Essays
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Maybe the People Would Be the Times
$22.95 Add to cartIn his second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave b
- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1891241575
- Language: English
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The Harm of Coercive Schooling
$12.95 Add to cartChildren, like all human beings, crave freedom, but they are not free in school. Schools operate by methods of coercion (a “request” in school is really an order), enforced with reward, punishment, an
- Author: Gray, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1952837006
- Language: English
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Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System
$17.00 Add to cartA senior federal judge’s incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that define the judiciary today, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free features essays examining why i
- Author: Rakoff, Jed S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829569
- Language: English
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Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
$16.99 Read moreA New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022 * An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 * A Town & Country Must-Read Book of 2022 * A Fashionista Summer Read
“Smart, funny, and impressively thorough.”–The C
- Author: Hyland, V?ronique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063050838
- Language: English
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The Lay of the Land: A Self-Taught Photographer’s Journey to Find Faith, Love, and Happiness
$29.99 Add to cartA spiritually uplifting and beautiful designed visual memoir by the hugely popular photographer on Instagram, Joe Greer, combining thoughtful essays and more than 100 gorgeous landscape photos–half f
- Author: Greer, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0063111780
- Language: English
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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
$17.99 Add to cartThroughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender t… [more below]
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1568586124
- Language: English
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Atheism: The Case Against God
$18.00 Add to cartIn this classic treatise on atheism, George H. Smith sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all the myths devised by human beings – the concept of a supreme bein… [more below]
- Author: Smith, George H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1633881970
- Language: English
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How to Catch a Mole: Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature
$24.95 Add to cartIn this evocative and heart-wrenching memoir, a hard-working Welsh molecatcher reveals his double life as a poet and a dreamer – “A wonderful memoir … hands down the most charming book I read last y
- Author: Hamer, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1771644796
- Language: English
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Desert Solitaire
$40.00 Read moreAt last, one of the most popular books on the American West is available once again in hardcover. In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Desert Solitaire, the University o… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0816510571
- Language: English
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!
From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a “not to be missed” (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 147678521X
- Language: English
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Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
$24.95 Add to cartAddressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and crea… [more below]
- Author: Plotkin, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 28 2007
- ISBN10: 1577315510
- Language: English
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Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928
$35.00 Add to cartThis fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf’s essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit, and original intelligence…. [more below]
- Series: Essays of Virginia Woolf
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0156035227
- Language: English
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The Long COVID Reader: Writing and Poetry from 45 Long Haulers
$22.00 Add to cartCOVID-19 is possibly the world’s biggest mass-disabling event. This ambitious book gives a humanized view of chronic illness while offering a poignant reminder of the millions of people with long COVI
- Author: Ladd, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1735655384
- Language: English
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Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life
$26.00 Read moreAs a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has co… [more below]
- Author: Chaskey, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1571311971
- Language: English
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Arguably: Essays
$22.99 Read more“Hitchens is an opportunity to be delighted or maddened–possibly both–but in any case, not to be missed…” –The New York Times
A stylish new paperback edition of ARGUABLY, a greatest hits collecti- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1455502782
- Language: English
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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
$16.95 Add to cartBefore embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew … [more below]
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1631493531
- Language: English
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My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South
$17.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin’ and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0848757467
- Language: English
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Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution
$29.95 Add to cart“Walter Rodney was a pioneering scholar who provided new answers to old questions and posed new questions in relation to the study of Africa.”
A previously unpublished collec
-Professor Winston McGowan- Author: Rodney, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1839764112
- Language: English
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Down the River
$17.00 Add to cartDown the River is a collection of essays both timeless and timely. It is an exploration of the abiding beauty of some of the last great stretches of American wilderness on voyages down rivers where th… [more below]
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 30 1991
- ISBN10: 0452265630
- Language: English
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House on Nauset Marsh: A Cape Cod Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartDr. Wyman Richardson lived the life of a busy, and distinguished, physician, practicing in Boston and teaching at the Harvard Medical School, but here is recorded his other lifethe one closest to his
- Author: Richardson, Wyman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0881506451
- Language: English
