Still Life and ObsCure
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"The Quick and the Dead: True Stories of Life and Death from a New Zealand Pathologist" ("Temple-Camp Cynric")" True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end. A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the br... |
21,08 € |
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"Three Minutes for a Dog: My Life in an Iron Lung" ("Alexander Paul R.")"Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander's life is a saga that started in 1946 and has been profoundly shaped by the Polio epidemic of the early 1950's. Survivor... |
28,08 € |
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"Fixer and Fighter: The Life of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, 1170 - 1243" ("Harwood Brian")"Hubert de Burgh rose from obscure beginnings to become one of the most powerful men in England. He loyally served first King John and then the young Henry III and played a crucial role in saving the Plantagenet dynasty when it was at its most vulnerable. During King John's disastrous wars in France... |
14,60 € |
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"Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life" ("Flannery Michael A.")" For years Alfred Russel Wallace was little more than an obscure adjunct to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Remembered only for prompting Darwin to write On the Origin of Species in 1859 by writing his own letter proposing a theory of natural selection, Wallace was rightly dubbed by one biogr... |
13,12 € |
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"Jane Austen for Kids, 68: Her Life, Writings, and World, with 21 Activities" ("Sanders Nancy I.")"Often compared to William Shakespeare, Jane Austen's genius was her cast of characters--so timeless and real that readers know them in their own families and neighborhoods today. Her book's universal themes--love and hate, hope and disappointment, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility--still t... |
15,64 € |
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Narrow Roads of Gene Land: Volume 2: Evolution of SexThe second volume of the collected papers of W D Hamilton, each one introduced by an autobiographical essay. Hamilton is the most important theoretical biologist of the 20th century and his papers, not especially numerous, have had, and continue to exert, an enormous influence. Many were originally ... |
116,38 € |
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Andy Warhol - PolaroidsInstant Andy Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure,... |
53,85 € |
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Warhol, Polaroids - Richard B. Woodward, Reuel Golden, TASCHENAndy Warhol&,nbsp,was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself.&,nb... |
52,20 € |
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The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Weidenfeld & NicolsonThe international bestseller and modern classic - over 20 million copies sold worldwide'Shadow is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendour and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots. One gorgeous read' STEPHEN KING'An instant classic' DAILY TELEGRAPHThe Shadow of th... |
14,20 € |
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"Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987" ("Woodward Richard B.")" Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in co... |
14,24 € |
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"Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987" ("Woodward Richard B.")" Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in co... |
49,84 € |
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Death of NatureNature as FemaleThe world we have lost was organic. From the obscure origins of our species, human beings have lived in daily, immediate, organic relation with the natural order for their sustenance. In 1500, the daily interaction with nature was still structured for most Europeans, as it was for ot... |
15,06 € |
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"Treatise on Harmony" ("Rameau Jean-Philippe")" The Traite de l'harmonie of Jen-Philippe Rameau is one of the most important books in the history of Western music. Written while Rameau was still a relatively obscure organist and music master at Clermont-Ferrand, the book received but one printing during Rameau's life, in 1722, shortly before he... |
35,36 € |
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The GeneSelected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Economist, Independent, Observer and Mail on Sunday. THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017. "Dramatic and precise...[A] thrilling and comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most r... |
16,61 € |
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"Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases" ("Lee-Chin Maia")"A hauntingly illustrated guide to memorable Latin phrases, including famous quotations on love, death, nature, politics, and more. Latin may be a "dead" language, but it's all around us--in science, philosophy, religion, and at the root of English grammar. From "carpe diem" to the more obscure "al... |
19,44 € |
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The Gene : An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee, VintageSelected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Economist, Independent, Observer and Mail on SundayTHE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK‘Dramatic and precise… [A] thrilling and comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial... |
19,29 € |
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"Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus" ("Cahill Thomas")"NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus--an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who became the central figure in Western Civilization. Divertingly instructive...gratifying...[Cahill] ma... |
15,16 € |
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Album Cover Album - Roger Dean, Dominy Hamilton, ILEXA stunningly designed review and celebration of the greatest album cover designs from the 50s to the 70s, Roger Deanas innovative volume was first published in 1977. The original, and still the best, it sold over 250,000 copies in its first year and heralded six further volumes and a host of imitati... |
28,35 € |
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The Shadow of the WindThe international bestseller and modern classic - over 20 million copies sold worldwide 'Shadow is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendour and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots. One gorgeous read' STEPHEN KING 'An instant classic' DAILY TELEGRAPH The Shadow of... |
11,17 € |
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Gospel of the Eels'I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.' The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably litt... |
11,17 € |
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