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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
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My Brother
$17.00 Read moreJamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother’s life and death
- Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 09, 1998
- ISBN10: 0374525625
- Language: English
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
$24.00 Add to cart“Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” —The New York Times
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quick- Author: Nagle, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534276
- Language: English
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Philip Larkin: The Complete Poems
$33.00 Add to cartThe complete poems of the most admired British poet of his generation
This entirely new edition brings together all of Philip Larkin’s poems. In addition to those that appear in Collected Poems (1988)- Author: Larkin, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533660
- Language: English
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
$30.00 Add to cartIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin’s fam
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527172
- Language: English
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Scorsese on Scorsese
$21.00 Read moreMartin Scorsese’s challenging and often controversial films are a record of the most personal achievement in modern American cinema. Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Gooodfellas–these titles
- Author: Thompson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 325
- Publish Date: January 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0571220029
- Language: English
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Money of the Mind: How the 1980s Got That Way
$36.00 Add to cartThe 1980s witnessed a lemming-like rush into the sea of debt on the part of the American industrial and financial communities, with consequences we are only beginning to appreciate. But the speculativ
- Author: Grant, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0374524017
- Language: English
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Cool: How the Brain’s Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World
$21.99 Add to cartIf you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi’s jeans their iconic allure, look no further–in Cool, Steven Quartz a
- Author: Quartz, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535930
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War
$29.99 Add to cartA graphically told history of the Vietnam War, interweaving U.S. political and cultural history with the military history of the war.
When Senator Edward Kennedy declared, Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam- Author: Mactavish
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0809094959
- Language: English
