Essays
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Start Your Engines: Famous Firsts in the History of NASCAR
$17.99 Read moreStart Your Engines contains thirty-four chapters describing different inaugural accomplishments that have taken place throughout NASCAR history. This book answers the following questions:
– When was- Author: Pennell, Jay W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1683584708
- Language: English
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Going It Alone: Ramblings and Reflections from the Trail
$19.95 Read moreJoin author Tim Hauserman on his solo journeys through the Sierra Nevada and the forests of Minnesota. Hauserman shares his experiences hiking by himself through some of the most spectacular landscape… [more below]
- Author: Hauserman, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1647790654
- Language: English
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
$15.95 Read moreOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue–sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things–and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary A… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Gass, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177185
- Language: English
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
$18.95 Read moreThe PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: “Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious.”–The A.V. Club
The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcohol
- Author: Tea, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1936932180
- Language: English
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The Responsible Object: A History of Design Ideology for the Future
$28.95 Read moreA selected history of socially committed design strategies within the Western tradition, from the past 150 years
Within the design discipline, calls for sustainability and social responsibility have be… [more below]
- Author: Van Helvert, Marjanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 949209519X
- Language: English
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Watermark
$17.00 Add to cartIn this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight sh
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539049
- Language: English
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My Life as a Villainess: Essays
$18.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her par
- Author: Lippman, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062997335
- Language: English
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Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood
$18.00 Read moreFrom the star of Broadway’s The Book of Mormon and HBO’s Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad hi… [more below]
- Author: Rannells, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525574867
- Language: English
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Plastic: An Autobiography
$19.95 Read moreWINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction!
WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction!
“Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the moder
- Author: Cobb, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 164362038X
- Language: English
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The Witch of Eye
$17.95 Read moreThis amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches” of the past. The Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by… [more below]
- Author: Nuernberger, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1946448702
- Language: English
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You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women’s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption
$18.95 Read moreWhat if your hunger–that force that beckons you to the ice cream aisle, and guides your hands to take seconds when you didn’t even feel like having firsts–was the misunderstood sage of your body, ra… [more below]
- Author: Bedrick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0999809482
- Language: English
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Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
$17.00 Read more“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country–these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love’s complexity.” –Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp fo
- Author: Marcus, Halimah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0063009250
- Language: English
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What’s the Use?: How Mathematics Shapes Everyday Life
$28.00 Read moreSee the world in a completely new way as an esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world–from technology to health care and beyond.
Almost all of us have sat in a math class, wondering whe… [more below]- Author: Stewart, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1541699483
- Language: English
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The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics
$16.95 Read moreGalvanizing and electrifying glimpses from the brink of the contemporary Craft
This eclectic collection of essays on responsible witchcraft is a fascinating snapshot of contemporary occult practice. E- Author: Tarbuck, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1786786443
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- Language: English
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Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being Against the Capitalocene
$13.95 Read moreOn a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions.
State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security a- Author: Banerjee, Milinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1734643536
- Language: English
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The Coronation: Essays from the Covid Moment
$19.95 Read more*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Rising To The Moment-Focused Topic: COVID Pandemic
“There are moments in our history in which the art of the written word captures the extraordinary beauty
- Author: Eisenstein, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021785
- Language: English
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The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions about the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover the universe’s last unknowns–here are the unanswered questions that obsess “the world’s finest minds” (The Guardian)
Featuring a foreword by DANIEL KAHNEMAN, Nobel Prize-winning author of Thi
- Author: Brockman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062897942
- Language: English
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Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
$16.99 Read more“You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about.” So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to “that stuff that won’t come off your collar.”
John Adams, Thoma
- Author: Logan, William Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332947X
- Language: English
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Interior States: Essays
$18.00 Read moreWinner of The Believer Book Award for Nonfiction
“Meghan O’Gieblyn’s deep and searching essays are written with a precise sort of skepticism and a slight ache in the heart. A first-rate and riveting c- Author: O’Gieblyn, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0525562702
- Language: English
