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  • Book cover of Low Life
    Luc Sante

     · 2003

    A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.

  • Book cover of The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
    Ian Mortimer

     · 2011

    Previously published in hardback by Simon & Schuster in 2010; originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2008.

  • Book cover of The Western Desert of Egypt

    A guide for anyone traveling in Egypt's Western Desert

  • Book cover of Our Silver Pond

    This book shall become a funny and interesting present for your child. It tells how amazing our mother nature is, and it also tells about its multiple creatures possessing unique abilities. Reading it, one would inevitably wonder how little our knowledge is about the world of animals.

  • Book cover of When Cats Reigned Like Kings

    Originally published: Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Pub., c2004.

  • Book cover of Ecocity Berkeley

    Ecocity Berkeley offers innovative city planning solutions that would work anywhere, but the book offers a vision of what the future can be like with a fair amount of planning beforehand. This book is very inspirational, and could be used to advocate similar planning improvements in any large city. This book is meant for anyone interested in environmental activism, and anyone looking for serious innovations in their city.

  • Book cover of Coping with Tourists

    Twenty-four papers assess the challenges to developing a systematic framework for understanding and predicting climatic changes and variations. The contributing scientists pull together ad hoc environmental observations, presenting a coherent review of long and short term climate monitoring, direction in future research, and specific aspects of observing such as long term monitoring of the cryosphere, and oceanic observation systems. The volume is reprinted from Climatic Change, v.31, nos.2-4, 1995. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

  • Book cover of Sacred Places of Goddess
    Karen Tate

     · 2005

    Designed to present a diversity of places both sacred and feminine, this coffee table book is filled with photographs from every corner of the world. From the Middle East, to Europe, Africa, and the Americas, the images of feminine divinity presented in this work are as uniform in their beauty as they are diverse in cultural tradition.

  • Book cover of A Son of the Sun
    Jack London

     · 1912

    The Willi-Waw lay in the passage between the shore-reef and the outer-reef. From the latter came the low murmur of a lazy surf, but the sheltered stretch of water, not more than a hundred yards across to the white beach of pounded coral sand, was of glass-like smoothness. Narrow as was the passage, and anchored as she was in the shoalest place that gave room to swing, the Willi-Waw's chain rode up-and-down a clean hundred feet. Its course could be traced over the bottom of living coral. Like some monstrous snake, the rusty chain's slack wandered over the ocean floor, crossing and recrossing itself several times and fetching up finally at the idle anchor. Big rock-cod, dun and mottled, played warily in and out of the coral. Other fish, grotesque of form and colour, were brazenly indifferent, even when a big fish-shark drifted sluggishly along and sent the rock-cod scuttling for their favourite crevices.

  • Book cover of Are We There Yet?

    An entertaining cultural history of the American family vacation during the height of its popularity from 1945 to 1973. Reveals the ways in which the ritual of the family road trip, for most middle-class Americans became a way of defining what it meant to be (and become) American.