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Author: Baruch Sterman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762790423
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Baruch Sterman brilliantly recounts the complete, amazing story of this sacred dye that changed the color of history.

Author: Amy Butler Greenfield
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780061980893
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A Perfect Red recounts the colorful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities.

Author: Catherine E. McKinley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608195899
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But Indigo is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley is the descendant of a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan as their virile armor; the kin of several generations of Jewish "rag traders"; the maternal granddaughter of a ...

Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265464
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Mauve is the beguiling story of a man who invented a colour, and in the process transformed the world around him.

Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452149240
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Short essays from museum curators on the significance and symbolism of the color at various times and places provide historical context for this visual feast. With page edges dyed blue, this distinctive volume is a bijou treasure.

Author: Joseph Telushkin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062046047
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How does one begin to answer so extensive a question? In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense.

Author: Chris Peterson
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760347891
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For anyone who doesn't already have fifteen of them cluttering up the garage, 5-Gallon Bucket Book also offers advice on where to get cheap and free buckets, and how to tell if a bucket is safe to use for food.

Author: Michel Pastoureau
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 9780674047822
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From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends.

Author: Michel Pastoureau
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
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The archetypal color of darkness and death, black was associated in the early Christian period with hell and the devil but also with monastic virtue. In the medieval era, black became the habit of courtiers and a hallmark of royal luxury.

Author: Nathan Schneider
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957563
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In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelievers—from ancient ...