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Helen of TroyAcclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face launched a thousand ships in this New York Times bestseller. The Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to...
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in ItalyFor nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts...
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Refabricating Architecture: How Manufacturing Methodologies Are Poised to Transform Building ConstructionPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Preoccupation with image and a failure to look at process has led entire generations of architects to overlook...
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All Dressed in WhiteSelf-made shipping magnate Joseph Chance never planned on falling in love. He simply needed financing for a new business venture and a marriage of convenience provides it. Then he meets Tessa St. Croix, his future bride, and is instantly smitten. But when the angelic...
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Mirror Mirror"A brilliant achievement." --Boston Herald "Entertaining...profound....A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain."--Christian Science Monitor Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Land of Oz in his New York Times...
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Seahenge: A Quest for Life and Death in Bronze Age BritainA lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has been taking place in Norfolk and the Fenlands over the last twenty years, and in which the author has played...
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Intimacy Exposed: Toilets, Bathrooms, RestroomsA meditation on the space, evolution, and function of the bathroomThis book presents a series of scientific and artistic interventions reflecting on the evolution of toilets, public and private, and on their many functions today, including those of transgressive, informal meeting places and spaces...
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The SoulmateFrom New York Times bestselling author Sally Hepworth, comes a twisty new domestic suspense novel in The Soulmate...Author: Sally HepworthPublisher: MacMillan AudioPublished: 04/04/2023Binding Type: CDWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 1.00h x 1.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781250878311
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Ballet Is Not For Muslim GirlsFrom biryani to borscht, the food was fabulous in Canada's only Polish-Pakistani family. Mariam S. Pal's memoir, Ballet is not for Muslim Girls, is set in this remarkable Victoria B.C. household in the 60s and 70s. Growing up, Mariam struggled to navigate three cultures:...
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YakimaArising from sagebrush in 1884, Yakima, Washington, became an instant city within its first year of existence. With the initial placement of more than 100 moved structures and rapid construction of new ones, the city's downtown vicinity expanded rapidly in its first few decades....
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Twentieth-Century Architecture and Modernity: Our Past, Our PresentThe theme of "modernity" was the launching pad for architecture in the 20th century, to the point of completely revolutionizing our way of life. By causing in its development absolutizations and misunderstandings, actual motives linked to the profound desire to improve everyone's life were...
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Sword in Two Hands: A Full-Color Modern Training Guide based on the Fior di Battaglia of Fiori dei LiberiLearn to Use the Medieval LongswordThe reconstruction of highly efficient and deadly medieval fighting systems has seen a popular resurgence as students recreate these arts through structured martial arts training and then test their skills in competitive tournaments. Dr. Brian R. Price, co-founder of...
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The Little Theater of Vincent DarréA whimsical scrapbook celebrating the confluence of style and decor from France's most original interior designer. This handsome oversized volume is a lavish scrapbook bursting with creativity that presents twenty recent projects, inspiring encounters, and ephemeral decor created by designer Vincent Darré. Quirky and...
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Slavery and Serfdom in the Middle Ages: Selected EssaysMarc Bloch was one of the founders of social history, if by that is meant the history of social organization and relations to contrast to the more conventional histories of political elites and diplomatic relations. His great monographs in medieval history are well known,...
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The Classical Parthenon: Recovering the Strangeness of the Ancient WorldComplementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly 'the very symbol of democracy itself', instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how?In this book...
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Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific: Difficult Heritage and the Transnational Politics of Postcolonial NationalismNew directions for comparative research into "difficult heritage" as a concept. Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on the notion of heritage, this collection advances our understanding...
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Uncommon Vows: A Medieval Prequel to the Bride TrilogyAn uncommon love story...Wrenched from a monastery before taking final vows, Adrian de Lancey's fighting skill wins him an earldom. Fierce discipline masters his darker nature-until he finds a winsome slip of a girl lost in his forest, an illegal falcon on her wrist.Encountering...
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Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers: Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance DesignRenewable Energy Systems for Building Designers presents a comprehensive introduction to the latest resources and technologies used in high performance and net zero energy buildings, with a practical focus on the design and integration of these systems. This textbook and convenient reference offers a...
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Emilio Ambasz: Curating a New NatureA timely reevaluation and synthesis of this ecologically minded trailblazer and vibrantly interdisciplinary figure of contemporary design. Famously labeled the "father, poet, and prophet" of green architecture and a proponent of the idea that any project in architecture or design must present new or...
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To Govern Is to Serve: An Essay on Medieval DemocracyTo Govern Is to Serve explores the practices of collective governance in medieval religious orders that turned the precepts of the Gospels--most notably that the first will be last, the last will be first--into practices of communal deliberation and the election of superiors. Jacques...
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