Essays
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life: Essays
$17.99 Add to cart“Stielstra is a masterful essayist.” –Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger
From an important new writer comes this powerful collection of personal essays on fear, creativity, art, faith, acad
- Author: Stielstra, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0062429205
- Language: English
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de Anima (on the Soul)
$17.00 Read moreFor the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to i… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 1987
- ISBN10: 0140444718
- Language: English
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What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion
$25.00 Add to cartA witty, tongue-in-cheek discussion of design’s potentials and pitfalls
In focusing on creating preferable conditions, the discipline of design is optimistic by default. And yet, vernacular manifestati
- Author: Lorusso, Silvio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9083350134
- Language: English
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The Physics of Superheroes: More Heroes! More Villains! More Science! Spectacular Second Edition
$19.00 Add to cartA complete update to the hit book on the real physics at work in comic books, featuring more heroes, more villains, and more science
Since 2001, James Kakalios has taught “Everything I Needed to Know- Author: Kakalios, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1592405088
- Language: English
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A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out
$15.00 Add to cartIn 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested for wearing men’s trousers in public. This act of rebellion was the result of a lifelong devotion to socialist and feminist thought. And thi… [more below]
- Author: Capetillo, Luisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136070
- Language: English
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The Little Box of Feminist Flair: With Pins, Patches, & Magnets
$9.95 Add to cartSmash the patriarchy in style with The Little Box of Feminist Flair
With fabulous, fearless females like Michelle Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem, and Beyonc (c)- rendered as graphic, cro
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Mancuso, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0762463449
- Language: English
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Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm
$22.99 Read morePull on your wellies, grab your flat cap and join Jeremy Clarkson in this hilarious and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the farm we’re all obsessed with
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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- Author: Clarkson, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1405946539
- Language: English
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The Groundings with My Brothers
$19.95 Read more“I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers and I have grounded together.” – Walter Rodney
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney e- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1788731158
- Language: English
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Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times
$24.99 Add to cartMost American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look lik… [more below]
- Author: Kass, Leon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1641770988
- Language: English
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Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods
$19.99 Add to cart“Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons–a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques it illustrates,
- Author: Rowlands, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1581574916
- Language: English
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Micrographia
$22.00 Read moreAs Jennifer Bowering Delisle was on her path through infertility towards motherhood, she was simultaneously losing her own mother to a rare degenerative neurological disease and an approaching medical
- Author: Delisle, Jennifer Bowering
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1774220946
- Language: English
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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
$18.00 Read more“A Really Big Lunch showcases Harrison’s enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well . . . His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp. The more we have of his voice, the
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127665
- Language: English
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Egyptian Mythology: A Traveler’s Guide from Aswan to Alexandria
$24.95 Add to cartJoin Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on an entertaining tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris, and their enemie
- Author: Shaw, Garry J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252289
- Language: English
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Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo
$16.95 Add to cartA Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other.
The Japanese phrase “hodo-hodo” originates in ancient times. When- Author: Satoh, Taku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1797209906
- Language: English
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Selected Cronicas
$16.95 Add to cart“In 1967, Brazil’s leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #834
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 17 1996
- ISBN10: 811213404
- Language: English
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On Confidence
$15.99 Add to cartConfidence is a skill that anyone can learn.
Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence – one
- Series: Essay Books
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0995573670
- Language: English
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Yellow Rain: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK- Author: Vang, Mai Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450658
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Read moreRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems
$29.95 Read moreMarbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems was conceived from a poetic dialogue on how to shed light on the art and science behind the material construction of a poetry collection, and to g
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Konchan, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222542
- Language: English
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Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
$18.00 Add to cartIn this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses o… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310802
- Language: English
