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Blaise Cendrars

The Invention of Life

Eric Robertson

“Robertson touts Cendrars’s life as an ‘adventure story’ played out in poems, novels, travel narratives, film scripts, short stories, critical essays, and radio plays.” New York Sun

“Blaise Cendrars is an unsung hero of European modernism. Robertson reevaluates this revolutionary writer of the early twentieth century who was plugged into avant-garde art and literature.”—Art Newspaper

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Curious Devices and Mighty Machines

Exploring Science Museums

Samuel J. M. M. Alberti

“Alberti’s musings on the delicate calculus of curation are down-to-earth and fascinating. ‘The canny science curator,’ he admits, concerned with storage, cost, and longevity, focuses on collecting ‘material that is old enough to be obsolete but not so old as to be collectible.’”—Nature

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Versed in Living Nature

Wordsworth’s Trees

Peter Dale and Brandon C. Yen

“This book makes a major contribution to our understandings of the social and cultural history of trees and their deep importance for Wordsworth.”

—Charles Watkins, University of Nottingham

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Genius Loci

An Essay on the Meanings of Place

John Dixon Hunt

This book is a nuanced, thoughtful exploration of how places become more significant to us through the myriad ways we see, talk about, and remember them.

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