Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
By: Alex Langlands
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“Hypnotic.… [Langlands] begins to see not just the beauty of an object.… but the deeper purpose for…
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1. Life in a Medieval Village
By: Frances Gies , Joseph Gies
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages. This new … read more
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2. What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
By: Laura Shapiro
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
"Fascinating." Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal "Mouthwatering."--Eater.com A beloved culinary hi… read more
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3. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
By: James Howard Kunstler
3.85
Format: None pages,
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4. Walden & Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau , W.S. Merwin
3.23
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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5. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
By: Matthew B. Crawford
4.00
Format: None pages,
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6. Galileo's Dream
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.14
Format: 200 pages,
At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupit… read more
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7. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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8. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
By: Virginia Postrel
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles… read more
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9. How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
By: James K.A. Smith
4.29
Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, a… read more
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10. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
By: Geraldine DeRuiter
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more
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11. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
By: Clare Hunter
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to… read more
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"Sewing is a way to mark our existence on cloth: patterning our place in the world, voicing our identity, sharing something of ourselves with others and leaving the indelible evidence of our presence …"-Clare Hunter, Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
12. This Strange Eventful History
By: Claire Messud
3.63
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more
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"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
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"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History
13. Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
By: Kyle Harper
4.17
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
How pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning--and how our… read more
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14. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
By: Simon Schama
3.65
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Da millenni gli esseri umani e i virus coesistono e, suo malgrado, l'umanità più di una volta si è … read more
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15. The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
By: Kate Strasdin
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life - from family and friends to industry and Empire - to… read more
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16. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
By: Clara Parkes
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yar… read more
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17. Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
By: Alex Langlands
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“Hypnotic.… [Langlands] begins to see not just the beauty of an object.… but the deeper purpose for… read more
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18. The Bright Sword
By: Lev Grossman
4.06
Format: 673 pages, Hardcover
A gifted young knight named Collum arrives at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, onl… read more
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"One day you will see that it is a mistake to love an empire, or a throne, or a crown, because those things cannot love. They can only die."-Lev Grossman, The Bright Sword
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19. War in Heaven
By: Charles Williams
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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"The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"[...] the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
"There is no possible idea," Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act."-Charles Williams, War in Heaven
20. Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages
By: Mark Gregory Pegg
3.91
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A new history of the Middle Ages, revealing how Christianity and Islam evolved out of a shared cult… read more
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