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Shuffle through Powell's City of Books – it's never the same place twice! Below, you'll find a random selection of used books available today at Powells.com. Each time you shuffle, you'll find eight more! |
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by Gwendolyn Leick  Synopsis Gwendolyn Leick's approachable survey shows us the people of Babylon, from kings and merchants to women and slaves, and the social, historical, geographical and cultural context in which their extraordinary city flourished for so many millennia. This... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by James Ben Pritchard Synopsis This volume makes available some of the most important discovered source material for the historian of the ancient Near East.... (read more) List Price $40.25 Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Margaret Visser Synopsis With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your Price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Maurer Synopsis Drawing from letters, personal papers, and archived materials, Maurer chronicles the life of the younger sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright, who gave up her teaching career to help them promote their new flying machine. Includes an Author's Note and... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Rudolf Lip Steiner Synopsis Today we hear much about holistic medicine and its integration of body, mind, and spirit. According to Steiner, true healing is impossible unless it includes every dimension of a human being -- both visible and invisible. To meet inner frailty with truly... (read more) Your Price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by James Essinger Publisher Comments Circuits from silk? Today's technophiles probably have no idea how much today's computer technology owes to the invention of one ingenuous textile manufacturer in nineteenth-century France. Here, master storyteller James Essinger shows through a series... (read more) Your Price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Rodney P. Carlisle Publisher Comments Traces the modern research and development center from its dual origin when David Taylor and George Melville brought science and technology to the emerging steam-driven steel fleet, through a full century of modernization and several reorganizations... (read more) Your Price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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