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Efta Epi Thebas

Mon, 14 May 2007 12:12:20 PST

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Anglo-Saxon Reader in Prose and Verse

Sun, 13 May 2007 19:02:34 PST

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Tolkien

Sun, 13 May 2007 19:01:41 PST

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The first encyclopedic illustrated guide to the world of Middle Earth and the Undying Lands, this book brings together every important aspect of Tolkien's vast cosmology. More than five hundred alphabetical entries cover five major subject areas: history, geography, sociology, natural history and biography.The maps, genealogies and time-charts, together with the illustrations of characters, place ...

Smith of Wootton Major

Sun, 13 May 2007 19:00:48 PST

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The Tattooed Girl

Sun, 13 May 2007 18:58:39 PST

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Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most respected living novelists. Her new novel brings us a tale of dark passions, prejudice, and the strange forms that love can take. A celebrated but reclusive author, young but in failing health, Joshua Seigl reluctantly realizes that he can no longer live alone. One day he encounters a young woman with synthetic-looking blond hair and pale, tattooed ski ...

Young Men in Spats

Sun, 13 May 2007 18:39:03 PST

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Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession. Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master. Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie Wooster in yet another scrape-with the peerless ...

Heavy Weather

Sun, 13 May 2007 18:38:19 PST

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Fans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of the hilarity borders on an obsession. It's Heavy Weather for Lord Emsworth and the Empress, especially with the appalling Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe snooping around with designs on the prize pig.

Rincewind the Wizzard

Sun, 13 May 2007 18:35:01 PST

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In the squalid, crime infested city of Ankh-Morpork - bifurcated seaport capital and oldest city of Discworld - one lives either by the sword or in the shadows...

Zorba the Greek

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:58 PST

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Winter Garden

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:58 PST

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poetry, Chile, tr O'Daly, bilingual

The Complete Works

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:57 PST

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Definitive, comprehensive, and handsome edition presents every one of Shakespeare's great plays-the Comedies, Tragedies and Histories-plus his poems and, of course, the Sonnets. All in one beautifully illustrated volume. B&W illustrations throughout. 1248 pages.

The Wind in the Willows

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:57 PST

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The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into battle.

Winnie-the-Pooh

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:57 PST

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Back by popular demand, the four full-color gift editions of the original Pooh classics are available again. These elegant books, larger in format than the classic editions, include all of Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, each meticulously hand-painted in delicate watercolors. Here are the two great storybooks chronicling the adventures of Christopher Robin and all the inhabitants of the H ...

A Whistling Woman

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:57 PST

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This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great “Frederica quartet” depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970. While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower -- falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life a ...

The Whirlpool

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:57 PST

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Written in luminous prose, The Whirlpool is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertaker’s widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young son’s curious silence. Across the street in Kick’s Hotel, where Fleda and her husband, David McDougal, have temporary rooms, Fleda dreams of the place ...

Watchmen

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:56 PST

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Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga ...

When We Were Very Young

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:56 PST

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Blackstone Audiobooks presents, from the unabridged collection "A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics," the forty-four poems and verses from When We Were Very Young and the thirty-five poems and verses from Now We Are Six, both performed by Peter Dennis.

A Weaver's Garden

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:56 PST

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Valuable hints from a veteran botanist and weaver on dyeing fibers and fabrics, what soap plants to use for cleaning textiles, advice on fragrant plants to scent and protect fabrics, plant materials to use as tools, suggestions for planning and creating a garden featuring cotton, flax, indigo, and much more. Includes an abundance of illustrations.

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:56 PST

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Welcome to the Dollhouse is a stark suburban comedy about eleven-year-old Dawn Wiener, a middle child in middle school in the middle of New Jersey. Sometimes hated, often reviled, seldom understood, Dawn tries in vain to put on a happy face as she struggles through the onset of what looks to be a long puberty. Life is generally grim, and sometimes it only gets grimmer. Nevertheless, she does find ...

Waiting for Godot

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:55 PST

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"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful?" Estragon's complaint, uttered in the first act of "Waiting for Godot", is the playwright's sly joke at the expense of his own play - or rather at the expense of those in the audience who expect theatre always to consist of events progressing in an apparently purposeful and logical manner towards a decisive climax. In those terms, "Waiting ...

VESTIDURAS RICAS

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:55 PST

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Von China nach Byzanz

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:55 PST

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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:51 PST

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This volume contains six zany, outrageous, out-of-this-world adventure stories by bestselling author Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; Young Zaphod; and Mostly Harmless. [예스24 제공]

Vanity Fair

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:51 PST

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"Vanity Fair", Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian he ...

Underpainter

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:51 PST

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The Underpainter is a novel of interwoven lives in which the world of art collides with the realm of human emotion. It is the story of Austin Fraser, an American painter now in his later years, who is haunted by memories of those whose lives most deeply touched his own, including a young Canadian soldier and china painter and the beautiful model who becomes Austin’s mistress. Spanning decades, th ...

Very Good, Jeeves!

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:51 PST

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Now with a delightful new look, two collections of stories by P. G. Wodehouse, a "comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce"(The Times [London]) In creating that incomparable pair--the lovable scamp Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet, Jeeves--P. G. Wodehouse "made a world for us to live in and delight in" (Evelyn Waugh). This volume contains eleven s ...

Until I Find You

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:51 PST

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Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents. When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ...

Tyrian or Imperial Purple Dye

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:51 PST

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Understanding Fashion History

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:51 PST

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Transmetropolitan Vol. 1

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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Warren Ellis (whose recent work includes the excellent The Authority) is a fine comics writer. Spider Jerusalem, his tortured journalist protagonist, is a wonderful creation. Back on the Street is the first in the Transmetropolitan series and essential as an introduction to Spider and his world. Preacher's Garth Ennis introduces the book, rightly praising "the finest, blackest humour, and the pur ...

Transmetropolitan Vol. 3

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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Transmetropolitan Vol. 2

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Transmetropolitan Vol. 4

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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It's no wonder he hates it here. Spider Jerusalem, journalist and hero of sorts in Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan, wades through a sewer of poverty and high-tech despair daily in his efforts to understand and report on America. In The New Scum, Ellis contrasts the powerful, in the form of presidential candidates, with the powerless, who are begging and hustling on the streets. The satire is ...

Transmetropolitan Vol. 5

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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Nobody ever accused Warren Ellis of lacking imagination. The latest collection of the Spider Jerusalem saga, Transmetropolitan: Lonely City, is packed with laser-guided satire and neo-adolescent wish fulfillment in the form of a bowel disruptor. Sliding his story of government manipulation and counter-manipulation between moments of reflection and observation makes Ellis's downbeat ending a bit l ...

Transmetropolitan Vol. 6

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend & Folklore

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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Introduce yourself to the noble heroes and magical creatures of Irish mythology. Includes the two definitive works on the subject by the giants of the Irish Renaissance. W.B. Yeates' Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry and Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne.

Tudor Tailor

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns and Tailoring Techniques

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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Classic 1901 guide to cutting ladies’ tailor-made clothing includes patterns and detailed instructions for creating over 60 garments and parts of wearing apparel: leg-o-mutton sleeves, broad collars, military cape, knickerbockers, bloomers, opera cloak, riding breeches, and much more. The perfect reference for recreating vintage clothing for costume parties and theatrical productions.

The Torrents of Spring

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:50 PST

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IT was the summer of 1840. Sanin was in his twenty-second year, and he was in Frankfort on his way home from Italy to Russia. He was a man of small property, but independent, almost without family ties. By the death of a distant relative, he had come into a few thousand roubles, and he had decided to spend this sum abroad before entering the service, before finally putting on the government yoke, ...

Sin City, Volume 4

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:49 PST

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The worst thing to be in Basin City is an honest cop, but it's Hartigan's last day on the job, and he plans to go out with a bang. Little Nancy Callahan, age eleven, has been kidnapped by a psycho who likes to hear children scream, and Hartigan's going to find her no matter what it takes. No matter who the psycho's daddy is. All the prison time in the world won't change that. Hell of a way to sta ...

Thief of Time

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:49 PST

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Time is of the essence in Terry Pratchett’s twenty-sixth Discworld novel. Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it’s wasted (like underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where there’s never enough time. But the construction of the world’s fir ...

Thank You, Jeeves

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:49 PST

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Gold Winner at the 2001 Spoken Word Awards! Due to the unrepentant playing of his banjolele, Bertie parts company with Jeeves, who finds employment with Bertie's old mate Chuffy. Chuffy and Pauline Stoker (previously engaged to the Wooster chap) have fallen in love, but Chuffy is reluctant to pop the question. So when Bertie and Jeeves cook up a plot to smooth the course of true love, old entangl ...

Tom Jones

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:49 PST

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Written by the author of "Amelia", this novel takes its wide-eyed hero from innocence to experience through inns and bedrooms from Somerset to London and back, while at the same time continuing a farcical debate about the true nature of the novelist's art.

The Sons

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:49 PST

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I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The Metamorphosis,' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called The Sons. ...

Tales of Terror

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:49 PST

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Be afraid—be very afraid: the master of suspense is serving up 58 bloodcurdling tales for your delectation. These suspenseful stories all appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and in the words of Hitch himself, they “are guaranteed to chill and unnerve.” Bill Pronzini contributes “The Arrowmont Prison Riddle,” Margaret B. Maron has “A Very Special Talent,” Barry M. Malzberg offers “A H ...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:49 PST

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Tolkien Treasury

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:49 PST

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The Silmarillion

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:48 PST

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The popular paperback edition with a cover design by Tolkien himself, to complement the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings paperbacks. Includes a special preface by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and G ...

Snow Falling on Cedars

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:48 PST

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Ishmael Chambers, the one-man staff of the newspaper on San Piedro Island in Puget Sound, is covering the 1954 trial of a high school classmate accused of killing another classmate over a land dispute. Actor Peter Marinker--a stage veteran who has appeared in such movies as The Russia House and The Emerald Forest--takes us deep inside the world created by David Guterson in his award-winning 1994 ...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:48 PST

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Sets each of the seven wonders in their historical context, bringing together materials from ancient sources and the results of modern excavations to suggest why particular places and objects have been seen as the touchstone for human achievement.

Poems

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:47 PST

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Sea Glass

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:46 PST

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Anita Shreve's new novel Sea Glass represents a remarkable advance. She previously caught the attention of many readers with Fortune's Rocks and The Pilot's Wife, beautifully crafted novels with rich and subtly observed characterisation. But however impressive those books were, Sea Glass has the same adroit creation of character, but the prose is even more rich and allusive. This is a story of ...

Scepticism And Hope

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:45 PST

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A picture of a country can be painted in a variety of ways. Statistical yearbooks, sociological or political analyses, the results of opinion polls, global reports on the state of the society. But we gain an equally sharp and maybe even deeper insight if we learn about what and how people in the country think. That is one reason why essays by leading Slovak authors, through which it is possible t ...

Schick und Schrill. Klassiker der Designermode.

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:45 PST

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The Sandman: Fables and Reflections

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:44 PST

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The critically acclaimed THE SANDMAN: FABLES AND REFLECTIONS continues the fantastical epic of Morpheus, the King of Dreams, as he observes and interacts with an odd assortment of historical and fictional characters throughout time. Featuring tales of kings, explorers, spies, and werewolves, this book of myth and imagination delves into the dark dreams of Augustus Caesar, Marco Polo, Cain and Abe ...

The Sandman: The Wake

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:44 PST

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In the last chapter of the SANDMAN saga, the Endless and all the dreamers come to celebrate the life and mourn the passing of the King of Dreams.

The Sandman: Brief Lives, Vol. 7

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:44 PST

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One might think that the climax of the 10-volume Sandman series would come in the last book, or even the second to last. But indeed the heart and soul of Neil Gaiman's magnum opus lies here in Brief Lives. It could be because one of the most central mysteries--that of the Sandman's missing brother--is revealed here (in fact, the plot of this volume is the search for this member of the Endless). I ...

The Sandman: Season of Mists

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:44 PST

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In many ways, Season of Mists is the pinnacle of the Sandman experience. After a brief intermission of four short stories (collected as Dream Country) Gaiman continued the story of the Dream King that he began in the first two volumes. Here in volume 4, we find out about the rest of Dream's Endless family (Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Death, and a seventh missing sibling). We find out the ...

The Sandman: The Doll's House

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:44 PST

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The immense popularity of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is due in large part to the development of his characters. In The Doll's House, the second book of the Sandman magnum opus, Gaiman continues to build the foundation for the larger story, introducing us to more of the Dream King's family of the Endless. The Sandman returns to his kingdom of the Dreaming after nearly a century of imprisonment, ...

The Sandman: Dream Country

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:44 PST

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The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book--the Sandman, King of Dreams--serves only as a minor character in each of these otherwise unrelated stories. (Actually, he's not even in the last story.) This signaled a coup ...

Sandman. World's End.

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:44 PST

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A Room with a View

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Rebels against the Future: the Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution Lessons for the Computer Age

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:43 PST

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The first popular history of the rebellion against technology that still reverberates today. In the 1990s we use the term "luddite" to refer to anyone not enamored of technology. Now the author of The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy takes us back to the time when being a Luddite could get you hanged.

Rumo

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:43 PST

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Rumo is a little Wolperting who will one day become the greatest hero in the history of Zamonia. Armed with Dandelion, his talking sword, he fights his way across Overworld and Netherworld, two very different worlds chock-full of adventures, dangers, and unforgettable characters: Rala, the beautiful girl Wolperting who cultivates a hazardous relationship with death; General Ticktock, the evil com ...

R.Crumb Coffee Table Art Book

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:43 PST

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A collection of the work of cartoon artist Robert Crumb, ranging from his earliest published comics of the mid-sixties to work from the nineties.

Roman Clothing and Fashion

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:43 PST

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There is plenty of information about military dress in Roman Britain and the rest of the Roman Empire, but the evidence for civilian dress has not been comprehensively looked at since the 1930s. In this richly illustrated survey Alexandra Croom describes the range and style of clothing worn throughout the Western Roman Empire and shows how fashions changed between the first and sixth centuries. A ...

Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:42 PST

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Published in 1916 to immediate acclaim, James Joyce's semi-autobiographical tale of his alterego, Stephen Dedalus, is a coming-of-age story like no other. A bold, innovative experiment with both language and structure, the work has exerted a lasting influence on the contemporary novel.

The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:42 PST

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"Wake up, sir. We're here." It's a simple enough opening line--although not many would have guessed back in 1991 that this would lead to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comics of the second half of the century. In Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of Death but who instead captures the King of Dreams ...

The Princess Bride

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:42 PST

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What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be...well...a lot less than the man of her dreams? As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the "S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the boring parts were left out of good old Dad's recitation, and only the "g ...

Poèmes

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:42 PST

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The Pocket Oxford Greek Dictionary: Greek-English, English-Greek

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:41 PST

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Oxford's new range of paperback Pocket Dictionaries are ideal for study, business or home reference, providing comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the world's major languages at an affordable price. This revised edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Greek is the essential reference for both English- and Greek-speaking students, teachers, and translators. With 67,000 words and phrases, a ...

Poems Saturniens

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:41 PST

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Pirates

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:38 PST

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Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Captain Misson, Mary Read, Anne Bonney, Captain Avery, Captain Tew, Captain Rackham... Pirates is a comprehensive history of the life and crimes of these and many other notorious 17th century pirates, detailing their philosophies and codes, voyages, battles, treasures, trials and bloody deaths. Here are the pioneers of liberty and autocracy whose charters from a bluepri ...

Oxford Paperback French Dictionary

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:38 PST

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This major new edition of the Oxford Paperback French Dictionary has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest vocabulary: *Over 100,000 words, phrases, and translations: up-to-date coverage of all the essential vocabulary *Special treatment of key words: frequently-used words, which are the building blocks to learning the language, are given a special layout and usage notes to hel ...

Ovid

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:38 PST

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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17), born at Sulmo, studied rhetoric and law at Rome. Later he did considerable public service there, and otherwise devoted himself to poetry and to society. Famous at first, he offended the emperor Augustus by his Ars Amatoria, and was banished because of this work and some other reason unknown to us, and dwelt in the cold and primitive town of Tomis on ...

Paul Almsay Paris

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:38 PST

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A collection of Paul Almasy's photographs of Paris, offering a multi-faceted portrait of the city over five decades. Unlike many other Paris photographers, the Hungarian-born photojournalist was able to combine the art of scenic milieu photography and portraiture with that of compelling political reportage. This volume includes not only scenes of everyday street, cafe and market life from the tim ...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:37 PST

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Introduction by John Bayley

On the Road

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:37 PST

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Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfillment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating nove ...

Notes From a Small Island

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:29 PST

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Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate: "I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me." That com ...

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 1

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:29 PST

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The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Sixth Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings, apparatus fully revised to reflect today's ...

Noa Noa

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:29 PST

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In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradise Tahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another masterpiece: this enchanting journal. Complete with sensuous woodblock prints and sketches, this exquisitely designed edition first published by Chronicle in 19 ...

Nicholas Nickleby

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:28 PST

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Around the central story of Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family Dickens created some of his most wonderful characters: the muddle-headed Mrs. Nickleby, the gloriously theatrical Crummles, their protegee Miss Petowker, the pretentious Mantalinis, and the mindlessly cruel Squeers and his wife. Nicholas Nickleby's loose, haphazard progress harks back to the picaresque novels of the e ...

Nausea

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:28 PST

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Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, hold a position of singular eminence in the world of French letters. Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work, it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, Le Nausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and most significant. It is unquestionably a key n ...

Neverwhere

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:28 PST

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The stunningly original and brilliant first novel from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness cat ...

Night Watch

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The Night Watch series has caused a sensation never before seen in Russia -- its popularity is frenzied and unprecedented, and driven by a truly great, epic story. In 2005 Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the Russian film adaptation for an American release. Interest in the books here is now set to reach a fever pitch. Set in modern day Moscow, Night Watch is a world as elaborate and ima ...

Naked Lunch

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The anarchic, phenomenally strong-sellling classic from the godfather of the Beats. Welcome to Interzone! Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Attend international playboy A.J.'s annual party, where the punch is to be treated with extreme caution. Meet Dr 'Fingers' Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid and his giant centipede, 'The Complete American De-anxietized Man.' ...

Mon coeur qui est maître de moi...

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Mittelalterliche Seidenstoffe

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The Metamorphosis

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:25 PST

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The first English translation of one of the supreme masterpieces of Latin literature, "Golding's Metamorphoses" (1567) decisively influenced Shakespeare, Spenser and the character of English Renaissance writing. Ovid's deliciously witty and poignant epic starts with the creation of the world and brings together a series of ingeniously linked myths and legends in which men and women are transforme ...

Memoirs of a Beatnik

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:25 PST

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Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a small confederacy of men, many of whom she lived with and loved. Filled with anecdotes about her adventures in New York City, Diane di Prima's memoir sh ...

Meisterwerke mittelalterlicher Textilkunst aus dem Bayerischen Nationalmuseum

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Mindfield

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Republished with a new cover and a new introduction by David Amram, this publication includes forewords by two legendary Beat writers, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

Medieval Textile Dyeing

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:24 PST

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Medieval Tailor's Assistant

Sun, 13 May 2007 17:59:23 PST

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