Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color
By: David Coles
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous …
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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
By: Toni Morrison
4.32
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more
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- nonfiction
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
2. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
3. The Artist's Way
By: Julia Cameron
4.23
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
4. The Rose That Grew from Concrete
By: Tupac Shakur
3.44
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
This collection of more than 100 poems that honestly and artfully confront topics ranging from pove… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Possession
By: A.S. Byatt , None
3.89
Format: 555 pages, Paperback
Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more
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- historical
"To a dusty shelf we aspire."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"-A.S. Byatt, Possession
"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."-A.S. Byatt, Possession
6. Fashion Design Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: The Practical Guide for Aspiring Fashion Designers
By: Steven Faerm
4.05
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A widely-recognized fashion design teacher presents a series of step-by-step tutorials and exercise… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
- reference
- fashion
7. Colour: Making and Using Dyes and Pigments
By: François Delamare , Bernard Guineau
4.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
Colour is all around us; we take it for granted as a naturally occurring aspect of all things. Yet … read more
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- art
- history
- nonfiction
8. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
By: Graham Hancock , Santha Faiia
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connectin… read more
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9. Longbourn
By: Jo Baker
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story • If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own pe… read more
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- historical
"...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"Life was, Mrs. Hill had come to understand, a trial by endurance, which everybody, eventually, failed."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
"If Elizabeth had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she'd most likely be a sight more careful with them."-Jo Baker, Longbourn
10. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- design
- reference
- science
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
11. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. 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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- historical
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- fashion
- technology
13. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
14. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
15. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- history
- science
16. Himawari House
By: Harmony Becker
4.37
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Bilingual Edition in English and Japanese Living in a new country is no walk in the park. Whe… read more
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17. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
18. The Beauty of Everyday Things
By: Soetsu Yanagi
3.52
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace sett… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- design
"Disreputable and heinous acts are often carried out in the name of the nation. Nations do not always abide by the truth; instead truth is manipulated and distorted."-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"These days, personal taste has suffered a decline. Colours have become garish, forms flimsy, and designs hideous. It is only natural that surrounded by such objects, our sense of beauty should be dul…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"Under the snow's reflected light creeping into the houses, beneath the dim lamplight, various types of manual work is taken up. This is how time is forgotten; this is how work absorbs the hours and d…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"What is the proper way of seeing? In brief, it is to see things as they are. However, very few people possess this purity of sight. That is, such people are not seeing things as they are, but are inf…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
19. Did I Ever Tell You This?
By: Sam Neill
4.06
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more
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20. The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World
By: Aliya Whiteley
3.60
Format: 195 pages, Hardcover
Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with the wondrous and bizarre world of fungi - from a childh… read more
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- history
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"This particular orchid gets all its energy from fungi, sometimes from different kinds of fungi simultaneously. It never even begins to turn to the sun. No photosynthesis here. It relies utterly on it…"-Aliya Whiteley, The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World
21. Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color
By: David Coles
4.43
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous … read more
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- history
- historical
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- nonfiction
- design
- reference
- fashion
- technology
