Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World
Helen Bynum and William F. Bynum
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Plants are truly remarkable: even with all our modern technological prowess they still feed, clothe...
W.A.S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design
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On the 150th anniversary of his birth, this is the first work devoted to the life and work of the...
Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World's Greatest Playwright
Gerit Quealy, Sumie Hasegawa Collins and Helen Mirren
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A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits,...
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
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In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found...
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockerfeller, Sr.
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"John D. Rockefeller, Sr. history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous...
American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light
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In American Smoke, Iain Sinclair hits the road to America in the tracks of the Beats. On the trail...
A Certain Age (A Certain Age #1)
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As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of...
Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist
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"Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn." - Irvin S. Cobb Born and raised...
Dashiell Hammett and the Movies
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As the father of the hardboiled detective genre, Dashiell Hammett had a huge influence on Hollywood....
The King's Concubine
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A child born in the plague year of 1348, abandoned and raised within the oppressive walls of a...
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