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  • Numismatic Archaeology of North America

    A Field Guide

    by Marjorie H. Akin, James C. Bard, Kevin Akin ...
    Series series Guides to Historical Artifacts
    Numismatic Archaeology of North America is the first book to provide an archaeological overview of the coins and tokens found in a wide range of North American archaeological sites. It begins with a comprehensive and well-illustrated review of the various coins and tokens that circulated in North America with descriptions of the uses for, and human behavior associated with, each type. The book ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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  • The 99% Invisible City

    A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

    by Roman Mars, Kurt Kohlstedt ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER“[A] diverse and enlightening book . . . The 99% Invisible City is altogether fresh and imaginative when it comes to thinking about urban spaces.”—The New York Times Book Review**“Here is a field guide, a boon, a bible, for the urban curious. Your city’s secret anatomy laid bare—a hundred things you look at but don’t ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Men Who United the States

    America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

    by Simon Winchester ...
    “Simon Winchester never disappoints, and The Men Who United the States is a lively and surprising account of how this sprawling piece of geography became a nation. This is America from the ground up. Inspiring and engaging.” —Tom BrokawSimon Winchester, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pushing the Limits

    New Adventures in Engineering

    by Henry Petroski ...
    Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Coin Collecting: A Beginners Guide to the World of Coins

    A Beginners Guide to the World of Coins

    by Kenneth Bressett ...
    This book offers a much-needed overview of numismatics—the hobby, the historical connection, and the investment possibilities of rare coins. This is an up-to-date, comprehensive guide that explains everything a new collector needs to know. You will learn about getting started in the hobby, mint marks, varieties, and what makes a coin valuable. It also contains information on how to care for your ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • River of Shadows

    Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    **A New York Times Notable BookWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology“A panoramic vision of cultural change” —The New York TimesThrough the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Orwell's Roses explores what it was about California in the late 19th ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Official Red Book: A Guidebook of United States Coins 2012

    by R. S. Yeoman, Kenneth Bressett ...
    The Official Red Book®, now in its 65th year, is famous nationwide as the premiere resource for U.S. coin collectors. This best-selling “one-volume library” helps you make smart buying decisions as you build your collection. Millions of readers rely on it for full-color photographs, detailed technical data, and up-to-date mintages. The Red Book covers the history of colonial and early American ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ansel Adams

    An Autobiography

    by Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder ...
    Discover this "evocative celebration of the life, career, friendships, concerns, and vision" of Ansel Adams, America's greatest photographer (New York Times)"No lover of Ansel Adams' photographs can afford to miss this book." - Wallace StegnerIn this bestselling autobiography, completed shortly before his death in 1984, Ansel Adams looks back at his legendary six-decade career as a conservationist ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The Official Blue Book: Handbook of United States Coins: Handbook of United States Coins

    by R. S. Yeoman, Kenneth Bressett ...
    The Official Blue Book of United States Coins 2011. This guide features grading and collecting tips, mintage records, historical information, and data compiled by more than 50 coin-elite contributors. Lists dealer buy prices, how much dealers will pay for your coins, not retail prices. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 100 Greatest US Modern Coins

    by Scott Schechter, Jeff Garrett ...
    The latest volume in Whitman’s popular 100 Greatest collection is a sure crowd-pleaser. 100 Greatest Modern U.S. Coins explores the most fascinating, rarest, most popular, and most valuable Mint products of recent generations. Engaging text by two of today’s most respected numismatists is combined with beautiful high-resolution photographs in an attractive, hardcover coffee-table book. Dealers, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • From my Land to the Planet

    by Sebastião Salgado ...
    From my land to the Planet is the first book that brings together the reflections written in the first person by Sebastião Salgado: a long story driven by the Brazilian photographer's ecological sensitivity, in which he describes the creation of the Instituto Terra in Brazil and his path as man and witness of our time. Salgado, authoritative voice and master of international photography, proves ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cure for Catastrophe

    How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters

    by Robert Muir-Wood ...
    We can't stop natural disasters but we can stop them being disastrous. One of the world's foremost risk experts tells us how.Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way?In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir ... Read more

    $19.99 USD