Browser Book Beat Issue 108
Master Collection of landmark newspaper cartoon series, Terry and the Pirates. Vol 8, “the war year 1942”. Caniff considered a pioneer in character-driven comic narratives. Read More
$180.00
Settling of the American Northwest through the eyes of early settlers in Bellingham Bay, Washington. Covers intergenerational account of hardship, boom and bust. Read More
$60.00
Against the odds, Commodore Perry led a fleet to victory in one of the most decisive naval battles to occur in the War of 1812. Read More
$40.00
Byzantine philosophy refers to the distinctive philosophical ideas of the philosophers and scholars of the Byzantine Empire, especially between the 8th and 15th centuries. Read More
$40.00
Aesop’s Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Read More
$60.00
Two-thirds of earth is covered by water inhabited by an incredible variety of living organisms, ranging in size from microbe to whale, and in abundance from scarce to uncountable. Read More
$15.00
When Dr. Seuss went to war, he created cartoons denouncing Hitler, Mussolini and “isolationists” like Charles Lindbergh. Some cartoons deplored the racism at home against Jews and blacks. Read More
$25.00
It was losing control of his creation, Oswald the Rabbit, that lead Walt to create another character, the now world renown Mickey Mouse. Here’s the whole story. Read More
$45.00
Thompson chronicles the downfall of the Fargo family, the Snopes of Kansas. basically, inbred, amoral, fiercely loyal to clan. Thompson’s only attempt at ‘literary’ rather than ‘genre’ fiction. Read More
$20.00
A hard-luck guy working on laying a pipeline across deserted Texas plains. A great looking babe. And murder. Read More
$20.00
John Wallis, English clergyman and mathematician, who is partially credited for the development of infinitesimal calculus.Between 1643 and 1689 he served as chief cryptographer for Parliament Read More
$100.00
Künne’s Conceptions of Truth consists of an encyclopedic treatment of the literature on truth and Künne’s defense of his own “Modest Account” on the topic. Read More
$90.00
Hugo Grotius’ political thought on church and state. It was finished in 1617, but Grotius’ arrest prevented publication. Read More
$80.00
Grotius has also contributed significantly to the evolution of the notion of rights. Before him, rights were above all perceived as attached to objects. Read More
$80.00
Throughout Anne Conway’s life, she wrote numerous letters back and forth to Henry More, Francis Mercury van Helmont, and other major thinkers of their time. Read More
$200.00
This is Newton’s masterpiece. It presents the basis of physics and astronomy, formulated in the language of pure geometry. Read More
$500.00
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric “prisons.” Read More
$30.00
John Locke, English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “father of liberalism. Read More
$50.00