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The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
3) Egyptomania
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Laurence King Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Find out all about Ancient Egypt in this beautifully illustrated and innovative Lift The Flap book. Learn what Ancient Egyptians wore, what's inside a pyramid, how a mummy is made and much much more by lifting the flaps and discovering the secrets hiding underneath! "--publisher's website.
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Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine--witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans--who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.
9) Colors
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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Explores the magic of colors on spiral-bound transparent pages.
10) Weather
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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Explores the various aspects of the weather and the changing seasons on spiral-bound transparent pages.
11) Monsters & legends: cyclops, krakens, mermaids and other imaginary creatures that really existed!
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Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Explores the origins of legendary creatures, including mermaids, gremlins, witches, werewolves, and vampires.
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English
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In this thought-provoking, endlessly enlightening, and entertaining essay on the art of the novel, renowned author Milan Kundera suggests that "the curtain" represents a ready-made perception of the world that each of us has-a pre-interpreted world. The job of the novelist, he argues, is to rip through the curtain and reveal what it hides. Here an incomparable literary artist cleverly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the...
15) Origami jewelry
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Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Teaches you how to create origami jewelry step by step.
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Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"In Who Built That? Bridges, illustrator Didier Cornille presents ten of the most important bridges in the world, from the world's first cast-iron bridge (The Iron Bridge) to the longest pre-stressed concrete bridge in the southern hemisphere (The Rio-Niteroi Bridge) to the tallest bridge in the world (the Millau Viduct). Introducing each engineer or architect, the main concepts of their work, as well as some of their most important projects in charming...
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This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world's three major monotheistic religions-Christianity, Judaism, and Islam-have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death. Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive questioned the role of the world's three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray insists that not only...
20) The stranger
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Albert Camus?s spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
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