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Read more about the article Suhr – Learning About Love

Suhr – Learning About Love

  • Post published:2023-02-21
  • Post category:Design + Architecture

About the BookFor the first time available in English — in a superb translation by Louise Stoehr — Learning About Love: A Novel is Geerje Suhr's second book with Culicidae…

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Read more about the article Baur – Remastered

Baur – Remastered

  • Post published:2023-01-08
  • Post category:Travel/US $16.95/Women Authors

Get ready for Remastered... Days Hours Minutes Seconds 'Remastered' is now available world-wide... About the Book Time Travel didn’t go as planned. Remastered, sequel to the novel Alternate Take, dives…

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Read more about the article Tavallaei – Poems as Short as Life

Tavallaei – Poems as Short as Life

  • Post published:2022-12-25
  • Post category:Poetry/US $15.95

From the Introduction by the Author As an Iranian, I am interested in our inclination to versifying, the ability to write in verse forms, and I love the unique Persian…

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Read more about the article Osterberg – Dream House On the Prairie

Osterberg – Dream House On the Prairie

  • Post published:2022-09-14
  • Post category:Design + Architecture

About the BookDream House on the Prairie is an architect’s journey through several decades, with candid accounts of what went wrong—and what went right—in reconstructing a deteriorating century-old farmhouse. The…

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Read more about the article Suhr – The German Exchange Student

Suhr – The German Exchange Student

  • Post published:2022-05-03
  • Post category:Novels + Short Stories/Travel/US $16.95/Women Authors

About the BookThis witty developmental novel depicts the friendships and love experiences of a girl, Gorda, from childhood through high school. Initially we are confronted with the gloomy environment of…

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Read more about the article Brantley – Phases

Brantley – Phases

  • Post published:2022-04-24
  • Post category:Poetry/US $12.95/Women Authors

About the BookHere is the text from the Introduction of the second edition (2022), in the author’s words:A teaching life of more than thirty years has given me the boon of closeness…

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Read more about the article Brantley – We Are the Sum of Tiny Spaces

Brantley – We Are the Sum of Tiny Spaces

  • Post published:2022-03-30
  • Post category:Poetry/US $11.95/Women Authors

We Are the Sum of Tiny Spaces, Diana Brantley’s second book of poetry, offers fifty new poems written in her forthright, engaging voice. She returns to her favorite subjects: nature…

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Read more about the article Larche – Angels in the Snow

Larche – Angels in the Snow

  • Post published:2021-11-18
  • Post category:Travel/US $16.95

About the BookWoven upon a tapestry of environmentalism and the search for peace, Angels in the Snow tells the passionate intergenerational story of three couples separated by the Berlin Wall…

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Read more about the article Osterberg – We All Fall Down

Osterberg – We All Fall Down

  • Post published:2021-10-12
  • Post category:Design + Architecture/Travel/US $21.95

About the BookWe All Fall Down is a user’s guide to help us reduce our chances of falling and being injured during falls. Through case studies and analysis, the book…

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Read more about the article Meritt-Gordon and Grosscup – Tell Them What You Want

Meritt-Gordon and Grosscup – Tell Them What You Want

  • Post published:2021-03-18
  • Post category:African-American Authors/Biography + Autobiography/US $16.95/Women Authors

About the BookTell Them What You Want is an inspirational coming of age story of an African-American girl (Bernie) growing up amidst the immense local and national social turmoil of…

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Read more about the article Liikkanen – Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design
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Liikkanen – Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design

  • Post published:2021-03-12
  • Post category:Design + Architecture/US $39.95

About the BookAre you planning a new sauna, renovating an old one, or just dreaming? Do yourself a favor: save your sauna project and read this wonderfully illustrated book about…

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Read more about the article Andrews – Vervm Fictvm: Architectural Delineation and Speculation, 1984-2020

Andrews – Vervm Fictvm: Architectural Delineation and Speculation, 1984-2020

  • Post published:2021-02-13
  • Post category:Art + Graphic Design/Biography + Autobiography/Design + Architecture/Scholarship/Travel/US $205.95

About the BookThe drawing has always been our most essential method of communication. Drawings have offered us both a glimpse into the past and a view to the future. As…

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Read more about the article Clark – These Doors

Clark – These Doors

  • Post published:2020-12-09
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Novels + Short Stories/US $16.95/Women Authors

About the BookThese Doors presents Timber (Pop. 50), sequestered in the Oregon woods from which few emigrate and fewer want to. In the style of a novel where plot threads…

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Read more about the article Leverenz – So Mortal, So Dear
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Leverenz – So Mortal, So Dear

  • Post published:2020-03-13
  • Post category:Poetry/US $11.95

About the Book The poems in this volume, written between 1987 and 2017, were selected and ordered by David Leverenz before his death in August, 2017. Although David rarely shared…

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Read more about the article Andrews – Rationalism and Poetry

Andrews – Rationalism and Poetry

  • Post published:2018-11-06
  • Post category:Scholarship/Travel/US $25.95

About the Book (From the Introduction) Como’s Asilo D’Infanzia Sant’Elia occupies a unique position in the oeuvre of Giuseppe Terragni. Executed between his two most celebrated works, the Casa del…

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Read more about the article Naegele – Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa

Naegele – Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa

  • Post published:2018-10-30
  • Post category:Design + Architecture/Travel/US $24.95

Available Now Naegele’s Guide to the Only Good Architecture in Iowa is a deceptive title but it is not a misnomer. Guide is accurate. Iowa is fairly accurate. Naegele’s is…

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Read more about the article Careri – Walkscapes
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Careri – Walkscapes

  • Post published:2017-12-25
  • Post category:Art + Graphic Design/Design + Architecture/Scholarship/US $21.95

Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice by Francesco Careri was originally published in a dual-language Spanish/English edition in 2002, and republished in 2012 (only in Spanish) both times by Editorial Gustavo Gili,…

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Read more about the article Jacks – A House and its Atmosphere

Jacks – A House and its Atmosphere

  • Post published:2017-11-13
  • Post category:Design + Architecture/Scholarship/Travel/US $19.95

About the Book A House and its Atmosphere is a meditative essay about the experience of designing and building a house of one’s own. Told in seventy black and white…

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Read more about the article Longstaff – In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back
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Longstaff – In the Shadow of the Dragon’s Back

  • Post published:2017-07-31
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Travel/US $12.95/Women Authors

About In the Shadow of the Dragon's Back: A Young American Girl in South Africa During the Early Years of ApartheidThe book is the story of a young American girl…

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Read more about the article Friday – I Remembered

Friday – I Remembered

  • Post published:2017-06-28
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/US $14.95/Women Authors

About the Book (From the Author)I Remembered chronicles my experience—at age forty-nine—when I recalled the sexual abuse by my father as a young girl. Through my journal entries, represented here…

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Read more about the article Yates – White Creek

Yates – White Creek

  • Post published:2017-02-26
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Magical Realism/Novels + Short Stories/Travel/US $14.95

About the BookA witty, haunting tale of family and friendship, regret and redemption, set on a remote Wyoming cattle ranch in the dead of winter.The White Creek Ranch has been…

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Read more about the article Brantley – Transatlantic Trio
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Brantley – Transatlantic Trio

  • Post published:2017-01-03
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Literary Criticism/Scholarship/US $39.95

About the Book (from the Prologue)Francis Jeffrey’s indictment of William Wordsworth’s The Excursion (1814) as “mystical verbiage of the Methodist pulpit”—“This will never do!”—will itself never do (Jeffrey 463, 465).…

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Read more about the article Dutton – Paid in Sunsets
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Dutton – Paid in Sunsets

  • Post published:2016-11-26
  • Post category:Travel/US $14.95

About the BookPaid in Sunsets: A Park Ranger’s Story is a humorous memoir of David A. Dutton's life as a Federal Park Ranger. Park Rangers are called upon to do many dangerous…

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Read more about the article Williams – Summer of Weird Harold
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Williams – Summer of Weird Harold

  • Post published:2016-05-18
  • Post category:Middle Grade Fiction/US $14.95

Cover design by Kylin Schoeff. About the Book Not so far away there’s a quiet little place where the sun always shines, the water stays warm all year, and your…

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Read more about the article Howard – The Girl with Wings
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Howard – The Girl with Wings

  • Post published:2016-02-09
  • Post category:Novels + Short Stories/Women Authors

About the Book From the author of Discovering the Body, (“…a book so sure-handed and graceful that you might forget it’s a murder mystery…” New York Times Book Review) comes…

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Read more about the article Pronker-Coron – The Bridge
Pronker-Coron - The Bridge: Connecting Violin and Fiddle Worlds

Pronker-Coron – The Bridge

  • Post published:2015-11-15
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Scholarship/Travel/Women Authors

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Read more about the article Zach – For The Birds

Zach – For The Birds

  • Post published:2015-11-14
  • Post category:Music/Scholarship/Text Books/Women Authors

About the BookFor this second edition (2015) Dr. Zach updated her For the Birds book, which was originally published in 2005.The book is an intuitive and interactive way to learn how to read…

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Read more about the article Polsgrove – When We Were Young in Africa
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Polsgrove – When We Were Young in Africa

  • Post published:2015-10-19
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Novels + Short Stories/Travel/Women Authors

About the BookGrowing up as a missionary child in West Africa, Carol Polsgrove was raised to be American, but Yoruba voices filled her days and talking drums her nights. Lifting…

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Read more about the article Kieklak – Run Better Run Faster
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Kieklak – Run Better Run Faster

  • Post published:2015-09-13
  • Post category:Design + Architecture/Sports + Bio-Mechanics

About the BookRun Better, Run Faster Using A Biomechanical Approach teaches you through a series of hands-on exercises how to run efficiently, safely, and feel great doing it....From the Introduction to the BookThis book…

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Read more about the article Browning – Kites

Browning – Kites

  • Post published:2015-07-03
  • Post category:Art + Graphic Design/Design + Architecture/Scholarship

Book DescriptionKites: The Art of Using Natural Materials is a collection of images which show how the beauty, intricacy and delicacy of natural materials have been used to form flying structures.The…

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Read more about the article Clark – Sixty Something and Flying Solo: A Retiree Sorts it Out in Iowa

Clark – Sixty Something and Flying Solo: A Retiree Sorts it Out in Iowa

  • Post published:2015-04-11
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Novels + Short Stories/Women Authors

Sixty-Something and Flying Solo: A Retiree Sorts it Out in Iowa is a humorous, edgy memoir filled with serious ponderings. An Oregon transplant with no kids and no significant other, the…

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Read more about the article Jacks – The Architect’s Tour

Jacks – The Architect’s Tour

  • Post published:2015-01-25
  • Post category:Design + Architecture/Scholarship/Text Books/Travel

If you want to be a good designer, set aside the glossy magazines, turn off your computer, and seek out first-hand encounters with good design. When it comes to cities,…

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Read more about the article Golisch – Fly and Fall

Golisch – Fly and Fall

  • Post published:2014-07-06
  • Post category:Poetry/Women Authors

Fly and Fall is a book of poems about milk, honey, Kartoffelfeuer, kisses, flying, falling, heaven, cheap motels, hope, a kingdom, breaking, being, the first day of the new year,…

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Read more about the article Moe – Sled Dogs to Saint Paul
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Moe – Sled Dogs to Saint Paul

  • Post published:2014-06-11
  • Post category:Politics/Travel

About the AuthorWith their forty Alaskan Husky sled dogs, Frank Moe and his wife Sherri live near Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. When he’s not…

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Read more about the article Croyle – Hertwig: The Zelig of Design

Croyle – Hertwig: The Zelig of Design

  • Post published:2013-11-22
  • Post category:Art + Graphic Design/Biography + Autobiography/Text Books

C. Arthur Croyle’s Hertwig: The Zelig of Design is an illustrated biography that traces the life and career of graphic designer Max Hertwig (1881-1975) through the most fascinating and formative years…

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Read more about the article Koch – Sacred and Secular Music

Koch – Sacred and Secular Music

  • Post published:2013-06-23
  • Post category:Design + Architecture/Music

  Sacred and Secular Music/Geistliche und Weltliche Musik is a bi-lingual English/German music book by organist, composer, and retired professor of music Jobst Hermann Koch who arranged this collection of four-part…

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Fern Kupfer Interview

  • Post published:2013-04-08
  • Post category:Women Authors

This is a link to an audio file NPR of Fern Kupfer's interview on WOI with Charity Nebby from 23 January 2013. Fern talks about her new book Leaving Long…

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Read more about the article Mawson – Shirley and Her Magic Blanket

Mawson – Shirley and Her Magic Blanket

  • Post published:2012-12-14
  • Post category:Art + Graphic Design/Children's Books

In this children’s book, beautifully illustrated by Valerie Bouthyette, the author tells the story of Shirley, who experiences an adventure while spending time with her parents back on the farm…

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Fern Kupfer Reads from Her New Book

  • Post published:2012-10-01
  • Post category:Women Authors

On Thursday, 27 September 2012, Fern Kupfer read from her new memoir Leaving Long Island, published by Culicidae Press earlier this summer (see video embedded below). Kupfer has published hundreds of articles and columns in…

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Kupfer – Leaving Long Island

  • Post published:2012-07-08
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Novels + Short Stories/Women Authors

Leaving Long Island is the story of a woman whose life experience includes the loss of a child, the end of a long marriage, and the discovery of a genetic inheritance…

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Read more about the article Piontek – Have We Possibly Met Before?

Piontek – Have We Possibly Met Before?

  • Post published:2012-02-14
  • Post category:Novels + Short Stories/Women Authors

Susanna Piontek is an internationally known German author who has published numerous stories in a wide range of books and magazines in Europe. This is her first book for an English-speaking…

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Read more about the article Quillien – Clever Digs

Quillien – Clever Digs

  • Post published:2012-01-31
  • Post category:Scholarship/Text Books/Women Authors

About the Book Clever Digs: How Workspaces Can Enable Thought is a comprehensive investigation into the psycho-physics of office spaces. With a formidable scope Quillien lays out her argument that how we design…

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Read more about the article Groves – Anna May Wong

Groves – Anna May Wong

  • Post published:2011-08-15
  • Post category:Art + Graphic Design/Biography + Autobiography/Travel

Australian Architect and Senior Lecturer at Melbourne University Derham Groves recently published a book showing his students’ design of new shoes for the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong with Culicidae…

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Read more about the article Golisch – The Living Thing

Golisch – The Living Thing

  • Post published:2011-03-26
  • Post category:Novels + Short Stories/Women Authors

The Living Thing is the tragicomic story of a woman in her late forties, approaching menopause, who is sent by her doctor to a spa town where she falls into…

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Read more about the article Merritt – Perspective Drawing

Merritt – Perspective Drawing

  • Post published:2010-12-15
  • Post category:Art + Graphic Design/Design + Architecture/Text Books

About the Book A book that teaches hands-on perspective drawing using the projected image method developed by architect and former University of Florida architecture professor Harry Merritt. The book includes…

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Read more about the article Quillien – Delight’s Muse

Quillien – Delight’s Muse

  • Post published:2010-11-09
  • Post category:Biography + Autobiography/Design + Architecture/Scholarship/Text Books/Women Authors

Delight’s Muse is a blessedly short, accessible, and thoughtfully illustrated summary of Christopher Alexander’s four volume work The Nature of Order. It rescues readers from the massive effort required to navigate…

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Read more about the article Stella – Happy Ending

Stella – Happy Ending

  • Post published:2008-07-13
  • Post category:African-American Authors/Children's Books/Poetry/Women Authors

About the Book A book of children's stories, poems, tongue-twisters, proverbs, and brain-teasers from Africa by Sr. Stella Sabina, an author from Uganda who studied in Kenya and now lives…

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Read more about the article Muecke and Zach – Resonance

Muecke and Zach – Resonance

  • Post published:2007-10-08
  • Post category:Art + Graphic Design/Design + Architecture/Music/Scholarship/Text Books/Travel/Women Authors

Resonance: Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture is a collection of nine texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference…

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Read more about the article Akombo – Music and Healing Across Cultures

Akombo – Music and Healing Across Cultures

  • Post published:2006-08-15
  • Post category:African-American Authors/Music/Text Books

About the Book Music and Healing Across Cultures unfolds the mechanics of the relationship between music, healing, and the cosmos. It shows the organizing power of this tradition in its…

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