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Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse; Boxed Set edition
Publication Date: 2012-08-21
ISBN: 1442479396
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 340.00
Uglies: Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras
The complete New York Times bestselling Uglies series is available as a collectible boxed set. The future isn’t far away.
In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter. She lives in a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think for themselves. And she’s tired of it. First as an ugly, then a pretty, and finally a special, Tally takes down the social infrastructure. And then, a generation later, a world obsessed with fame and instant celebrity—and filled with extras—will reap the consequences.
This collectible boxed set contains the complete Ugles series: Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras.
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Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Egmont Books (UK); Film tie-in ed edition
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
ISBN: 9781405259415
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 45.00
War Horse
The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's Hollywood blockbuster movie and an internationally acclaimed stage show ...it can only be Michael Morpurgo's War Horse. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. The bedlam of battle had begun. All around me men cried and fell to the ground, and horses reared and screamed in an agony of fear and pain. The shells whined and roared overhead, and every explosion seemed like an earthquake to us. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. The power of war and the beauty of peace. This is his story. Former Children's Laureate and award-winning author, Michael Morpurgo, has written nearly 100 books for children, many of them war stories. But none have become as famous as War Horse. Inspiring a long-running stage show and a box office film directed by Steven Spielberg, War Horse has become an international sensation. Read the book that started it all; the stunning wartime classic.
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Author: Timothy Hilton
Publisher: Thames & Hudson; Reprint edition
Publication Date: 1985-02-01
ISBN: 0500201447
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 185.00
Picasso (World of Art)
There have been many books about this astonishing artist, most of them written as celebrations of his creative abundance. Timothy Hilton has a more challenging purpose: to define Picasso's achievement and his place within twentieth-century art. 207 illus., 30 in color.
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Author: Stephen King
Publisher: New English Library Ltd; New Ed edition
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
ISBN: 9780340832240
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 65.00
The Dark Tower: Drawing of the Three
The Drawing of the Three is the second book in The Dark Tower series of novels written by Stephen King and published by Grant in 1987. The series was inspired by Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning. The story is a continuation of The Gunslinger and follows Roland of Gilead and his quest towards the Dark Tower. The subtitle of this novel is RENEWAL.
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Author: Alexandre Dumas
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication Date: 2001-10-31
ISBN: 9781840224351
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 35.00
The Man in the Iron Mask
Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas celebrated foursome of D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the French monarchy. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark, Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis and Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? And what is the nature of the threat he poses? Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers.
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Author: MANFRED WUNDRAM
Publisher: HERBERT PRESS; 2Rev Ed edition
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
ISBN: 0906969921
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 75.00
THE RENAISSANCE
During the Renaissance the ideals of art and architecture became unified in the acceptance of classical antiquity and in the belief that humanity was a measure of the universe. The rebirth of classical architecture, which took place in Italy in the 15th cent. and spread in the following century through Western Europe, terminated the supremacy of the Gothic style.
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Author: Prudence Jones
Publisher: the American University in Cairo Press
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
ISBN: 9774249933
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 55.00
Cleopatra: The Last Pharaoh
Cleopatra VII (69-30 BC) was the last monarch of the Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. Daughter of Ptolemy XII, she ruled with her two brother-husbands, Ptolemy XII and Ptolemy XIV, both of whom she had killed, and with her son Ptolemy XV or Caesarion (44-30 BC). This new biography illustrates in full color the fascinating aspect of Cleopatra's ever-shifting identity. Depending on the audience, she might present herself as a goddess, a political leader, or an alluring and exotic woman. Roman statesmen likewise manipulated Cleopatra's image for their own political ends. Author Prudence Jones, an assistant professor at Montclair State University, also wrote "Cleopatra: A Sourcebook."
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Author: Jeremy Melvin
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 2005-11-02
ISBN: 0713674741
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 125.00
...isms: Understanding Architecture
Following the success of Isms: Understanding Art, this engaging and informative guide to the significant "isms" of architectural history spans from the ancient Greeks, Romans, and the Renaissance up to the present day. Each spread is devoted to a distinct architectural movement and explains when it first emerged, the historical period to which it applies, the principal disputes over its applicability, and illustrates important structures, practitioners, key words, and distinctive features. From Hellenic Classicism and Expressionism to Brutalism and Blobism, with many stops along the way, these sixty well illustrated and clearly defined "isms" help put all of the "built environments" of the world into context.
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Author: Stephenie Meyer
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication Date: 2011-08-15
ISBN: 0316015849
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 45.00
Twilight
Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife-between desire and danger.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
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Author: Bill Risebero
Publisher: Herbert Press Ltd; 3rd edition
Publication Date: 2001-11-30
ISBN: 0713659467
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 350.00
The Story of Western Architecture
With history rather than aesthetics as a starting point, Riseboro recounts the development of architecture in the Western World by looking at architecture as an expression of social and economic conditions. This edition contains material which brings it up to the start of the 21st century.
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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Bantam Classics; Reissue edition
Publication Date: 1981-09-01
ISBN: 0553211897
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Price: 41.00
David Copperfield (Bantam Classics)
Of all Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most fervently embraces the comic delights, the tender warmth, the tragic horrors of childhood. It is our classic tale of growing up, an enchanting story of a gently orphan discovering life and love in an indifferent adult world. Persecuted by his wrathful stepfather, Mr. Murdstone; deceived by his boyhood idol, the callous, charming Steerforth; driven into mortal combat with the sniveling clerk Uriah Heep; and hurled, pell-mell, into a blizzard of infatuation with the adorably dim-witted Dora, he survives the worst—and the best—with inimitable style, his bafflement tuming to self-awareness and his unbridles young heart growing ever more disciplined and true.
Of this richly autobiographical novel Dickens himself wrote, "like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield."
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Author: Mohamed ElBaradei
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
ISBN: 9992178906
Binding: paperback
Language: english
Price: 75.00
The Age of Deception
For twelve years Mohamed ElBaradei negotiated every key nuclear confrontation of our time. Dealing with the nuclear aspirations of Libya and North Korea, standing up to the Bush administration on Iraq, and managing the West's turbulent stand-off with Iran, the mild-mannered Egyptian lawyer emerged as the one independent, objective voice, unique in maintaining credibility in the Arab world and the West alike. Now, for the first time, he tells the story of what really happened behind the scenes, and assesses the threat that nuclear weapons continue to pose to our future.