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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
written by Bruce Sterling & Alex Steffen, foreword by Al Gore, $30.00 (20% off $37.50)
Worldchanging is packed with the information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers the tools they need to make a difference. |
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World Party: Rough Guide to the World's Best Festivals
by Rough Guides, $15.99 (20% off $19.99)
More than 100 of the world's best events are covered in detail alongside the culture and history of the festivals and location itself. |
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The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere
by Lonely Planet, $30.00
Lonely Planet's Guide to the Middle of Nowhere is a celebration of travel, the pioneering spirit and the truth that our well-trodden world is still full of places untouched and untrampled - they're all around us, you just need to explore.
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Burton Holmes Travelogues: The Greatest Traveler of His Time, 1890-1938
by Burton Holmes, $39.99 (20% off $49.99)
In a time before air travel or radio, on the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, Burton Holmes (1870-1958) set upon a lifelong journey to bring the world home. This book represents the best of the Holmes archive, brimming with brilliant color photographs. |
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Blue List: The Best in Travel 2007
by Lonely Planet, $15.99 (20% off $19.99)
Lonely Planet Travelometer
This volume includes a page-by-page profile of every country in the world. For each country, we provide a totally unique gauge of what's in and out for each destination, why (or why not) to go there and where to go instead. |
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Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon
by Claudia Roden, $28.00 (20% off $35.00)
Roden revisits the three countries with the most exciting cuisines today--Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. Interweaving history, stories, and her own observations, she gives us 150 of the most delectable recipes: some of them new discoveries, some reworkings of classic dishes--all of them made even more accessible and delicious for today's home cook.
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Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean
by Ana Sortun, $27.96 (20% off $34.95)
Organized by spice, this book details the way certain spices complement one another and how they flavor other foods. Includes more than one hundred tantalizing spice categories and recipes. |
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The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa
by Marcus Samuelsson, $32.00 (20% off $40.00)
In The Soul of a New Cuisine, Marcus returns to the land of his birth to explore the continent's rich diversity of cultures and cuisines through recipes and stories from his travels in Africa. |
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Through the Eyes of the Gods: An Aerial Vision of Africa
by National Geographic, $40.00 (20% off $50.00)
This remarkable vision of Africa from the air invites the reader to view this large and varied continent as if an invited guest on a private plane, with a dialogue between the photographer and the viewer. |
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Dreaming of Tuscany
Where to Find the Best There Is: Perfect Hilltowns; Splendid Palazzos; Rustic Farmhouses; Glorious Gardens; Authentic Cuisine; Great Wines; Intriguing Shops
by Barbara Milo Ohrbach
In Dreaming of Tuscany you'll experience the essence of a place that dreams are made of, ensuring you'll get the most out of your experience.
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Historical Atlas of the United States
by Derek Hayes, $31.96 (20% off $39.95)
Using more than five hundred historical maps from collections around the world, this stunning book is the first to tell the story of America's past from a unique geographical perspective. |
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Surveying the Shore: Historic Maps of Coastal Massachusetts, 1600-1930
by Joseph Garver, $48.00 (20% off $60.00)
Since British, French, and Dutch colonists vied for the territory we call New England, cartographers have drawn the region to suit their political and commercial goals. Cartographic historian Joseph G. Garver analyzes and illuminates ninety historic maps, connecting them with key developments in New England history and demonstrating how a community's maps reflect its view of the world. |
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The"Piedmont"
antique ocean globe, 12", with wood and rosewood stain
($69.99) |
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The "Pioneer"
is our recommended globe for children and adults who want
a basic, sturdy 12' blue ocean globe on a metal base.
With a full meridien which allows north/south rotation,
the earth's polar regions are highly visible ($62.99).
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The "Livingston"
is an illuminated, 12" blue ocean globe with a dark
wood base. When not illuminated, it displays physical
land features. When illuminated, political boundaries
become apparent ($98.99).
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Cambridge:
Walnut Finish
16-inch raised relief antique ocean globe with hardwood
floor stand. $224.99 |
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Austin:
Blue
or Antique ocean. 16-inch illuminated
globe with solid hardwood floor stand. Now: $630.00 (Regularly:
$700.00) |
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