Life of the desert

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans' excavation and its long-term effects...

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How Our Days Became Numbered

Explains how life insurance corporations shaped how we understand American life spans and Americans as risks

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Blindness Through the Looking Glass

Examines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of percepti

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Charles Boyer

A fascinating exploration of the life of Charles Boyer.

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The Body Shop Oils Of Life Intensely Revitalising Eye Cream-Gel - Revitalizační oční krém 20 ml

Oils Of Life Intensely Revitalising Eye Cream-Gel - Revitalizační oční krém Obnovte životní energii své pleti v okolí očí s revitalizačním krémem The Body Shop Oils Of Life Intensely Revitalising Eye Cream-Gel, který jí navrací mladistvý vzhled. Jeho přírodní složení redukuje vrásky, zpevňuje a vyhlazuje pleť. Snižuje viditelnost známek únavy, jako jsou otoky a tmavé kru...

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Man with the Getaway Face

Parker goes under the knife, changing his face to escape the mob and a contract on his life. Along the way he scores his biggest heist yet: an armored

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Annotated Bibliography of Films in Automation, Data Processing, and Computer Science

With the rapid development of computer science and the expanding use of computers in all facets of American life, there has been made available a wide

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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier - Winfrey Oprah

Anotace: In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness, no matter how challenging your circumstances. Combining their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle, they show you how to improve your life right now - instead of waiting for the outside world to change.You will learn how to:...

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The Body Shop Revitalizační oční krém Oil Of Life (Intensely Revitalising Eye Cream-Gel) 20 ml

Oční krém s kofeinovým komplexem a s obsahem cenných olejů ze semínek černého kmínu, kamélie a oleje ze šípkových semínek účinně hydratuje a revitalizuje pokožku během vašeho spánku.

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Little Book of Somerset

Fascinating and bizarre facts about Somerset life, new in paperback

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Boy In The Mask

This groundbreaking work chronicles the author's quest to uncover previously unexplained areas of the life of T.E. Lawrence, the enigmatic desert figh

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Joan Crawford

Explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames.

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Shocking Price of a Pair of Shoes

Liam is breezing through life. Not even a national lockdown can phase him and why would it? He can simply sit it out; watch the world go by from the s

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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Penguin Readers Level 3: The Extraordinary Life of Michelle Obama (ELT Graded Reader) - neuveden

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Seneca

A selection of SenecaÂ’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life.

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Stephen Crane Remembered

Collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misreprese

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Genius of Athletes

What world-class competitors know that can change your life

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Washington's Iron Butterfly

Offers a window into the life of Elizabeth 'Bess' Clements Abell, former social secretary to President Johnson.

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Secrets of a Stewardess

A funny, entertaining and frank account of life as an air hostess in the debauched days of the 1980s

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Systematic Theology

In this volume, the third and last of his "Systematic Theology," Paul Tillich sets forth his ideas of the meaning of human life, the doctrine of the S

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Aristotle's Politics

Presents an account of the author's life in relation to political events of his time; the character and history of his writings and of the Politics in

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Spectacular Secret

Takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life - the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishment of African Americ

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Theogony

Represents the earliest account of the origin of the Greek gods, and a compendium of advice for leading a moral life, both offering insights into arch

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Renaissance Self-Fashioning

A study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned an era of scholarly inquiry. The author examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced

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My Mother Was a Computer

Explores how the impact of code on life has become comparable to that of speech and writing: as language and code have grown entangled, the lines that

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Decisive Campaigns of the Desert Air Force, 1942-1945

Little has been written on and is known about the Desert Air Force (DAF). Covers the popular campaigns of North Africa and Italy 1942 45.

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Gay Poems for Red States

This poetry collection offers insight into life in Appalachia and hope for the members of the LGBTQ+ community that live there.

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Sleep Demons

Bill Hayes explores the role sleep, or the lack of sleep, has played in his life and describes various sleeping disorders and their causes and treatme

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Anne Bancroft

Offers new insights into the life and career of a determined actress who left an indelible mark on the film industry while remaining true to her art.

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Harold Rosenberg

Debra Bricker Balken offers the first ever complete biography of Harold RosenbergÂ’s brilliant, fiercely independent life and the five decades in whic

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Portulans

Taking cues from medieval sea charts—portulans—the poems in Jason Sommer’s collection bring a fresh variation to the ancient metaphor of life as a

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Border Within

An eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans.

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Henry David Thoreau

A full accounting of ThoreauÂ’s life that takes him, his writings, and his ideas seriously and puts him in the context of his place and time.

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Great Stink of London

A vivid account of the life and work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer who designed and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations

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Great Stink of London

A vivid account of the life and work of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer who designed and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations

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Butcher of Poland

The definitive account of the life of Hans Frank, Hitler's lawyer who formalised the Nazi race laws - later hanged at Nuremberg

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Birds of America

First published in double elephant size in the first half of the nineteenth century, The Birds of America is famous for its stunning life-size illustr

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To Do Justice

Traces the life and career of an admirable and lesser-known civil rights figure who fought injustice on two continents. This account presents valuable

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Jessica Lange

This wide-ranging biography offers rare insight into both the life and work of a truly fascinating actor, Jessica Lange

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Life in the Garden - Lively Penelope

Anotace: Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother`s garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is...

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Magic Lantern

When a film is not a document, it is a dream. This visual autobiography traces the author's lifelong love affair with film. It looks at his life from

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Postcolonial Animal

Despite the central role that animals play in African writing and daily life, African literature and African thinkers remain conspicuously absent from

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Other Dark Matter

Grossly ambitious and rooted in scientific scholarship, The Other Dark Matter shows how human excrement can be a life-saving, money-making resource—i

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Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years

Brings to life Gertrude Stein's surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of which originated in a dread o

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Letting Stories Breathe

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. This title offers both a theory of how stories shape us and a useful method for analyzing them.

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Veils of Smoke

Ilaria waits. Waits for her mind to come to a decision which will change the course of her life forever. Should she go or stay?

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Some of Millions

Some of Millions is a collection of personal real-life stories from people who have struggled with various forms of mental health challenges - psychos

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Harvard, Hollywood, Hitmen, and Holy Men

Through his anecdotes, shocking and delightful in their humor and authenticity, Williams takes readers on his unique journey to answer life's big ques

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Eastern Cherokee Fishing

Including life histories, folktales, and reminiscences about fish gathered from interviews with Cherokee and non-Cherokee people, this book provides a

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Stung!

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life-growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine speci

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Mantle of Struggle

Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he

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Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno

Journalist, activist, and adventurer, Jane Wood Reno (1913-1992) was one of the most groundbreaking and colourful American women of the twentieth cent

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Way of the Righteous in the Muck of Life

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Life and Adventures of Nat Love

Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. This autobiograp

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Ember Shadows and the Lost Desert of Time

When you can't fix the present, the only solution is to change the past...

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The Book of Orchids: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World

One in every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Yet orchids retain an air of exotic mystery--and they remain remarkably misunderstood and underappreciated. The orchid family contains an astonishing array of colors, forms, and smells that captiva

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Ace of Spies

Ace of Spies reveals for the first time the true story of Sidney Reilly, the real-life inspiration behind fictional hero James Bond. He was a master s

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Wages of Sin

Deter and Lincoln are both on board the Sanctum ship the White Swan. It is luxurious and reminds Deter of her past life in New York. Lincoln has the b

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