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by Edward Simon (Author)A compendium celebrating the art of hell and its minions Pandemonium: The Illustrated History of Demonology presents--for the first time--Satan's family tree, providing a history and analysis of his fellow fallen angels from Asmodeus to Ziminiar. Throughout the book, there are short entries on individual demons, but Pandemonium is more than just a visual encyclopedia. It also focuses on the influence of figures like Beelzebub, Azazel, Lilith, and Moloch on Western reli...

Moma Now: Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art, New York - Hardcover

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by Glenn Lowry (Introduction by), Quentin Bajac (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Christophe Cherix (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Published as a large-format hardcover to celebrate the museum's 90th anniversary and the October 2019 opening of the new MoMA after its historic expansionIn October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art celebrates its 90th anniversary with the reopening of its extensively renovated and expanded midtown campus. Published to accompany the reopening, MoMA Now is an enlarged and expa...

Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies - Paperback

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by Duncan Hannah (Author)A rollicking account of a celebrated artist's coming of age, full of outrageously bad behavior, naked ambition, fantastically good music, and evaporating barriers of taste and decorum, and featuring cameos from David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, and many more."A phantasmagoria of alcohol, sex, art, conversation, glam rock, and New Wave cinema. Hannah's writing combines self-aware humor with an intoxicating punk energy." --The New Yorker Painter Duncan Hannah arriv...

Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical - Paperback

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by Anthony Bourdain (Author)The riveting true crime tale from beloved chef and bestselling author Anthony Bourdain, originally published in 2001, centering deadly cook Mary Mallon-otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary. By the turn of the twentieth century, it seemed that New York had put an end to the outbreaks of typhoid fever that had ravaged the city. That is, until 1904, when the disease broke out in a household on Long Island. Authorities suspected the family cook, Mary Mallon, o...

The King James Study Bible, Imitation Leather, Burgundy, Indexed, Full-Color Edition - Imitation Leather

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)The full text of the classic King James Version with robust study notes, vibrant full-color images, and dozens of study resources to help you grow deeper in your faith. Published in large easy-to-read print type. Standing apart from all other KJV study Bibles on the market, The King James Study Bible, Full Color Edition is the only Bible featuring over half-a-million words of commentary, doctrinal notes, archaeological insights, and time-tested study aids developed ex...

Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience. - Hardcover

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by Kevin Young (Foreword by), Aaron Bryant (Contribution by), Amy Sherald (Contribution by)Explores the powerful ways in which visual art has long provided its own rich outlet for protest, commentary, escape, and perspective for African Americans. This important book showcases the potent role of visual art in African American history and culture. Featuring Black artists working in a range of media, from photography to sculpture to painting--including Amy Sherald, Benny Andrews, Sheila Pree Br...

Nkjv, Precious Moments Small Hands Bible, Pink, Hardcover, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nelson (Author)The Precious Moments Small Hands Bible makes an ideal gift for a special child with the sweet "small hands" size accompanied with classic full-color illustrations. For more than 40 years, Precious Moments(R) characters have captured the hearts of many with their heartwarming depiction of faith, family and friends. These soulful characters have come to personify biblical values of loving, caring and sharing.It's no wonder, then, that Precious Moments Bibles have become...

Constitution of the United States - Hardcover

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by Founding Fathers (Created by)The landmark legal document of the United States, the U.S. Constitution comprises the primary law of the Federal Government. Signed by the members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787, the Constitution outlines the powers and responsibilities of the three chief branches of the Federal Government, as well as the basic rights of the citizens of the United States. This beautiful gift edition contains the complete text of the Unite...

Making Death and Life in Palestine: Social Reproduction in Settler Colonialism

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Report copyright infringementby Tithi Bhattacharya (Editor), Susan Ferguson (Editor)'These essays reveal the intensity of the battle between the exterminationist death-making force of Israeli colonialism and the Palestinian determination to produce and sustain a flourishing and liberated collective life' -- Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Palestinian Historian and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies, Rice University Social reproduction theory examines how the daily renewal of hu...

The Invention of the Jewish People - Paperback

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by Shlomo Sand (Author), Yael Lotan (Translator)A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation--returned at last to its Biblic...

C Is for Centennial: A Colorado Alphabet - Hardcover

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by Louise Doak Whitney (Author), Helle Urban (Illustrator)Few other states in our union have the magnificent topography of the Centennial State. This unique Colorado landscape is beautifully represented in the illustrations of Helle Urban, as the rhyming verse and expository text of Louise Whitney defines those images and expands our understanding of the Rockies, Blue spruces, Springs, and Yucca plants that paint this land. An excellent addition to our state alphabet book series, C is for Cen...

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle - Paperback

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by Clare Hunter (Author)"An astonishing feat, this patchwork of history, culture, and politics . . . takes us from Saxon England to colonized African tribes, Palestinian villages, rural China and the cramped homes of American slaves." ―Sunday Times (London) Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. It's human history told from a new, surprising perspective. This is a globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, a...

A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire - Paperback

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by Emma Southon (Author)From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a "clever, bold, and refreshingly feminist" (Booklist) history of Rome that uses the lives of 21 women to upend our understanding of the ancient world The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of "the Doing of Important Things," and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through the political stab-fest of ...

How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island - Paperback

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by Egill Bjarnason (Author)"[A] joyously peculiar book." -- The New York Times 'Bjarnason's intriguing book might be about a cold place, but it's tailor-made to be read on the beach.' -New Statesman The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries. The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer j...

Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 - Paperback

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by Richard Overy (Author)"Monumental... [A] vast and detailed study that is surely the finest single-volume history of World War II. Richard Overy has given us a powerful reminder of the horror of war and the threat posed by dictators with dreams of empire." - The Wall Street Journal A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain's leading military historian A New York Times bestseller Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view th...

Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails - Paperback

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by Camper English (Author)"At last, a definitive guide to the medicinal origins of every bottle behind the bar! This is the cocktail book of the year, if not the decade." --Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants "A fascinating book that makes a brilliant historical case for what I've been saying all along: alcohol is good for you...okay maybe it's not technically good for you, but [English] shows that through most of human history, it's sure beat the heck out of water."...

Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones - Hardcover

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by Hettie Judah (Author)Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history The earliest scientists ground and processed minerals in a centuries-long quest for a mythic stone that would prolong human life. Michelangelo climbed mountains in Tuscany searching for the sugar-white marble that would yield his sculptures. Catherine the Great wore the wealth of Russia sti...

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by Adam Smith (Author), Robert B. Reich (Introduction by)Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable to an understanding of contemporary society; and Robert Reich's Introduction both clarifies Smith's analyses and illuminates his overall r...

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations - Hardcover

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by Ronen Bergman (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing programs, hailed by The New York Times as "an exceptional work, a humane book about an incendiary subject." WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD IN HISTORY NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY JENNIFER SZALAI, THE NEW YORK TIMES NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist - The New York Times Book Review - BBC History Magazine - ...

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age - Paperback

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by Simon Schama (Author)Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives a...

The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge Into the Third Reich - Paperback

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by Daniel P. Bolger (Author)A general-turned-historian reveals the remarkable battlefield heroics of Major General Maurice Rose, the World War II tank commander whose 3rd Armored Division struck fear into the hearts of Hitler's panzer crews. "The Panzer Killers is a great book, vividly written and shrewdly observed."--The Wall Street Journal Two months after D-Day, the Allies found themselves in a stalemate in Normandy, having suffered enormous casualties attempting to push through hedgerow c...

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by Bruce Cumings (Author)A BRACING ACCOUNT OF A WAR THAT IS EITHER MISUNDERSTOOD, FORGOTTEN, OR WILLFULLY IGNORED For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Bruce Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes i...

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--And How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World - Paperback

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by Steven Johnson (Author)A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life "By turns a medical thriller, detective story, and paean to city life, Johnson's account of the outbreak and its modern implications is a true page-turner." --The Washington Post "Thought-provoking." --Entertainment Weekly It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lackin...

The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 - Paperback

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by Richard J. Evans (Author)"Masterful. . . . Evans demonstrates a fluent style and a sweeping grasp of the Third Reich's history and of the enormous historical literature. . . . Evans's fellow historians as well as a broader public will read this work, not quite with pleasure, for there is little joy in this story, but with admiration for the author's narrative powers." ―Publisher's Weekly (starred review) A New York Times bestseller! An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one o...

The Making of the English Working Class - Paperback

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by E. P. Thompson (Author)A seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class--the workers shaped their own creations, developing a shared identity in the process. Despite their lack of power and the indignity forced ...

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City - Paperback

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by Russell Shorto (Author)An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for Rembrandt's glorious portraits. But the deeper history of Amsterdam, what makes it one of the most fascinating places on earth, is...

Wolfe at Quebec: The Man Who Won the French and Indian War

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Hibbert (Author)The last year in the life of Bristish general James Wolfe. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.52 x 8.48 x 5.54 IN Publication Date: August 17, 1999

Aldous Huxley's Hands: His Quest for Perception and the Origin and Return of Psychedelic Science

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Report copyright infringementby Allene Symons (Author)Psychedelics, neuroscience, and historical biography come together when a journalist finds a lost photograph of Aldous Huxley and uncovers a hidden side of the celebrated author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception. Allene Symons had no inkling that Aldous Huxley was once a friend of her father's until the summer of 2001 when she discovered a box of her dad's old photographs. For years in the 1940s and '50s, her father had meticu...

Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

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Report copyright infringementby Emilee Hines (Author)How did Virginia become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Old Dominion. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies. Back JacketMoving portraits of seventeen independent women who helped make Virginia what it is today ...

Ghost Writers: The Hallowed Haunts of Unforgettable Literary Icons

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Baltrusis (Author)Sam Baltrusis, author of Wicked Salem: Exploring Lingering Lore andLegends, revisits the haunts associated with America's most beloved writers of ghost stories, including Edgar Allan Poe's enduring legacy in New York City to Nathaniel Hawthorne's indelible imprint at the House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts.Author BiographySam Baltrusis has been featured as Boston's paranormal expert on the Biography Channel's Haunted Encounte...

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Report copyright infringementby Harvey Frommer (Author)During the more than one hundred years that baseball has been our national pastime, all types of individuals have been managers of teams. They have run the gamut from political appointees to tyrants, schemers, incompetents and geniuses. Legendary baseball stars have been managers such as Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Walter Johnson, Mel Ott, George Sisler, and Honus Wagner. And Mediocre players, including Branch Rickey, Earl Weaver, Walter Als...

The Last Years of Robert E. Lee: From Gettysburg to Lexington

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Report copyright infringementby Douglas Savage (Author)This book details Lee's life from Gettysburg to his death just five years after the South's surrender at Appomattox. After the war, Lee sought to heal the nation, even meeting with his rival, Ulysses S. Grant, while he occupied the White House. Leaving his military life behind, Lee went on to become president of Washington College.Author BiographyDouglas Savage is a critically acclaimed author of many books, including A Mouthful of Dust: ...