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The Founding Fish
$25.00 Add to cartJohn McPhee’s twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hu
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528837
- Language: English
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How Architecture Works
$25.99 Add to cartAn essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday lives
We spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing.- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534829
- Language: English
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The Pine Barrens
$18.00 Add to cartMost people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks,
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374514429
- Language: English
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With My Back to the World: Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.
Yesterday I slung my depre- Author: Chang, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0374611130
- Language: English
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
$20.00 Add to cart“A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.”
―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city,- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528993
- Language: English
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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
$22.00 Add to cartAs selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney’s twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Tr
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526788
- Language: English
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Crowds and Power
$28.00 Add to cartCrowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology.
Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and t- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0374518203
- Language: English
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The Survival of the Bark Canoe
$18.00 Add to cartIn Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374516936
- Language: English
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77 Dream Songs
$16.00 Add to cartA wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds
John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published 77 Dream Songs, but the volume was, nevert
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Berryman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534527
- Language: English
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The Art of Teaching Art to Children: In School and at Home
$22.00 Add to cartAn inspiring and comprehensive guide to art education from Nancy Beal, with Gloria Bley Miller.
In this accessibly written guide for classroom and art teachers as well as parents, Nancy Beal shows how- Author: Beal, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0374527709
- Language: English
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Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition
$40.00 Add to cartA revised edition of this major writer’s complete poetical work
And I who was walking
with the earth at my waist,
saw two snowy eagles
and a naked girl.
The one was the other
and the girl was neither.
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- Author: Garc?a Lorca, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1056
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0374526915
- Language: English
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Idea of India
$21.99 Add to cartA classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that addresses the paradoxes and ironies of the world’s largest democracy. When, in 1947, the Britis
- Author: Khilnani, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537623
- Language: English
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK
Selected by New York Times‘ critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534608
- Language: English
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The Women
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an incisive adventure in literary criticism. It is conc
- Author: Als, Hilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0374525293
- Language: English
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For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
$17.00 Add to cartFor Your Own Good, the contemporary classic exploring the serious if not gravely dangerous consequences parental cruelty can bring to bear on children everywhere, is one of the central works by Alice
- Author: Miller, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0374522693
- Language: English
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Cain Named the Animal: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartA prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stories” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker)
Writing you I give the death I take
I know I should feel wounded by your de- Author: McCrae, Shane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0374607842
- Language: English
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Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
$22.00 Add to cartA comprehensive study of the Eastern slave trade by an eminent British scholar
A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islam
- Author: Segal, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0374527970
- Language: English
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
$34.99 Add to cart2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secre- Author: Spring, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0374533024
- Language: English
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
$27.00 Add to cartThe Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.
A national bestseller and “hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant” (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation o- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0374528497
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$23.99 Add to cartDrawing from every stage of his career, this volume collects selected poems from Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott’s lifetime of work.
Walcott’s Selected Poems brings together famous pieces from his ear- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0374531110
- Language: English
