Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

This volume is part of the Index Emblematicus series, a project whose aim is to collect and edit important works of emblem literature produced throughout Europe during the Renaissance.

Volume 2 of the English Emblem Tradition provides extensive critical apparatus for four late sixteenth-century English works: P.S., The Heroicall Devises of M. Claudius Paradin [and] The Purtratures or Emblemes of Gabriel Simeon, A Florentine; Andrew Willet, Sacrorum Emblematum Centuria Una; and Thomas Combe, The Theater of Fine Devices. The volume not only reproduces each of these emblem books, but also provides brief critical and bibliographic introductions, translations of the mottoes, descriptions of the picturae, and indices to the visual and verbal components of the works.

The English Emblem Tradition

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

The Wright idea
 
"The interior space itself is the reality of the building."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Widely thought to be the greatest American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was a true pioneer, both artistically and technically. At a time when reinforced concrete and steel were considered industrial building materials, Wright boldly made use of them to build private homes. His prairie house concept--that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most famous houses and became a model for rural architecture across America. Wright`s designs for office and public buildings were equally groundbreaking and unique. From Fallingwater to New York`s Guggenheim Museum, his works are among the most famous in the history of architecture.
 
About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture Series features:
 * an introduction to the life and work of the architect
 * the major works in chronological order
 * information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
 * a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
 * approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)

Wright

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli's contribution to Western political theory.The Portable Machiavelli brings together the complete texts of The Prince, Belfagor, and Castruccio Castracani, newly translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa especially for this volume. In addition, the editors include an abridged version of The Discourses; a play, The Mandrake Root, in its entirety; seven private letters; and selections from The Art of War and The History of Florence.

The Portable Machiavelli

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Taking off

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#paperback #worldreligions #religions #philosophy #nonfiction #hinduism #taoism #buddhism #judaism #christianity #islam 

This interesting and informative book provides an understand of some the world's religions. It explores the main concepts of the religions represented as well as the teachings that it provides and a brief history of the religions and how it has developed over time. The religions that are explored in this book include Hinduism, Buddhism, the religions of China and Japan, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

World Religions

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Minnesota

Written by some of today's leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power--and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and warriors fight toe to toe, side by side, and behind each other's backs in the backwaters of a universe ripped apart by war.

On Zelos II a man and a woman are held prisoner in a dark cell, each fighting in their own way for survival at the hands of Imperial captors--and a chance for escape that could cost one of them their life. On the tortured landscape of Ryloth, Fenig Nabon awaits a ship of women warriors to complete a dangerous deal: the smuggling of a troupe of dancers to the homeworld of the Hutts--only to get more than she bargained for. And in a stunning novella written especially for this collection by Hugo Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole, Senator Garm Bel Iblis, believed dead at the hands of an Imperial assassin, teams up with Hal Horn in a duel against the Empire's most dangerous agent. At stake are the plans for a terrifying new weapon called the Death Star--and the fate of both the Empire and the New Republic.

Including these stories of intergalactic derring-do:
"Interlude at Darkknell" by Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole
"Jade Solitaire" by Timothy Zahn
"Gathering Shadows" by Kathy Burdette
"Hutt and Seek" by Chris Cassidy and Tish Pahl
"The Longest Fall" by Patricia A. Jackson
"Conflict of Interest" by Laurie Burns
"No Disintegrations, Please" by Paul Danner
"Day of the Sepulchral Night" by Jean Rabe
"Uhl Eharl Khoehng" by Patricia A. Jackson
"The Last Hand" by Paul Danner
"Simple Tricks" by Chris Cassidy and Tish Pahl

Tales from the New Republic: Star Wars Legends

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Minor shelf wear to cover. Pages are crisp free of markings and folding. Binding is tight. #FrankSinatra #AmericanLegend #NancySinatra

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

An American Legend

Sinatra always said there would be no autobiography and instead has agreed to support this biography written by his eldest daughter, Nancy. It charts his life to the present day, with recollections by family and friends and by Sinatra himself.

Frank Sinatra

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Inscribed by author to previous owner on half title page: "Happy cooking and smakelijk eten! Peter G. Rose" (I'm pretty sure the 2nd part of inscription is the Dutch for "enjoy your meal" or some Bon Appetit equivalent). 

New Jersey

Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World

The most favored Dutch cookbook of the seventeenth century, The Sensible Cook (De Verstandige Kock) had a major impact on the foodways of the Dutch in the Netherlands and in their New World territories.

As a part of the larger work, The Pleasurable Country Life, The Sensible Cook records the foodways of rich middle-class households, the cooking methods and typical dishes they prepared, and the implements and ingredients they employed.

Often the recipes are surprisingly sophisticated. From braising a chicken with orange peel and cinnamon to stuffing pigeons with a mixture of parsley, ginger, sugar, butter, and raisins, many of the dishes are still appealing today. Peter G. Rose has, in fact, adapted some two dozen of the recipes for contemporary use--tempting dishes such as "Shoemaker's Cake," a delicious combination of bread crumbs, butter, eggs, and stewed apples.

Handsomely illustrated with Dutch genre paintings, The Sensible Cook will interest cooks, food historians, students of social and cultural history, and the large number of Dutch descendants in America. Most important, this book will be welcomed by all who enjoy good food.

SIGNED—The Sensible Cook

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#hardcover #outsidedamage #insideuntouched #German #dictionary #language

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

South Dakota

The Collins German Unabridged Dictionary is simply the best German dictionary you can own. Here's why:

More than 850,000 entries and translations. The Collins German Unabridged Dictionary gives you comprehensive coverage of both German and English and most up-to-date business, political, and technical terms. Native German and English speakers worked side by side to create a balanced treatment of both languages and to make authentic and appropriate translations.

Most consistently updated. This edition has been extensively revised and updated to cover all the vocabulary of today's German, including thousands of new phrases and indicators. In addition, the Unabridged edition includes exhaustive coverage of key words, and full treatment of irregular forms of verbs, nouns, and adjectives to create the most complete and accurate picture of real language available today.

More colloquial usage than any other German dictionary. With its emphasis on current German and English, both written and spoken, including all areas of modern life and featuring regional usage, this dictionary gives you the edge in finding the correct translations.

German Unabridged Dictionary

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

An Anthology

Available in English for the first time, Modern Armenian Drama presents seven classic works from the Armenian stage. Spanning over a century (1871-1992), the plays explore such diverse themes science and religion, socioeconomic injustice, women's emancipation, and political reform through the medium of all the major European dramatic genres.

Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe provide a comprehensive introduction to the history of Armenian drama, giving a valuable overview of its importance and development in Armenia, as well as a brief biography for each playwright. A preface to each play helps in placing the work within the context of historical and cultural issues of the time.

Like the plays of Ibsen and O'Neill, the plays presented in this anthology are considered modern classics. They have an enduring quality and appeal to audiences who see them today. The editors have collected translations of the best examples of Armenian theater from its renaissance in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

SIGNED—Modern Armenian Drama

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Pennsylvania

Imzadi

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A Guide for the Curious Film Lover

Want to look further than the nearest mega-plex?
At last, a guide for you.

A.O. Scott
Stephen Holden
Caryn James
Dave Kehr
Peter M. Nichols

If just trudging to the latest Hollywood blockbuster doesn't appeal to you, The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Narrowly Missed or Almost Forgotten is the perfect companion. Inside, the film critics of The New York Times have made their top choices for those movies that are unjustly obscure, overlooked or just plain forgotten.

* Newly updated reviews of 500 films---all available on DVD!
* Sophisticated, intelligent, entertaining, provoking---these films run the gamut.
* Each critic's top 10 picks from the book
* Introduction by A. O. Scott, chief movie critic for The New York Times

The perfect gift for any serious movie buff, no matter what they prefer, from Waiting for Guffman to Happy, Texas, The Opposite of Sex to Belle Epoque. Film noir, documentaries, drama, Westerns, animation, comedies, foreign films, even a few must-see TV shows on DVD---The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Narrowly Missed or Almost Forgotten has it all.

The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Just Missed or Almost Forgotten

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#paperback #scifi #startrek #vintage 💫 🚀 📚 

Kentucky

Captain Picard is delighted to play host to a wedding between two rival space-merchant families, but the wedding is threatened by the sudden appearance of an unwelcome surprise guest, the mischievous superbeing Q.

Star Trek: Q-in-Law

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An Alternate History of the Pacific War

“Everyone with an interest in the Pacific War will find something stimulating in this thought-provoking study of what might have been.”
–British Army Review


In war, victory can be held hostage to seemingly insignificant incidents–chance events, opportunities seized or cast aside–that can derail the most brilliant military strategies and change the course of history. What if the Japanese had conquered India and driven out the British? What if the strategic link between the United States and Australia had been severed? What if Vice Admiral Nagumo had launched a third attack on Pearl Harbor? What if the U.S. Navy’s gamble at Midway had backfired?

Ten leading military historians ask these and other questions in this fascinating book. The war with Japan was rife with difficult choices and battles that could have gone either way. These fact-based alternate scenarios offer intriguing insights into what might have happened in the Pacific during World War II, and what the consequences would have been for America.


“A compelling read . . . bound to generate a good deal of debate.”
–The Defense Information Bulletin

“Rising Sun Victorious is must reading.”
–Almanac of Seapower

Rising Sun Victorious P1

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The German Ordeal on the Eastern Front

"Fighting in Hell presents four invaluable reports detailing the German campaign in Russia during World War II: Russian Combat Methods in World War II, Effects of Climate on Combat in European Russia, Combat in Russian Forests and Swamps and Warfare in the Far North. Like the reports in The Anvil of War, also published by Greenhill Books, they were written in the late 1940s and early 1950s as part of the U.S. Army program to record the German commanders' accounts and explanations of their strategies and tactics." "The authors of these reports were all veterans of the fighting they described, and frankly admitted that the soldiers sent to Russia were neither trained nor equipped to withstand the full fury of the elements there. The German war in Russia was so brutal in all its extremes that all past experiences paled beside it. Everything in Russia - the land, the climate, the distances and above all the people - was harder, harsher, more unforgiving and more deadly than anything the German soldier had ever faced before. One panzer-grenadier who fought both in the West and in Russia summed it up: 'In the West war was the same honourable old game; nobody went out of his way to be vicious, and fighting stopped often by five in the afternoon. But in the East, the Russians were trying to kill you - all the time.'" "However, the German High Command were originally under the impression that the Red Army could be destroyed west of the Dnepr, and there would be no need for conducting operations in cold, snow and mud. Fighting in Hell shows what really happened, through first-hand accounts of the commanders who were there."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Fighting in Hell

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Tennessee

Nation of Nations - The Ethnic Experience and the Racial Crisis

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#paperback #educational #horror #paranormal 

Virginia

This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of James’s classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Two of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.

The Turn of the Screw

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A picture's worth a thousand words, and there have always been top supplies of both in the ever-moving manuals of marvels and miscreants! Now, witness first-hand the series that started it all in Mark Gruenwald's original fifteen issues worth of secrets, super-powers and schematics! About the best, by the best! Collects OHOTMU #1-15.

The official Handbook for the Marvel Universe vol 1

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1996
 #1stedition #1stprinting  #hardcover #startrek

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Computer Science

This paperback edition reproduces the complete text of the Essay as prepared by professor Nidditch for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The Register of Formal Variants and the Glossary are omitted and Professor Nidditch has written a new foreword.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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"This edition of James's classic novel presents the 1908 New York Edition along with five critical essays - newly commissioned or revised for a student audience - that read The Turn of the Screw from five contemporary critical perspectives." "Each critical essay is accompanied by a succinct introduction to the history, principles, and practice of the critical perspective and by a bibliography that promotes further exploration of that approach." "In addition, the text and essays are complemented by an introduction providing biographical and historical contexts for James and The Turn of the Screw, a survey of critical responses to the novel since its initial publication, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Turn of the Screw (MacMillan Press, 1995)

No dust jacket. Nameplate on inside front cover. Pristine interior. Features essays by Louis I. Bredvold, Thomas H.D. Mahoney, Daniel L. McCue, Jr., Robert A. Smith, James F. Davidson, Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., Peter J. Stanlis, and Walter D. Love. 

The Enlightenment and the Modern World

Edmund Burke

Q, a mysterious, omnipotent being, once again wreaks havoc on the Enterprise when he returns to challenge his archenemy Trelane, another being from his continuum, and their confrontation could spell the ultimate disaster for Captain Jean-Luc Picard. 150,000 first printing.

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Peter Daly (Editor); Leslie T. Duer (Editor); Mary V. Silcox (Editor)

The English Emblem Tradition

Peter Gossel (Editor); Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer

Wright

Niccolo Machiavelli; Peter Bondanella (Editor, Translator); Mark Musa (Editor, Translator)

The Portable Machiavelli

Richard I. Curtiss; Peter Schriver (Editor); Random House Value Publishing Staff

Taking off

Peter Delius (Editor); Ulrike Sommer (Editor)

World Religions

Peter Schweighofer (Editor); Craig Carey (Editor)

Tales from the New Republic: Star Wars Legends

Nancy Sinatra; Peter Hoffman (Editor)

Frank Sinatra

Peter Rose (Editor, Translator)

SIGNED—The Sensible Cook

Peter Terrell (Editor); HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Staff

German Unabridged Dictionary

Nishan Parlakian; S. Peter Cowe (Editor)

SIGNED—Modern Armenian Drama

David Peter; Dave Stern (Editor)

Imzadi

Peter M. Nichols (Editor); A. O. Scott; Stephen Holden

The Best DVDs You've Never Seen, Just Missed or Almost Forgotten

David Peter; Dave Stern (Editor)

Star Trek: Q-in-Law

Peter G. Tsouras (Editor)

Rising Sun Victorious P1

Erhard Rauss; Waldemar Erfurth; Peter G. Tsouras (Editor); Hans Von Greiffenberg

Fighting in Hell

Peter I. Rose (Editor)

Nation of Nations - The Ethnic Experience and the Racial Crisis

Henry James; Peter G. Beidler (Editor)

The Turn of the Screw

Jim Shooter (Editor); Mark Gruenwald; Peter Sanderson; Eliot R. Brown; John Byrne (Artist); Dave Cockrum (Artist); Bob Layton (Artist); John Romita (Artist)

The official Handbook for the Marvel Universe vol 1

David Peter; Dave Stern (Editor)

Imzadi

John Locke; Peter H. Nidditch (Editor)

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Henry James; Peter G. Beidler (editor)

The Turn of the Screw (MacMillan Press, 1995)

Peter J. Stanlis, editor

Edmund Burke

Peter David; Kevin Ryan (Editor)

Q-Squared

Peter David; Kevin Ryan (Editor)

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