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Manga Classics: Great Expectations by Nokman Poon (Cover Design by, Artist); Stacy King (Editor); Crystal Chan (Editor); Charles Dickens
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Manga Classics Ser.
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an English orphan who rises to wealth, deserts his true friends, and becomes humbled by his own arrogance. It also introduces one of the more colorful characters in literature: Miss Havisham. Dickens set Great Expectations during the time that ...Show more
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King
Category: History
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres sold family heirlooms, an African American impresar ...Show more
Midnight at the Pera: PalaceThe Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King
Category: History
At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city people were looking toward an uncertain fut ...Show more
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
Category: History
Odessa was the Russian Empire's gateway to the Middle East, its greatest commercial seaport and home to one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in all of Europe. Created as a model of enlightenment by Catherine the Great, and developed by colourful adventurers such as Grigory Potemkin, Jose de Ribas ...Show more
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
Category: History
Odessa was the Russian Empire's gateway to the Middle East, its greatest commercial seaport and home to one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in all of Europe. Created as a model of enlightenment by Catherine the Great, and developed by colourful adventurers such as Grigory Potemkin, Jose de Ribas ...Show more
The Complete Peanuts 1973-1974 by Charles Schulz; Billie Jean King (Introduction by)
Category: Gift
This volume features a number of tennis strips and several extended sequences involving Peppermint Patty's friend Marcie (including a riotous, rarely seen sequence in which Marcie's costume-making and hairstyling skills utterly spoil a skating competition for PP), so it seems only right that this volume ...Show more
The Reinvention of Humanity - A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture by Charles King
Category: Culture
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *WINNER OF THE FRANCIS PARKMAN PRIZE 2020* *FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2019* The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century. Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist Franz Boas, ...Show more
The Reinvention of Humanity: a Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture by Charles King
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound- what it means to be normal.In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, most of them women, made intrepid journeys that overturned our assumptions about race ...Show more
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