From the collaborative genius of writer/director Billy Wilder comes this highly entertaining mystery that unfolds from Dr. Watson's diary involving the great Sherlock Holmes.
Victorian Ontario included people from all walks of life from homeless beggars to wealthy gentry. In Much To Be Done we glimpse how life was lived in 19th-century Ontario, not only in the...
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As her husband's obsessions with science taking a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed. By the Pulitze...
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Masatoshi Nagase stars as Maiku "Mike" Hama, Japanese film buff and sometimes detective, in this collection of three witty crime films from director Kaizo Hayashi. Maiku Hama: Private Eye...
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Behind beautiful canvases and sculptures lie tales of political revolution, wartime escapes, massive ego clashes, social scandal, financial wrangling and shocking violence. In these fasci...
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Jane Fonda emerged from a heartbreaking Hollywood family drama to become a '60s onscreen ingnue and then an Oscar-winning actress. At the top of her game she risked all, rising against th...
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A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize8211;winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman8217;s life, from the 1880s to World War II.Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old ma...
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Empirical case studies examine how new social movements interact with conventional political structures as individuals and groups experiment with new forms of political expression. The re...
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Much of the literature on ancient Egypt centers on pharaohs or on elite conceptions of the afterlife. This scintillating book examines how ordinary ancient Egyptians lived their lives. Dr...
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With his signature wit, charm, and seemingly limitless knowledge, Bill Bryson takes us on a room-by-room tour through his own house, using each room as a jumping off point into the vast h...
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With more than 100 different families and 40,000 individual species, spiders are among the most successful creatures on Earth. Highly adaptable, they live almost everywhere, from equatori...
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"The common European adder (Vipera berus) is found throughout Europe and northern Asia. Despite its widespread distribution, and its notoriety as one of Europe's few truly venomous snakes...
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First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pag...
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In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for se...
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With over fifty films and six Academy Awards(R) to his credit, Billy Wilder dominated the Golden Age of Film and is remembered as one of our all-time greatest directors! Collection includ...
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A Washington Post Notable Book With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative...
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A renowned biologist explores the evolutionary and environmental reasons behind why birds do what they do. Biologist Bridget Stutchbury takes readers along on her escapades as a bird dete...
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Reveals the reclusive artist that few really knew, including his Midwestern upbringing, the pivotal event in Mexico that shaped his life, and the family's years on their island in Maine.
A major account of the life and achievements of the influential detective and pioneering forensic scientist traces his criminal origins and transition into police work, his wartime contri...
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Elizabeth II is within a few years of becoming the longest-reigning British monarch. Michael Paterson paints a portrait of one of the world8217;s great leaders of state, as well as what t...
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"An Illustrated Life" offers a sneak peak into the wildly creative imaginations of top illustrators, designers, and artists from around the world through the pages of their personal visual journals.
John Quincy Adams was raised, educated, and groomed to be President, following in the footsteps of his father, John. At fourteen he was secretary to the Minister to Russia and, later, was...
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"Paul Hillyard's "Private Life of Spiders" is enjoyable to read, very informative, and beautifully illustrated. The photographs are truly stunning and make a wonderful complement to the t...
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Robert McCloskey was author of such famous children's books as Make Way for Ducklings, One Morning in Maine, and Time of Wonder, but little is known of his life. This memoir by his daught...
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"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winn...
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The award-winning author of "A Peoples Tragedy" and "Natashas Dance" has written this landmark account of what private life was like for Russians in the worst years of Soviet repression.
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