
The Dragon Queen
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From Goodreads: From the bestselling author of Daughters of the Dragon comes the story of one of the...

The Golden Lands: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand & Vietnam
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A groundbreaking survey of the Buddhist architecture of Southeast Asia, abundantly illustrated with...
Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings
Alexander McCall Smith, James Robertson, Alistair Moffat and Kathleen Jamie
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Experience a new history of Scotland told through its places. Writers Kathleen Jamie, Alexander...

Rethinking Lessing's Laocoon: Antiquity, Enlightenment, and the 'Limits' of Painting and Poetry
Michael Squire and Avi S. Lifschitz
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder uber die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie...

The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
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One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed...

Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War
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Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting...

Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
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In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something...
Politics economics finance

Razi: Master of Quranic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning
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Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies from the American...

The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
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Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity....

Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree: The Evolution of Visual Metaphors for Biological Order
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Leading paleontologist J. David Archibald explores the rich history of visual metaphors for...