Anchor Books
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
$23.00 Add to cartMonths before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler–prime architect of the Holocaust–designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small numbe… [more below]
- Author: Helm, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307278719
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – And Us
$21.00 Add to cartA major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences–what Darwin termed “the taste for the beautiful”–create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.… [more below]
- Author: Prum, Richard O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0345804570
- Language: English
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Foxfire 8
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #8
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 20 1984
- ISBN10: 0385177410
- Language: English
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism
$20.00 Add to cartIn this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innoce… [more below]- Author: Curriden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720823
- Language: English
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London: The Biography
$28.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s an… [more below]- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0385497717
- Language: English
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The Foxfire 40th Anniversary Book: Faith, Family, and the Land
$23.00 Add to cartAn anthology of Appalachian crafts, culture, and wisdom of simple living.
In 1966, an English teacher and students in Northeast Georgia founded a quarterly magazine, not only as a vehicle to learn the- Series: Foxfire #13
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0307275515
- Language: English
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
$25.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. – “Cahill is our king of popula… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #06
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0385495587
- Language: English
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The Foxfire 45th Anniversary Book: Singin’, Praisin’, Raisin’
$23.00 Add to cartFor almost half a century, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs o… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0307742598
- Language: English
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartRenowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for i… [more below]
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1101910518
- Language: English
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’n’roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’roll
$17.95 Add to cartVintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs–the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s–edited and with an introduction by the reigning dea… [more below]
- Author: Bangs, Lester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0679720456
- Language: English
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Foxfire 2
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #2
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 22 1973
- ISBN10: 0385022670
- Language: English
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Goethe’s Faust
$16.00 Add to cartThe best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann’s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm a… [more below]
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031149
- Language: English
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Notes from the Field
$18.00 Add to cart“Smith’s powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.” —The Village Voice
Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0525564594
- Language: English
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
$18.00 Read moreThe compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, … [more below]
- Author: Applegate, Debby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0307744124
- Language: English
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War
“It- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307277941
- Language: English
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
$22.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST – Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of … America’s first Renaissance man”… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0385495404
- Language: English
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Foxfire 10: Railroad Lore, Boardinghouses, Depression-Era Appalachia, Chairmaking, Whirligigs, Snake Canes, Gourd Art
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire #10
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0385422768
- Language: English
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The Diana Chronicles
$20.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. This “insanely readable and improbably profound” biography (Chicago Tribune) reveals the truth as only famed jou… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Tina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 076792309X
- Language: English
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Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem
$19.00 Add to cartxn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, …no solution
“I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” With these words, the seven- Author: Singh, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0385493622
- Language: English
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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
$25.00 Add to cartBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times – The Washington Post – Fortune – Bloomberg
From two of America’s most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House c- Author: Baker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1101912162
- Language: English
