Harper Perennial
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The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers
$20.99 Add to cart“A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China’s secretive rulers.
- Author: McGregor, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0061708763
- Language: English
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The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing
$18.99 Add to cart“A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it’s imposs
- Author: Flaherty, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0061689157
- Language: English
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The Lost Heart of Asia
$17.99 Add to cartA land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin’s cruelest deportations. A remote and
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061577677
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Wife
$16.99 Add to cartLittle is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England’s greatest playwright; a great deal has been assumed, none of it complimentary. In Shakespeare’s Wife, Germaine Greer boldly breaks new ground,
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Greer, Germaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 17 2009
- ISBN10: 0061537160
- Language: English
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Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq
$20.99 Add to cartGuerrilla warfare is not just the tool of modern-day terrorists in the Middle East. Its roots stretch back to our very own revolution.
In Violent Politics, William R. Polk takes us on a concise, brilli
- Author: Polk, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0061236209
- Language: English
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The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson
$17.99 Add to cartWarning *
This book contains the following:
Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives
Cultivation of illegal crops
Impressionable minors being exposed to illicit activities
Piloting
- Author: Cleverly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 006115928X
- Language: English
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Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945
$20.99 Add to cartThe man the New York Times has called “the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust” tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed the great human catastrophe.
- Author: Hilberg, Raul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0060995076
- Language: English
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Many Roads One Journey: Moving Beyond the Twelve Steps
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Women, Sex, and Addiction, a timely and controversial second look at 12-Step programs, helping all readers to draw on the steps’ underlying wisdom, adapting them to their own experi
- Author: Kasl, Charlotte S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0060965185
- Language: English
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
$19.99 Add to cart“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily Tribune
From Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history of 192
- Author: Allen, Frederick L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0060956658
- Language: English
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
$19.99 Add to cartPeter Watson’s hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such con
- Author: Watson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 852
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0060935642
- Language: English
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A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America
$19.99 Add to cart“Steele has given eloquent voice to painful truths that are almost always left unspoken in the nation’s circumscribed public discourse on race.” —New York Times
From the author of the award-winning be
- Author: Steele, Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060931043
- Language: English
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Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
$17.99 Add to cartCrimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation’s first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation’s impact on local inhabitant… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Robert F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0060746882
- Language: English
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Judge Sewall’s Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience
$14.99 Add to cartThe most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print.
The Salem witch trials of 1692 have assumed mythical status. Immortalised by Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’, the
- Author: Francis, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1841156779
- Language: English
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1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
$11.99 Add to cartA brilliant new reading of the Bayeux Tapestry that radically alters our understanding of the events of 1066 and reveals the astonishing story of the survival of early medieval Europe’s greatest treas
- Author: Bridgeford, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2004
- ISBN10: 184115041X
- Language: English
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Logical Family: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cart“A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.”–Neil Gaiman
“I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decad
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0062391259
- Language: English
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Rome and a Villa
$19.99 Add to cart“These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water.” — The New Yorker
“Perhaps the
- Series: P.S. (Paperback)
- Author: Clark, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0062363409
- Language: English
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
$17.99 Add to cartDeceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity–six words at a time.
One Life. Six Words. What’s Yours?
When Hemingway famously wrote, “F
- Author: Smith, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0061374059
- Language: English
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The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language
$18.99 Add to cartIt’s no secret that parents want their children to have the lifelong cultural and intellectual advantages that come from being bilingual. Parents spend millions of dollars every year on classes, compu
- Author: King, Kendall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 03 2007
- ISBN10: 0061246565
- Language: English
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The Angels Knocking on the Tavern Door: Thirty Poems of Hafez
$18.99 Add to cartOne of our most acclaimed poets brings the work of the great Persian mystic and poet, Hafez, to a new audience.
There is no poet in our tradition who carries the amount of admiration and devotion that
- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0061138843
- Language: English
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Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry
$16.99 Add to cartThe classic, inspiring account of a poet’s experience teaching school children to write poetry
When Kenneth Koch entered the Manhattan classrooms of P.S. 61, the children, excited by the opportunity to
- Author: Koch, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060955090
- Language: English
