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The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A deep and encompassing dive into the vast array of symbols and attributes that appear within the complex iconography of Tibetan BuddhismThe Hand...
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Rivera
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Painter, Marxist activist, and husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera is renowned as much for his active politics as for his monumental mural paint...
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Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Publishers Weekly Best Book * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice Moving, honest, and dee...
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Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Access the glossary of Tibetan terms.Access the glossary of Chinese and English terms.Access the Index. When Red Guards arrived in Tibet in 196...
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The Memoirs of God: History, Memory, and the Experience of the Divine in Ancient Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This insightful work examines the variety of ways that collective memory, oral tradition, history, and history writing intersect. Integral to all...
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Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism, Samantha A. Noël investigates how Black Caribbean and American artists of the early twentieth century ...
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All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of China [A Cookbook]
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A comprehensive, contemporary portrait of China's culinary landscape and the geography and history that has shaped it, with more than 300 recipes...
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Chinese New Year: A Celebration for Everyone
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /From its beginnings as a farming celebration marking the end of winter to its current role as a global party featuring good food, lots of gifts a...
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The Land Looks After Us: A History of Native American Religion
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Native Americans practice some of America's most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin dra...
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Santeria: African Spirits in America
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professio...
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The Great Wall Of China
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /The Great Wall of China is Angela Fisher's brief history of the Great Wall.Angela FIsher's The Great Wall is an "awe-inspiring, impressive, blac...
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Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Millions of people worldwide practice t’ai chi, the most popular form of which was codified beginning in the 1960s by Cheng Man Ch’ing. In this s...
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Egypt and the Middle East, Grades 5 - 8
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using Egypt and the Middle East! This 96-page book features reading selections and assessme...
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Where God Was Born: A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Feiler brings to life the birth moment of Western faith and seeks to use the past to understand the present climate of religious extremism.”—Was...
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Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Curry serves up a delectable history of Indian cuisine, ranging from the imperial kitchen of the Mughal invader Babur to the smoky cookhouse of t...
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All About Japan: Stories, Songs, Crafts and Games for Kids
HardcoverOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /**2012 Creative Child Magazine Preferred Choice Award Winner!**A cultural adventure for kids, All About Japan offers a journey to a new place—and...
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Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever dr...
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many ...
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Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world,” uki...
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Classic Indian Cooking
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This extraordinary cookbook, Classic Indian Cooking, amounts to a complete course in Indian cuisine. Elucidated by over 100 line drawings, it sys...
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Nordic Religions in the Viking Age
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The popular image of the Viking as a horn-helmeted berserker plying the ocean in a dragon-headed long boat is firmly fixed in history. Imagining ...
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Pictorial History of Iran: Ancient Persia
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Beloved Reader, Pictorial History of IRAN, Ancient Persia is about one of the oldest nations and civilizations in the world. I hope the informat...
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The Bite of Mango
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks we...
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York...
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