Harper Perennial
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Madness: The Invention of an Idea
$14.99 Add to cartMichel Foucault’s first exploration of insanity as a social construct–and his debut work of criticism, published nearly a decade before Madness and Civilization—Madness offers an invaluable lens thr… [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0062007181
- Language: English
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Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy
$17.99 Add to cart“Chilling. . . . There is a gritty honesty to her cautionary confession that will alert others to listen for and respond to wake-up calls of their own.” — New York Times Book Review
Slow Motion is the
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shapiro, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0061826693
- Language: English
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I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
$19.99 Add to cartFor lovers of language and fans of Blink and Freakonomics, New York Times bestselling author James Geary offers this fascinating look at metaphors and their influence in every aspect of our lives, fro
- Author: Geary, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0061710296
- Language: English
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The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief
$18.99 Add to cart“One of the most beguiling criminal memoirs ever written. . . . A rare gem of a book.” — T. J. English, New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne
How did the son of a decorated policeman gr
- Author: Connor, Myles J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0061672297
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Wrinkles in Time: Witness to the Birth of the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartAstrophysicist George Smoot spent decades pursuing the origin of the cosmos, “the holy grail of science,” a relentless hunt that led him from the rain forests of Brazil to the frozen wastes of Antarct
- Author: Smoot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0061344443
- Language: English
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Dog Years: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Israel Fishman-Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction
“Tender and amusing. . . . Doty brilliantly captures the qualities that make dogs ende
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Doty, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0061171018
- Language: English
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A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People
$19.99 Add to cartThe word “German” was being used by the Romans as early as the mid-first century B.C. to describe tribes in the eastern Rhine valley. Nearly two thousand years later, the richness and complexity of Ge
- Author: Ozment, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0060934832
- Language: English
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
$19.99 Add to cartA century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hessler, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0060826592
- Language: English
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Off Main Street: Barnstormers, Prophets, and Gatemouth’s Gator: Essays
$14.99 Add to cartWhether he’s fighting fires, passing a kidney stone, hammering down I-80 in an 18-wheeler, or meditating on the relationship between cowboys and God, Michael Perry draws on his rural roots and footloo
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0060755504
- Language: English
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But You Seemed So Happy: A Marriage, in Pieces and Bits
$16.99 Add to cartIn this tender, funny, and sharp companion to her acclaimed memoir-in-essays Amateur Hour, Kimberly Harrington explores and confronts marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss, and longing shape a li
- Author: Harrington, Kimberly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0062993313
- Language: English
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Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
A Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News
“The Cubs against the Cardinals in the heat of August and of a pennant race–this is ba
- Author: Bissinger, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618710531
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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In the Enemy’s House
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America’s history as he chro
- Author: Blum, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0062458264
- Language: English
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The Making of the President, 1960: The Landmark Political Series
$19.99 Add to cartA Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election o
- Series: Harper Perennial Political Classics
- Author: White, Theodore H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0061900605
- Language: English
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On Boxing PB
$19.99 Add to cartA reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates’ classic collection of essays on boxing.
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0060874503
- Language: English
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The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man’s Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Mystery
$17.99 Add to cartThe Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, along with French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, tells
- Author: Brier, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0061655538
- Language: English
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Kosovo: A Short History
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Malcolm, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0060977752
- Language: English
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Don’t Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado
$16.99 Add to cart“Here is a voice seldom heard, the voice of Latin America’s majority, those who bear the burdens of society. If we are to understand Honduras, Central America, or, for that matter, Latin America, we m
- Author: Benjamin, Medea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 19 1989
- ISBN10: 006097205X
- Language: English
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Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
$24.99 Add to cart“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography. . . . completely absorbing.”–Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of
- Series: P.S.
- Author: MacKenzie Stuart, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0060938250
- Language: English
