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These intricate details of spring and summer flowers are from an 18th-century Japanese paper screen by artist Watanabe Shikō (1683-1755), who painted in the Rinpa style (and was reputedly a rōnin!). Beautiful gold accents make up every intricacy of the leaves and flowers in...

For the celestially minded and lovers of dark light, we present Nova Stella. This book cover, with its central star shape, exerts an emotional pull like the North Star for nighttime wayfarers. Our Nova Stella cover comes from the 1789 binding of Missale Sacri...

This captivating image comes from the first edition of Scottish poet and anthropologist Andrew Lang's The Olive Fairy Book. Compiled in 1907 by Lang, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford and published under the editorial direction of Lang's wife, Leonora Alleyne, the book was one...

Rinpa is a leading historical school of Japanese painting, established in 17th-century Kyoto, whose artists were known for working in a range of formats. This design shows a section of a screen with various types of blooms often believed to follow the ancient Japanese...

A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up tough and unfeeling in this stunning middle grade novel in verse from the Newbery Honor-winning author of Genesis Begins Again. It's...

Two can play at this game.Fledging PI Zachariah Davies's wealthy and eccentric client, toymaker Alton Beacher, wants to hire an investigator who can pose as his boyfriend while figuring out who is behind the recent attempts on his life. And Zach, struggling to save...

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history. Witchcraft is a dramatic journey through thirteen witch trials across...

Author: Connie PearsonPublisher: Reedy PressPublished: 09/01/2023Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781681064512

The seventh hardcover collection of the Eisner Award-winning comic series as their Uni journey comes to a close! Graduation day is so close that Esther, Daisy, and Susan can almost taste it. It's time to think about what they want to do when they...

Mamta is so excited for her first day of grade three! But when her classmates start to whisper and laugh in the line for recess, Mamta wonders if she'll ever fit in. With some help from her Ma, Mamta learns to celebrate who she...

The perfect Father's Day gift of love or sweet keepsake for a daughter of any age to show why Dad is so amazing!This new picture book for kids ages 3-7 and beyond is a touching story showing all the ways a father will help...

Albert Einstein revolucionó el mundo de la ciencia a través de sus teorías. Sin embargo, no estuvo solo en ese largo itinerario. Cuál fue la verdadera participación de su primera esposa? Debería haber compartido con ella el Premio Nobel que le otorgaron?Marie Benedict rescata...

Hanna Majewski y su hermana menor, Stefa, no pueden ser más diferentes: mientras que Hanna deja Polonia para vivir libre de las ataduras que su religión le impone, Stefa es una adolescente modelo, obediente y comprometida con las tradiciones judías. Sin embargo, ambas están...

Diez personas que no se han visto nunca son invitadas por un huésped desconocido a pasar unos días de vacaciones en una lujosa mansión situada en una isla de la costa inglesa. Cada uno de los invitados tiene algo que esconder, y un crimen...

Nanée, bella y adinerada, nació con espíritu aventurero. Para ella, aprender a volar equivale a libertad. Cuando los tanques alemanes cruzan la frontera y llegan a París, esta mujer, con un perro adorable y un corazón generoso, se suma a la Resistencia. Conocida como...

Learn about mental illness, including how it is diagnosed and treated. Mental illnesses are health conditions that cause changes in how you feel, think, or behave (or a combination of these things). Distress and/or difficulties functioning in social, work, or family activities are symptoms...

SURVIVAL TIPS FOR SONS OF SERIAL KILLERS1. Change your last name. Be forgettable.2. Take comfort. Serial killing is not hereditary. Not usually, anyhow.3. Never contact your parents, whether on Death Row or elsewhere. You are messed up enough.4. Choose a dull career. Run an...

In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on...

The present volume and others of the "Nature Cure Series" which are to follow are an attempt to answer Mr. Louden's inquiry and to formulate and elucidate the fundamental laws of health, disease and cure for which he and many others have been vainly...

"The Washing Away of Wrongs" is a book about forensic medicine in ancient China. It is an important work in forensic medicine written by Song Ci during the Ming Dynasty. The book records his experiences and observations in forensic practice. Presented in the form...