Penguin Books
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Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
$19.00 Read moreA book about a tiny island with a huge history, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane’s Eye.
“For everyone who loves Nantucket Island this is the indispens… [more below]- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120123
- Language: English
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The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups
$19.00 Add to cart“Christakis . . . expertly weaves academic research, personal experience and anecdotal evidence into her book . . . a bracing and convincing case that early education has reached a point of crisis . .… [more below]
- Author: Christakis, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143129988
- Language: English
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Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
$20.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling author of Deluxe and Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fasion and the Future of Clothes chronicles the making and unmaking of two of the greatest fashion designers of our
- Author: Thomas, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128396
- Language: English
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Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE
From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our br- Author: Dehaene, Stanislas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126261
- Language: English
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The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
$14.00 Add to cartWhat is the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court really allowed to do? This unique and handy guide includes the documents that guide our government, annotated with accessible explanations from o… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Civic Classics #01
- Author: Beeman, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121960
- Language: English
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The Second Book of the Tao
$18.00 Add to cart“A twenty-first-century form of ancient wisdom . . . Mitchell’s flights, his paradoxes, his wonderful riffs are brilliant and liberating.” -Pico Iyer
The most widely translated book in world litera- Author: Mitchell, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0143116703
- Language: English
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
$19.00 Add to cart“It’s a startling and disconcerting read that should make you think twice every time a friend of a friend offers you the opportunity of a lifetime.”
–Erik Larson, #1 New York Times bestselling author … [more below]- Author: Konnikova, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109871
- Language: English
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
$24.00 Add to cartIn their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire … [more below]
- Author: Hardt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035592
- Language: English
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The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
$16.00 Add to cartAs acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, “People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils n… [more below]
- Author: Buss, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037056
- Language: English
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The Sufi Book of Life: 99 Pathways of the Heart for the Modern Dervish
$19.00 Read morePart meditation book, part oracle, and part collection of Sufi lore, poetry, and stories, The Sufi Book of Life offers a fresh interpretation of the fundamental spiritual practice found in all ancient… [more below]
- Author: Douglas-Klotz, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0142196355
- Language: English
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
$19.00 Add to cartOne of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year – A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – A New York Times Notable Book
A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our- Author: Shapiro, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 052552231X
- Language: English
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Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
$24.00 Add to cartThe astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it
Uranium occurs naturally in the earth’s crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamen- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 014311672X
- Language: English
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The Invention of Solitude
$17.00 Add to cartFrom Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel – his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood
This debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112228
- Language: English
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The Prince
$14.00 Add to cartRejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Mac… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036335
- Language: English
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Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
$17.00 Add to cart“Uncompromising and unconventional . . . Cornel West is an eloquent prophet with attitude.” — Newsweek”
“A timely analysis about the current state of democratic systems in America.” — The Boston Glo- Author: West, Cornel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035835
- Language: English
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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
$15.00 Add to cartVolume two in Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy, which was the inspiration for the Masterpiece PBS series The Durrells in Corfu.
Part coming-of-age autobiography and part nature guide, Gerald Durrell’s d- Author: Durrell, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004405
- Language: English
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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun
“Donovan is such a vivid writer–smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny– that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good- Author: Donovan, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0525560963
- Language: English
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Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures
$19.00 Add to cart“A palaeontological howdunnit… Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature
Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson- Author: Pyenson, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 0735224587
- Language: English
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Anticancer: A New Way of Life
$19.00 Add to cartThe revolutionary, New York Times bestselling guide to the powerful lifestyle changes that fight and prevent cancer–an integrative approach based on the latest scientific research
“A common-sense b… [more below]- Author: Servan-Schreiber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0452295726
- Language: English
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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself
$16.00 Add to cart“Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or a great Buddhist teacher, but Mark Epstein is both, and the wisdom he imparts in Advice Not Given is an act of generosity and compassion. The book … [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0399564349
- Language: English
