting fifteen all-new essays intended for both scholars and other...
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Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory

Qwo-Li Driskill · University of Arizona Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men's and women's roles or who mix men's and women's roles. Asegi, which translates as "strange," is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to "queer." For author Qwo-Li Driskill,...
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The Northwest Coastal Explorer: Your Guide to the Places, Plants, and Animals of the Pacific Coast

Robert Steelquist · Timber Press
Pages: 284
Format: Print book

Millions of visitors explore the magnificent coastline of the Pacific Northwest and all that it provides - unique plant life, easy-to-find animals, and magical places. The Northwest Coastal Explorer is a fun, engaging, lushly-illustrated guide to the marine life of Oregon, Washington, and British...
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Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity

Edward Slingerland · Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 295
Format: Hardcover

A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity - an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand - and why it is so essential to our well-being Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before an important meeting? Or be charming...
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People

Elizabeth A. Fenn · Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis...
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Uncle John's Plunges into New York

Bathroom Readers' Institute · Portable Press; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

You think you know New York? Fugeddaboutit! Uncle John knows New York, and he’s taking readers on a whirlwind tour of America’s greatest city . . . this time in Technicolor! Uncle John's Plunges into New York is full of cool trivia and fascinating facts about the Big Apple,...
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Klavierkonzert nr. 2 B-dur, op. 83 : klavierauszug

Johannes Brahms · G. Henle Language: German, English, French ISBN-13: 979-0201812311 ASIN: B00NJQM8WK Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.6 x 12.2 inches Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds Average Customer Review: Be the first to review this item  Would you like to update product info

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How the World Sees You: Discover Your Highest Value Through the Science of Fascination

Sally Hogshead · Harperbusiness
Pages: 428
Format: Hardcover

Sally Hogshead believes the greatest value you can add is to become more of yourself.Hogshead rose to the top of the advertising profession in her early 20s, writing ads that fascinated millions of consumers. Over the course of her ad career, Sally won hundreds of awards for creativity,...
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Kennedy's Hugs

Jason Hansen · Plain Sight Publishing
Pages: 293
Format: Print book

After her terminal diagnosis, Kennedy's life would never be the same. But even as her body broke down, her heart never failed, nor did her ability to love. With each precious passing day, more people witnessed her faith and kindness uniting her community and spreading to millions around...
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There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me

Brooke Shields · Dutton; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir. Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom,...
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Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction

Philippa Levine · Oxford University Press, USA
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback

In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, coined the word "eugenics" to express his dream of perfecting the human race by applying the laws of genetic heredity. Adapting Darwin's theory of evolution to human society, eugenics soon became a powerful, international...
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