Essays
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Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us
$24.02 Add to cartWhy School? is a little book driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Dra… [more below]
- Author: Rose, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1595589384
- Language: English
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The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories
$14.99 Read moreNew York Times Bestselling author Pull up a chair and enjoy this hilarious original collection of McManus humor
The Horse in My Garage and Other Stories is a hilarious addition to Patrick F. McManus- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1626361177
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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Leavetakings: Essays
$18.95 Add to cartLeavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About he… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Literary
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1602234248
- Language: English
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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
$24.00 Add to cartA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in p- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450445
- Language: English
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The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate
$16.95 Read moreNineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives–including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleem… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220307
- Language: English
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
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Speaking of Architecture: Interviews about What Comes Next, with Mark Foster Gage
$29.95 Read moreWhat ideas are currently energizing your architectural work and explorations? Why did these ideas become impactful while others did not? What role did mentors and peers play in the development of thes… [more below]
- Author: Foster Gage, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1957183187
- Language: English
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These Possible Lives
$12.95 Add to cartNew Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy’s strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and Marcel Schwob. A renowned stylist of hyper-brevity in fiction, Fle… [more below]
- Author: Jaeggy, Fleur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0811226875
- Language: English
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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
$26.00 Add to cart” A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that ma… [more below]
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0802126464
- Language: English
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Together Forever: The Run-DMC and Beastie Boys Photographs
$45.00 Read more“People always get caught up in what these two iconic groups stood for, but can we just step back for a moment and say, who gives a fuck? They were good! They made amazing records!…Rap parallels pun… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Glen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0847866475
- Language: English
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Signs and Images: Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography
$17.00 Read moreA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.
Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constan- Series: French List
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092742
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$17.95 Read moreLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Crit- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222040
- Language: English
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The Mannerist Mind: An Architecture of Crisis
$24.95 Read moreDeparting from a discussion on what it would be a mannerist attitude in the architecture of today, and theorizing around it, this book analyzes some works of contemporary European practices including … [more below]
- Author: González de Canales, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1638400369
- Language: English
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New Investigations in Collective Form
$45.00 Read moreNew Investigations in Collective Form presents a group of design experiments by the design-research office THE OPEN WORKSHOP, that test how architecture can empower the diverse voices that make up the… [more below]
- Author: Bhatia, Neeraj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1957183462
- Language: English
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Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars: Astrology, Our Icons, and Our Selves
$17.99 Read moreA soulful exploration of the twelve astrological signs embodied by our living “stars”–from divas to philosophers, poets to punks–and the ways they can help us better understand ourselves and each ot… [more below]
- Author: Comstock-Gay, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063264471
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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The Decline of the West
$17.95 Add to cartSince its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a… [more below]
- Author: Spengler, Oswald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400097002
- Language: English
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My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction
$35.00 Read morePraise for Arundhati Roy:
“Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” –Howard Zinn
“Arund
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1000
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466736
- Language: English
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The Way of Natural History
$19.95 Read moreIn this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of… [more below]
- Author: Fleischner, Thomas Lowe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1595340742
- Language: English
