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A Century of Horrors
The twentieth century bears the indelible imprint of both communism and Nazism. Today, it sometimes seems as if the former is all but forgotten, at least among Western elites, while…
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Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well
In the first section of this book, Amyx catalogues and discusses more than 200 fragments of Archaic Corinthian pottery with figure decoration, selected from those previously unpublished or inadequately published….
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Art Isn’t Easy
The new musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim shuns the traditional story of love triumphant, probing instead the more disturbing issues of contemporary life.Confident that the musical is America’s greatest original…
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Attic Red-Figured and White Ground Pottery
This volume presents the inventoried red-figure and white-ground pottery found in the Agora Excavations between 1931 and 1967. Although many of these vases have already been published in various reports…
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Baths and Kitchens 2
Every design idea has its own way of showing how new decoration styles, textures and materials are being gradually introduced into kitchens and bathrooms; sparking the imagination and creativity. Used…
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Beef in China
China’s emergence as a “beef giant” has enormous implications for the world beef market. The first up-to-date and full scale analysis of the booming beef industry of China, which produces…
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Bound for Shady Grove
In Bound for Shady Grove, essayist Steven Harvey celebrates the spirit of the music of his adopted home in the southern Appalachian mountains. There, at the wellspring of mountain music,…
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Cardiopulmonary Bypass
Established as the standard reference on cardiopulmonary bypass, Dr. Gravlee’s text is now in its Third Edition. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary text covers all aspects of cardiopulmonary bypass including sections on…
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Classic Haiku
Poetry aficionados will appreciate this beautifully designed and illustrated collection of 200 haiku by the four most celebrated Japanese poets of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries: Basho, Buson, Issa,…
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Coffee with Groucho
With a foreword by the actor, director, and playwright described as “the greatest living exponent of Groucho Marx’s material” by The New York Times, and text by the author of…
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Coffee with Hemingway
“Go take a flying leap if you came here to flatter me.” It’s easy to imagine Hemingway at his desk, reacting with his fabled aggression when interrupted for advice—as he…
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Coffee with Marilyn
Sex appeal: Monroe had it, all right. And sometimes that’s all people could see: The trouble is being a sex symbol means being a “thing.” But she was, in reality,…