David. Abulafia

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Massachusetts

A Human History of the Mediterranean

"First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Allen Lane"--T.p. verso.

The Great Sea

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Hellblazer Dangerous Habits

Alexander Nagel

“This ground breaking book sheds fresh light on the deep connections between modern and premodern art.” 

History

Art Out of Time

Rich collisions and fresh perspectives illuminate the profound continuities of thought and practice that have marked Western art through the ages This groundbreaking study offers a radical new reading of art since the Middle Ages. Moving across the familiar period lines set out in conventional histories, Alexander Nagel explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art to reveal the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. In a series of episodic chapters, he reconsiders from an innovative double perspective a number of key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and idolatry to installation and the museum as institution. He shows how the central tenets of modernism – serial production, site-specificity, collage, the readymade, and the questioning of the nature of art and authorship – were all features of earlier times before modernity, revived by recent generations. Nagel examines, among other things, the importance of medieval cathedrals to the 1920s Bauhaus movement, the parallels between Renaissance altarpieces and modern preoccupations with surface and structure; the relevance of Byzantine models to Minimalist artists; the affinities between ancient holy sites and early earthworks; and the similarities between the sacred relic and the modern readymade. Alongside the work of leading 20th-century medievalist writes such as Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Leo Steinberg, and Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Smithson, and Damien Hirst. The effect of these encounters goes in two directions at once: each age offers new insights into the other, deepening our understanding of both past and present, and providing a new set of reference points that reframe the history of art itself.

Medieval Modern

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Tariq Ali

“In this timely and important book, Tariq Ali put the event of September 11 into sweeping historical perspective.”

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

In this timely and important book, new in paperback, Tariq Ali is lucid, eloquent, literary and painfully honest as he dissects both Islamic and Western fundamentalism.

The Clash of Fundamentalisms

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“The essential guide to feeding, planting, propagating, pruning, and watering.”

Miracle-Gro Guide to Growing Delicious Vegetables, Fruits and Herbs

Nancy J. Martin

Judy Hopkins

“Quintessential book for rotary cutting fans!”


Provides dimensions, material lists, instructions, and patterns for making 101 rotary-cut quilts; and includes photographs.

101 Fabulous Rotary-Cut Quilts

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Mat Pember

Dillon Seitchik-Reardon

“Comprehensive guide to growing fresh, local, nutritious produce, regardless of the size of your patch.” Cover is clean, pages are tight.

The New Guide to Small-Space Gardening

Grow. Food. Anywhere. is the must-have guide for anyone who has ever had a desire to grow their own food. Authors Mat and Dillon, of the Little Veggie Patch Co. provide a comprehensive and authoritative guide to gardening in any space, all in their own unique and entertaining style. Whether you've got a balcony, a tiny courtyard, or a patch of reclaimed dirt in a shared neighbourhood space, this book offers inspiration – and instruction – for growing good things to eat. The book has three sections: What plants need; an A-Z of Veggies; and an A-Z of Pests. These chapters cover everything from: why soil matters; composting; how to make a wicking garden; how to select the right growing style; what to plant and when; harvesting; troubleshooting; pruning; and more. Grow. Food. Anywhere. is presented with a combination of photographs, illustrations, and a playful, engaging design that very much mirrors the refreshing no-nonsense approach of the book's two accomplished and articulate young authors, and their thriving gardening business.

Grow. Food. Anywhere

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B. Butterworth

Mathematics and the brain. How our mind handles numbers. 

The Mathematical Brain

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Maria Tatar

A. S. Byatt

Hardly used. Some penciling in first pages. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

The Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Forty of the most famous and celebrated stories from the Brothers Grimm translated and edited by a leading professor of folklore. Even after two hundred years, the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm remain among our most powerful stories. Their scenes of unsparing savagery and jaw-dropping beauty remind us that fairy tales, in all their simplicity, have the power to change us. With some of the most famous stories in world literature, including “Cinderella,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Snow White,” as well as some less well known stories like “The Seven Ravens,” this definitive collection promises to entrance readers with the strange and wonderful world of the Brothers Grimm. Maria Tatar’s engaging preface provides readers with the historical and cultural context to understand what these stories meant and their contemporary resonance. Fans of all ages will be drawn to this elegant and accessible collection of stories that have cast their magical spell over children and adults alike for generations.

The Grimm Reader

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Janet G. Woititz

Text and spacing of lines makes the book easy to read. The author’s care comes across. This is a good place to start if a person wonders if they are a child of an alcoholic parent. 

Expanded Edition

Describes the symptoms and treatment of alcoholism and examines the ways it can disrupt family relationships

Adult Children of Alcoholics

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John Gerlach

Barbara Gerlach

Spine and pages are tight. Hardly used. No writing or highlighting

The Art and the Science

Over 50,000 photographers can't be wrong! John and Barbara Gerlach finally write the book their workshop attendees have been asking for! Digital Nature Photography is a how-to guide for photographers who want to take their work to the next level. Written by professionals with over 20 years experience, the Gerlachs reveal enlightening techniques for shooting nature images in the field. The combination of artistic approach and impeccable technique will help you capture your next great image. ·Learn what equipment works best in the field, and why, as well as tips for superb shots ·Create sharp images at capture with detailed instructions for digital exposure ·Master the three factors that lead to excellent images: technique, subject and situation

Digital Nature Photography

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Randall Koral

Social Studies

A Psychedelic Reader

Collects literature on drugs and drug users, including Jim Hogshire on the reptilian effects of DM cough syrup and Lewis Carroll sending Alice down the rabbit hole.

White Rabbit

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Hardly read. No marks. First 20 pages are dog eared 

Three Centuries of Farming in New England

A Long, Deep Furrow

Never used and so in like new condition. 

Reflections on Baroque

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Gore Vidal

Spine and pages are solid and clean. Jacket is worn. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Gospel According to Gore Vidal

A cyperpunk is destroying the tapes that describe the mission of Jesus Christ and his Gospel. Can Timothy save the day and the future of Christianity?.

Live from Golgotha

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Simon Schama

Pages are tight, spine is good. Jacket is worn. 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Explores the roots and fruition of the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting strained economics frustrating their visions for France

Citizens

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Spine is good. No writing or highlighting of text. Cover is okay. 

2nd Edition

History of American Law

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Giles Gunn

Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature-including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

Early American Writing

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Walter A. McDougall

Spine is good. Pages slightly yellowed from age. No writing or highlighting. 

A New American History: 1585-1828





A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," states Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just Around the Corner. With this statement begins McDougall's most ambitious, original, and uncompromising of histories. McDougall marshals the latest scholarship and writes in a style redolent with passion, pathos, and humour in pursuit of truths often obscured in books burdened with political slants.

With an insightful approach to the nearly 250 years spanning America's beginnings, McDougall offers his readers an understanding of the uniqueness of the "American character" and how this character has shaped the wide ranging course of historical events. McDougall explains that Americans have always been in a unique position of enjoying "more opportunity to pursue their ambitions䳨an any other people in history." Throughout Freedom Just Around the Corner the character of the American people shines, a character built out of a freedom to indulge in the whole panoply of human behaviour. The genius behind the success of the United States is founded on the complex, irrepressible American spirit.

A grand narrative rich with new details and insights about colonial and early national history, Freedom Just Around the Corner is the first instalment of a trilogy that will eventually bring the story of America up to the present day, a story epic, bemusing, and brooding.

Freedom Just Around the Corner

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Richard K. Morgan

Author of the streaming series Altered Carbon

A Takeshi Kovacs Novel

Takeshi Kovacs battles against biomachines gone wild, searches for a centuries-old missing weapons system, and endures the betrayal of people he once trusted.

Woken Furies

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Popes through the Ages

History of the New York City subway system. Plenty of photos. Book is an excellent condition except for the cover which is slightly beat up.

Building the New York Subway 

The City Beneath Us

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Selene Yeager

Julia VanTine

Bridget Mount

Latest Breakthroughs in the Curative Powers of More Than 100 Common Foods--From Apricots and Bananas to Wine and Yogurt

An up-to-the minute look at the healing power of more than 100 foods to help you feel better, live longer, & beat disease.

New Foods for Healing

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Alan Taylor

Eric Foner

Hardly read. No highlighting or margin notes. 

The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1)

A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss. "Formidable . . . provokes us to contemplate the ways in which residents of North America have dealt with diversity." -The New York Times Book Review

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