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Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack"How the characters in this story are interconnected is a marvel of storytelling." -- JOHN IRVINGFate, circumstance, and the symbolism of sight collide in this modern gothic novel.On a hot June day in 1965, two six-year-old boys, Gareth and Jack, compete to see who...
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Where Is Chichen Itza?Discover more about the amazing Maya by visiting the city of Chichen Itza. Although it's known more as an important tourist attraction today, the city of Chichen Itza was a powerful religious, political, scientific, and artistic center of the Maya people. Readers will learn...
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Biophilia: A Handbook for Bringing the Natural World Into Your LifeA natural design for living well. American psychologist Edward O. Wilson popularised the term Biophilia - meaning a love of nature and a need to connect to the natural world - in the 1980s, after observing how increasing rates of urbanization were leading to...
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The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon ArchaeologySince the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of physical evidence--settlements, cemeteries, artefacts, environmental data, and standing buildings. This evidence has confirmed some readings of the Anglo-Saxon literary and documentary sources and challenged...
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The Mystic Sepulchre (Gothic Classics)"Vengeance flashed from his inflamed eye-balls: he drew a poniard from his bosom, and stabbed me to the heart; then, with a horrid shout of exultation, that made the vaulted roof resound, he hurled me headlong down the yawning chasm "Set in 15th-century Spain...
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Her Last Steps: A psychological suspense thrillerTrust no one when your daughter goes missing.On a frigid winter morning near her cabin, Ava Galbraith's four-year-old daughter vanishes without a trace in the snow. Local sheriff, Mallory Anderson, focuses his initial investigation on Ava and her estranged husband, Gordon, embroiled in a...
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Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History [With CD-ROM]See how the history of the Christian church unfolded from its first century roots through the medieval period. Packed with nearly 160 visual teaching and learning tools, from charts and timelines, to maps and visual guides--Charts of Ancient and Medieval Church History will help...
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Penelope's Song: A Seventeeth Century Tale for a Twenty-First Century WorldIt was the goude eeuw, the seventeenth century golden age of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and nowhere was it more glorious and prosperous than in Amsterdam, Holland, the mother city of Nieuw Amsterdam situated by the deep harbor of Mannahatta. Why then...
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Cool Is Everywhere: New and Adaptive Design Across AmericaEqual parts design inspiration and travelogue, this book highlights the rapidly growing adaptive reuse movement Cool Is Everywhere is a photographic survey of the adaptive reuse design movement in America's coolest cities. Michel Arnaud has been studying the spread of urban life into smaller...
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A Thousand Glass Flowers: Marietta Barovier and the Invention of the Rosetta BeadThis gorgeous and empowering picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Evan Turk paints the portrait of Marietta Barovier, the groundbreaking Renaissance artisan who helped shape the future of Venetian glassmaking. Marietta and her family lived on the island of Murano, near Venice, as all glassmakers...
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Kind of Boring: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be Viewed as Architecture: Canonical Work and Other Visible Things Meant to Be ViewedKind Of is a book presenting the work of Paul Preissner in a form of manifesto looking at the loose and varied origins of ideas that make room for intuition, blandness and confusion resulting in work which takes on a different type of politics:...
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Floppy Logic: Experimenting in the Territory Between Architecture, Fashion and TextileFloppy Logic is an exploration into the 'architecture' of fashion and textiles, and how the concepts, aesthetics, techniques and construction of this architecture might be understood and used to design and fabricate objects and space differently. A key concept here is the Floppy, defined...
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As Found Houses: Experiments from Self-Builders in Rural ChinaIn rural China, an informal wave of building jump-started by economic and social transformations over the past 40 years has rendered some villages unrecognizable. The resulting building boom, taking place in a context with very few regulations, has created densities more often found in...
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Modern Capitalism - Volume 1: The Pre-Capitalist Economy: A systematic historical depiction of Pan-European economic life from its origins to the prWerner Sombart (1863-1941) was one of the leading German economists and social scientists of the late 19thand early 20thcenturies. The son of an industrialist, his academic career was hampered by his early reputation as a Marxist economist. However, Sombart in his own work reversed...
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The Future of Transportation: SOM Thinkers SeriesHow will we travel in the future? Essays on the transport to come, from sidewalk scooters to levitating trainsWith the promise of delivery drones, personal helicopters, and groceries delivered right to your refrigerator, one might think we are living in the best of transportation...
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AA Women in Architecture: 1917-2017October 2017 marks the centenary of the admission of the first female students to the Architectural Association. Published to coincide with a symposium, exhibition and series of talks all celebrating this event, AA Women in Architecture puts forward the stories of women who have...
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Adaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of LivingAdaptive Ecologies: Correlated Systems of Living examines computational frameworks that explore a time-based poly-scalar urbanism. The publication includes essays by Mark Burry, Brett Steele, John Frazer, John Henry Holland, Makoto Sei Watanabe, Patrick Schumacher, and David Ruy. Architecture finds itself having to cope with...
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Alguien a Quien Conoces / Someone We KnowQuizá no conozcas tan bien a tus vecinos como creías. El nuevo y electrizante thriller de Shari Lapena, autora de La pareja de al lado. En un tranquilo barrio residencial de Nueva York, algunos hogares han recibido una nota anónima: «Lo siento muchísimo. Mi...
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Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold WarAn examination of the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle for US hegemony, through the activities of the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom.Parapolitics confronts the contemporary fate of intellectual autonomy and artistic freedom by revisiting the use of modernism in the twentieth-century battle...
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Always: A Lost Princesses NovellaA fierce elite guard. A loyal lady in waiting. They must work together to save three princesses from certain death.On the verge of dying after giving birth to twins, the queen of Mercia pleads with Lady Felicia to save her infant daughters. With the...
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