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Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty
A colourful account of women's health, beauty and cosmetic aids, from stays and corsets to today's viral trends Victorian women ate arsenic to achieve an ideal, pale complexion, while in the 1790s balloon corsets were all the rage,...
32,00 €
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The World Atlas of Public Art
Essential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment A towering abstract steel sculpture in the middle of a traffic island in Spoleto, Italy. Soaring vertical gardens enhanced with digital technology in...
44,40 €
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Made in Germany
An examination of shifting notions of identity in modern-day Germany-and the diverse artists challenging conventional meanings of "Germanness" today Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation addresses important questions of...
44,40 €
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Dead Sea
A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores. The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its...
32,00 €
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Stories Old Towns Tell
A journey through Europe's old towns, exploring why we treasure them-but also what they hide about a continent's fraught history "[A] fascinating chronicle."-Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Historic quarters in cities and towns...
15,90 €
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Walking Europe's Last Wilderness
The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe's last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beech forests, grass meadows, and ancient villages, its people contend daily with the elements-as well...
25,80 €
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Buddhism
One of the world's leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day. Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in...
35,80 €
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Spycraft
A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies-from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination. Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and...
17,10 €
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Brothers Grimm
The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm A New Yorker "Best Book of 2024" Selection "Ann Schmiesing . . . has brought the...
17,10 €
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Dr. Bot
How does AI compare to a doctor when it comes to saving lives? Doctors are under-resourced and face unprecedented levels of stress, with rising patient numbers and ever developing medical knowledge. But at the same time, they are all too...
24,60 €
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Buddha, Socrates, and Us
A renowned Buddhist teacher turns to two of the most influential figures in history for guidance on how to face the ethical challenges of our time. The Buddha's revolutionary teachings transformed Asia, and his contemporary Socrates laid...
25,80 €
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