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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance (Hardcover)

By Ross King

$24.00

ISBN: 9780802158529

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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - April 13th, 2021

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Equally as important in the development of Western culture as the explosion of creativity in the visual arts based on ancient models we now call the Renaissance, was a similar rediscovery and dissemination of classical knowledge in the literary arts. Rich in detail of the political, religious, and commercial culture of this time, King focuses on the story of Vespasiano da Bisticci, essential to the creation of this new book culture in Florence as both producer of finely bound manuscripts and bookseller to the patrons of some of the greatest libraries of the day, whose career apex coincides with the development of the printed book that forever changed how knowledge spread across the world.

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Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home (Hardcover)

By Alexander Wolff

$28.00

ISBN: 9780802158253

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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - March 2nd, 2021

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Endpapers is a thoroughly captivating book that at first seems to be a family
memoir but is really an extraordinary look at the intellectual milieu of 20th
century German literary culture and its collision with the historical upheavals of the first half of the century. Wolff continues the story postwar delving into the complexities of how those upheavals play out in the dynamics of his own family.

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A Year In Nature: A Memoir of Solace (Paperback)

By Clare Walker Leslie

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ISBN: 9781733653435

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Published: Green Writers Press - May 7th, 2020

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Cambridge resident Clare Walker Leslie’s latest book is a selection from the nature journals she has kept for many years arranged to follow our year-long journey around our Sun. With her keen eye for observation and delightful sketches and watercolors she inspires us to slow down enough to savor the world around us.

 

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Between the Rocks and the Stars: Narratives in Natural History (Paperback)

By Stephen Daubert

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ISBN: 9780826522757

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Published: Vanderbilt University Press - April 15th, 2020

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Daubert’s new book is a collection of wonders. Each short chapter details the extraordinarily complex web of connections all forms of life have evolved to sustain themselves and reproduce, each more incredible than the next.

 

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Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece (Hardcover)

By William E. Wallace

$29.95

ISBN: 9780691195490

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Published: Princeton University Press - November 19th, 2019

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William E. Wallace’s lifetime of research clearly informs this wonderfully written account of the last two decades of Michelangelo’s life when he designs and directs the construction of the new St. Peter’s in Rome. Wallace convincingly immerses you what is was like to live in sixteenth -century Rome as well as providing great insight into the genius of Michelangelo’s artistry. 

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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)

By David Wallace-Wells

$27.00

ISBN: 9780525576709

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Published: Tim Duggan Books - February 19th, 2019

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With regards to the coming catastrophic effects of climate change the first sentence of this powerful polemic says it all: “It is worse, much worse, than you think.”

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Order of Imagination: The Photographs of Olivia Parker (Hardcover)

By Sarah Kennel (Editor)

$50.00

ISBN: 9780875772400

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Published: Peabody Essex Museum - August 26th, 2019

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I’ve been following the work of Olivia Parker ever since David R. Godine published the first book of her work, Signs of Life, in 1978. If you didn’t see her career retrospective at the Peabody Essex Museum this fall, you’re too late. You missed an amazing exhibition, but you can still enjoy this catalog of that show

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I Will Never See the World Again: The Memoir of an Imprisoned Writer (Paperback)

By Ahmet Altan, Yasemin Congar (Translated by)

$15.99

ISBN: 9781590519929

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Published: Other Press - October 1st, 2019

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Altan, one of contemporary Turkey’s most important writers, currently serving a life sentence on trumped up charges by Erdogan’s  brutish authoritarian regime, has written this profoundly moving prison memoir that ultimately is an expression of the triumph of the human spirit and imagination.

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Solid State: The Story of "abbey Road" and the End of the Beatles (Hardcover)

By Kenneth Womack, Alan Parsons (Foreword by)

$26.95

ISBN: 9781501746857

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Published: Cornell University Press - October 15th, 2019

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Solid State is a compulsively readable and definitive account of the writing and recording of the Beatles’ landmark final album, Abbey Road. Filled with fascinating details demonstrating the creativity and ingenuity of the group, George Martin, and their recording engineers, and even with all that has been written about them, this book is simply a must read for any fan.

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