Canoecraft: An Illustrated Guide to Fine Woodstrip Construction
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Canoecraft is the ultimate guide to building a wood-strip canoe. Thousands of canoes have been built...
Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people...
The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From Bondage to Freedom
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Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in...
Observations on Modern Gardening, by Thomas What - An Eighteenth-Century Study of the English Landscape Garden
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Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first and most comprehensive study...
Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself
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Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence...
The Anatomical Venus: Wax / Sex / God / Death
Morbid Anatomy Museum and Joanna Ebenstein
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Beneath the original Venetian glass and rosewood case at La Specola in Florence lies Clemente...
A Brahms Reader
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was prominent not only as a composer but as a pianist, conductor,...
A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters of Antonio Gramsci (1908-1926)
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This edition of letters by Antonio Gramsci vividly evokes the 'great and terrible world' in which he...
Along the Enchanted Way: A Story of Love and Life in Romania
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When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an...
Sun Tzu and the Art of Business: Six Strategic Principles for Managers
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More than two millennia ago the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the classic work on military...