Essays
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Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher
$17.00 Add to cartFor those who don’t know the difference between Lucretius’s spear and Hume’s fork, Zeno and the Tortoise explains not just who each philosopher was and what he thought, but exactly how he came to thin
- Author: Fearn, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139175
- Language: English
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American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
$40.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signat… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 871
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217294169
- Language: English
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
$19.95 Add to cart“What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is–an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvage for ways of being and se… [more below]
- Author: Magan, Manchán
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1645023761
- Language: English
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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
$15.95 Read more“[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson’s much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 19 2001
- ISBN10: 1582431418
- Language: English
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The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
$16.99 Add to cartThe early works of famed inventor Nikola Tesla have been a source of inspiration for generations of innovators.
At the time it was first published in 1893, The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Martin, Thomas Commerford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1667211439
- Language: English
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Champagne Girl in a Budweiser Family: A Memoir in Stories
$15.99 Add to cart“Suzanne Weerts’ Champagne Girl in a Budweiser Family gives us a delightful and vivid time machine to bygone days of youthful folly and wide-eyed hope, while reminding us why girls in the seventies we
- Author: Weerts, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999497901
- Language: English
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Quantum Dreaming
$10.99 Add to cartIONE has been dedicated to facilitating dreams for over fifty years, building upon ancient and modern dream practices to awaken the deep seeds of creativity located within them. Sharing this intimate … [more below]
- Series: Portals
- Author: Ione, -.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1068591862
- Language: English
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Everything I Know about Love Fifth Anniversary: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartA deluxe, limited anniversary edition hardcover of Dolly Alderton’s beloved New York Times bestseller, featuring a new short introduction from the author and eye-catching pink stained edges.
“There is
- Author: Alderton, Dolly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063455234
- Language: English
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Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations
$17.00 Add to cartIn Ant Farm, former Harvard Lampoon president Simon Rich finds humor in some very surprising places. Armed with a sharp eye for the absurd and an overwhelming sense of doom, Rich explores the ridiculo… [more below]
- Author: Rich, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 1400065887
- Language: English
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American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
$38.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signat… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0593597559
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: 2.0
$39.00 Add to cartTHE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and … [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217287925
- Language: English
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Brightening Glance: Art and Life
$28.00 Read moreFor more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo: … [more below]
- Author: Lipsky, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970346
- Language: English
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The Program: Nebraska: A Curated History of the Cornhuskers
$28.00 Read moreIn The Program: Nebraska, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of a historic team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans’ history of the celeb- Series: Program
- Author: Callahan, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1637276125
- Language: English
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The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker
$23.00 Add to cartFor more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine
- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0812979982
- Language: English
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Near the Forest, by the Lake: Discovering Nature Close to Home
$21.95 Add to cartNear the Forest, By the Lake is a personal exploration of the wonders of the natural world close to home. In this collection of essays, Angela E. Douglas reflects on the lives and habits of the plants
- Author: Douglas, Angela E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780379
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift Chronicles
$45.00 Add to cartCultural phenomenon. Worldwide obsession. Queen for eras to come. This is the life, art, and legacy of Taylor Swift.
There has never been a phenomenon like Taylor Swift. But it is not just her music t- Author: Smith, Lindsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886742886
- Language: English
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Radically Wild: True Tales of Adventure, Wilderness Survival, and Hard Lessons
$25.49 Add to cartWhat happens when wilderness runs in your veins?
From a wild child hunting for frogs and foraging for mushrooms to a seasoned mountain man working in the rugged Northern Rockies, Scott Sunderwald’s lif… [more below]- Author: Sunderwald, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: September 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1038339693
- Language: English
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Conversations of Socrates
$17.00 Add to cartAfter the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenop… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Xenophon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 03 1990
- ISBN10: 014044517X
- Language: English
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Immortal Gestures: Journeys in the Unspoken
$22.00 Add to cartThere is an old Buddhist adage: the teachings are like a finger pointing to the moon. To achieve enlightenment, you are not supposed to look at the finger. You are supposed to look to the celestial li
- Author: Young, Damon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992087
- Language: English
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The Rockford Anthology
$24.00 Add to cartScrew Capital of the World. Forest City. Home of the Rockford Peaches of A League of Their Own fame. Rockford, Illinois, has many identities, most oriented toward the past. These days, the fastener in
- Series: Belt City Anthologies
- Author: León, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1540270122
- Language: English
