Essays
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Letters to a Young Doctor
$16.99 Add to cartHighly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day’s work. A timeless collection by the… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Selzer, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0156003996
- Language: English
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Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing
$19.95 Add to cartWhy should an artist’s way of looking at the world have any meaning for us? Any artwork reflects the artist’s intentions, but also its times: therefore all art is political
In Permanent Red, John Berg- Series: The Essential John Berger
- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298476
- Language: English
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A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens
$29.95 Add to cartBack in a new compact edition, this field guide to our new world of hybrid specimens–gorgeously printed in silver ink on black paper–catalogs the conflation of the technosphere and the biosphere
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- Author: Nova, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9083404188
- Language: English
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Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species
$22.00 Add to cartWhat can octopuses’ nine brains teach us about climate resilience? How can great horned owls’ keen hearing illuminate relationship dynamics? Does playing with kelp cultivate respect for the value of
- Series: Wardlaw Books
- Author: Lyons, Bridget A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1648432875
- Language: English
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One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL- Author: Koul, Scaachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1250121027
- Language: English
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Canyon and Cosmos: Searching for Human Identity in the Grand Canyon
$29.95 Read moreThroughout history, humans have sought creation stories to define our identity and affirm our connections with the universe, diverse life forms, and one another. Over the last two centuries, science h… [more below]
- Author: Lago, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1647791952
- Language: English
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Art Work: On the Creative Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process
“Erudite, frank, and funny.” –Amor Tow- Author: Mann, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1419780719
- Language: English
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The Ways of Paradise
$19.95 Add to cartIn his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Swede
- Author: Cornell, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804271063
- Language: English
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Waking Up the Dream State: Nine Environmental Cases That Shaped Louisiana
$24.95 Add to cartWaking Up the Dream State describes Louisiana’s long march toward environmental protection through nine lawsuits that have brought the state into the new era. All these cases, which range from the Vie… [more below]
- Author: Houck, Oliver A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1959569139
- Language: English
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Evergreen Review: Dispatches from the Literary Underground: Covers & Essays 1957-1973
$34.99 Add to cartFrom the late 1950s to the mid-70s, work by contributors like Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, Eldridge Cleaver, Tim Leary, Dennis Hopper, Jean Genet, Jerry Rubin, Bernadette Devlin, a… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000676
- Language: English
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Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays
$35.00 Add to cartEric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. The preeminent historian of the Civil War era, Foner’s keynote has been American
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110619
- Language: English
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Table Talk & Second Thoughts: A Memoir in Flashes
$23.95 Add to cartWith wit and humor, Michael Martone writes his life as one of brief bites, effervescent episodes, and meaningful meals illuminated by the luminaries on the other side of the table. In many ways Marton
- Author: Martone, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1960329774
- Language: English
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Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild
$24.00 Add to cartAfter forming an intense bond with Natasha, a wolf cub she raised as part of her undergraduate research, Ren?e Askins was inspired to found the Wolf Fund. As head of this grassroots organization, she … [more below]
- Author: Askins, Renee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0385482264
- Language: English
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American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback
$29.99 Add to cartPull back the curtain on the most powerful position in all of sports.
The New York Times bestselling author of It’s Better to be Feared examines football’s QB lifecycle: high school, college, the NFL,- Author: Wickersham, Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1368099181
- Language: English
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Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose
$23.99 Add to cartA curated compendium of poetry and prose from the award-winning poet Mary Oliver, including the book-length masterpiece The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know, andessays from Long Li… [more below]
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0306835819
- Language: English
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A Wilding Year: Bringing Life Back to the Land
$19.95 Add to cartAn exquisitely illustrated celebration of wildlife, highlighting the importance of rewilding and returning to nature.
Hannah Dale, the artist behind the successful gift company Wrendale Designs, takes- Author: Dale, Hannah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1849949387
- Language: English
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Feedsack Dresses and Wild Plum Jam Remembering Farm Life in the 1950s
$12.00 Add to cartI love watching old movies on television because I know how everything worked in them. The telephones transmitted messages – that’s all. The coffee makers just made coffee and only when you set them o
- Author: Kratz, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: July 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1792395957
- Language: English
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-
$30.00 Add to cartMy ignorance was on my side. I wasn’t afraid. I didn’t know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.
This collection of J- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374613230
- Language: English
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Double Hyenas and Lazarus Birds: A Sideways Look at the Pacific Ocean and Everything in It
$20.00 Add to cartLauded essayist takes to the high seas in hot pursuit of elusive birds, artistic ghosts, fathers and their memories, and above all, safe harbor.
“Among nature writers now working, Charles Hood is my fa
- Author: Hood, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146668
- Language: English
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Latitudes: Encounters with a Changing Planet
$18.99 Add to cart“McNeil’s deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It’s captivating stuff.” Publishers Weekly
“Meditative and sumptuous… Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait
- Author: McNeil, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 190995411X
- Language: English
