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9781579129125 | Black Dog & Leventhal Pub, October 9, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Skulls is a spellbinding exploration of more than 300 different animal skulls—amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles—written by New York Times bestselling author, Simon Winchester.
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9781938086045 | Intl Pub Marketing, September 15, 2012, cover price $60.00
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9781616890339 | Princeton Architectural Pr, October 19, 2011, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher (Make It Bigger, 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it.
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9781582436432 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2011, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: There’s a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia.
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9781582438245 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, April 17, 2012), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: There is a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from Northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia.
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9780062020109 | Harpercollins, November 2, 2010, cover price $14.99
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9780061702587 | Harpercollins, November 2, 2010, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: In a narrative tour de force, Simon Winchester dramatises the life of the Atlantic Ocean, from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future.
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9780061702624 | Reprint edition (Perennial, November 1, 2011), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams.
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9780061866128 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, November 2, 2010), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: From bestselling author Simon Winchester comes the immense and thrilling story of the world's most mysterious and breathtaking natural wonder: the Atlantic Ocean.
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9780060797188 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, May 1, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The author recounts his experiences traveling to Diego Garcia, Tristan, Gibraltar, Ascension Island, St.
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9780060501815 | Avon Books, June 1, 2002, cover price $7.99
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9780061978272 | Harpercollins, October 27, 2009, cover price $9.99
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Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr. W.C. Minor, an American Civil War criminal who was considered both a genius and a lunatic.
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9780061030222 | Int edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1999), cover price $7.99
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9780061807602 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99
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9780694522439 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, September 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr.
9780694520664 | Harperaudio, September 1, 1998, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr.
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9780606306973, titled "Professor And The Madman" | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $22.35 | About this edition: Mysterious (mistîe · ries), a.
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9780618858668 | Original edition (Mariner Books, October 8, 2009), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed writer Simon Winchester brings his keen literary eye to this year's volume of the finest travel writing from the past year.
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9780805038880 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1996, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The author recounts his experiences traveling along the Yangtze river from the Tibetan border to the East China Sea, and shares his impressions of the people of China
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9781554684816, titled "The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time" | Harpercollins Canada, May 15, 2009, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Amazon.
9780312423377, titled "The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time" | Reprint edition (Picador USA, April 1, 2004), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author recounts his experiences traveling along the Yangtze river from the Tibetan border to the East China Sea, vividly bringing to life China's rich cultural history, politics, people, geography, and climate.
9780805055085, titled "The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time" | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1997), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author recounts his experiences traveling along the Yangtze river from the Tibetan border to the East China Sea, and shares his impressions of the people of China
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9780060884598 | Harpercollins, May 1, 2008, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically advanced country.
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9780060884611 | Reprint edition (Perennial, May 1, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, once the world's most technologically advanced country.
9780061562761 | Large print edition (Harpercollins, June 1, 2008), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In sumptuous and illuminating detail Simon Winchester chronicles the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who turned his eccentric genius on the study of China.
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9780061556272 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, May 1, 2008), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In sumptuous and illuminating detail Simon Winchester chronicles the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who turned his eccentric genius on the study of China.
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9780061795886 | Harpercollins, March 17, 2009, cover price $9.99
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Product Description: The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history...read more
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9780783885001 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary
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9780060839789 | Perennial, July 1, 2005, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary.
9780060994860 | Perennial, September 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The shocking story of the single greatest contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857 reveals that the man who contributed 10,000 definitions to the book was in fact a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane.
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9780060836269 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes how more than ten thousand definitions were submitted for the first Oxford English Dictionary from Dr.
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9781439571200 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 5, 2008), cover price $22.95 | also contains The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | About this edition: The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history.
9781417692644 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2005, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Looks at the making of the Oxford English dictionary.
9780613621557, titled "Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary" | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $22.55 | About this edition: The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history.
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9780786257294, titled "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism.
9780066212852, titled "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883" | Harpercollins, April 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism.
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9780060838591, titled "Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883" | Perennial, July 15, 2005, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people.
9780060937362, titled "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883" | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 2004), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism.
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9780060743840 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, June 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Considers the global impact of the 1883 eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, documenting its cause of an immense tsunami that killed 40,000 people, its impact on the weather for several years, and its role in anti-Western Islamic fundamentalism.
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9781439558225, titled "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $22.95 | also contains Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
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9780670913787 | Gardners Books, September 25, 2008, cover price $35.40
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Product Description: From the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of the most venerable of dictionaries – The Oxford English Dictionary...read more
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9780198607021 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 28, 2003, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.
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9780195175004 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 14, 2004), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.
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9780060592387 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 2003), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.
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9780060592356 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.
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9781435291102 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $28.99 | About this edition: From the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa Writing with marvelous brio, Simon Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language and pays homage to the great dictionary makers from Samuel Johnson to Noah Webster before turning his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of the most venerable of dictionaries – The Oxford English Dictionary.
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9780061239823 | Collins, May 1, 2008, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Eruptions.
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9780060744007 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, September 30, 2007), cover price $14.99
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9781426200441 | Natl Geographic Society, April 17, 2007, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: "These stories are like potato chips; one is never enough, and they're all but impossible not to devour in rapid succession.
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9780060571993 | Harpercollins, October 1, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of 1906, describing how it affected more than two hundred miles of California, triggered a vast firestorm, and destroyed the gold-rush capital.
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9780060572006 | Perennial, October 1, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of 1906, describing how it affected more than two hundred miles of California, triggered a vast firestorm, and destroyed the gold-rush capital, in an account that reveals the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake.
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9780792254874 | Natl Geographic Society, April 18, 2006, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Compiles travel and adventure writing from National Geographic, bringing together fifty tales of exotic locales in works by such notables as Robert Peary, Amelia Earhart, and Teddy Roosevelt.
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9780135166260 | 1 edition (Prentice Hall Direct, February 1, 1988), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Describes the history, culture, and geography of Korea and shares the author's experiences exploring the major cities and countryside
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9780060750442 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 2005), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: The best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman describes the history, culture, and geography of Korea and shares the author's experiences exploring the major cities and countryside, from the southern-most tip of Korea to the DMZ border with North Korea.
9780135172445 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1991, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Describes the history, culture, and geography of Korea and shares the author's experiences exploring the major cities and countryside
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9780192806246 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 17, 2005, cover price $19.20 | About this edition: Why do we say bete noir and not 'black beast', doppelganger and not 'double goer'?
9780802714442 | Original edition (Walker & Co, September 30, 2004), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Provides pronunciations and definitions of unusual words from different languages, including Hungarian, Finnish, Gaelic, and Creole.
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9781740595872 | Lonely Planet, October 30, 2004, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Calcutta is a city in a state of permanent surprise, where amazement is around every crumbling corner, and astonishment lurks over every rickshow-puller's shoulder.
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