Essays
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The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
$7.95 Read moreA bookseller is the being who is most aware of the futility of a book, and of its importance.–Hector Yç–£over
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1771964650
- Language: English
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The Science of Star Trek: The Scientific Facts Behind the Voyages in Space and Time
$14.99 Read moreBoldly go where no man has gone before and discover the real science behind the cyborgs, starships, aliens, and antimatter of the Star Trek galaxy.
Star Trek is one of the highest-grossing media franc- Series: Science of
- Author: Brake, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1510757880
- Language: English
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Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
$16.00 Read moreIn this bestselling tour de force of a culinary manifesto, Great British Bake Off alum and former Guardian columnist Ruby Tandoh will help you fall back in love with food–from a great selection of re… [more below]
- Author: Tandoh, Ruby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593466810
- Language: English
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Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction
$38.00 Read moreAs defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditio
- Series: Integrative Natural History Series, Sponsored by Texas Resea
- Author: Gruesser, John Cullen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430201
- Language: English
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Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe
$26.95 Read moreInsightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist’s everyday conversations with his fellow humans–taxi drivers, to be pr
- Author: Cockell, Charles S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271831
- Language: English
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Gerhard Richter: Painting After the Subject of History
$49.95 Read moreThe first full-scale monographic study in English of one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
In this first full-scale monograph in English on the German painter- Series: October Books
- Author: Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543532
- Language: English
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Missing Time: Essays
$16.00 Read moreOver the past few years, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. Missing Time collects five remarkable essays and … [more below]
- Author: Brostoff, Ari M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953813046
- Language: English
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Fables for Our Time
$15.99 Add to cart“These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, are completely uproarious.” –The Saturday Review of Literature
James Thurber has been called “one of our grea
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0060909994
- Language: English
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A Short Philosophy of Birds
$19.99 Read more“This little book does a beautiful job of inspiring awe for the capacities of birds and applying lessons from their lives to the struggles of humanity”
— Wall Street Journal“Brilliant, magical and en
- Author: DuBois, Philippe J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 006294567X
- Language: English
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Don’t!: Misadventures of a Sword Guy
$22.99 Read moreLarger Than Life Swords – and Larger Than Life Injuries
Micheal Craughwell’s homemade weapons were an overwhelming success the moment they hit the Internet, from his replica of Cloud Strife’s sword to- Author: Craughwell, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1645678784
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenbourg
$28.00 Add to cartBy virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0679418962
- Language: English
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The Gardener’s Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1929, The Gardener’s Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and ’30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little ess… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Gardening
- Author: Wright, Richardson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968735
- Language: English
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The Patch
$17.00 Read moreThe Patch is an “album quilt,” an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previously appeared in any book
The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234883
- Language: English
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Soul and Substance: A Poet’s Examination Papers
$29.95 Read moreA collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright
Jay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half centur- Author: Wright, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245967
- Language: English
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Cuba in Mind: An Anthology
$16.95 Read moreSince Columbus arrived in 1492 and called Cuba “the most beautiful country that human eyes have ever seen,” few places on earth have evoked such passion. The thirty-one writers in Cuba in Mind offer a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dominguez, Maria Finn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400076137
- Language: English
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The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
$20.00 Add to cartWhy, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old Earth, in spite of the evidence against them? It was the st… [more below]
- Author: Storr, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1468310100
- Language: English
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When the Sick Rule the World
$17.95 Read moreA writer takes on subjects as varied as vomit, Kathy Acker’s wardrobe, and Occupy Oakland, in lyric explorations of illness, health, and the body.
A moving meld of essay, memoir, and story, When the Si
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Bellamy, Dodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351683
- Language: English
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic
$12.95 Read moreA compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson’s lectures on history, art, politics, and more
In the words of Harold Bloom, “Emerson’s prose- Series: Library of America
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1598530844
- Language: English
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Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays
$21.00 Add to cartIn this wide-ranging collection of insightful, controversial, and often-witty essays, the renowned author of Why I Am Not a Muslim has created a representative selection of his best work on the Koran … [more below]
- Author: Warraq, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 1616141700
- Language: English
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Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures
$14.95 Read moreIn her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, … [more below]
- Author: Goodison, Lorna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1912408139
- Language: English
