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Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed
$38.00 Read moreContemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek’s guide to surplus (and
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1350226254
- Language: English
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Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA
$27.95 Read moreThe National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover. Watched in 215 countries and territories worldwide, and with nearly one in three players born
- Author: Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1350384178
- Language: English
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Magazine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy –- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394959
- Language: English
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Kraftwerk’s Computer World
$14.95 Add to cartComputer World was Kraftwerk’s most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement. Computer World transformed the way pop music was composed, played,
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Francis, Steve Tupai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1501378988
- Language: English
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Mushroom
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Rich, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1501386581
- Language: English
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Russia’s War on Everybody: And What It Means for You
$35.00 Read moreYou may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you.
Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia- Author: Giles, Keir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1350255084
- Language: English
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The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia
$35.00 Read moreThis absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels’ business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as th
- Author: Jangfeldt, Bengt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1350348910
- Language: English
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Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin’s Russia
$28.00 Read moreWhy aren’t ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin’s own historical propaganda narratives, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World
- Author: McGlynn, Jade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1350280763
- Language: English
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Barcode
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Frith, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501399918
- Language: English
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Woman at Point Zero
$15.95 Add to cartInternationally acclaimed Egyptian feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi’s landmark novel Woman at Point Zero, published here with a new foreword.
Firdaus is on death row. Her crime, the murder of a man. B- Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0755651480
- Language: English
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What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (and Why)
$24.95 Read moreThe first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen’s own readers
- Author: Ford, Susan Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1350416711
- Language: English
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe
$14.95 Add to cartOasis’s incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1623564239
- Language: English
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China Incorporated: The Politics of a World Where China Is Number One
$28.00 Read moreIs the West prepared for a world where power is shared with China? A world in which China asserts the same level of global leadership that the USA currently assumes? And can we learn to embrace Chines
- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1350267244
- Language: English
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K.D. Lang’s Ingénue
$14.95 Read moreCanadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed “cowpunk,” with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and freque
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Stein, Joanna McNaney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 150138919X
- Language: English
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Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
$14.95 Read moreDusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield’s beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414923
- Language: English
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Massive Attack’s Blue Lines
$14.95 Read moreIn 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its mar
- Series: 33 1/3 #140
- Author: Bourland, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1501339699
- Language: English
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Metallica’s Metallica
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1991, Metallica released their fifth studio album that would become known and beloved around the world as “The Black Album.” Since its release, it has sold 30 million copies, and become a towering
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Masciotra, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1628929308
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode’s 101
$14.95 Read moreDepeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Valle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1501390325
- Language: English
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They Might Be Giants’ Flood
$14.95 Read moreFor a few decades now, They Might Be Giants’ album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, w
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Reed, S. Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 21 2013
- ISBN10: 162356915X
- Language: English
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Hole’s Live Through This
$14.95 Add to cartCourtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain’s wife she
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Crawford, Anwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1623563771
- Language: English
