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We specialize in cover-to-cover restoration and modern adaptation of classic and forgotten books.
A faithful and approachable adaptation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Drastically more readable for the modern reader than the 1926 Freese translation, and often closer in meaning to the Greek original. Use the Translation Explorer to compare the Greek source, final literal translation, modernized adaptation, and Freese passage by passage.
Charles Keeler's portrait of San Francisco, published four years before the 1906 earthquake destroyed most of what he describes. Spanish padres and Gold Rush argonauts through the Barbary Coast, Chinatown, and the Golden Gate. A city captured just before it vanished.
History of Coffee.
MMXXVIA field companion to the ancient relationship between humans and the world's most popular beverage. From the 15th-century written record to the 12,000-year-old domestication signature in the genome.
A pioneer minister's first-person record of eighty years and four continents. From the American West and the Alaska gold rush to Australia, England, India, Turkey, and Siam, with two world wars in between.
