Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years
$26.00 Add to cartAn “absolutely magnificent” book (The New Republic)–the fruit of almost two decades of study–that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to … [more below]
- Author: Aries, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0394751566
- Language: English
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
$20.00 Add to cartThis brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter.Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developmen… [more below]
- Series: Anchor Library of Science
- Author: Drexler, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 16 1987
- ISBN10: 0385199732
- Language: English
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Foxfire 7
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #7
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0385152442
- Language: English
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You Can Count on Me: A Screenplay
$16.00 Add to cartAcclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me is one of the most highly praised independent films of recent years, earning many of the major screenplay awards.
This is the lovingly drawn- Author: Lonergan, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0375713921
- Language: English
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Living with Our Genes: The Groundbreaking Book About the Science of Personality, Behavior, and Genetic Destiny
$20.00 Add to cart“A lucid, thought-provoking account of the case for ‘nature’ as a determinant of personality.”–Peter D. Kramer, Author of Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?
Nowhere is the nature-nurture cont- Author: Hamer, Dean H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: February 16 1999
- ISBN10: 0385485840
- Language: English
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Refusing Heaven: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. I… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 037571085X
- Language: English
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Zohar: The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah
$14.00 Add to cartOne of the great masterpieces of Western religious thought–culled by the greatest authority on Jewish mysticism.
The Zohar represents an attempt to uncover hidden meanings behind the world of appearan… [more below]- Author: Scholem, Gershom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 1995
- ISBN10: 0805210342
- Language: English
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Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
$23.00 Add to cartWhy Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why … [more below]
- Author: Carson, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0307742911
- Language: English
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Foxfire 11: The Old Home Place, Wild Plant Uses, Preserving and Cooking Food, Hunting Stories, Fishing, More Affairs of Plain Livi
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire #11
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0385494610
- Language: English
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 22 1999
- ISBN10: 067975833X
- Language: English
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Out of Place: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that … [more below]
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679730672
- Language: English
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
$28.00 Add to cartA monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea–revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how go
- Author: Paine, Lincoln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1101970359
- Language: English
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The Fly Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character
$16.00 Add to cartIn The Fly Swatter, Nicholas Dawidoff–bestselling author of The Catcher Was a Spy–vividly reconstructs the life of his grandfather, Alexander Gerschenkron-the Harvard professor who knew the most.
A- Author: Dawidoff, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0375700064
- Language: English
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America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartIt’s difficult to imagine today–when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity–but pro football was once a ramsh
- Author: Maccambridge, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375725067
- Language: English
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Helen Bernstein Book Award)
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A moving and powerful account by an acclaimed journalist that “informs the heart. [This] meticulous portrait of two boys in a Chicago housing project shows how much heroism is re… [more below]
- Author: Kotlowitz, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0385265565
- Language: English
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Secret Rendezvous
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital…. [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375726543
- Language: English
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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
$19.00 Add to cart“A brilliant collection…. Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive”. — The New York Times Book Review
Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this ind
- Author: Fraser, Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701125
- Language: English
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The Street Lawyer
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael … [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0385339097
- Language: English
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
$19.00 Add to cartA rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves, and misadventures of a working-class rogue, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning marked the arrival of one of the most cherished authors in the twenty-first… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Sillitoe, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0307389650
- Language: English
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The Emperor of Ocean Park
$19.00 Add to cartONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carter, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0375712925
- Language: English
