Essays
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The Thinking Heart: Essays on Israel and Palestine
$16.00 Add to cartSearing essays from International Booker Prize-winning Israeli author and long-time peace activist David Grossman carry us up to and through the cataclysm of Oct 7th and what followed
We know David Gr- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217007059
- Language: English
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Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
$20.00 Read moreA brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious ass
- Author: Rankine, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452553
- Language: English
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Mysticism
$18.95 Add to cartA probing, inspiring exploration of mysticism not as religious practice but as a mode of experience and way of life by one of the most provocative philosophical thinkers of our time.
Why mysticism? It- Author: Critchley, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378248
- Language: English
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A Year of Garden Bees & Bugs: 52 Stories of Intriguing Insects
$27.95 Add to cartA fascinating journey into the secret life of insects, with QR codes to video and audio to bring the creatures to life.
Just as birds have yearly rhythms, so do insects, bees, beetles, and butterflies- Author: Couzens, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1849947953
- Language: English
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How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality
“A- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 081298966X
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartFor 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 Read moreA 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
$19.99 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
$21.95 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 Add to cart“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 Read more“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
