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By: Alder, Ken
Price: $6.00
Publisher: June 2012
Seller ID: 80475
ISBN: 0743216768
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Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd: July 2001
Seller ID: 466661
ISBN: 1841951439
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Publisher: March 2011
Seller ID: 435035
ISBN: 039458581X
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By: Appleby, Joyce
Price: $6.50
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 2013
Seller ID: 375988
ISBN: 0393239519
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Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer su...
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By: Arikha, Noga
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Publisher: Harper Perennial: July 2008
Seller ID: 466682
ISBN: 0060731176
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Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body--blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler--determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the anatomy begin to emerge. But by then humoural theory had already become deeply ingrained in Western language and thought--and endures to this day in surprising ways.
Interweaving the histories of medicine, science, psychology, and philosophy, Passions and Tempers explores the uncanny persistence of these variable, invisible fluids. It will c...
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By: Asimov, Isaac
Price: $15.00
Publisher: May 2013
Seller ID: 138295
ISBN: 0062700367
Binding: Hardcover
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Seller ID: 367990
ISBN: 0195388917
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By: Barrie, David
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Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: May 2015
Seller ID: 466597
ISBN: 0062279351
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In the tradition of Dava Sobel's Longitude comes this dramatic tale of invention and discovery--an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and to the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.
Barrie takes readers straight to the helm of some of history's most important expeditions, interweaving these heroic tales with the account of his own transatlantic passage as a young man. A heady mix of adventure, science, mathematics, and derring-do, Sextant is infused with a sense of wonder and discovery. At...
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By: Barzun, Jacques
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Harper Perennial: May 2001
Seller ID: 72590
ISBN: 0060928832
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Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.
In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch...
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By: Barzun, Jacques
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Harper: May 2000
Seller ID: 136867
ISBN: 0060175869
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Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.
In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch...
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Publisher: Vintage: July 2014
Seller ID: 466081
ISBN: 0307279642
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A Best Book of the Year:
Mother Jones - Bloomberg News - National Post - Kirkus
By: Beaton, Kendall
Price: $10.00
Seller ID: 345734
ISBN: B000UDKH96
Binding: Hardcover
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By: Berendt, John
Price: $6.00
Publisher: June 2012
Seller ID: 195126
ISBN: 1594200610
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Seller ID: 385700
ISBN: 0394709411
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Publisher: July 2011
Seller ID: 474442
ISBN: 0394543955
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Publisher: February 2014
Seller ID: 50577
ISBN: 0394726251
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By: Bowman, James
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Publisher: Encounter Books: May 2007
Seller ID: 466085
ISBN: 1594031983
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By: Braudel, Fernand
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Publisher: October 2011
Seller ID: 164148
ISBN: 0060912944
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By: Braudel, Fernand
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Publisher: Harper & Row: January 1982
Seller ID: 319448
ISBN: 0060150912
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By: Bryson, Bill
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Publisher: Broadway Books: May 2003
Seller ID: 438182
ISBN: 0767908171
Binding: Hardcover
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