Kate Harper
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Mysteries of Egypt volume 3
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This program features brand new location footage, spectacular filmed re-creations and expert analyses by leading Egyptologists, this program tells the story of the Kingdom on Ancient Egypt.
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Great Adventurers volume 2
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English
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Christopher Colombus survived battles with Tunisian galleys, shipwrecks, imprisonment, and severe illness during his remarkable expeditions, eventually setting foot in the West Indies and on the South American mainland in search of gold.
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Caitlin Zaloom is professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University. She is a founding editor of Public Books and the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London. Twitter @caitlinzaloom
How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class families
The struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers...
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Louise I. Shelley is the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy and University Professor at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, and founder and director of its Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. Her many books include Human Trafficking and Dirty Entanglements. She lives in Washington, DC.
A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade
Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia,...
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A new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English
"[A] magnificent collection . . . [by] a writer of boundless tenderness."-Geneviève Brisac, Le Monde
While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the...
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"Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Commentary, Axiom Business Book Awards" Anne Case is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University. Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in economics, is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at Princeton University and Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California.
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Andrew Blauner is a literary agent and the editor of seven previous anthologies, including Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference, The Peanuts Papers: Writers and Cartoonists on Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life, and In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs. Facebook.com/ThoreauAnthology
From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden
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This inspiring audiobook shares the stories of trailblazing women astronomers from around the globe
Features a prelude, chapter introductions, and postlude read by Kaliswa Brewster
With additional narration by Marnie Chesterton, Katherine Fenton, Pooneh Ghoddoosi, and Kate Harper
The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical narratives by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy....
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Great Composers volume 2
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English
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Celebrate the life and music of George Frideric Handel. Music performed by Regency Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Stephen Dodsworth. Featuring: Angela Kazimierczule (Soprano), Rupert Jennings (Tenor), and Serena Kay (Contralto).