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The Six Books On The Priesthood Of St. John Chrysostom is a religious text written by St. John Chrysostom in the 4th century. This book is a collection of six sermons that Chrysostom delivered to his fellow priests in Constantinople. In these sermons, Chrysostom...

The Odyssey of Homer, Books 9-12 is a classic piece of literature written by the ancient Greek poet, Homer. This book is a part of the larger epic poem, The Odyssey, which tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus and his ten-year journey...

The Courtier: In Four Books is a book written by Italian diplomat and writer Balthasar Castiglione in 1528 and first published in 1724. The book is a guide for courtiers, or those who seek to be part of the courtly life, and describes the...

The Turkish Cookery Book: A Collection Of Receipts, From The Best Turkish Authorities (1865) is a cookbook written by Turabi Efendi. The book contains a collection of recipes from some of the best Turkish authorities, making it an authentic and reliable source for Turkish...

Women-owned businesses are the fastest growing segment of new business start-ups, and black women's businesses are a larger share of black-owned businesses than white women's businesses are of all white firms. Most studies compare men's and women's businesses, but few examine differences among women....

The Six Books On The Priesthood Of St. John Chrysostom is a collection of writings by St. John Chrysostom, a prominent early Christian theologian and bishop of Constantinople. Originally written in Greek in the 4th century, this book has been translated into English and...

When does a book that is merely old become a rarity and an object of desire? David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter. Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this...

Born in occupied France during WWII and brought up in Hawaii; Bernard Lau was one of the first non-Japanese practitioners of aikido. After a long stint in the navy as a submariner and diver, Lau joined the Seattle police department and eventually wound up...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

From Drop Caps to Deluxes, Penguin Creative Director Paul Buckley presents a visual overview of the innovative covers that have put Penguin Classics at the forefront of the book design world Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books 50 Covers competition...

This gorgeous second volume in the popular Unpacking My Library series explores the bookshelves of favorite novelists As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object--whether pristine collectible or battered relic--is growing as well. Unpacking My...

Annabel Patterson explores the effects of censorship on both writing and reading in early modern England, drawing analogies and connections with France during the same period. Author: Annabel M. PattersonISBN-10: 0299099547ISBN-13: 9780299099541Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/1991Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.66h x 5.42w...

In 2017, the New York Times announced that the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger had been rediscovered. Considered the first autobiography by a Jew in the Americas, the book had been stolen decades earlier from Mexico's National Archives. Here, Ilan Stavans...

In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with...

A Best Book of the Year: Mother Jones - Bloomberg News - National Post - Kirkus In these pages, Nicholas Basbanes--the consummate bibliophile's bibliophile--shows how paper has been civilization's constant companion. It preserves our history and gives record to our very finest literary, cultural,...

Chiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature.Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these titles feel extra special and will...

> JUST LAUNCHED Affordable Price > MAKE FLEETING MOMENTS LAST - Capture and keep every memory from from all occasions whether Wedding, Engagement, Christmas, Babies Firsts, Anniversary, Birthday Parties and the list goes on. Past, Present& Future Moments.Great gift idea.Can be used has a...

A unique Smithsonian coloring book featuring the letters of the alphabet from rare illuminated books and manuscripts Abecedarium offers artists of all ages the chance to color the pages of history: it includes two black and white versions of each alphabetical letter for readers...

A small town Dutch girl meets a big world, and now you are invited to my kitchen! Come explore all the wonderful tastes and treats I grew up with, learned and created along the way. This book contains hundreds of recipes from my home,...

This catalogue gives detailed description of 220 miniature books divided into eight sections located in the library of Dunderave Castle in Scotland. The three major sections include Rare Books, Almanacs and Thumb Bibles followed by five minor sections which include Prayer Books, the Koran...

Published in conjunction with an eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue presents the story of Walt Whitman's coming of age as a poet through a unique assemblage of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts, many never before seen, from the Whitman Collection of Susan Jaffe...

Published to accompany the eponymous Grolier Club exhibition, this catalogue explores in unprecedented breadth and depth the important role of print media in the development and spread of aesthetic ideals in applied art of all kinds, including architecture, interior design, and the book arts....

A copublication of the Grolier Club and Battledore, this bibliographical study, published in 2014, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Mao's Little Red Book, accompanied an eponymous exhibition at the Grolier Club. An informative introduction is followed by chapters on important aspects...

This unique t黎e-b鹹he book (two titles, with a single spine) showcases the collections of Herschel and Fern Cohen. When reading in one direction, the reader is treated to stark black-and-white prints of cities and their inhabitants, with an emphasis on the Depression era, from...

Stay organized and keep track of birthdays, anniversaries and special dates all in one place. 12-Month blank calendar book for dates to remember perfectly sized at 8 in width and 10 in height great for home, school or office hardcover information keeper notebook with...

The Voynich manuscript is famous among enthusiasts of arcana, rare books, and cryptography. It is a 200+ page color rare book written in a cipher that has resisted decryption to this day. It is named after a Polish rare book dealer who surfaced the...

In the rural Australia of the fifties where John Baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. Despite this, by the age of eleven Baxter had 'collected' his first book - The Poems of Rupert Brooke....

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University's Beinecke Library, one of the world's great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library's most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library's curators and accompanied by insightful...

For her gorgeously illustrated and deeply researched contribution to the prestigious Grolier Hundred series, Chris Loker has assembled one hundred of the best known and most admired children's books from the English language canon of classics. Organized chronologically, One Hundred Books Famous in Children's...

Based on Adrian Seville's own collection, this book catalogues 71 games featured in an exhibition at the Grolier Club. The book focuses on why the Game of the Goose is special and why it can lay claim to being the most influential of any...

This facsimile, entitled Overslag-Boek, zeer nuttig voor alle Liefhebbers der Edele Boekdruk-konste (Imposition Manual, very useful for all Practitioners of the Noble Art of Printing"), is a reproduction of a unique manuscript housed in the Grolier Club Library. It was compiled in the years...

This catalogue, produced to accompany a 2011 exhibition at the Grolier Club, emphasizes the importance of the French national typographic and printing establishment the Imprimerie Nationale, arguably the most important printing house in Europe. Drawing from the ancient, vast, and comprehensive archives of the...

This volume contains four articles written by personnel of the National Security Agency (NSA) about the Voynich manuscript from 1965 to 1978. The first essay, by Brigadier John Tiltman, is entitled "The Voynich Manuscript: The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World" and was presented...

As standard-bearers for intellectual freedom, school and children's librarians are in ideal positions to collaborate with educators to not only protect the freedom to read but also ensure that valued books which touch upon important topics are not quarantined from the readers for whom...

Author: Eloy Lasanta, Danielle Lauzon, Maggie CarrollISBN-10: 1944487026ISBN-13: 9781944487027Publisher: Third Eye GamesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2016Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.87lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.56d

Caribbean short stories that will amuse and enlighten. These stories became topics for household conversations when they were first read on radio and Rediffusion by the late Frank Collymore and the late Alfred Pragnell. This is Barbadian and Caribbean dialect at its best. The...

Every book collector has felt the frustration of ignorance. How does he know a book isn't overpriced? Is this book really a first edition? Was it issued with a dust jacket? Is it really scarce or is such a description just a sales tactic?...

You are about to read a much-needed book that will open your eyes to the Africa that has been hidden from us. Thinking out of the box of Western thought pattern, Dr. Jonathan has been able to give to the world this revolutionary masterpiece...

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to bookbinding, with instructions for leather and vellum binding, directions for gilding paper and book edges, and many useful recipes for sprinkling, colouring, and marbling. Originally intended for beginners and apprentices, this volume is ideal for the...

Over 25 healthy recipes from an experienced chef included in this book After reading this book, you will know how to nourish yourself properly instead of how other people want you to eat. You will become your very own chef and nutritionist and by...

Explore the amazing age of earth's mightiest animals like never before in this prehistoric coloring & activity book. With over 30 pages of exciting images and up-to-date science, your child will not only have fun coloring but learn the latest scoop on Dinosaur knowledge...

Documents are milestones and markers of human activity, part of who and what we are. Our story can be told through the objects, profound and trivial, famous and forgotten, by which we remember and are remembered. Documents That Changed the Way We Live examines...

Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, completed in 1345, is the great medieval treatise on the love of books. He was an obsessive book-collector who argued that no price should hinder someone from buying books. However, unlike many later bibliomaniacs, he appreciated them for their true...

There are a number of factors, largely interrelated, attracting me to write this survey. First, there was a family connection with Odhams through my maternal grandfather. This was one of the reasons which led to me spending my formative years in Watford, the town...

This special re-print edition of the 1891 edition of Harting's book "The Bibliotbeca Eccipitraria: A Catalogue of Books Ancient and Modern Relating To Falconry" has not been available to falconry enthusiasts since it first appeared on the scene. The Bibliotbeca Eccipitraria is an overview...

This fancy adults coloring book by coloring creators is the perfect way to stress relief and relaxation with fun while coloring images.Author: Coloring CreatorISBN-10: 1978099703ISBN-13: 9781978099708Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/09/2017Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.12d

This fancy adults coloring book by coloring creators is the perfect way to stress relief and relaxation with fun while coloring images.Author: Coloring CreatorISBN-10: 1977863353ISBN-13: 9781977863355Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/02/2017Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.14d

Bourgeois scholarship as disguise: "Fake books" are objects that simulate the most important carriers of knowledge and culture by subverting fundamental functions such as visualisation, information or entertainment. Most of these "book simulators" are beautiful containers, which serve for storing - or hiding -...

The successful transmediation of books and documents through digitization requires the synergetic partnership of many professional figures, that have what may sometimes appear as contrasting goals at heart. On one side, there are those who look after the physical objects and strive to preserve...

Mandala coloring book for girls relaxation Makes an affordable coloring book for girls under 10 dollars . Coloring book idea can be an original present for Mandalas art and coloring lovers. it's a 100 pages with amazing beautifull mandalas for coloring Dimensions: "8/10" on...