Pyrite: A Natural History of Fool's Gold
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Most people have heard of pyrite, the brassy yellow mineral commonly known as fool's gold. But...
Shades of Green: An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce
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This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the...
Svetik: A Family Portrait of Sviatoslav Richter
Anthony Phillips, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Walter Moskalew
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For well over half a century, since the Soviet regime first allowed Sviatoslav Richter to travel to...
The Fate of Rural Hell: Asceticism and Desire in Buddhist Thailand
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In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple...
All American Boys
Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
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Rashad is absent again today. That’s the sidewalk graffiti that started it all… Well, no,...
King Solomon's Mines
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King Solomon's Mines tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers...
The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
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The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has...
Berlin: Portrait of a City
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The brave city: A photographic portrait of Berlin, 1860 to today Berlin has survived two world wars,...
Christie's: The Jewellery Archives Revealed
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For centuries, the stories of the world's great jewellery collections have lain hidden within the...
Garden at War: Deception, Craft and Reason at Stowe
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At Stowe, 250 acres of parkland off er a complex web of views, pathways, statues, inscriptions, urns...