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My Backyard Jungle The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It

Barilla James

ISBN: PB: 9780300205664, ISBN: HB: 9780300184013, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm

For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries....

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London in Quotations

Mitchell Jaqueline

ISBN: HB: 9781851244010, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford", said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a "riddle", a "cesspool" and a "modern Babylon", and both L...

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Berlin

Schurer Norbert

ISBN: PB: 9781908493767, Signal Books, May 2014
224 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Berlin is much more than the former capital of Nazi Germany – it is often described today as innovative, fast-paced, avant-garde, rough, exciting, and even sexy. At the political and geographical centre of the Second World War...

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Travel

Pilgrimage to Dollywood A Country Music Road Trip through Tennessee

Morales Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780226536521, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 24 halftones, 4 maps

A star par excellence, Dolly Parton is one of country music's most likable personalities. Even a hard-rocking punk or orchestral aesthete can't help cracking a smile or singing along with songs like "Jolene" and "9 to 5". More than a mere singer or a...

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Ancient World

Culture Studies

Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Kaster Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...

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Never Again A Walk from Hook of Holland to Istanbul

Cameron Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9781908493965, Signal Books, April 2014
288 pp., 20.4x13.4 cm

For sale in CIS only! Elderly British men display a variety of annoying habits. They write letters to the newspapers; they drink too much; they reminisce about the old days; they make lewd comments to younger women; they shout at the television scre...

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Children's Books

Travel

Alaska on the Go Exploring the 49th State with Children

Kirkland Erin

ISBN: PB: 9781602232211, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Nearly two million people visit Alaska every year, drawn to its spectacular views and endless activities. But with such size and so many options, it can seem overwhelming when it comes to planning a family vacation to the 49th state. The best place t...

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Buenos Aires

Caistor Nick

ISBN: PB: 9781904955849, Signal Books, February 2014
224 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm

For sale in CIS only! Nick Caistor has lived for several years in Buenos Aires as well as visiting it often over the past three decades. He has reported on Argentina for the BBC and is a translator as well as the author of several books on Latin Ame...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Traveling in Place A History of Armchair Travel

Stiegler Bernd

ISBN: HB: 9780226774671, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
264 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 83 halftones

Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explor...

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Children's Books

Travel

Treasures of Venice Pop-Up

Cestaro Dario, Lugato Franca

ISBN: HB: 9788831715027, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2013
12 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Discovering the city through the magic of pop-ups. The marvels of Venice, a magical city suspended like a dream between water and sky... For children, Venice is a Wunderkammer in the literal sense of the term, full of surpr...

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