The Pecan Tree (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)
 Travel anywhere in the southern United States, and you will find pecan trees. So popular are pecans that Thomas Jefferson once wrote home from Paris for a supply, while many people today consider their holidays incomplete without a pecan pie. This ... [... more]
$19.95
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Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture (Dover ...
Profusely illustrated description and analysis of actual building practices: quarrying methods, dressing and laying blocks of stone, brickwork, pyramid construction, Egyptian mathematics, tools, much else. Nearly 270 photographs and illustrations of ... [... more]
$16.95
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Family Houses in the Country
In this richly evocative book, another celebration of the magic of homes away from home, the author of Family Houses by the Sea offers warm and perceptive portraits of country houses where idiosyncratic decorative details combine with family traditions ... [... more]
$50.00
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The Tulip: The Story of the Flower That Has Made Men Mad
In an auction held in Holland in February 1637, 99 lots of tulip bulbs fetched a staggering 90,000 guilders, more than $3.5 million in today's money. Tulipomania had reached its height, and its story is told in just one of the fascinating sections of ... [... more]
$14.95
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Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace
Avatars of the Word comments on the intersection of the history of written word and the explosion of cyberspace. Crafted with a meandering, laconic style, James O'Donnell wittily juxtaposes the modern and ancient. Take, for example, the concept of the & ... [... more]
$14.95
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
The Web has not been hyped enough. That's the startling thesis of this one-of-a-kind book that's sure to become a classic work of social commentary. Just as Marshall McLuhan forever altered our view of broadcast media, Weinberger shows that the new ... [... more]
$25.00
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The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The ...
Today, there are more than twenty complete zodiacs in Washington, D.C., each one pointing to an extraordinary mystery. David Ovason, who has studied these astrological devices for ten years, now reveals why they have been placed in such abundance in the ... [... more]
$15.95
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Cougar Annie's Garden
Cougar Annie's Garden tells the haunting tale of a five-acre garden in the wilderness of Vancouver Island's West Coast. Surrounded by rainforest and mountains, inaccessible and remote, this garden has endured for over eighty years. It is powerful with ... [... more]
$30.00
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Steel My Soldiers' Hearts: The Hopeless to Hardcore ...
Colonel David H. Hackworth, one of America's most decorated soldiers, lays bare his most daring and legendary tour of duty. 1966 With a full year of Vietnam combat and five months of in-country intense after-action analysis under his pistol belt, ... [... more]
$27.95
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Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future ...
Just as science learned to decode DNA through reverse genetics, a little bit of reverse reading might help explain why NPR correspondent Daniel Charles set out to write the agrobiotech equivalent of fly-on-the-wall industry epics like World War 3.0, Liar' ... [... more]
$27.00
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Costa Rican Natural History
This volume is a synthesis of existing knowledge about the flora and fauna of Costa Rica. The major portion of the book consists of detailed accounts of agricultural species, vegetation, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, and insects. "This is an ... [... more]
$49.00
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's ...
Many writers have commented on the massive social changes of the past few decades, but most of them have treated these shifts as something imposed on us, by technology or the marketplace. This is wrong, says Richard Florida: we've chosen to alter our ... [... more]
$27.50
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