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  • A Noble Madness

    The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now

    by James Delbourgo ...
    **“In this fascinating, witty, and provocative book, Delbourgo’s collectors range from emperors to scientists, from shopaholics to taxonomists, from bibliomaniacs to serial killers. Give it to the collector in your life, and watch the sparks fly!”—Cathy Gere, author of The Tomb of AgamemnonA captivating history of obsessive collectors: from ancient looters and idolaters to fin de siècle decadents, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    A Noble Madness

    The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now

    by James Delbourgo ...
    Narrated by James Delbourgo ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    **"In this fascinating, witty, and provocative book, Delbourgo's collectors range from emperors to scientists, from shopaholics to taxonomists, from bibliomaniacs to serial killers. Give it to the collector in your life, and watch the sparks fly!"―Cathy Gere, author of The Tomb of AgamemnonA captivating history of obsessive collectors: from ancient looters and idolaters to fin de siècle decadents, ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

    Edited by James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew ...
    Series series New Directions in American History
    Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    A Life-Changing List

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    "The ultimate literary bucket list. . . . 948 pages later, you still want more!" —The Washington PostCelebrate the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the one,zero-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children's books, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • The Literature Book

    Big Ideas Simply Explained

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Big Ideas
    "Books, let's face it, are better than anything else." Nick HornbyTurn the pages of The Literature Book to discover over 100 of the world's most enthralling reads and the literary geniuses behind them.Storytelling is as old as humanity itself. Part of the Big Ideas Simply Explained series, The Literature Book introduces you to ancient classics from the Epic of Gilgamesh written 4,000 years ago, as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Talking Classics

    The Shock of the Old

    by Mary Beard ...
    The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics.Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four-thousand-year-old piece of bread in a museum, Beard introduces ... Read more

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  • 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

    You Must Read Before You Die

    by Peter Boxall ...
    Series series 1001
    Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Humanly Possible

    Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

    by Sarah Bakewell ...
    **The New York Times bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A New York Times Notable Book“A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important, readable and worth reading. . . Bakewell is wide-ranging, witty and compassionate.” –Wall Street Journal“Sweeping . . . linking philosophical reflections with vibrant anecdotes.” —** The **New York ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

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  • The Creators

    A History of Heroes of the Imagination

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 1 - Knowledge Series
    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with the scope that made his Discoverers a national bestseller.Even as he tells the stories of such individual creators as Homer, Joyce, Giotto, Picasso ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • On Writing and Failure

    Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer

    by Stephen Marche ...
    Series series Field Notes
    Writing is, and always will be, an act defined by failure. The best plan is to just get used to it.Failure is a topic discussed in every creative writing department in the world, but this is the book every beginning writer should have on their shelf to prepare them. Less a guide to writing and more a guide to what you need to continue existing as a writer, On Writing and Failure: Or, On the ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues

    A Visual History

    by Ed Simon ...
    Series series Visual History of the Sacred & Profane
    The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History is a richly illustrated, large‑format exploration of how humanity has attempted to understand morality, self‑control, and spiritual struggle through art, religion, and philosophy.Presented as a substantial hardcover volume with extensive color imagery throughout, the book brings together visual history and cultural analysis in a ... Read more

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  • The Library at Night

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. “Libraries,” he says, “have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their labyrinthine logic.” In this personal, deliberately unsystematic, ... Read more

    $12.29 USD