Literature
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Lonely Planet Armchair Explorer
$22.99 Read moreCalling culture lovers: sample music, films and books from 120 countries without leaving your armchair. Perfect preparation for travellers or simply a satisfying journey into the unknown, this book li
- Series: Lonely Planet
- Author: Planet, Lonely
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 183869448X
- Language: English
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El Hombre Que Calculaba
$29.99 Add to cartObra notablemente didáctica en la que convergen dos facetas de encanto indiscutible: la poesÃa y la matemática. A través de interesantes historias y leyendas nos adentra en el campo de la matemát
- Author: Malba, Tahan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1638230250
- Language: Spanish
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Winter: Notes from Montana
$16.99 Add to cartThis book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley.
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0395611504
- Language: English
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Had I Known: Collected Essays
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, politica… [more below]
- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1455543691
- Language: English
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What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story
$20.00 Read more“The Sphinx, the Pyramids, the stone temples are, all of them, ultimately, as flimsy as London Bridge; our cities but tents set up in the cosmos. We pass. But what the bee knows, the wisdom that susta… [more below]
- Series: Codhill Press
- Author: Travers, P. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: August 31 2010
- ISBN10: 1930337507
- Language: English
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To Bid or Not to Bid (Revised)
$21.95 Add to cartTo bid or not to bid — the perennial dilemma in competitive auctions. The easy answer to the question lies in the correct use of the Law of Total Tricks. The LAW has been part of bridge literature si
- Author: Cohen, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1894154487
- Language: English
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Christianity and Culture: Essays
$18.99 Add to cartTwo long essays: “The Idea of a Christian Society” on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and “Notes towards the Definition of Culture” on culture, i… [more below]
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0156177358
- Language: English
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Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems
Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reach
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 006265652X
- Language: English
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The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
$31.99 Add to cartThe Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called ‘courtly love’ and the allegorical method within which it develope… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1107659434
- Language: English
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Maldoror: (Les Chants de Maldoror)
$18.95 Read moreThe macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative pros
- Series: New Directions Paperbook
- Author: Lautreamont, Conte De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: January 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0811200825
- Language: English
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Classical Gods and Heroes
$18.99 Add to cartAll the wonder, terror, and delight of Greek mythology springs forth from the pages of this unique and much-needed anthology.
Rhonda Hendricks has not only selected from the works of the ancient autho
- Author: Hendricks, Rhoda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0688052797
- Language: English
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The Portable Dante
$24.00 Add to cartThe famed Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s two masterworks–The Divine Comedy and La Vita Nuova–in one volume
A Penguin Classic As a philosopher, he wedded classical methods of inquiry to a Christian f- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437549
- Language: English
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Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Illustrated by Gustave Doré
$21.95 Add to cartA mysterious talking raven pays a visit to a man who is distraught from the loss of his lover. The man, aching over the death of his dear Lenore, is upset and distressed by the bird who repeats one wo
- Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1593623143
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
$22.99 Add to cartRecent polls have consistently declared that J.R.R. Tolkien is “the most influential author of the century,” and The Lord of the Rings is “the book of the century.” In support of these claims, the pro… [more below]
- Author: Shippey, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0618257594
- Language: English
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Pragmatism
$6.95 Read moreA profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce’s theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 02, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486282708
- Language: English
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J.B.: A Play in Verse: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
$18.99 Add to cartJ. B.: A Play in Verse is Archibald MacLeish’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, based on the biblical story of Job.The story of a twentieth-century American banker and millionaire whom God … [more below]
- Author: MacLeish, Archibald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0395083532
- Language: English
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Manga Classics Dracula
$19.99 Add to cartAn ancient evil lurks in the dark heart of Transylvania – but it won’t lurk there forever. Now Count Dracula’s immortal eyes look towards London, a new land full of opportunity and unsuspecting victim… [more below]
- Series: Manga Classics
- Author: Stoker, Bram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1947808060
- Language: English
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On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
$19.95 Add to cartAt issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as “part of the effort to define a female consciousn… [more below]
- Author: Rich, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312852
- Language: English
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Goethe’s Faust
$16.00 Add to cartThe best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann’s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm a… [more below]
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031149
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$31.18 Add to cartThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 520375858
- Language: English
