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Calvin Spann: Daring Fighter Pilot
Library BindingOriginal price $35.64Original price $35.64 - Original price $35.64Original price $35.64Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Calvin Spann was a fighter pilot during World War II, when the US military was segregated. He fought with the African American flying force the Tus...
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Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Today, Peru is rightly recognized as the number one food destination on the planet. But twenty-five years ago, the world's culinary critics were fo...
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Soccer Grannies: The South African Women Who Inspire the World
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The inspirational story of an amazing group of soccer-playing South African "grannies" and their journey to the U.S. These women play together desp...
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Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR
HardcoverOriginal price $44.95 - Original price $44.95Original price $44.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Enriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive stud...
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Pharaohs
Library BindingOriginal price $32.79Original price $32.79 - Original price $32.79Original price $32.79Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Egypt was ruled by powerful rulers called pharaohs. Pharaohs were seen as divine beings in human form. In this book, readers will learn about what ...
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This Suffering Is My Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, Mungello illuminates the century between the imperial expulsion...
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Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan
HardcoverOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and...
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Pyramids and Tombs
Library BindingOriginal price $32.79Original price $32.79 - Original price $32.79Original price $32.79Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Pyramids and tombs were built to help pharaohs get to the underworld after death. They were filled with treasures and anything else pharaohs would ...
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Growing Up in a Nonya Kitchen: A Peranakan Family's Food Memories of Singapore
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This is a cookbook, and an intimate memoir, giving readers a sense of what it felt like to grow up in a Peranakan Chinese family -- descendants of ...
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Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $63.00 - Original price $63.00Original price $63.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /Tokyo: destroyed by the earthquake of 1923 and again by the firebombing of World War II. Does anything remain of the old city?The internationally...
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Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and History of the Iraqi Cuisine
PaperbackOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /This is an abbreviated version of the award-winning and highly acclaimed second edition published in 2013, beautifully illustrated throughout, an...
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Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This unprecedented exhibition reintroduces three trailblazing Japanese American artists of the pre-World War II generation. Pictures of Belonging: ...
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The brick of time: The history of Sai Gon - Ho Chi Minh City
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /The history of Sai Gon - Ho Chi Minh City with the truth and hidden corners through 250 water color paintings and little stories. The book is cr...
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The Ancient Near Eastern World / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /What do the wheel, the law, and belief in a single god have in common? All of these ideas first came to people who lived in the ancient Near East...
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The Ancient South Asian World / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A young archaeologist finds a primitive hand axe that is thought to be more than 400,000 years old. Engineers building a railroad discover that t...
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Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00Original price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00Current price $53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /The first book to tell the stories of the most revered living Japanese ceramists of the century in their own words, tracing the evolution of mode...
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The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Carter G. Woodson Award, National Council for the Social Studies Children's Books of the Year, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)A biography...
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We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /During the height of the Black Power movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, dozens of Pan African nationalist private schools, from preschools to ...
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Bayard Rustin: Volume 1
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Learn about Bayard Rustin's fascinating life and how he played a role in one of the most important Civil Rights events in American history in the b...
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A History of Ancient Israel and Judah, Second Edition / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /This classic textbook, widely used for over two decades, constructs a history of ancient Israel and Judah through a thorough investigation of epi...
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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound...
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The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /How California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped—and was shaped by—West Coast artistsThe 1960s exert a special fascination...
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Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $41.00 - Original price $41.00Original price $41.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /The essays in this volume address key aspects of Israelite religious development. Frank Moore Cross traces the continuities between early Israeli...
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Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A rebellious Indian proclaiming noble ancestry and entitlement, a military lieutenant foreshadowing the coming of revolution, a blasphemous Creol...
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