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 Wagner and CinemaBest Price: $40.00 The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological... |  Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early RepublicBest Price: $67.95 Anthony Wayne: Soldier of the Early Republic by Paul David Nelson. 384 pages. 1985. This... |  Invincible Generals: Gustavus Adolphus, Marlborough, Frederick the Great, George Washington, WellingtonBest Price: $6.00 This was a great book for me to read because it influenced me to become the Commander-in-Chief... |  Arafat, a political biographyBest Price: $19.95 From his earliest beginnings as a student leader in Cairo, to his current position as Chairman... |  Four Years With General LeeBest Price: $44.00 Walter Taylor was 'first to last the closest' of all staff officers to General Robert E.... |
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 Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth CenturyBest Price: $77.45 This is a lengthy, superbly written book about the life, work and cultural milieu of one of the... |  Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist ZionismBest Price: $12.63 Robert F. Barsky is the author of two marvelous political/intellectual biographies of Noam... |  Science and Technology in Korea: Traditional Instruments and TechniquesBest Price: $42.50 It might surprise Western scientists to learn that there were periods in Korean... |  Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s (October Books)Best Price: $23.13 How Yvonne Rainer's art shaped new ways of watching as well as performing;... |  Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews (Writing Art)Best Price: $66.09 Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre... |
 Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)Best Price: $16.38 Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most important political philosophers... |  Pope Innocent III (1160/61-1216): To Root Up and to PlantBest Price: $25.04 Excellent, readable, thorough introduction to a very interesting pope, Innocent III. Moore... |  Kiki: ten thousand years in a lifetime;: A New Guinea autobiographywhen Heinrich Harrer wrote that he came from the Stone Age, what would A.M. Kiki say? He truely... |  The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured ServantBest Price: $61.95 William Moraley's autobiography, originally published in 1743, provides a rare view of life... |  Ezra Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of CultureBest Price: $2.49 In 1917, having begun the long poem that would prove his life's work, Ezra Pound affirmed... |
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 A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas WoodsonBest Price: $29.55 If you've followed the Jefferson-Hemings controversy, you know that the DNA tests have shown... |  Enduring the Revolution: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in Guomindang ChinaBest Price: $84.95 An anarchist by temperament, the beautiful and talented Ding Ling attempted to find her way in... |  Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, and the Torch Song TraditionBest Price: $26.95 This book reads like someone's doctoral dissertation, which is to say, dry, boring and... |  Homegrown Music: Discovering BluegrassBest Price: $8.50 All of us were bluegrass music neophytes at some time in our past. Perhaps a few of us were born... |  June Jordan: Her Life and Letters (Women Writers of Color)Best Price: $44.95 June Jordan was a strong woman and political leader, acting in many ways, including as a poet,... |
 In Their Own Words: Songwriters Talk About the Creative ProcessBest Price: $23.73 The interviews included in this fascinating collection of discussions with popular songwriters... |  Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century RussiaBest Price: $14.33 I enjoyed this book for the most part. It delves into the lives of these 5 empresses and how... |  William Jay: Abolitionist and AnticolonialistBest Price: $25.00 A founder of the New York Anti-Slavery Society, William Jay was one of the most prolific and... |  Quelch's Gold: Piracy, Greed, and Betrayal in Colonial New EnglandBest Price: $8.70 Just finished this great book. Not being a history buff, I opened the cover to this book with... |  Living in the Shadow of the Freud FamilyBest Price: $25.00 Sophie Freud's new book is more than a history of a famous family in the 20thc, but a... |
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