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New World History/Politics/Current Affairs  Cognitive Infiltration
An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
David Ray Griffin
Griffin's meritorious effort to raise public awareness and understanding
Former Chicago and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, who in 2009 was appointed by President Barack Obama to direct an important executive branch of...
$18.00
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 Towards One World
Ancient Persia and the West
Warwick Ball
The second volume in a series that examines the spread of cultures from the East into Europe
The Persian Empire was the first major eastern power to actually extend its borders into Europe. Unlike the Phoenicians before them who c...
$22.95
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 Understanding Racial Inequality in the Obama Era
A Primer
Dedrick Dunbar Muhammad; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
An essential volume by an experienced scholar and analyst
Understanding Racial Inequality in the Obama Era is a brief yet thorough review of racial inequality in contemporary multicultural America. It gives a realist's a...
$10.00
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New World Travel  A Traveller's Companion to Istanbul
Edited by Laurence Kelly
The history of the city where East meets West spans 28 centuries. Istanbul, the ancient and timeless heart of modern Turkey, is a city with its mythological origins in the seventh century BC. Founded as Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roma...
$16.95
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 A Traveller's History of England
(5th edition)
Christopher Daniell
This book gives a comprehensive and enjoyable survey of England's past from prehistoric times right through to the present. All the major periods of English history are dealt with, including the Roman occupation, and the invasions of the Anglo-Sa...
$14.95
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 Café Life Sydney
A Guide to the Neighborhood Cafés of Australia's Harbor City
Tamara Thiessen
Superbly photographed, this book showcases unique and tasteful cafes in and around Sydney
In five decades, Australia has gone from a nation of tea drinkers to one of feisty, true-to-Italian-migrant espresso drinking. Café c...
$20.00
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 California
On-the-Road Histories
Victor Silverman and Laurie Glover
A witty, expansive narrative that reveals the real story of the people and places that make up the Golden State.
From the European conquest to today’s economic crisis, Californians have experienced tumultuous growth and pain...
$20.00
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 Dive the Red Sea
Complete Guide to Diving and Snorkelling
Guy Buckles; photography by Alex Misiewicz
This definitive guide features detailed coverage of more than 125 dive and snorkel sites along the length of the Red Sea. Region by region, it looks at the premier sites-describing access, conditions, marine life, and special poin...
$20.00
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 Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands(Travellers' Wildlife Guide)
David L. Pearson and Les Beletsky
Travellers to Ecuador want to experience tropical forests and other stunning habitats and catch glimpses of exotic wildlife: toucans and parrots, monkeys and anteaters, frogs and toads, crocodiles and snakes. On the Galapagos Islands, curious visitor...
$29.95
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 India
The Business Traveller’s Handbook
Jonathan Webber
About the series: Catering for the needs of the discerning business traveler, the Business Traveller’s Handbooks are the vital passport to a successful and enjoyable trip, containing:
• Insider tips on how to get thing...
$20.00
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 Rome Guide, The
Step by Step through the Art, Culture, and History of the Eternal City
Mauro Lucentini with Eric J. Lucentini and Jack Lucentini
A unique, clever, informative, and incomparable guide to Rome
Written by one of Italy's most distinguished journalists, this guidebook-a favorite in Italy and Germany-combines vivid, engaging descriptions and background with g...
$25.00
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 San Francisco (2nd edition)
A Cultural History
Mick Sinclair
Within a generation San Francisco grew from an isolated Mexican trading post with more hills than people into America’s major Pacific Coast city. Shaped by entrepreneurs, eccentrics, and visionaries, it became renowned for accommodating those w...
$15.00
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New World Travel/Cadogan Guides USA  Marrakesh, Fez and Rabat (2nd ed.)
(Cadogan Guides USA)
Barnaby Rogerson
"Rogerson's guide is knowledgeable, enthusiastic and filled with useful detail."
—Sunday Times
• Bursting with personal knowledge and practical information from renowned Moroccan exp...
$21.95
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New Illustrated Gift Books  Serpent of the Nile (revised and updated)
Women and Dance in the Arab World
Wendy Buonaventura
Newly updated and reissued in an appealing new format, this classic book is a lavishly illustrated celebration of female dancers of the Arab world and their impact on the West.
“A lively and lavishly illustrated excursion into the...
$35.00
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 Survival
Saving Endangered Migratory Species
Stanley Johnson and Robert Vagg
Produced in conjunction with a UN agency, this book is both an informative warning against the threat facing many species and a stunning celebration of their beauty
Our ruthless exploitation of the natural world has already driven...
$50.00
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 Traditional Palestinian Costume
Origins and Evolution
Hanan Karaman Munayyer
A joyous celebration of pattern and color, and of an enduring Palestinian tradition
The historical and cultural richness of Palestine is reflected visually in its costume and embroidery. Distinguished by boldness of color, richnes...
$150.00
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 Unexpected New York
Sandy Miller; photography by Juliana Spear
This well-written and sumptuously illustrated book is filled with surprises that add texture and richness to life in the Big Apple
Wild peacocks, parrots, and raccoons rather than the Bronx Zoo; cricket, lawn bowling, surfboarding...
$25.00
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New International Cookbooks  Iraqi Cookbook, The
Lamees Ibrahim; photography by Terry McCormick
A cook’s tour that brings the richness of Mesopotamia’s culinary culture to the forefront
The true richness of Iraqi culture has been hidden for many years, overshadowed by political conflict and war. Yet amid the dest...
$35.00
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 One World Vegetarian Cookbook
Troth Wells
An information-packed gastronomic tour of the world and the ultimate resource for global vegetarian recipes
One World Vegetarian Cookbook starts in your backyard-buying produce at your local farmers' market or perh...
$35.00
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 Turkish Cookbook, The
Regional Recipes and Stories
Nur Ilkin and Sheilah Kaufman; photography by Juliana Spear
Healthful and tantalizing, simple and delicious, Turkish cuisine is well on its way to becoming the next big trend in cooking as more and more attention is being paid to it as the original Mediterranean diet
Turkey has made an end...
$35.00
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New World Fiction  Calligrapher's Secret, The
Rafik Schami; translated from the German by Anthea Bell
A new international bestseller from the award-winning author of The Dark Side of Love
In the narrow streets of the old city of Damascus, a rumor is circulating: Nura, the beautiful wife of the famous calligrapher Hamid Farsi, has...
$20.00
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 Damascus Nights
Rafik Schami; translated by Philip Boehm
A reissue of Rafik Schami's award-winning novel
In the classical Arab tradition of tale-telling, here is a magical book that celebrates the power of storytelling, delightfully transformed for modern sensibilities by an award-w...
$15.00
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 Dark Side of Love, The
Rafik Schami; translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Independent Publisher Book Awards 2010, Gold Medal Winner - Multicultural Fiction An international bestseller available in English for the first time,a story of forbidden love set against the background of Arabic culture...
$24.00
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 Everything Good Will Come
Sefi Atta
Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after t...
$15.00
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 Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi
and Other Stories
Edgar Bayley; translated by Emily Toder
The first English translation of a major Argentine literary figure
Doctor Pi—a sleuth without a crime. A flâneur on official business. Organizer of unknowable expeditions, lover of brunettes. Doctor Pi, with his frock...
$13.00
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 News from Home
Short Stories
Sefi Atta
Winner of the 2009 NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa
From Zamfara up north to the Niger delta down south, with a finale in Lagos, this collection of stories and a novella respond to and amplify the newspaper hea...
$15.00
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 Sleepwalker, The
Margarita Karapanou; translated by Karen Emmerich
Winner of the Prix de meilleur livre étranger/Prize for the best foreign novel, France
At the opening of Margarita Karapanou's stunning second novel, in disgust at mankind God vomits a new Messiah onto the earth. Or rat...
$16.00
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 Specters
Radwa Ashour; translated from the Arabic by Barbara Romaine
Winner of the Cairo International Book Fair Prize
Specters alternates between the stories of Radwa and Shagar: two women born the same day, one a professor of literature, one of history. The novel that results is part fic...
$15.00
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 Summer without Dawn, A
An Armenian Epic
Agop J. Hacikyan & Jean-Yves Soucy; trans. by Christina Le Vernoy & Joyce Bailey
Engrossing and powerfully told, this international bestselling novel is set against the Armenian massacres that occurred in the Ottoman Empire and during the First World War In the summer of 1915, days after the government orders the depo...
$20.00
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 Swallow
Sefi Atta
A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature
It is the mid-1980s in Lagos, Nigeria, and the government's War against Indiscipline is in full operation. Amid poverty and tight rules and regulatio...
$15.00
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New Poetry  Almond Blossoms and Beyond
Mahmoud Darwish; translated by Mohammad Shaheen
NEW IN PAPERBACK, FALL 2010
The first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet
“If I die before you, I leave you the impossible....
$25.00
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New Language & Reference  Pocket Explorer: Ancient Egypt and the Nile
Joyce Filer
Discover Ancient Egypt and explore pyramids, tombs, temples, quarries, cities and farms along the banks of the River Nile
Egypt was one of the greatest ancient civilizations in Africa, and it was the River Nile which made life pos...
$13.95
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 Pocket Explorer: Ancient Greek World
Richard Woff
Discover the peoples and places of the Ancient Greek World
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato said that the Greeks lived around the Mediterranean Sea "like frogs around a pond." We must not think of the Ancient Greek...
$13.95
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 Pocket Explorer: The Roman Empire
Sam Moorhead
Discover the peoples and places of the mighty Roman Empire
At its height the Roman Empire enriched the Mediterranean Sea and stretched from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to Iraq. This vast area included many different peoples...
$13.95
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