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Eric Abrahamson &, David H. Freedman
A Perfect Mess

2007 y.
Publisher: Phoenix
Description: Do you sometimes feel the world is run by the neat police? Feel guilty when you read another article by decluttering expert, who preach the virtue of organising your office, children, and anything else you can name into sterile tidiness? Fear no more. A Perfect Mess combines counter-intuitive thinking with anecdotes from science, business, cookery, parenting, the war on terror and much more to show that an element of mess actually makes systems more efficient and yields better solutions. You`ll never again wince at the heaps of paper overflowing your dining table! [detailed...]

ISBN: 978-0-7538-2286-9
Book size: 130x200; Page extent: 336.

 

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Amy Butler Greenfield
A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world`s most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, producing the brightest, strongest red the world had ever seen. Soon Spain`s cochineal monopoly was worth a fortune. Desperate to find their own sources of the elusive dye, the English, French, Dutch, and other Europeans tried to crack the enigma of cochineal. Did it come from a worm, a berry, a seed? Could it be stolen from Mexico and transplanted to their own colonies? Pirates, explorers, alchemists, scientists, and spies -- all joined the chase for cochineal, a chase that lasted more than three centuries. A Perfect Red tells their stories -- true-life tales of mystery, empire, and adventure, in pursuit of the most desirable… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0060522755
Book size: —; Page extent: 352.

 

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John le Carre
A Perfect Spy

2006 y.
Publisher: Hodder
Description: Magnus Pym, ranking diplomat, has vanished, believed defected. The chase is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a secret agent. Pym`s life, it is revealed, is entirely made up of secrets. Dominated by a father who is also a confidence trickster on an epic scale, Pym has from the age of seventeen been controlled by two mentors. It is these two, racing each other and time itself, who are orchestrating the search to find the perfect spy… Формат: 11 см x 17,5 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 978 0 340 92432 7, 978-0-340-92432-7
Book size: —; Page extent: 704.

 

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Michael A. Bernstein
A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America

— y.
Publisher: —
Description: The economics profession in twentieth-century America began as a humble quest to understand the `wealth of nations.` It grew into a profession of immense public prestige--and now suffers a strangely withered public purpose. Michael Bernstein portrays a profession that has ended up repudiating the state that nurtured it, ignoring distributive justice, and disproportionately privileging private desires in the study of economic life. Intellectual introversion has robbed it, he contends, of the very public influence it coveted and cultivated for so long. With wit and irony he examines how a community of experts now identified with uncritical celebration of ``free market`` virtues was itself shaped, dramatically so, by government and collective action. In arresting and provocative detail Bernstein describes economists` fitful efforts to sway a state apparatus where values and goals could seldom remain separate from means and technique, and how their vocation was ultimately humbled by… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691119678
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Henry George
A Perplexed Philosopher: Being An Examination Of Mr. Herbert Spencer`s Various Utterances On The Land Questions, With Some Incidental Reference To His Synthetic Philosophy (1892)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1436743540
Book size: —; Page extent: 332.

 

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Henry George
A Perplexed Philosopher: Being An Examination Of Mr. Herbert Spencer`s Various Utterances On The Land Questions, With Some Incidental Reference To His Synthetic Philosophy (1892)

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1436972337
Book size: —; Page extent: 332.

 

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Henry George
A Perplexed Philosopher

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: A Perplexed Philosopher, By Henry George. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1443710172
Book size: —; Page extent: 300.

 

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Susan Choi
A Person of Interest: A Novel

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: With its propulsive drive, vividly realized characters, and profound observations about soul and society, Pulitzer Prize?finalist Susan Choi?s latest novel is as thrilling as it is lyrical, and confirms her place as one of the most important novelists chronicling the American experience. Intricately plotted and psychologically acute, A Person of Interest exposes the fault lines of paranoia and dread that have fractured American life and asks how far one man must go to escape his regrets. Professor Lee, an Asian-born mathematician near retirement age would seem the last person to attract the attention of FBI agents. Yet after a colleague becomes the latest victim of a serial bomber, Lee must endure the undermining power of suspicion and face the ghosts of his past. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0143115022
Book size: —; Page extent: 368.

 

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Sandy Burfener, Prudence Twigg
A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss

2007 y.
Publisher: —
Description: - [detailed...]

ISBN: 1843108631
Book size: —; Page extent: 160.

 

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Stewert Lytle
A Personal Guide to Offshoring in India

2004 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1413438385
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Lee Bennett Hopkins
A Pet for Me : Poems (I Can Read Book 3)

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description A festival of friendship From a devoted mutt giving `sloppy doggy kisses` to a tarantula munching happily on a cricket lunch, these lively poems celebrate the special friendship between kids and their pets! [detailed...]

ISBN: 0064437167
Book size: —; Page extent: 48.

 

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Peter J. Feibelman
A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science

— y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0201626632
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Edmund Burke
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Oxford World`s Classics)

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke`s analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also one of the first major works in European literature on the Sublime, a subject that has fascinated thinkers from Kant and Coleridge to the philosophers and critics of today. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0199537887
Book size: —; Page extent: 208.

 

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Lars Svendsen
A Philosophy of Boredom

2006 y.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Description: It has been described as a `tame longing without any particular object` (Schopenhauer),`a bestial and indefinable affliction` (Dostoevsky) and `time`s invasion of your world system` (Joseph Brodsky), but very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A `Philosophy of Boredom` investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it originated, how and why it afflicts us, and why we cannot seem to overcome it by any act of will. Lars Svendsen brings together observations from philosophy, literature, psychology, theology and popular culture. He examines boredom`s pre-Romantic manifestations in medieval torpor, philosophical musings on boredom from Pascal to Nietzsche, and modern explorations into alienation and transgression by twentieth-century writers and artists, from Samuel Beckett to Andy Warhol. Формат: 12 см x 20 см. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-86189-217-9
Book size: 125x200; Page extent: 176.

 

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Bryan Nash
A Phoenix Rising: Defining the Moments, A True Story of Triumph Over Child Abuse

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0979760402
Book size: —; Page extent: 290.

 

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Andrew Hudson
A Photo Tour of Orange County, Second Edition

2006 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Orange County is California`s second-most populous county (after neighboring Los Angeles County) and features the state`s most popular attraction, Disneyland. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1930495080
Book size: —; Page extent: 160.

 

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A Photographer`s Life: 1990-2005

2006 y.
Publisher: Random House
Description: Portraits of well-known figures - Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet-appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz`s family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes made even more indelible through Leibovitz`s discerning eye. The images form a narrative rich in contrasts and continuities: The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of her life. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0375505091
Book size: —; Page extent: 472.

 

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Kazuyoshi Nomachi
A Photographer`s Pilgrimage : Thirty Years of Great Reportage (Discovery)

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionPart photo essay and part travel diary, this moving book reflects Kazuyoshi Nomachi`s own spiritual quest and his interest in pilgrimages, or, as he calls them, `prayer routes.` Here, through dramatic images that distill the essence of our humanity, the acclaimed photographer captures moments of prayer along pilgrimage routes in some of the world`s most remote places, from the Sahara to the Andes, including the rarely photographed cities of Mecca and Medina.Having converted to Islam, Nomachi has arrived at an intensely personal understanding of what it means to search for God. Prayer, pilgrimage, and religion, he says, are phenomena that affect humanity as a whole, without distinction for individual traits or background. Such is the thinking that sharpens Nomachi`s sensitivity to the elements of spiritual life. This book, which brings together thirty years of the acclaimed photographer`s best work, comprises portraits of people and places. In each image, Nomachi… [detailed...]

ISBN: 8854400793
Book size: —; Page extent: 504.

 

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Kent M. Van De Graaff, Samuel R. Rushforth, John L. Crawley
A Photographic Atlas for the Botany Laboratory

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: - [detailed...]

ISBN: 0895826143
Book size: —; Page extent: 182.

 

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Rudy van der Elst
A Photographic Guide to Sea Fishes of Southern Africa

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 1770073450
Book size: —; Page extent: 144.

 

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Bikram Grewal
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India : And the Indian Subcontinent, Including Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives (Princeton Field Guides)

2003 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book Description This is the most comprehensive photographic guide to the birds of India and the Indian subcontinent. Never before have so many of the region`s species been illustrated in one book. The brilliant photographs--most of which appearhere for the first time--have been carefully selected to show not only the most common Passerine and non-Passerine species, but also more elusive species and distinctive subspecies. An up-to-date distribution map and a unique code indicating frequency and global status are provided for each of the 668 species covered. The concise text provides vital information on habitats, habits, and voice to ensure accurate identification. Designed for easy use, the book places photos and maps in close proximity to provide an at-a-glance overview for each species. Birds are indexed by both their common and scientific names. This is an essential volume for all birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts as well as for anyone traveling to… [detailed...]

ISBN: 069111496X
Book size: —; Page extent: 520.

 

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Tadao Shimba
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Japan and North-East Asia

2008 y.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Description: Tadao Shimba is an internationally respected birder and natural history photographer. He has recorded many rare birds and frequently contributes photographs and birding accounts to field guides and magazines. Издание на английском языке. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0300135564
Book size: —; Page extent: 504.

 

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Ian Sinclair, Olivier Langrang, Fanja Andriamialisoa
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of the Indian Ocean Islands: Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Reunion and the Comoros

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0177007175
Book size: —; Page extent: 128.

 

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Karen Schwabach
A Pickpocket`s Tale

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0375833803
Book size: —; Page extent: 240.

 

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Karen Hunt
A Picnic with the Barleys: A Little Story About Courage and Forgiveness

2008 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0736921737
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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Grillot de Givry
A Pictorial Anthology Of Witchcraft, Magic And Alchemy With 376 Illustrations

2006 y.
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
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ISBN: 1425374832
Book size: —; Page extent: 416.

 

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John C. Gerber
A Pictorial History of the Confederacy

2004 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionRather than diminishing with time, the fascination with the Confederacy and its heroes seems to grow increasingly stronger. This volume features a wide selection of rarely seen photographs of Confederate heroes, such as Robert E. Lee, `Stonewall` Jackson, Jubal Early, Nathan Bedford Forest, A.P. Hill and Jeb Stuart, along with details of their military careers and personal lives that are little known to the average reader. Arranged chronologically and geographically, this book features descriptions of more than forty battles of the War Between the States, along with battle maps, which illustrate where the Confederates and the Union antagonists were located during these various fights. The first section discusses and provides imagesfrom 1860 to 1861, during the secession to Fort Sumter. The author then discusses the major battles that occurred in 1861 in northern Virginia and in the South and West, providing several photographs that take on much of the story… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0786417447
Book size: —; Page extent: 228.

 

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Thomas Mcconnell
A Picture Book Of Hell And Other Landscapes

2005 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Book DescriptionAll humans are in some sense exiled. Hugh Kenner Imagine Chaucer?s pilgrims?without a Canterbury. Across a landscape devoid of monumental shrines, they would wander still, having no more alternative than the planet swimming in its system, just as they would continue to talk the stories of their lives. Such pilgrims are the characters inhabiting A Picture Book of Hell. In stories and situations that chime against one another like variations on musical themes, the quiet wanderers in this collection seem all entrained on the `pointless quest for the questless point,` as one narrator concludes. Two old friends repeatedly fail to rendezvous, save in the last connection of a suicide note. A reluctant bank teller abandons his life and his rented house to take the place of a dead vagabond. The volume?s title novella discloses a veteran of the First World War struggling to reconcile the two worlds he?s come to know too well, neither of which seems to… [detailed...]

ISBN: 0896725359
Book size: —; Page extent: 196.

 

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Denise I. Matulka
A Picture Book Primer: Understanding and Using Picture Books

2008 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Everything you want to know about picture books can be found in this simple and straightforward guide. After defining the picture book and describing its history and technological evolution, the author helps you better understand and appreciate picture books by describing how they`re made-their anatomy, types of illustration, layouts, design elements, and typography-various types of picture books (genres, formats, styles), how picture books work (the art of the story), and how they relate to child development and literacy. Picture book reviews, building a collection, using picture books with various age groups, and issues such as multicultural literature, classics, and controversial titles are some of the other topics covered. [detailed...]

ISBN: 1591584418
Book size: —; Page extent: 328.

 

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David A. Adler, Michael S. Adler
A Picture Book of Harry Houdini (Picture Book Biography)

2009 y.
Publisher: —
Description: Harry Houdini repeatedly amazed audiences around the globe with his death-defying acts and illusions. With his wife, Bess, often by his side, he freed himself from ropes, handcuffs, and prison cells. Though Harry was always intrigued by magic, his life was not always so glamorous. His family was extremely poor, and as a boy he shined shoes to help them make ends meet. Yet a career in magic was always in the cards. Readers will be mesmerized by this captivating picture book biography. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0823420590
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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David A. Adler
A Picture Book of John Hancock (Picture Book Biography)

2007 y.
Publisher: —
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ISBN: 0823420051
Book size: —; Page extent: 32.

 

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