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A Book of Noises
$24.00A wide-ranging exploration of the sounds that shape our world in invisible yet significant ways. The crackling of a campfire. The scratch, hiss, and pop of a vinyl record. The…
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A Braided Heart
$49.95A Braided Heart provides a friendly, personal, and smart guide to the writing life. It also offers clear and original instruction on craft elements at the forefront of today’s emerging…
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A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall
$99.00A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China’s minority nationality policies to the present. During…
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A Conspiratorial Life
$30.00The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism’s most insidious seeds. Though you may not know his name,…
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A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events
$80.00The contemporary archaeology of urban mega-events. This book explores the traces of London’s most significant modern “mega events”: the Great Exhibition of 1851, the 1951 Festival of Britain’s South Bank Exhibition,…
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A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng
$90.00A revisionist history of the Chinese zheng that the complex origins of a single instrument. As the Chinese plucked zither known as the zheng was popularized in the twentieth and…
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A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng
$90.00A revisionist history of the Chinese zheng that the complex origins of a single instrument. As the Chinese plucked zither known as the zheng was popularized in the twentieth and…
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A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables
$25.00Plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce. We’re used to seeing close-up photographs of beautiful fruits and vegetables in cookbooks and garden guides. But these detailed illustrations of fruit and vegetables, as viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, are something very different—and more interesting. Thanks to…
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A Cowboy’s Guide to Life
$12.99Texas Bix Bender’s witty and straightforward cowboy wisdom is collected here for a new generation of cowboys.Gems include:“Always drink upstream from the herd.” “If you’re ridin’ a high horse, there…
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A Critical Synergy
$104.50Practitioners of decolonial theory and critical race theory (CRT) often use one or the other, but not both. In his provocative book, A Critical Synergy, Ali Meghji suggests using the…
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A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy
$90.00“Does it seem strange to think of a museum as a weapon in national defense?” asked John Hay Whitney, president of the Museum of Modern Art, in June 1941. As…
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A Fine Couple
$24.50The story of the paradoxical relationship of two parents. As he clears out his parents’ house, Philipp, a photographer, comes across an object that has played a major role in…
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