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Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
$30.00 Read more“Eloquent and detailed…precise and well-thought-out…Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post.
Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a jour- Author: Hoffman, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 164283159X
- Language: English
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Give the Lady What She Wants
$19.95 Add to cartIn the heart of downtown, there was a palace of commerce, a jewel of Chicago history. It was Marshall Field & Company. “Give the lady what she wants”. “The customer is always right”. These generous po
- Author: Wendt, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1087860652
- Language: English
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Janesville: An American Story
$17.00 Add to cart* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post… [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1501102265
- Language: English
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Devil in the Stack: Searching for the Soul of the New Machine
$28.00 Add to cartFrom internationally-bestselling author and journalist Andrew Smith, an immersive, alarming, sharp-eyed journey into the bizarre world of computer code, told through his sometimes painful, often amusi
- Author: Smith, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0802158846
- Language: English
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Patients Beyond Borders Fourth Edition: Everybody’s Guide to Affordable, World-Class Medical Travel
$14.95 Add to cartPatients Beyond Borders is the world’s most trusted source of information for patients seeking high-quality affordable healthcare around the world. Author Josef Woodman covers the most-traveled destin
- Author: Woodman, Josef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0578623811
- Language: English
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age
$18.99 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of The Soul of a New Machine, Dealers of Lightning is a fascinating journey of intellectual creation. In the 1970s and ’80s, Xerox Corporation brought together a brain-tru
- Author: Hiltzik, Michael A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0887309895
- Language: English
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Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist
$34.95 Add to cartNever in human history has travel been so accessible to so many. But–amid an escalating climate crisis that threatens the homes of vulnerable people across the world–has the human cost of trekking t
- Author: Lindholdt, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179493
- Language: English
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Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
$17.99 Add to cartA call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head.
We like to think that we are in control o- Author: Webb, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 154177373X
- Language: English
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Iwoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon
$16.95 Read moreBefore slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange, alien vending machines. But in “the most staggering burst of technical invention by a single person in high-tech history” (
- Author: Wozniak, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 17, 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330435
- Language: English
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Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
$19.99 Add to cartTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past dec… [more below]
- Author: Schreier, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1538735490
- Language: English
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Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
$19.95 Read moreOil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292494
- Language: English
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Park City
$23.99 Add to cartSettled by miners and Mormons after the Civil War and incorporated in 1884, Park City grew into one of the world’s most prestigious mining camps.
Known primarily for its richness in silver, Park City m
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Gackle, Dalton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1467108421
- Language: English
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The Taking of Getty Oil: Pennzoil, Texaco, and the Takeover Battle That Made History
$30.00 Add to cartA larger-than-life account of family, greed, and a courtroom showdown between Big Oil rivals from the New York Times-bestselling author of Private Empire.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll is- Author: Coll, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 550
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1504049535
- Language: English
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Iowa Supper Clubs
$21.99 Add to cartFrom relish trays and Old Fashioned cocktails to prime rib and fried fish, supper clubs are a quintessential part of midwestern dining culture. In Iowa, hundreds of supper clubs once dotted the state’… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Bannister, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1467145130
- Language: English
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It
$19.99 Add to cart“Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad–a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet.” –Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bib… [more below]
- Author: Olmsted, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1616207418
- Language: English
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Wild Place: A History of Priest Lake, Idaho
$27.95 Read moreRemote and rugged, Idaho’s Priest Lake remains a wild place, with brutal winters and an upper lake accessible only by foot, mountain bike, or boat. Even so, beginning in the 1890s a wide cast of homes
- Author: Smith, Kris Runberg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 11 2015
- ISBN10: 874223296
- Language: English
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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
$22.00 Read more“At the core, Hit Refresh, is about us humans and the unique quality we call empathy, which will become ever more valuable in a world where the torrent of technology will disrupt the status quo like
- Author: Nadella, Satya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0062959727
- Language: English
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
$30.00 Read moreFortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilli
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0393881555
- Language: English
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The Pocket Server: The Professional Dining Service International Reference and Guide
$29.99 Add to cartThis is a book for dining servers and everyone interested in the world of dining service. It is a guided tour of our world through the products we work with from many different cultures and cuisines,
- Author: Heigl, T. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1732600708
- Language: English
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Tiffany & Co.: The Story Behind the Style
$22.99 Read moreTiffany & Co.: The Story Behind the Style is a beautifully illustrated, handbag-sized visual history of one of the world’s most iconic brands.
Open the world’s most famous little blue box to discove- Series: The Story Behind the Style
- Author: Taylor, Rachael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1800783418
- Language: English
