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  • Strange 66

    Myth, Mystery, Mayhem, and Other Weirdness on Route 66

    When you open Strange 66 , take a look beyond the all-American sheen to the seedy, creepy, and just plain weird stories behind America's Mother Road.Though Route 66 conjures images of an innocent golden age of car travel, it wasn't all about ruddy-cheeked, summer vacationers. Route 66 and the regions it traverses have a side more seldom seen, rich with weird tales (mimetic architecture, ... Read more

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  • The Origins of the World's Mythologies

    This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, ... Read more

    $59.19 CAD

  • Barbecue Road Trip

    Recipes, Restaurants & Pitmasters from America's Great Barbecue Regions

    With its fervent aficionados, traditions, and wildly varying regional styles--each with its passionate advocates--barbecue is much more than a way of cooking meat: It's a cultural ritual. A history as entertaining as it is informative, this book is the first to explore American barbecue's regional roots. Nationally renowned food commentator Mike Witzel takes readers on an eye-opening (and mouth ... Read more

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  • Homa Variations

    The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée

    Series series Oxford Ritual Studies
    Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa was formed in early medieval India. Since that time tantric Buddhist practitioners transmitted it to ... Read more

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  • Fugitives and Refugees

    A Walk in Portland, Oregon

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    Want to know where Chuck Palahniuk’s tonsils currently reside?Been looking for a naked mannequin to hide in your kitchen cabinets?Curious about Chuck’s debut in an MTV music video?What goes on at the Scum Center?How do you get to the Apocalypse Café?In the closest thing he may ever write to an autobiography, Chuck Palahniuk provides answers to all these questions and more as he takes you through ... Read more

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  • Far and Near

    On Days Like These

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    Whether navigating the backroads of Louisiana or Thuringia, exploring the snowy Quebec woods, or performing onstage at Rush concerts, Neil Peart has stories to tell. His first volume in this series, Far and Away, combined words and images to form an intimate, insightful narrative that won many readers.Now Far and Near brings together reflections from another three years of an artist’s life as he ... Read more

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  • Wide Hips, Narrow Shoulders

    A Bike Touring Adventure Story

    This is a story about a 45-year-old man who simplifies his life by getting rid of his material possessions and then sets off around America on a bicycle to discover new ideas about his country and himself. The journey takes him through all 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C. ... Read more

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  • Long Way Home

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  • Ghost Towns of Route 66

    Explore the mystery and beauty of historic ghost towns from Illinois to California with this gorgeously illustrated guide to America's favorite highway.The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boom towns built around oil wells, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into California

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    California here we come! Uncle John is taking the plunge into the land of freeways, fun, cable cars, and movie stars.From Hollywood to the redwoods, from Death Valley to Napa Valley, this amazing book is your golden gate to the Golden State! You'll discover obscure history, learn fascinating facts, and meet the unique people who make California a place like no other on Earth! Read about…* The day ... Read more

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  • Route 66

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    Series Book 675 - Shire Library USA
    Begun in 1926 to connect Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was the country's first major east-west thoroughfare. By 1930 it was an important route for both truckers and travellers alike, and in 1939 it became known as 'The Mother Road' thanks to John Steinbeck's classic The Grapes of Wrath. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of Americans travelled this great road from those heading west during ... Read more

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