Essays
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On Confidence
$15.99HardcoverAdd to cartConfidence is a skill that anyone can learn.
Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence – one
- Series: Essay Books
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0995573670
- Language: English
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By: Vang, Mai Der
Yellow Rain: Poems
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK- Author: Vang, Mai Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450658
- Language: English
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By: McPhee, John
Rising from the Plains
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems
$29.95PaperbackRead moreMarbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems was conceived from a poetic dialogue on how to shed light on the art and science behind the material construction of a poetry collection, and to g
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Konchan, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222542
- Language: English
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By: Bragg, Rick
Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses o… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310802
- Language: English
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By: Ballard, J. G.
Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
$32.95HardcoverRead moreJ. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
J. G. Ballard was a colossal fig- Author: Ballard, J. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048329
- Language: English
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By: Apatow, Judd
Sick in the Head: Conversations about Life and Comedy
$21.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE A.V. CLUB – Includes new interviews
From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a c… [more below]- Author: Apatow, Judd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 0812987284
- Language: English
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By: Mester, Emily
American Bulk: Essays on Excess
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartAmericans are caught up in bulk. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product, and crave the comforting indulgence of a chain restauran
- Author: Mester, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035234
- Language: English
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By: Noonan, Peggy
A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings
$31.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.
For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been- Author: Noonan, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593854772
- Language: English
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By: Rife, Matt
Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me
$29.99HardcoverAdd to cartEveryone has an opinion about Matt Rife, who at twenty-eight years old is both the hottest and most controversial comedian in America. Now, in his new book, Matt gives his legions of fans and haters p… [more below]
- Author: Rife, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1668060418
- Language: English
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Stugotz’s Personal Record Book: The Real Winners and Losers in Sports
$29.00HardcoverAdd to cartSports radio legend Stugotz rewrites the record books, taking rings away from undeserving champions and giving them to the rightful winners.
Without Tom Brady, Bill Belichick is a worse head coach tha- Author: Weiner, Jon Stugotz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593734084
- Language: English
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Israel Alone
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartWeaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri L?vy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is wagi… [more below]
- Author: Levy, Bernard-Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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By: Hood, Ann
Life’s Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls
$17.99PaperbackAdd to cartFast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Conn
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079452
- Language: English
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By: The Athletic
The Basketball 100
$40.00HardcoverAdd to cartA celebration of basketball by way of the 100 greatest players to ever grace the court in the history of the NBA–from The Athletic’s foremost basketball writers and analysts the game has to offer. Wi
- Series: Sports #2
- Author: The Athletic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063329123
- Language: English
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Intervals
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartWhat makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker’s mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. S
- Author: Brooker, Marianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1804270830
- Language: English
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By: Graeber, David
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .: Essays
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cart“[David Graeber’s work] undercuts a lot of conventional thinking… Pointing out the many options that there are for developing more enlightened, more free societies, not just the ones encoded in our
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610223
- Language: English
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By: Lightman, Alan
The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature
$36.00HardcoverAdd to cartA gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena–from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxie… [more below]
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593701488
- Language: English
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
$20.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the … [more below]
- Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668072246
- Language: English
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What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartA short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value–and what to do when your goals conflict
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money–or work for justice? To run ma- Author: Tiberius, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0691241392
- Language: English
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By: Mayer, Youngmi
I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir
$29.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumult
- Author: Mayer, Youngmi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316569232
- Language: English


















