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Llama
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| /This title is an introductory look at adorable yet tough llamas. Readers will learn about what llamas look like, their size, common habitats and ha...
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Poison Dart Frog
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| /This title is an introductory look at colorful poison dart frogs. Readers will learn about the number of species, what poison dart frogs look like,...
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Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The first comprehensive U.S. publication on a pioneer of Latin American artEstablishing congruences between Modernist abstraction and the Pre-Colum...
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This Must Be the Place: An Oral History of Latin American Artists in New York, 1965-1975
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An oral history of the Latin American artists who moved to New York in the late 1960s and pioneered a new conceptualism informed by their migrant e...
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Florentine Codex: Book 1: Book 1: The Gods Volume 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagún's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in...
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East Meets West
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This entirely new volume illuminates the complex intersection of western and eastern culture and civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean during t...
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We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /A collection of essays about Armenian identity and belonging in the diaspora. In the century since the Armenian Genocide, Armenian survivors and t...
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Meat Matters: Ethnographic Refractions of the Beta Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Meat Matters offers a portrait of the lives of Ethiopian Jews as it is reflected and refracted thought the symbolism of meat. Drawing upon thirty y...
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Take Care of Your Self: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberation
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Take care of yourself. How many times a week do we hear or say these words? If we all took the time to care for ourselves, how much stronger will w...
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Alexandria Adieu: A Personal History: 1939-1960
HardcoverOriginal price $42.95Original price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /A twin narrative: one of the most insightful journalists of our time tells the enchanting story of this hauntingly beautiful city. Adel Darwish has...
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Tlv: Tel Aviv: Recipes and Stories from Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /This comprehensive cookbook captures the essence and flavors of Tel Aviv--one of the most food-obsessed cities in the Middle East and in the world....
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The Desert and the Sown: Travels in Palestine and Syria
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Born to transcend the social constraints of Victorian England, Gertrude Bell left the comforts of her privileged life for the unconventional -- but...
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My Port of Beirut
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In August 2020, Lebanon was in the midst of a global pandemic and a devastating economic crisis. People protested in the streets, calling for the ...
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Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East. In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling,...
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Explore the Old City of Aleppo: Come with Tamim to a World Heritage Site
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Khaldoun Fansa is an Aleppo native who was displaced by the Syrian Civil War. For many years he worked as an architect who managed restoration of A...
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The Passionate Spies: How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby, and Lawrence of Arabia Ignited the Arab Revolt--and How Saudi Arabia Was Founded
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This is the true story of how three British Secret Service agents from the Arab Bureau in Cairo helped General Allenby defeat Germany's ally, the T...
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Ottoman Armies 1820-1914
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spira...
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The Arab-Israeli War of Attrition, 1967-1973: Volume 2: Fighting Across the Suez Canal
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Arab-Israeli conflict persisted through two wars and ongoing border tensions. However, the Six-Day War of June 1967 was a cataclysm. Israel eme...
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Lonely Planet Israel & the Palestinian Territories 10
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Lonely Planet's Israel & the Palestinian Territories is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what...
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The Arab-Israeli Cookbook - recipes: The Recipes
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A companion to Robin Soans’ docudrama The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, this volume collects the actual recipes shared by the people Soans interviewed i...
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The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The Middle East, as we know it today, was shaped in the violent and tumultuous years of the first half of the 20th century. The roots of many of ...
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Babylonia: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The history of Ancient Babylonia in ancient Mesopotamia is epic. After playing host to three great empires, the Hammurabic and Kassite empires, a...
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Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict escalates, a dangerous illusion persists that the American Jewish community speaks with a single voice, expre...
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The Pigeon Wars of Damascus
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Marius Kociejowski follows up his now classic The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool with The Pigeon Wars of Damascus. A metaphysical journalis...
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