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Product Description: A cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean region and humankindâs broken covenant with nature The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship with the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape...read more
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9780300197464 | Yale Univ Pr, February 10, 2015, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: A cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean region and humankindâs broken covenant with nature The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship with the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape.
Product Description: Revered as the birthplace of Western thought and democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory. Athens takes readers on a journey from the classical city-state to today's contemporary capital, revealing a world-famous metropolis that has been resurrected and redefined time and again...read more
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9780674047723 | Belknap Pr, April 7, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Revered as the birthplace of Western thought and democracy, Athens is much more than an open-air museum filled with crumbling monuments to ancient glory.
Product Description: Paris is the most personal of cities. There is a Paris for the medievalist, and another for the modernistâa Paris for expatriates, philosophers, artists, romantics, and revolutionaries of every stripe. James H. S. McGregor brings these multiple perspectives into focus throughout this concise, unique history of the City of Light...read more
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9780674033160 | Belknap Pr, April 20, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Paris is the most personal of cities.
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9780674057388 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, November 30, 2010), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Paris is the most personal of cities.
Product Description: At the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, President Washington chose a diamond-shaped site for the city that would bear his name, along with the burdens and blessings of democracy. Situated midway between North and South, the capital was also a gateway to the West--a contested wilderness where rough frontiersmen were already carving a divided nation...read more
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9780674026049 | Belknap Pr, October 31, 2007, cover price $29.95
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9780674046429 | Belknap Pr, April 15, 2010, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: At the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, President Washington chose a diamond-shaped site for the city that would bear his name, along with the burdens and blessings of democracy.
Product Description: Venice came to life on spongy mudflats at the edge of the habitable world. Protected in a tidal estuary from barbarian invaders and Byzantine overlords, the fishermen, salt gatherers, and traders who settled there crafted an amphibious way of life unlike anything the Roman Empire had ever known...read more
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9780674023338 | Belknap Pr, October 31, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The history of Venice is told in this narrative that follows a chronological and geographical organization so that the city's growth and evolution can be traced chapter by chapter and readers can explore it district by district on foot and by boat.
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9780674027527 | Belknap Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Venice came to life on spongy mudflats at the edge of the habitable world.
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9780674019119 | Belknap Pr, November 1, 2005, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: In this multifaceted historical portrait of Rome, the practical world of each period is explored to reveal the complex urban forms and shifting realities of the many cities that constitute Rome.
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9780674022638 | Belknap Pr, October 31, 2006, cover price $34.00
Product Description: Title: The continental harmony : containing a number of anthems, fuges, and chorusses in several parts : never before published.Author: William BillingsPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s...read more
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9780674167506 | Belknap Pr, January 1, 1961, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: Title: The continental harmony : containing a number of anthems, fuges, and chorusses in several parts : never before published.
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