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The Basque History of the World - Mark Kurlansky
Amazon.com ReviewThe buzz about the Guggenheim Bilbao aside, the Basques seldom get good press--from the 12th-century Codex of Calixtus ("A Basque or Navarrese would do in a Frenc.... -
The Art of the Moving Picture - Vachel Lindsay
Product Description"In the field of film aesthetics, it is the first important American work, still important--The Art of the Moving Picture is astonishing."--Stanley Kauffmann <..... -
The Amateurs - David Halberstam
From Publishers WeeklyThe author of The Powers that Be and The Best and the Brightest tells of the dedication, competition and camaraderie of the athletes who represented the U.S. ... -
The Airplane - Jay Spenser
From Publishers WeeklyThis history of the development of the airplane by Spenser, a former curator of the National Air and Space Museum and author of 747, recasts the Wright broth.... -
The Age of American Unreason - Susan Jacoby
From Publishers WeeklyInspired by Richard Hofstadter's trenchant 1963 cultural analysis Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Jacoby (_Freethinkers: A History of American Secular.... -
The Adventures and Memoirs of S - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Ed Glin
From the Inside FlapFrom ?A Scandal in Bohemia,? in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to ?The Five Orange Pips,? in which the mas... -
The Adolescent - Fyodor Dostoevsky; Richard Peve
Review“The Adolescent is the most captivating of Dostoevsky’s novels.” —Konstantin Mochulsky, author of Dostoevsky: His Life and Work_ _Praise for ... -
Sunshine Sketches of a Little T - Stephen Leacock
ReviewCarl Spadoni's edition of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a delight to peruse... -- Michael Peterman, Trent UniversityProduct DescriptionAffection... -
Star Wars_ Choices of One - Timothy Zahn
Product DescriptionFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn comes a brand-new Star Wars adventure, set in the time between A New Hope and ... -
Springboard - Tom Clancy; Steve Perry; Steve
Product DescriptionNEW CENTURYNEW SUPERPOWERSA NEW BREED OF HOMELAND SECURITY About the AuthorCo-creator Tom Clancy is the author of The Hunt for Red October, T...