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Encounter one of history's greatest civilisations through miniatures. In Persian Miniatures, the story of the magnificent Persian Empire is told by way of a small but vibrant artistic tradition. The colourful images, which are, in fact, elaborate book illustrations, introduce a curious world of adventures, heroes and sovereigns. The Mega Square layout highlights three details from each image and helps to discover amazing peculiarities.
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...
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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
"Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out to join him. So begins...
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"Summer in London-the sun is finally shining, the flowers are in bloom, and life is humming merrily along for book editor Samantha Clair, off to lunch with her old friend, art-dealer Aidan Merriam. Humming merrily until she learns that his partner has just been found dead in their gallery, slumped over his desk with a gun in his hand. Could anything be worse? Oh yes, the police investigation is being led by Inspector Jake Field, who just happens to...
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Brought to you by the instructors at the Center for Book Arts, Bookforms is a comprehensive guide for making books by hand with a focus on functionality in design. Written by the experts at the Center for Book Arts in New York, Bookforms presents all the instruction you need to craft by hand a comprehensive array of historic bookbinding styles from all over the world. Bookforms traces the functional roots of each structure, explains their appropriateness...
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About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for many reasons. Enlisting the help of passionate medievalist Margaret Napier, Edward is determined to solve the mystery of the codex-to understand its significance
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"This is how a family keeps a secret ... and how that secret ends up keeping them. This is how a family lives happily ever after ... until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how children change ... and then change the world. When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like...
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" Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee; their middle daughter, a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue-in Marilyn's case that her daughter become...
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Bromance book club volume 2
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"Braden Mack has read so many romance novels that he's confident he's an expert on romance and women. He is wrong. When Liv Papandreas landed a job working at the restaurant of celebrity chef Royce Preston one year ago, she knew she'd have to endure his infamous anger and abusive outbursts for the sake of her career. But when she overhears the man sexually harassing a young hostess at the restaurant, she confronts him and tells the young woman she'll...
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"It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by George Bernard Shaw, who is second only to Shakespeare in the eyes of British tradition. Titles in this study guide include Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Candida, The Devil's Disciple, The Man of Destiny, Misalliance, Androcles and the Lion, and Heartbreak House.
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for selected works by Gustave Flaubert, the prime influencer of French realist literature.
As a leading exponent of literary realism, Flaubert's work, illustrates elaborate devotion to style and aesthetics. Moreover, he emphasizes the psychology of his characters and their role in the logical development of his works, which marked the beginning of a new age in French...
73) Summary of Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Po
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Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy by Jonah Goldberg: Conversation Starters
Two-time New York Times bestselling author Jonah Goldberg his newest book Suicide of the West: How The Rebirth Of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy. Goldberg makes a case that only once in the last 250,000 years have humans found...
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The Effective Executive (1967) by Peter Drucker summarizes the author's experiences and observations as a time management and team dynamics consultant. Drucker considers everyone who manages his or her personal time to be an executive, and he believes anyone can learn to be an effective executive…Inside this companion to the book: • Overview of the Book • Insights from the Book • Important People • Author's Style and Perspective • Intended...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which centers on the holiday time for rejoicing and practical jokes twelve days after Christmas.
As a comedy of the early seventeenth century, Twelfth Night is, regarded as Shakespeare's most masterful work of literature when it comes to theme, structure, and unity. Moreover, it shows an intricate series of relationships showcasing...
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The Alchemist (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Paulo Coelho
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When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes is perfect for late-night...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Frank Norris's The Octopus, a novel based on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880.
As a powerful work of fiction, The Octopus tells of the conflict between a railway company and ranchers in a fight for land rights. Moreover, Norris's novel serves as a great example of romanticism, as he navigates the metaphor between an octopus and monopolization. This Bright Notes Study...
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Literary Turning Points is a book series study aid that sheds a new light on books by answering some of the most popular questions readers have about a book coming directly from the authors themselves. This aid is an ideal supplement to literary works that greatly helps to explain a story's background and its messages from the author's viewpoint. This guide not only offers readers the chance to get to really know the author behind the work, but it...
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The Secret Life of Bees (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Sue Monk Kidd
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Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect...
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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Walter Van Tilburg Clark's The Ox-Bow Incident, said to be one of the greatest Western novels ever written.
As a classic novel set in 1885 but written in 1938, The Ox-Bow Incident draws parallels between Nazi brutality and the vigilantes showcased in the novel in order to communicate unjust violence can occur anywhere at any time. Moreover, the novel serves as a great...
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