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The Letters of Sylvia Beach
$26.95 Add to cartFounder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sylvia Beach had a legendary facility for nurturing literary talent. In this first collecti
- Author: Beach, Sylvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0231145373
- Language: English
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Homeward from Heaven
$22.95 Add to cartHomeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky’s masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, this final novel
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Karetnyk, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0231199317
- Language: English
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The Nose and Other Stories
$17.95 Add to cartNikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius come
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0231190697
- Language: English
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Sentimental Tales
$16.95 Add to cartMikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Zoshchenko, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0231183798
- Language: English
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Orphan of Asia
$23.95 Add to cartBorn in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia,
- Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
- Author: Wu, Zhuoliu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0231137265
- Language: English
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Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
$22.95 Add to cartAlexander Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey al
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Reyfman, Irina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 023118591X
- Language: English
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City Folk and Country Folk
$17.95 Add to cartAn unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia’s aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. T
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Khvoshchinskaya, Sofia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0231183038
- Language: English
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2022
$18.95 Add to cartThe Best American Magazine Writing 2022 presents a range of outstanding writing on timely topics, from in-depth reporting to incisive criticism: Kristin Canning calls for a change in how we talk about
- Author: Holt, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 023120891X
- Language: English
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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor
$18.95 Add to cartHerv? This (pronounced “Teess”) is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierr
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: This, Herv?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 18 2008
- ISBN10: 0231133138
- Language: English
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
$24.95 Read moreAs Lillian Faderman writes, there are “no constants with regard to lesbianism,” except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-ce… [more below]
- Author: Faderman, Lillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 373
- Publish Date: February 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0231074891
- Language: English
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What Is Philosophy?
$26.95 Add to cartCalled by many France’s foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with F?ix Guattari have established
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 1996
- ISBN10: 0231079893
- Language: English
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Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences
$29.95 Add to cartSacred Knowledge is the first well-documented, sophisticated account of the effect of psychedelics on biological processes, human consciousness, and revelatory religious experiences. Based on nearly t
- Author: Richards, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0231174063
- Language: English
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The Curious Human Knee
$166.67 Add to cartWinner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Bronze Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book Awards
Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t rec- Author: Yu, Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0231207026
- Language: English
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Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder
$22.95 Add to cartThe infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America’s bitter history of violence against mino
- Author: Loffreda, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 26 2001
- ISBN10: 0231118597
- Language: English
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Inside Terrorism
$28.95 Add to cartBruce Hoffman’s Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition of his classic text, Ho
- Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
- Author: Hoffman, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0231174772
- Language: English
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Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
$26.95 Add to cartThere is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire discipline
- Author: Clayton, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0231199953
- Language: English
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2019
$19.95 Add to cartThe Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored by this year’s National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, a
- Author: Holt, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0231190018
- Language: English
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What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology
$19.95 Add to cartThe pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfac
- Author: Butler, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0231208294
- Language: English
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2023
$19.95 Add to cartThe Best American Magazine Writing 2023 offers a selection of outstanding journalism on timely topics, including inequalities and injustices pressuring families, especially mothers. Rozina Ali tells t
- Author: Holt, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0231208936
- Language: English
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Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds
$18.95 Add to cartIn this beautiful collection of poems and paintings, Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laureate, joins with David Allen Sibley, America’s foremost bird illustrator, to celebrate the winged creatures tha
- Author: Collins, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0231150873
- Language: English
