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The New Woman's Survival Catalog - A Woman-Made Book by Kirsten Grimstad + Susan Rennie Eds.
Category: Social Sciences
At once practical and creative, this book was feminism's Whole Earth CatalogOriginally published in 1973, The New Woman's Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of the second-wave feminist effort across the US. Edited by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie in just five months, The New Woman's Survival Catal ...Show more
The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (eds)
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
'offers not only that breakfast for the mind we keep hearing about, but lunch, tea, dinner, supper and non-stop snacks' Peter Green, Washington Times (reviewing the third edition).
The Paris Review Interviews: vol. 1 by Paris Review editors (eds)
Category: Biography | Series: The\Paris Review Ser.
How do great writers do it? From James M Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational," to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book - "I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back t ...Show more
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories by Barbara Korte and Ann-Marie Einhaus (Eds.)
Category: Fiction
An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the many modes in which short fiction contributed to the ...Show more
The Rodale Book Of Composting by Deborah L. Martin and Grace Gershuny (Eds)
Category: Gardening
Easy methods for every gardener. Improve your soil, recycle kitchen and yard wastes, grow healthier plants, create an earth-safe garden.Composting is fast becoming a household word. Gardeners know it is the best way to feed the soil, while others look to composting as a way to dispose of grass clippings ...Show more
The Rough Guide to France by eds.
Category: Travel | Series: Rough Guides
A travel guide with clear maps and detailed coverage of various French attractions. It includes full-colour features that explore the French wines and cheeses, as well as France's key walking regions and routes, and an extensive language section that gets you started on the important French phrases and ...Show more
The SBS Atlas of Languages : The Origin and Development of Languages throughout the World by B. Comrie, S. Matthews, M. Polinsky (Eds)
Category: Atlas
This edition is out of print. The SBS Atlas of Languagesprovides a detailed account of the language families of each region of the world, and identifies and explains interesting and sometimes unique features of grammar and vocabulary. It also examines the archeological, historical, cultural, social and ...Show more
The Sixties by Mirjam Shatanawi, Wayne Modest, Eds
Category: Culture
The Sixties was a period of global change, not to mention a time of intercultural exchange and shifting power structures. It was also the moment when the term “globalisation” entered into popular usage. An increasingly important mediascape contributed not only to the ease with which people located at th ...Show more
The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup by Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey (eds)
Category: Sport
THE THINKING FAN'S GUIDE TO THE WORLD CUP, as the title suggests, is a guide to the 2006 World Cup for the thinking fan. An almanac, a guide and a programme all rolled into one, the editors Matt Weiland (Granta) and Sean Wilsey (McSweeney's) have gathered together a remarkable team of 32 talents to writ ...Show more
The Total Artwork in Expressionism by RALF BEIL AND CLAUDIA DILLMANN (eds)
Category: Art and Design
First theorized by composer Richard Wagner, the total artwork, or "gesamtkunstwerk," proposed a synthesis of all arts towards a single, unified spectacle. Wagner's ambitious conception flowered in the early twentieth century throughout numerous avant gardes, particularly in German Expressionism, where a ...Show more
The Usborne Big Book of Picture Puzzles by eds.
Category: Children's
This bumper book contains four exciting titles from the Great Searches series, bound together in one great value volume. With over 100 objects to spot within each scene, and over 4,000 things to spot throughout. Snappy captions and fascinating facts featured throughout. The answers to all the puzzles ...Show more
The Voice of War: The Second World War Told by Those who Fought it by James Owen and Guy Walters (eds)
Category: History
The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts the course of the central event of the twentieth century using the diaries, letters and memoirs of those who were there, from Russian ...Show more