Recent Arrivals from The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery
Recent Arrivals from The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery
The Unknown Craftsman
by Soetsu Yanagi
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- 2013-06
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- 9781568365206
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Soetsu Yanagi is often mentioned in books on Japanese art, but this is the first translation in any Western language of a selection of his major writings. The late Bernard Leach, renowned British potter and friend of Mr. Yanagi for fifty years, has clearly transmitted the insights of one of Japan's most important thinkers. The seventy-six plates illustrate objects that… Read more about this item Item Price
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Islam: A Very Short Introduction
by Malise Ruthven
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- April 5, 2000
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- 9780192853899
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Islam features widely in the news, often in its most militant versions. But few people in the non-Muslim world really understand the nature of Islam, both as Ideology and religion. Islam: A Very Short Introduction offers essential insight into the structure and beliefs of this major world religion. Item Price
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How to Raise an Ox
by Dōgen Zenji
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- June 1990
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- 9780916820077
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Thirteenth-century Zen Master Eihei Dogen has been unanimously acknowledged by Japanese and Western scholars alike as Japan's foremost philosopher. Now Francis Dojun Cook, a Dogen scholar for many years, has translated ten practice-oriented chapters of Master Dogen's masterwork, the Shobogenzo ("Treasury of the True Dharma Eye"), in which he discusses what is involved in the wholehearted, moment-to-moment practice of Zen,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Writing Life
by Annie Dillard
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- 2013-11
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- 9780060919887
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In these short essays, Annie Dillard—the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhood—illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that characterize the existence of a writer. A moving account of Dillard's own experiences while writing her works, The Writing Life offers deep insight into one of the most mysterious professions. Item Price
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The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages
by Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
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- 1995-03
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- 9780500300527
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All over Europe, from Westminster to Rouen, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages still stand. This book explores the world of the medieval master mason. How were these structures built when only primitive machinery was available? Who initiated and designed them? Who built and paid for them? Item Price
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Chamber Music
by James Joyce
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- 1971
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- 9780224006057
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A collection of Joyce's poetry. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882. He excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, and then at University College Dublin, where he studied English, French, and Italian. Item Price
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Only Girl in the World
by Maude Julien
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- 2018
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- 9780316466639
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Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother… Read more about this item Item Price
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Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
by Eddie S. Glaude
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- like new
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- Very Good
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- 2020
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- 9780525575320
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James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? Item Price
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Midnight in Chernobyl
by Adam Higginbotham
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- 2020
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- 9781501134630
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Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world: shorthand for the spectral horrors of radiation poisoning, for a dangerous technology slipping its leash, for ecological… Read more about this item Item Price
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Churchill and Orwell
by Thomas E. Ricks
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- 2017-05
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- 9781594206139
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Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's — Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Democracy Project
by David Graeber
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- 2013-04-09
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- 9780812993561
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Democracy has been the American religion since before the Revolution—from New England town halls to the multicultural democracy of Atlantic pirate ships. But can our current political system, one that seems responsive only to the wealthiest among us and leaves most Americans feeling disengaged, voiceless, and disenfranchised, really be called democratic? And if the tools of our democracy are not… Read more about this item Item Price
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The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
by William Doyle
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- 2001-12
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- 9780192853967
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The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French monarchy, the death of an extraordinary number of people beneath the guillotine's blade during the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Godel
by Stephen Budiansky
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- 2021
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- 9781324005445
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Godel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true--yet never provable--continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Godel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
An intimate portrait of the scientific… Read more about this item Item Price
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
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- Fair
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- 2017
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- 9781501139154
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Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson "deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo" (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford
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- March 22, 2005
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- 9780609809648
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious… Read more about this item Item Price
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Norwegian Wood
by Lars Mytting
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- 2015-10
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- 9781419717987
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The latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larsson–like thriller; it's a book about chopping, stacking, and burning wood that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden and has been a fixture on the bestseller lists there for more than a year. Norwegian Wood provides useful advice on the rustic hows and whys of taking care… Read more about this item Item Price
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She Had Some Horses
by Joy Harjo
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- 1983
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- 9780938410065
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In this powerful collection of poems, Creek Indian Joy Harjo explores womanhood's most intimate moments. Her prose speaks of women's despair, of their imprisonment and ruin at the hands of men and society, but also of their awakenings, power, and love. The recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and the American Book Award,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Extra Virginity
by Tom Mueller
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- Good
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- 2011-12
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- 9780393070217
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For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities — not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin Italian" has become the highest standard of quality.
But what if this symbol of purity has… Read more about this item Item Price
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Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- December 27, 2005
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- 9780140449013
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Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a contract with Mephistopheles. The devil will do all he asks on Earth and seeks to grant him a moment in life so glorious that he will wish it to last forever. But if Faust does bid the moment stay, he falls to… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
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- April 21, 2004
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- 9780618526413
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With the publication of her first novel, THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the… Read more about this item Item Price
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