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El infinito en un junco / Infinity in a Reed: The Invention of Books in the Anci ent World

Irene Vallejo - Vintage Espanol
Format: Paperback

Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefacto que inventamos para que las palabras pudieran viajar en el espacio y en el tiempo. Es la historia de su fabricacin y de todos los modelos y formatos de libros que hemos ensayado a lo largo...
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The Enemy Harassed: Washington's New Jersey Campaign of 1777

Jim Stempel - Knox Press
Format: Paperback

As few books regarding American history have achieved, Jim Stempel's The Enemy Harassed brings a previously neglected period of the American Revolution to life.. In late December 1776, the American War of Independence appeared to be on its last legs. General George Washington's...
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Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

Richard Overy - Viking
Format: Hardcover

A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain's leading military historianRichard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. As one of Britain's most decorated and respected...
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Foxfire Story: Oral Tradition in Southern Appalachia

Foxfire Fund Inc - Anchor
Format: Paperback

Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for countless readers all around the world. In Foxfire Story, folklorist (and Foxfire director) T.J. Smith collects some of his favorite stories from the archives to illuminate the oral traditions...
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American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

Kevin M Hazzard - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal....
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Talk of Champions: Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir

Kenny Smith - ?Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

A poignant, humorous, behind-the-scenes memoir from Kenny "The Jet" Smith - superstar basketball commentator, host of top-rated Inside the NBA, and two-time NBA champion. Smith reveals memorable inside stories of his playing and broadcasting careers, focusing on the star players,...
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Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey (CERES: Rutgers Studies in History)

Jean R Soderlund - Rutgers University Press
Format: Paperback

Separate Paths: Lenapes and Colonists in West New Jersey is the first cross-cultural study of European colonization in the region south of the Falls of the Delaware River (now Trenton) . Lenape men and women welcomed their allies, the Swedes and Finns, to escape more rigid English regimes...
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Art: 21, Volume 6: Art in the Twenty-First Century

Thelma Golden - ?Art 21, Inc.; 0 edition
Format: Hardcover

This lavishly illustrated volume, a companion to the sixth season of the Peabody-winning PBS series on contemporary art, offers unparalleled access to 14 of the most dynamic artists working today. The reader journeys behind the scenes into homes and studios for a look at the lives...
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Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Amit Chaudhuri - New York Review Books
Format: Paperback

Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, and essayist, is also a musician, trained in the Indian classical vocal tradition but equally fluent as a guitarist and singer in the American folk music style, who has recorded his experimental compositions extensively and performed around the world. A turning...
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Humankind: A Hopeful History

Rutger Bregman - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From the "folk hero of Davos" (Vox) , Fox News antagonist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Utopia for Realists, a revolutionary argument that our innate goodness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in humanity's successIf there is one belief that has united...
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