Essays
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Limber
$17.95 Read more“What a strange and unexpected treasure chest this is, filled with all manner of quirky revelations, all about the mundane sublime and the ineffable extraordinary. Most extraordinary of all, perhaps,
- Author: Pelster, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1936747758
- Language: English
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Todos Deberíamos Ser Feministas / We Should All Be Feminists
$7.95 Read moreUn libro que recoge el trascendental y emblem?tico discurso que dio la autora en su TEDx Talk sobre lo que significa ser feminista en el siglo XXI.
Ser feminista no es solo cosa de mujeres. Chimamanda- Author: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 8439730489
- Language: Spanish
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
$28.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each–from Ep… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1501129015
- Language: English
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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism
$30.00 Read moreEssential lectures on the art of landscaping from Roberto Burle Marx, described by the New York Times as “the designer most responsible for our utopian impressions of the Brazilian built environment”
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- Author: Doherty, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 3037786256
- Language: English
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Let’s Talk about Your Wall: Mexican Writers Respond to the Immigration Crisis
$30.32 Read moreMajor writers from Mexico weigh in on U.S. immigration policy, from harrowing migrant journeys to immigrant detention to the life beyond the wall
Despite the extensive coverage in the U.S. media of th
- Author: Boullosa, Carmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976188
- Language: English
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Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces
$16.95 Add to cartJenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood … [more below]
- Author: Erpenbeck, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229327
- Language: English
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When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen
$17.95 Read moreFrom beloved Zen teacher Norman Fischer, a collection of essays spanning a life of inquiry into Zen practice, relationship, social engagement, and spiritual creativity.
“Looking backwards at a life l- Author: Fischer, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1611808219
- Language: English
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First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100
$21.95 Read more“First and Wildest is an elegant, impassioned, and timely tribute to its remarkable past and present.”
–MICHELLE NIJHUIS
In the summer of 1922, Aldo Leopold traveled on horseback up into the headwate
- Author: Allen, Elizabeth Hightower
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1948814552
- Language: English
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Big Bang, Big God
$14.95 Read moreHow did the universe begin and how has it evolved? Does a scientific explanation mean that we can do without God? Why are the laws of nature so special (‘fine-tuned’) as to produce a universe with int… [more below]
- Author: Holder, Rodney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 18 2013
- ISBN10: 0745956262
- Language: English
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The Universe: A Biography
$34.95 Read moreEveryone knows astronomers use telescopes to peer into distant space. But did you know that they also use them as time machines to look back into the past? In this fascinating and original book, world
- Author: Murdin, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024642
- Language: English
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The Tribe: Portraits of Cuba
$17.00 Read moreTeeming with life and compulsively readable, the pieces gathered in The Tribe aggregate into an extraordinary mosaic of Cuba today. Carlos Manuel ﾁlvarez, one of the most exciting young writers in L
- Author: Álvarez, Carlos Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450909
- Language: English
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Time for Everything: My Curious Life
$22.00 Read moreIn his previous book, Claremont Boy (Bauhan Publishing 2014), Joe Steinfield shared stories about a variety of subjects–family members and other people in his life, his love of sports, travel, and th
- Author: Steinfield, Joseph D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0872333620
- Language: English
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Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together
$26.99 Read moreThe time has come to reimagine our relationship to the environment before it is too late.
As wildfires char the American West, extreme weather transforms landscapes, glaciers retreat, and climate zone
- Author: Weinberg, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 201
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1506482058
- Language: English
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Notes to My Mother-In-Law
$13.95 Read more‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’
It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) ‘Mutt and Jeff’. So Phylli
- Author: Law, Phyllida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0007338422
- Language: English
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Sunshine State: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay – Finalist for the Southern Book Prize
A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A N
- Author: Gerard, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 006243487X
- Language: English
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Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward f
$18.00 Read more“As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now.” –Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
“The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to r- Author: Eric-Udorie, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0143132377
- Language: English
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Southern Lady Code: Essays
$15.95 Read moreA collection of essays that are “like being seated beside the most entertaining guest at a dinner party” (Atlanta Journal Constitution)–from the New York Times bestselling author of American Housewiv… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0525562923
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
$39.99 Add to cartA monumental work of musical history, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! traces the story of pop music through songs, bands, musical scenes, and styles from Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock around the Clock” (1954) to
- Author: Stanley, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351688
- Language: English
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Arte de Sobrevivir, El
$15.95 Read moreIn the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, a misanthropic and pessimistic thinker reviled for his bitter invective, the reader will not find candid thoughts which peacefully accompany the passing of days. Ho… [more below]
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 8425442230
- Language: Spanish
