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Broadway Bird

By: Alex Timbers

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A charming and heartfelt picture book about a little bird who dreams of making it big on Broadway, from Tony Award-winning Broadway director Alex Timbers. What Louisa loved most about living in Times Square wasn't the buzzzz of the city... No, it was that she could sing as loud as she wanted. She could sing all day and she could sing all night. Louisa was truly a Broadway bird. Louisa is a tiny parakeet with a HUGE dream: to be a Broadway star. But no matter what she does, everyone keeps telling her she's too small to make it big! When a chance at her big break comes, Louisa learns that no matter how small you are, with a little talent and a lot of hard work, you can do anything - even be on Broadway! With colorful, charming illustrations by artist Alisa Coburn, this heartfelt picture book from renowned Broadway director Alex Timbers is about persistence, believing in yourself, and, of course, the magic of Broadway.

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Feiwel & Friends

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1250882001

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9781250882004

The Hempcrete Book

Designing and building with hemp-lime

By: William Stanwix,Alex Sparrow

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The Hempcrete Book

Designing and building with hemp-lime

By: William Stanwix,Alex Sparrow

A comprehensive practical manual for professionals and self-builders, this innovative book explains the many benefits of building with hempcrete. Hempcrete is a building material with excellent, environmentally friendly properties. It's made from lime and hemp shivs (a waste product from hemp fibre growing) and can be used for walks, floor and roof insulation. Hempcrete is breathable, absorbing and emitting moisture; this helps regulate internal humidity, avoiding trapped moisture and mould growth, and creating healthier buildings. It provides excellent acoustic and thermal insulation, and it is lightweight, which reduces construction costs. Whether you're working on a new build or are planning a renovation, The Hempcrete Book tells you everything you need to know to get started with hempcrete. It describes how to source and mix it, and provides a detailed account of construction techniques, highlighting potential pitfalls and how to avoid them. With fully illustrated design notes and examples of completed builds, this book is a powerful tool for any eco-builder.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857841211

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9780857841216

Green Building Products, 3rd Edition

The GreenSpec¨ Guide to Residential Building Materials--3rd Edition

By: Alex Wilson,Mark Piepkorn

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Green Building Products, 3rd Edition

The GreenSpec¨ Guide to Residential Building Materials--3rd Edition

By: Alex Wilson,Mark Piepkorn

Interest in sustainable, green building practices is greater than ever. Whether concerned about allergies, energy costs, old-growth forests, or durability and long-term value, homeowners and builders are looking for ways to ensure that their homes are healthy, safe, beautiful and efficient. In these pages are descriptions and manufacturer contact information for more than 1,400 environmentally preferable products and materials. All phases of residential construction, from sitework to flooring to renewable energy, are covered. Products are grouped by function, and each chapter begins with a discussion of key environmental considerations, and what to look for in a green product. Over 40% revised, this updated edition includes over 120 new products. Categories of products include: Sitework and landscaping Outdoor structures Decking Foundations, footers and slabs Structural systems and components Sheathing Exterior finish and trim Roofing Doors and windows Insulation Flooring and floor coverings Interior finish and trim Caulks and adhesives Paints and coatings Mechanical systems/HVAC Plumbing, electrical and lighting Appliances Furniture and furnishings Renewable energy Distributors and retailers An index of products and manufacturers makes for easy navigation. There is no more comprehensive resource for both the engaged homeowner and those who design and build homes.

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New Society Publishers

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0865716005

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9780865716001

Radiocarbon Dates

from samples funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Sustainability Fund 2004-7

By: Alex Bayliss,Christopher Bronk Ramsey,Gordon Cook,Gerry McCormac,Johannes Plicht

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Radiocarbon Dates

from samples funded by English Heritage under the Aggregates Sustainability Fund 2004-7

By: Alex Bayliss,Christopher Bronk Ramsey,Gordon Cook,Gerry McCormac,Johannes Plicht

This volume holds a datelist of 647 radiocarbon determinations carried out between 2004 and 2007 in support of research funded by English Heritage throught the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. It contains supporting information about the samples and the sites which produced them, a comprehensive bibliography, and two indexes for reference and analysis. An introduction provides information about the scientific dating undertaken, and methods used for the analyses reported. Details of technical reports available for programmes of dendrochronology, luminescence dating, and amino-acid racemization funded under this scheme are also provided. The datelist has been collated from information provided by the submitters of samples and the dating laboratories, in order to provide easy access to raw scientific and contextual data which may be used in further research. Many of the sites and projects from which dates have been obtained are in the process of publication. Full references are given to these reports for those requiring further detail.

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Liverpool University Press

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184802195X

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9781848021952

Watchmen Of Rome

By: Alex Gough

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Watchmen Of Rome

By: Alex Gough

After twenty-five long years serving in the Roman Legions, Carbo returns to Rome to retire in peace. Life has moved on in the time he’s been at the front, and he finds himself friendless and homeless. But when he comes across Rufa, a childhood friend he swore an oath to protect, he must fight to rescue her from an evil priestess, liberate her from slavery and save Rome from total annihilation. Luckily, the Watchmen of Rome have his back... but will they be able to save their city and the Republic itself? Watchmen of Rome is a thrilling historical adventure, perfect for fans of Ben Kane, Gordon Doherty and Simon Scarrow.

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Canelo

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1788631137

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9781788631136

Iowa's Archaeological Past

By: Lynn M. Alex

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Iowa's Archaeological Past

By: Lynn M. Alex

Iowa has more than eighteen thousand archaeological sites, and research in the past few decades has transformed our knowledge of the state's human past. Drawing on the discoveries of many avocational and professional scientists, Lynn Alex describes Iowa's unique archaeological record as well as the challenges faced by today's researchers, armed with innovative techniques for the discovery and recovery of archaeological remains and increasingly refined frameworks for interpretation. The core of this book--which includes many historic photographs and maps as well as numerous new maps and drawings and a generous selection of color photos--explores in detail what archaeologists have learned from studying the state's material remains and their contexts. Examining the projectile points, potsherds, and patterns that make up the archaeological record, Alex describes the nature of the earliest settlements in Iowa, the development of farming cultures, the role of the environment and environmental change, geomorphology and the burial of sites, interaction among native societies, tribal affiliation of early historic groups, and the arrival and impact of Euro-Americans. In a final chapter, she examines the question of stewardship and the protection of Iowa's many archaeological resources.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609380150

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9781609380151

Edith

By: Alex Binney

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Edith

By: Alex Binney

Edith Gwendolyn Barrington entered the world on All Fools' Day, 1865. She grew into a beautiful woman, haughty and unapproachable. In spite of this, she undertook marriage several times, but her husbands had the unhappy knack of dying on her. Was she a serial killer or merely a victim of circumstance? Why had this aloof lady consented to enter wedlock so willingly and so often? Inspector Dufret of the Metropolitan police is unsure, and unsuccessfully attempts to have the bodies of the deceased exhumed. A year later, Edith issues a curse before she dies, which is carried down through the generations. It is now 1959, and a series of murders in close proximity to Lincoln have occurred which seem to be the acts of a serial killer. Superintendent Robert Dale and his assistant, Detective Sergeant David Kingston, of the Murder Squad, are sent to Lincoln to try and prevent the continuing slaughter of local residents. They arrest a likely suspect who, under hypnosis, claims to be the reincarnation of the late Edith Gwendolyn Barrington, who has returned to exact vengeance on such persons directly related to those who had wronged her during her previous lifetime. The killing doesn't stop upon the arrest, however, and the final solution to the case rests on whether one believes in ghosts and reincarnation. Alex Binney's psychological thriller will have you on the edge of your seats...

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iUniverse

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1475907168

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9781475907162

The Black Country

By: Alex Grecian

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The Black Country

By: Alex Grecian

When members of a prominent coal-mining family go missing, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad teammates Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith investigate dark secrets and realize that the family's village is slowly sinking into underground mines.

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G.P. Putnam's Sons

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0425267733

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9780425267738

The Tools that Built America

By: Alex W. Bealer

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The Tools that Built America

By: Alex W. Bealer

Fascinating story of early American woodworking enthusiastically describes and clearly illustrates a wide array of axes, saws, planes, hammers, and other implements used by frontiersmen. Over 200 drawings and photographs.

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Courier Corporation

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0486138623

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9780486138626

Pride's Puget Sound

A John Pride/Misty Jackson Novel

By: Robert Alex Bell

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Pride's Puget Sound

A John Pride/Misty Jackson Novel

By: Robert Alex Bell

John Pride is a forensic accounting investigator for the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He lives on a Puget Sound island west of Seattle enjoying the quiet life between cases. When he receives an unexpected phone call with unfortunate news it sends him packing his bag and flying to the mainland. At the University of Washington someone has cut short some genetically modified organism experiments with an explosive bloodbath. John is the investigation's only hope as their best evidence is internet based--Pride's specialty. His investigation takes him to Chicago, the Caribbean and back to his Puget Sound home. John Pride, almost retired but always up for adventure must stop those terrorists responsible--or else this could be his last case. "Anyone who likes fast action, twisting plots, and exotic locales... cannot fail to be taken in from page one and kept turning the pages to see what happens next." Patrick Taylor - New York Times bestselling author of the Irish Country Doctor series. "In the midst of the hero's entertaining hunt for the culprit, we also get a glimpse into the moral dilemmas facing those who flirt with terrorism, and how the desire to change the world can lead to unforeseen and destructive consequences." Jennifer Welsh - University of Oxford Professor "Take notice Grisham and Turow... Financial crime has never been so exciting. Attention to detail is superb, and Pride is just the man we would hire...for an exciting case like this - deal me in for an adventure." Bill T. - Senior Partner, International Law Firm

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1475982909

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The Sword of Darrow

By: Hal Malchow,Alex Malchow

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The Sword of Darrow

By: Hal Malchow,Alex Malchow

In a magical realm filled with creatures of every possible shape and size, war is brought upon the peaceful kingdom of Sonnencrest by evil goblin King Malmut. Princess Babette, the only surviving member of the royal family, manages to escape and seeks refuge with Asterux, a powerful wizard who agrees to teach Babette magic, and who disguises her as an ugly gypsy girl to protect her from King Malmut's thugs. Ten years later, Babette must use the magic she has learned to help aid the kingdom's only hope at defeating the goblins' horrible reign: Darrow, a lame boy who can barely pick up a sword but has a great gift for inspiring others. With Babette's unseen help, Darrow begins a journey to free his country once and for all and bring peace back to Sonnencrest. Written by a father and his then eight- year-old son who struggled with a learning disability at the time, "The Sword of Darrow" is an enjoyable adventure that shows how even the unlikeliest of heroes can rise up against injustice.

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BenBella Books, Inc.

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1935618881

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9781935618881

Spiritual Tourism

Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society

By: Alex Norman

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Spiritual Tourism

Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society

By: Alex Norman

First volume exploring spiritual tourism as a phenomenon in Western cultures of travel, discussing the relationship between contemporary tourism and secular approaches to religious practices.

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A&C Black

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1441150447

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9781441150448

Impact of Technology in History and Archaeology

By: Alex Woolf

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Impact of Technology in History and Archaeology

By: Alex Woolf

How have technology and science helped historians and archaeologists through the years? How does today's technology help us understand the past? What role does technology hold for the future of history studies? From the invention of metal detectors through to today's computer modelling of long-dead people, our knowledge of the past has always been improving thanks to technology. This book looks at historical, current and future techniques for helping us discover traces of the past from artifacts to human remains. We look at how dating these things has become more accurate and also how the internet is giving us more access to historical records than ever before.

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Raintree

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1406298786

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9781406298789

Tide Mills of Southern England

By: Alex Vincent

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Tide Mills of Southern England

By: Alex Vincent

A fascinating exploration of the lost tide mills and their remains in England’s southern counties of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Sussex and Kent.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398116831

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9781398116832

The Bedford Boys

One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice

By: Alex Kershaw

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The Bedford Boys

One American Town's Ultimate D-day Sacrifice

By: Alex Kershaw

The poignant story of twenty-one boys who died on the beaches of Normandy and the small town they called home

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Da Capo Press, Incorporated

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0306811677

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9780306811678

Sigh for a Merlin

By: Alex Henshaw

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Sigh for a Merlin

By: Alex Henshaw

The enthralling account of Alex Henshaw's life with the Spitfire. Alex Henshaw spent the early days of World War II at Eastleigh, England testing the immortal Spitfire fighter with Jeffrey Quill before being appointed Chief Test Pilot at Supermarine's new factory in Castle Bromwich. Thousands of Spitfires were tested and manufactured at this site throughout the war by the end of which 37,000 test flights had been made with Alex Henshaw flying an estimated ten per cent of all Spitfires ever built. Often landing without aids of any kind, his breathtaking acrobatic style and complete mastery of the aircraft were to save his life on several occasions.

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Crecy Publishing Ltd

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1800351585

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9781800351585

Spidertouch

By: Alex Thomson

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Spidertouch

By: Alex Thomson

Enslaved by a mute-race of cruel dictators, Razvan learns their touch-language and works as a translator in order to survive. But war is on the horizon and his quiet life is about to get noisy… When he was a boy, Razvan trained as a translator for the hated Keda, the mute enslavers of his city, Val Kedić. They are a cruel race who are quick to anger. They keep a tight hold on the citizens of Val Kedić by forcing their children to be sent to work in the dangerous mines of the city from the age of eleven until eighteen. By learning fingerspeak – the Keda's touch language – Razvan was able to avoid such a punishment for himself and live a life outside the harsh climate of the slums. But the same could not be said for his son... Now a man, Razvan has etched out a quiet life for himself as an interpreter for the Keda court. He does not enjoy his work, but keeps his head down to protect his son, held hostage in the Keda’s mines. The Keda reward any parental misdemeanors with extra lashings for their children. Now the city is under siege by a new army who are perhaps even more cruel than their current enslavers. At the same time, a mysterious rebellion force has reached out to Razvan with a plan to utilize the incoming attack to defeat the Keda once and for all. Razvan must decide which side to fight on, who can be trusted, and what truly deserves to be saved. File Under: Fantasy [ Linguistical Nightmare | Camun Willing | Knuckle Up | Silence isn’t Golden ]

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Watkins Media Limited

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0857669613

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9780857669612

A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle

By: John F Hogan,Alex A. Burkholder

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A Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle

By: John F Hogan,Alex A. Burkholder

This compelling history chronicles some of the most intense and tragic fires in Chicago’s storied meatpacking district. Chicago’s Union Stock Yards made the city “the hog butcher of the world,” but the notoriety came at a grievous cost. From their opening on Christmas Day of 1865 to their final closure in July of 1971, The Yards were the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires. That infamous history includes some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse—the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, “It’s all right, we're fully covered.” For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1614238626

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9781614238621

Your Green Home

A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly, New Home

By: Alex Wilson

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Your Green Home

A Guide to Planning a Healthy, Environmentally Friendly, New Home

By: Alex Wilson

A guide to designing and building the environmentally friendly, energy efficient home of your dreams. More and more homeowners today want houses that are healthy to live in and cause minimal damage to the environment. That’s what green building is all about. Your Green Home is written for homeowners planning a new home—whether you are working with an architect or builder, or serving as your own general contractor. Intended to improve the overall environmental performance of new houses being built, the book sets out to answer some of the big-picture questions relating to having a home designed and built-and getting what you want. Your Green Home covers: Home location and its relationship to the community Site design Construction systems Building design to optimize energy performance Renewable energy systems Material selection Indoor environmental quality Water efficiency Material selection Written by the founder of BuildingGreen—North America’s premier green building authority—this book will prove useful not only to future homeowners, but also to designers and builders seeking to meet this demand. Building professionals well-versed in green building may find this a useful book to give to potential clients to convey the scope and principles of green building.

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New Society Publishers

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155092348X

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9781550923483

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Alex Irvine

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: The Official Movie Novelization

By: Alex Irvine

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

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Titan Books (US, CA)

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1783292288

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A Corner in the Marais

Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood

By: Alex Karmel

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A Corner in the Marais

Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood

By: Alex Karmel

In a knowledgeable, conversational style that conveys (and makes contagious) Karmel's love of his subject, A Corner in the Marais traces the architectural and social development of the City of Lights, from its origins as a Roman settlement, through major redevelopments brought about by Henri IV and Baron Haussmann, to the present renovation of old neighborhoods. Illustrated throughout with photographs and period engravings, A Corner in the Marais is ideal reading for anyone who loves exploring the hidden byways of vieux Paris and experiencing history from a very personal viewpoint.

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David R. Godine Publisher

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1567921981

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The Seal of Karga Kul

A Dungeons & Dragons Novel

By: Alex Irvine

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The Seal of Karga Kul

A Dungeons & Dragons Novel

By: Alex Irvine

A tale of heroism and exploit in the tradition of Robert E. Howard... Enter Remy, a quick-witted courier whose dangerous freight leads him into the vanguard of an ancient war between forces of light and the rising tide of shadows that threatens to overwhelm the burgeoning civilizations of the Two Rivers Gulf. The story opens with Remy alone and near death after an encounter with several stormclaw scorpions. His horse dead and poison sapping his strength, Remy collapses with his package at his side, undelivered. When he awakes, he is in the company of a band of adventurers who found him by the side of the road and nursed him back to health. Among them is a grim dragonborn paladin named Biri-Daar, whose wariness of the magical seals on Remy’s freight is outweighed by an overwhelming sense of duty to those in need. As they journey on, the nature of Remy’s package becomes a greater and greater curiosity. Soon the party, which has come to comprise some six-strong adventurers, finds itself to be the lynchpin that holds an army of netherworld forces at bay. Award-winning author and veteran shared-world writer Alex Irvine brings his unique characters and considerable storytelling talents to bear in the world of Dungeons & Dragons®.

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Wizards of the Coast

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0786958111

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9780786958115

Art Day by Day: 366 Brushes with History

By: Alex Johnson

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Art Day by Day: 366 Brushes with History

By: Alex Johnson

A daily almanac that presents a selection of art historical events for every day of the year, from momentous and headline-grabbing to intimate, amusing, and illuminating. Taking a novel approach to the history of art, Art Day by Day aims to change the pace at which the story is told. Presenting snapshots of the most exciting, unusual, and noteworthy art events from around the world and throughout history through direct testimonies, eyewitness accounts, and contemporary chroniclers, this volume is a unique look at the past. Drawing on articles, diaries, interviews, letters, speeches, transcripts, and more, Art Day by Day offers an important event that happened on that day in the history of art. Here are the stories of famous paintings, ancient sculptures, comic strips, photographs, murals, manifestos, and marriages, from terracotta soldiers to a self-shredding Banksy. Each day has its own section, starting with an extended quote giving artists, critics, and commentators their voice to speak directly to us, followed by a brief explanatory text, and ending with other important events in art on that day such as births, deaths, and exhibition openings. Not every entry is momentous, but each one is significant. Yes, there are thefts, murders, artistic mishaps, and eureka moments, but there are also episodes such as President Theodore Roosevelt’s doodles, Michelangelo writing to his nephew about his kidney stones, and Monet getting the green light for his water garden. Every day has a story to tell. An informative overview of culture throughout the ages, Art Day by Day is as enlightening as it is entertaining: the perfect armchair companion and reference for art lovers everywhere.

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Thames & Hudson

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0500777063

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9780500777060

Hunger Makes the Wolf

By: Alex Wells

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Hunger Makes the Wolf

By: Alex Wells

This thrilling sci-fi Western features “a dash of Dune, a bit of Fury Road, and a whole lot of badass female characters” (Emma Maree Urquhart, author of Dragon Tamers) The strange planet known as Tanegawa’s World is owned by TransRifts Inc, the company with the absolute monopoly on interstellar travel. Hob landed there ten years ago, a penniless orphan left behind by a rift ship. She was taken in by Nick Ravani and quickly became a member of his mercenary biker troop, the Ghost Wolves. Ten years later, she discovers that the body of Nick’s brother out in the dunes. Worse, his daughter is missing, taken by shady beings called the Weathermen. But there are greater mysteries to be discovered—both about Hob and the strange planet she calls home.

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Watkins Media Limited

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0857666452

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Lost Japan

By: Alex Kerr

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Lost Japan

By: Alex Kerr

An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, and tells the story of the hidden valley that became his home. But the book is not just a love letter. Haunted throughout by nostalgia for the Japan of old, Kerr's book is part paean to that great country and culture, part epitaph in the face of contemporary Japan's environmental and cultural destruction. Winner of Japan's 1994 Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize. Alex Kerr is an American writer, antiques collector and Japanologist. Lost Japan is his most famous work. He was the first foreigner to be awarded the Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize for the best work of non-fiction published in Japan.

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Penguin UK

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0141979755

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9780141979755

Archie & Friends #122

By: Alex Simmons,Fernando Ruiz,Jim Amash, Jack Morelli, Glenn Whitmore

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Archie & Friends #122

By: Alex Simmons,Fernando Ruiz,Jim Amash, Jack Morelli, Glenn Whitmore

The Crooked Comic Con Caper," Part Two. Last issue, the news of Archie and his friends' worldwide, mystery-solving adventures led to a major movie contract and a trip to Tinseltown! While at a swank Hollywood party, the gang is kidnapped along with dozens of celebrity guests, and trapped in a ballroom with wall-to-wall food! That may be fine for Jughead, but the others are determined to break both themselves and their famous fellow prisoners free. The crazy climax features a thrilling "cat and costumed mouse" chase as the teens pursue the lead culprit racing through the Catalina Comic Convention! It's one explosive finish!

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1627380051

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Pompeii

The Living City

By: Alex Butterworth,Ray Laurence

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Pompeii

The Living City

By: Alex Butterworth,Ray Laurence

***Please note that this ebook does not contain the photo insert that appears in the print book.*** The ash of Mt. Vesuvius preserves a living record of the complex and exhilarating society it instantly obliterated two thousand years ago. In this highly readable, lavishly illustrated book, Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence marshal cutting-edge archaeological reconstructions and a vibrant historical tradition dating to Pliny and Tacitus; they present a richly textured portrait of a society not altogether unlike ours, composed of individuals ordinary and extraordinary who pursued commerce, politics, family and pleasure in the shadow of a killer volcano. Deeply resonant in a world still at the mercy of natural disaster, Pompeii recreates life as experienced in the city, and those frantic, awful hours in AD 79 that wiped the bustling city from the face of the earth.

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1466860642

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Wearmouth & Jarrow

Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape

By: Sam Turner,Sarah Semple,Alex Turner

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Wearmouth & Jarrow

Northumbrian Monasteries in an Historic Landscape

By: Sam Turner,Sarah Semple,Alex Turner

Presenting the results of new research on the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow—among the most sophisticated centers of learning and artistic culture in 17th- and 18th-century Europe, and the home of Bede—and their churches, this study examines the long-lasting effect of their buildings and estates on the surrounding region from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The authors trace these relationships through time with new studies of the changing landscape, the monastery precincts, and the surviving structures themselves, detailing how the historical archaeology of the sites reveals how the churches and their communities were rooted in the landscapes of Northumbria but flourished through their links with other parts of Britain and Europe. Researchers from many different backgrounds contributed to the project, using aerial, geophysical, geoarchaeological, and palaeoenvironmental surveys and digital mapping to examine the monasteries and surrounding lands. This book reveals not only the link between the churches and the region’s political and economic history, but also demonstrates how their cultural significance for local people in northeast England has changed over time.

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265

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Univ of Hertfordshire Press

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1909291188

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Zombie Origin

By: Alex Willis

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Zombie Origin

By: Alex Willis

Did you ever wonder where the zombie phenomenon began? Some believe it was Romero with his movies back in the 60s. But zombie stories are much older and can be traced back to Ancient Egypt. We have laughed at and created fascinating tales about some of our historic folklore of zombies. Even today we can readily believe the possiblity of an infectious virus that will put us all into a zombie like tranz. This story examines a plausible timetable leading to the eventual outbreak.

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Lulu.com

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1300818158

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