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The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera
$20.00 Read moreA user’s guide to opera–Matthew Aucoin, “the most promising operatic talent in a generation” (The New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares
- Author: Aucoin, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 125085881X
- Language: English
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
$19.00 Read more* WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *
An insider’s account of Apple’s creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs. Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand- Author: Kocienda, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1250203414
- Language: English
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The Brain in Search of Itself: Santiago Ramón Y Cajal and the Story of the Neuron
$26.00 Add to cartThe first major biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered neurons and transformed our understanding of the human mind–illustrated with his extraordinary anatomical drawings
As the- Author: Ehrlich, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862906
- Language: English
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The Crimean War: A History
$26.99 Read moreFrom “the great storyteller of modern Russian historians” (Financial Times) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age.
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nigh- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002524
- Language: English
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Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Extremism
$19.00 Read moreThe activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America
At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged- Author: Phelps-Roper, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758033
- Language: English
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The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011
$20.00 Read moreA bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of th
- Author: Schloss, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858720
- Language: English
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text–an influential academic journal of cultural studies–touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern p
- Author: Sokal, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0312204078
- Language: English
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A Letter of Mary
$19.00 Read moreThe third book in the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes series.
It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when th- Series: Mary Russell Novels (Paperback) #3
- Author: King, Laurie R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 30 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427387
- Language: English
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The Golden State
$17.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 PICK. FINALIST FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION’S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE.
Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by NPR, Bookf- Author: Kiesling, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1250238110
- Language: English
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Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
$19.00 Add to cart“Bored and Brilliant shows the fascinating side of boredom. Manoush Zomorodi investigates cutting-edge research as well as compelling (and often funny) real-life examples to demonstrate that boredom i
- Author: Zomorodi, Manoush
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1250126657
- Language: English
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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
$24.00 Read morePicador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault’s prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Coll ge de France from 1970 to 1984
The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the th- Series: Lectures at the College de France #7
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312203411
- Language: English
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Jar City: An Inspector Erlendur Novel
$19.00 Read moreFrom Gold Dagger Award–winning author Arnaldur Indridason comes a Reykjav k thriller introducing Inspector Erlendur
When a lonely old man is found dead in his Reykjav k flat, the only clues are a cry- Series: Inspector Erlendur #1
- Author: Indridason, Arnaldur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0312426380
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
$17.00 Read moreThe Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, “a terrifying talent” (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times).
A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a s- Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863104
- Language: English
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But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz
$19.00 Read more“May be the best book ever written about jazz.”–David Thomson, Los Angeles Times
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Draw- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429479
- Language: English
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Small Island
$20.00 Read moreAn international bestseller. Andrea Levy’s Small Island won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best of the Best, The Whitbread Novel Award, The Whitbread Book of the Year Awar
- Author: Levy, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429525
- Language: English
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Voices from the Rust Belt
$16.00 Read more“Timely . . . the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”–Booklist
The ess- Author: Trubek, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250162971
- Language: English
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House of Splendid Isolation
$17.00 Add to cartHouse of Splendid Isolation is a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl–“one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition).
The heartbreaking dil- Author: O’Brien, Edna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0374538824
- Language: English
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
$20.00 Add to cartNow featuring an introduction by Geoff Dyer, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a wild, psychedelic, utterly Wolfe-ian romp through the rise of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
The Electric Ko- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321700
- Language: English
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Hangman
$18.00 Add to cartNational Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
Long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vulture,- Author: Binyam, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338158
- Language: English
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Beyond the Door of No Return
$18.00 Add to cartA Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature
One of The Atlantic‘s 10 Best Books of 2023 A Financial Times Best Book of 2023 Named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekl- Author: Diop, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338050
- Language: English
