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Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survival
The challenge of scaling the highest mountain, exploring the deepest ocean, crossing the hottest desert, or swimming in near-freezing water is irresistible to many people. Life at …
The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy: A Regional and Village Guide to the Best Wines and Their Producers
The wines of Tuscany were famous long before Leonardo da Vinci described them as bottled sunshine, and they are at the forefront of the remarkable renaissance of Italian wine over …
Walnut Production Manual
The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture
During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory …
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
James Baldwin was one of America's finest and most influential writers. By the time he died in 1987, his books, such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and …
The Atlas of Food
What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book, now with a new introduction contextualizing the atlas for 2013 and beyond. By …
Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations
One of the most innovative and ambitious books to appear on the civil rights and black power movements in America, Just My Soul Responding also offers a major challenge to …
Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible, Expanded Edition
In this study, the author moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does - as a genre with a history, as a …
Coward the Playwright
In five dexterously argued chapters, John Lahr investigates all the major plays and many of No l Coward's lesser-known pieces. Hay Fever, Private Lives, and Design for Living, for …
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has …
Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling expos , backed by up-to-date research, locates the source of this trend where we might …
L'Atalante
L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. It is a study of romantic love, told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. Each volume in the "BFI Film …