Charles Jencks
Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier dominated twentieth-century architecture much the way Picasso dominated painting. His outstanding achievements, his vision of a harmonious machine civilization, his paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture, ... [... more]
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Horse Lovers 2009 Mini Wall Calendar
 Horse Lovers Mini Wall Calendar: It is believed that humans first began to ride horses some 5,000 years ago. Since then, their influence on human history and civilization has been immeasurable. The beautiful photographs in this mini wall calendar cap [... more]
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Gemstone Visions 2009 Wall Calendar
Gemstone Visions Wall Calendar: Gemstones and crystals have represented wealth and power since the dawn of civilization. These Earth-born elements—so dense, yet mysteriously filled with light—reveal to use the spirit within matter. In creatin [... more]
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Cat Lovers 2009 Hardcover Engagement Calendar
Cat Lovers Engagement Calendar: The ancient Egyptians considered cats sacred and were likely the first civilization to domesticate these famously independent animals. Over the centuries cats have preserved their instinct for solitude. Though they are [... more]
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Brenda James
Brenda James is an English literature lecturer. At the British European Centre, she ran specialist classes in Shakespeare Studies and lectured on English and Civilization. She lives in West Sussex, England. [... more]
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Susan Cahill
For centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate women writers reveal why the land that is the heart and soul of European civilization is so seductive to ... [... more]
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Henry Glassie
Henry Glassie is a professor of folklore and American civilization at the University of Pennsylvania. Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first ... [... more]
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Michael Blake
Ordered to hold an abandoned army post, John Dunbar found himself alone, beyond the edge of civilization. Thievery and survival soon forced him into the Indian camp, where he began a dangerous adventure that changed his life forever. Relive the ... [... more]
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Stewart Lee Allen
In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, ... [... more]
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John Somerville
John Somerville and Ronald Santoni An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Marx and Engels, Hitler, Gandhi, and ... [... more]
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S.E. Frost
S.E. Frost A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers in Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry comprises a separate chapter for greater accessibility. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, ... [... more]
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James Hale
With its beautiful physical setting at the confluence of three rivers and such instantly recognizable institutions as the Parliament Buildings, the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa and the capital region ... [... more]
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