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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal The Longevity Seekers: Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth Pepper: A History of the World's Most Influential Spice The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His ElementsThe People's Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything Sorted Books The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed HistoryPandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American MealGinkgo: The Tree That Time ForgotLucky Ducklings

 http://press.princeton.edu/images/k9971.gif Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

A Grand Complication: The Race to Build the World's Most Legendary Watch (Hardcover)

By Stacy Perman
$22.10
ISBN-13: 9781439190081
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Published: Atria Books, 2/2013
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The Black Russian (Hardcover)

By Vladimir Alexandrov
$21.25
ISBN-13: 9780802120694
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press, 3/2013

Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure (Hardcover)

By Christopher S. Stewart
$23.79
ISBN-13: 9780061802546
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Published: Harper, 1/2013
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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (Hardcover)

By Alexandra Horowitz
$22.95
ISBN-13: 9781439191255
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Published: Scribner, 1/2013
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data (Hardcover)

By Charles Wheelan
$22.91
ISBN-13: 9780393071955
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 1/2013
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Ambition, A History: From Vice to Virtue (Hardcover)

By William Casey King
$25.50
ISBN-13: 9780300182804
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Published: Yale University Press, 1/2013
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Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America (Hardcover)

By Roy Morris, Jr.
$22.91
ISBN-13: 9780674066960
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Published: Belknap Press, 1/2013

The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument (Hardcover)

By David Schoenbaum
$33.96
ISBN-13: 9780393084405
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 12/2012
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The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting (Hardcover)

By Philip Hensher
$22.10
ISBN-13: 9780865478930
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Published: Faber & Faber, 11/2012
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Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories about Food and Culture (Hardcover)

By Massimo Montanari, Beth Archer Brombert

ISBN-13: 9780231157322
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Published: Columbia University Press, 12/2012

The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World (Hardcover)

By Sean Carroll
$23.76
ISBN-13: 9780525953593
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Published: Dutton Adult, 1/2013
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Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to the Modern Age (Hardcover)

By Randall Heskett, Joel Butler
$22.95
ISBN-13: 9780230112438
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Published: Palgrave Macmillan, 11/2012
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Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit (Hardcover)

By Joyce E. Chaplin
$29.75
ISBN-13: 9781416596196
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 11/2012
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The Book of Gin: A Spirited World History from Alchemists' Stills and Colonial Outposts to Gin Palaces, Bathtub Gin, and Artisan (Hardcover)

By Richard Barnett
$20.40
ISBN-13: 9780802120434
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Published: Grove Press, 12/2012

Drinking Water: A History (Hardcover)

By James Salzman
$23.76
ISBN-13: 9781590207208
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Published: Overlook Press, 11/2012
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 (Hardcover)

By Bernard Bailyn
$29.75
ISBN-13: 9780394515700
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Published: Knopf, 11/2012
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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity (Hardcover)

By Andrew Solomon
$31.88
ISBN-13: 9780743236713
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Published: Scribner, 11/2012
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Creamy & Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food (Hardcover)

By Jon Krampner
$23.76
ISBN-13: 9780231162326
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Published: Columbia University Press, 11/2012
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Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer (Hardcover)

By William Knoedelseder
$23.79
ISBN-13: 9780062009265
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Published: HarperBusiness, 11/2012
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Beyond Human Nature: How Culture and Experience Shape the Human Mind (Hardcover)

By Jesse J. Prinz
$25.46
ISBN-13: 9780393061758
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 11/2012
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Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar (Hardcover)

By Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
$22.94
ISBN-13: 9780312681234
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Published: Thomas Dunne Books, 10/2012
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My Ideal Bookshelf (Hardcover)

By Jane Mount, Thessaly La Force
$21.24
ISBN-13: 9780316200905
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 11/2012
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Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America's Kings of Beer (Hardcover)

By William Knoedelseder
$23.79
ISBN-13: 9780062009265
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Published: HarperBusiness, 11/2012
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween (Hardcover)

By Lisa Morton
$24.65
ISBN-13: 9781780230474
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Published: Reaktion Books, 10/2012
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The "Dead Sea Scrolls": A Biography (Hardcover)

By John Joseph Collins
$21.21
ISBN-13: 9780691143675
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Published: Princeton University Press, 10/2012

The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age (Hardcover)

By Paul J. Nahin
$21.21
ISBN-13: 9780691151007
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Published: Princeton University Press, 10/2012
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The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published (Hardcover)

By David Skinner
$22.94
ISBN-13: 9780062027467
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Published: Harper, 10/2012
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Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History (Paperback)

By William Kerrigan
$21.25
ISBN-13: 9781421407296
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press, 10/2012
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Hardcover)

By David Quammen
$28.95
ISBN-13: 9780393066807
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 10/2012
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Latin for Gardeners: Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored (Hardcover)

By Lorraine Harrison
$21.25
ISBN-13: 9780226009193
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Published: University Of Chicago Press, 10/2012

The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex (Hardcover)

By John A. Long
$22.10
ISBN-13: 9780226492544
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Published: University Of Chicago Press, 10/2012
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Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London (Hardcover)

By Nigel Jones
$29.75
ISBN-13: 9780312622961
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Published: St. Martin's Press, 10/2012
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The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (Hardcover)

By Christian Wolmar
$25.49
ISBN-13: 9781610391795
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Published: PublicAffairs, 9/2012
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Cairns: Messengers in Stone (Paperback)

By David B. Williams
$13.56
ISBN-13: 9781594856815
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Published: Mountaineers Books, 10/2012

I, Lobster: A Crustacean Odyssey (Hardcover)

By Nancy Frazier
$21.21
ISBN-13: 9781584659624
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Published: University Press of New England, 10/2012
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The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (Hardcover)

By W. Jeffrey Bolster
$25.46
ISBN-13: 9780674047655
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Published: Belknap Press, 10/2012

A Dog Named Boo: How One Dog and One Woman Rescued Each Other--and the Lives They Transformed Along the Way (Hardcover)

By Lisa J. Edwards
$18.66
ISBN-13: 9780373892563
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Published: Harlequin, 9/2012
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Monsieur Marceau: Actor Without Words (Hardcover)

By Leda Schubert, Gerard DuBois
$15.29
ISBN-13: 9781596435292
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Published: Flash Point, 9/2012

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)

By Bee Wilson
$22.94
ISBN-13: 9780465021765
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Published: Basic Books, 10/2012
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The Color Revolution (Hardcover)

By Regina Lee Blaszczyk
$29.71
ISBN-13: 9780262017770
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Published: MIT Press (MA), 8/2012
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Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance (Hardcover)

By Jane Gleeson-White
$22.06
ISBN-13: 9780393088960
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 10/2012
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How Does Sleep Come? (Hardcover)

By Jeanne C. Blackmore, Elizabeth Sayles
$14.44
ISBN-13: 9781402271052
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Published: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, 9/2012
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The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind (Hardcover)

By Seth S. Horowitz, Seth Horowitz
$21.25
ISBN-13: 9781608190904
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 8/2012
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Bear Says Thanks (Hardcover)

By Karma Wilson, Jane Chapman
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781416958567
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 9/2012
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The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory (Hardcover)

By Michael S. Malone
$22.09
ISBN-13: 9780312620318
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Published: St. Martin's Press, 8/2012
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Distilled Spirits: Getting High, Then Sober, with a Famous Writer, a Forgotten Philosopher, and a Hopeless Drunk (Hardcover)

By Don Lattin
$25.46
ISBN-13: 9780520272323
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Published: University of California Press, 10/2012
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The American Dream: A Cultural History (Hardcover)

By Lawrence R. Samuel
$21.21
ISBN-13: 9780815610076
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Published: Syracuse University Press, 9/2012

Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America (Hardcover)

By Jennifer L. Anderson
$29.75
ISBN-13: 9780674048713
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Published: Harvard University Press, 9/2012

The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad (Hardcover)

By Benson Bobrick
$23.80
ISBN-13: 9781416567622
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Published: Simon & Schuster, 8/2012
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Death: The Scientific Facts to Help Us Understand It Better (Paperback)

By Richard Beliveau, Denis Gingras
$25.46
ISBN-13: 9781554079964
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Published: Firefly Books, 8/2012
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