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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories not for the
    Nervous

American Sea Songs and Chanteys
Art of the State: California
Bab Ballads
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book

California Trails - South Coast Region
Charlemagne
The Color of Man
Dog Who Came in from the Cold: A Corduroy
    Mansions Novel (large print)

Diego Rivera
Faces: Painters and Sculpters
The French Country House

Independent 5th Reader
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Known Violin Makers

Kris Jenner and All Things Kardashian
Light in the Window and Gleanings
Lincoln in Caricature
Minders of Make-Believe
Painting in Britain 1530-1790
Prince and the Pauper
Quality of Life
Selected Writings on Art, Winckelmann

This Hallowed Ground: Story of the Union
Tombs (A Fargo Adventure)
War and Peace (2 Volumes)
War of the Worlds and The Time Machine
Wily Witch and other Fairy Tales and Fables



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                            Featured Book

         Ingenious Pursuits

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       Lisa Jardine is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Ingenious Pursuits, leads the reader through the intellectual revolution of the 17th and early 18th centuries touching on the minds of men like Sir Isaac Newton, John Locke, and Christopher Wren. She illustrates how minds that were open to the widest range of influences and allowed for incredible leaps of imagination produced the most formative event in Western history. 
       To quote the dust jacket, “Ingenious Pursuits is a broad-ranging and highly readable look at the very nature of creativity, at the impact of science on the emerging modern world, and the intellectual revolutions that still shape the world.”


Our copy is pictured here. It is a stated first U.S. edition in Very Good condition, the dust jacket is also Very Good.

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