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The Least of My Brothers: Matthew 25: 31-46 : A History of Interpretation The Least of My Brothers: Matthew 25: 31-46 : A History of Interpretation Price: $47.73 (more details) The Least of My Brothers: Matthew 25: 31-46 : A History of Interpretation	Against Fashion: Clothing As Art, 1850-1930 Against Fashion: Clothing As Art, 1850-1930 Price: $46.80 (more details) The late nineteenth-century invention of 'fashion' as we understand it today inspired avant-garde artists of the period to create an art form to counter commercial fashion. These artists saw clothing not as a symbol of class distinction but as a force for shaping experience--an opportunity to make things new, to go beyond the traditional boundaries of art. For many artists, therefore, dress design was too important to ...
Pulitzer: A Life Pulitzer: A Life Price: $23.40 (more details) The first complete, one-volume biography in three decades of the " Father of American Journalism" This long overdue biography of one of the most monumental figures in publishing history is filled with fascinating stories of the Hungarian immigrant’ s rise to the pinnacle of American journalism. Including new personal information, culled from Pulitzer’ s own correspondence and interviews, Joseph Pulitzer reveals how he transformed the New York ...	Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey Price: $11.66 (more details) Here is an expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade. Documenting the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women, 'these chronicles of women show an aspect of the westward saga seldom seen before and never in such depth. . . . Absorbing, informative, sobering reading'.--The Wall Street Journal.
Elephants Elephants Price: $10.10 (more details) Spectacular insights into the lifestyles, behavior and environments of wild animals. Top natural history photographs and detailed artworks illustrate the text, to give a full and vivid picture of life and survival in the wild. For all readers and their families with a passion for natural history, and stimulating material for school projects.	The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sports in Canada The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sports in Canada Price: $29.20 (more details) The Girl and the Game goes well beyond the customary chronicling of women in sport. Ann Hall examines the big picture: Canadian women's sport history in its rightful context as a cultural struggle. These are the stories of ordinary women and extraordinary athletes who challenged the status quo. Meticulously researched and richly crafted. Sports writer, Mary Jollimore.
America's First Cuisines America's First Cuisines Price: $21.40 (more details) Drawing on original accounts by Europeans and native Americans, this pioneering work offers the first detailed description of the cuisines of the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca. Sophie Coe begins with the basic foodstuffs, including maize, potatoes, beans, peanuts, squash, avocados, tomatoes, chocolate, and chilies, and explores their early history and domestication. She then describes how these foods were prepared, served, and preserved...	The End of Affluence: The End of Affluence: Price: $17.16 (more details) Revealing the changes in the American economy that led to such crises as the federal deficit, a cautionary history predicts that American denial of current trends will dangerously compromise our world status. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
Lewis and Clark: An American Journey Lewis and Clark: An American Journey Price: $10.12 (more details) Lewis and Clark is a stunningly illustrated volume of the classic American history of two visionaries and their troops, who braved the unknown to find a way overland to the Pacific. Filled with fascinating excerpts from the journals of the men on the trip, Lewis and Clark brings alive the danger and excitement of this journey into virgin territory. Glorious color photographs reveal the land the Corps of Discovery passed throu...	The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaa... The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920 Price: $28.53 (more details) This compelling interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social, economic, and political relations among the Anishinaabeg and reveals how cultural forces outside of the reservation profoundly affected their lives.
English Church History from the Death of King Henry VII, to the Death of Arch... English Church History from the Death of King Henry VII, to the Death of Archbishop Parker - Four Lectures Price: $27.25 (more details) English Church History from the Death of King Henry VII, to the Death of Archbishop Parker - Four Lectures	Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream. Twel... Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, a Midsummer Night's Dream. Twelfth Night, the Tempest Price: $14.35 (more details) Our Signet Classic Shakespeare Series was extensively revised in 1998. We offer the best of everything -- unforgettable works edited by eminent Shakespeare scholars, comprehensive notes on the text, an essay on Shakespeare's life and times, source material, critical commentaries, extensive bibliographies, and footnotes. And there's more -- Grow with the times by i...
Fighting the Flames; A Modern History of the British Fire Service Fighting the Flames; A Modern History of the British Fire Service Price: $54.56 (more details) Fighting the Flames; A Modern History of the British Fire Service	A City Through Time A City Through Time Price: $14.03 (more details) Created by the illustrator of the award-winning A Street Through Time, a stunning picture book vividly brings to life the history and growth of a city, beginning with the birth of a fictional Greek colony and ending with a modern metropolis--a captivating journey through 2,500 years.
The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring: The Development of Reformist I... The Intellectual Origins of the Prague Spring: The Development of Reformist Ideas in Czechoslovakia 1956â�?��??1967 Price: $36.07 (more details) In this survey of the development of reformist ideas among the Czech intelligentsia from 1956 to 1967, Dr Kusin presents an intellectual pre-history of the Prague Spring of 1968. He believes that incongruity between the political, social, economic and cultural organization imposed on Czechoslovakia after 1948 and the national disposition of the pe...	Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides Spain Dk Eyewitness Travel Guides Spain Price: $29.25 (more details) Describes the architecture, culture, people, and history of Spain, and offers travel tips to guide tourists through the various regions.