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  • Pumpkin

    The Curious History of an American Icon

    by Cindy Ott ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Adventures of Beasleyville

    by Cindy Otte Whitaker ...
    Illustrated by Nancy Morrow, Carol Thomas ...
    The Underground World of Beasleyville takes you through the life and adventures of a baby mouse, captured and released into the desert by people who live above ground called Topsiders. He finds adventure and friendship in an underground family of gophers as they collect things they need to run their town, that Topsiders leave out in their yard, and eventually leads him back to his own family. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Elusive Archives

    Material Culture in Formation

    by Julian Yates, Wendy Bellion, Julie L. McGee, Torsten Cress, Cindy Ott, Laura E. Helton, Jennifer Van Horn, Kiersten Thamm, Alexandra Ward, Alexander Lawrence Ames, Halina Adams, Rosalie Hooper, Sarah Wasserman, Spencer Wigmore, Catherine Morrissey, Michelle Everidge, Kaila T. Schedeen, Lu Ann De Cunzo, Natalie Elizabeth Wright, Oliver Scheiding, J. Ritchie Garrison, Jesse Kraft, Michael J. Emmons, Jessica Conrad, Bernard L. Herman ...
    Series series Material Culture Perspectives
    The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Karen's Roller Skates (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #2)

    by Ann M. Martin ...
    Series Book 2 - Baby-Sitters Little Sister
    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Karen will try anything! Karen has new roller skates. She is a very good skater. She can even do tricks. But oh, no! Karen falls down and breaks her wrist! She has to go to the hospital and get a cast.Now Karen wants somebody famous to sign her cast. It isn’t going to be easy -- ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    by Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

    by Ben Child ...
    Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. “When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston’s palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Third Eye

    by Lois Duncan ...
    An edge-of-your-seat thriller from the bestselling author of I Know What You Did Last Summer.When Karen closes her eyes, the visions come. Through time and space, she sees a place where stolen children sleep. And if Karen denies a young policeman's request for help, the children may never go home again.Lois Duncan presents a ticking clock mystery with thrills at every turn. ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Human-Built World

    How to Think about Technology and Culture

    by Thomas P. Hughes ...
    Series series science.culture
    To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

    by Zachary Schrag ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    The essential handbook for doing historical research in the twenty-first centuryThe Princeton Guide to Historical Research provides students, scholars, and professionals with the skills they need to practice the historian's craft in the digital age, while never losing sight of the fundamental values and techniques that have defined historical scholarship for centuries.Zachary Schrag begins by ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Typecasting

    On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality

    by Stuart Ewen, Elizabeth Ewen ...
    Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of modern society, authors Ewen & Ewen ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Housing and Dwelling

    Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

    Edited by Barbara Miller Lane ...
    Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD