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Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
$19.00 Add to cartIn her controversial, no-holds-barred exposé Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravan takes us to war zones around the globe, showing how aid op
- Author: Polman, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610580
- Language: English
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Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the award-wining author of Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan’s first book, Blood Horses, combines personal reflections about his father and an in-depth look at the history and culture of Thorough
- Author: Sullivan, John Jeremiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312423764
- Language: English
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
$22.99 Add to cartIn an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422601
- Language: English
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On Getting Better
$16.00 Add to cartOn Getting Better is a thoughtful and compact book about self-improvement from Britain’s leading psychoanalyst, author of Missing Out and On Kindness.
To talk about getting better–about wanting to ch- Author: Phillips, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250838878
- Language: English
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Shadow Drawing
$20.00 Add to cart“[The Shadow Drawing] reorients our perspective, distills a life and brings it into focus–the very work of revision and refining that its subject loved best.” –Parul Sehgal, The New York Times (Edit
- Author: Fiorani, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1250800218
- Language: English
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The Laundromat (Previously Published as Secrecy World): Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite
$25.99 Add to cart* * * Previously published as Secrecy World * * *
The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas
Two-time Pulitze- Author: Bernstein, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1250754402
- Language: English
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Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
$19.00 Add to cartThe 2017 National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Finalist, International Bestseller, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2017!
“Marsh has retired, which means he’s taking a thorough inventory of his life- Author: Marsh, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1250190029
- Language: English
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Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities
$25.99 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic espionage–and why that is troubling news for our nation’s security and democrati
- Author: Golden, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182476
- Language: English
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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
$22.99 Add to cartA passionate and insightful account by a leading historian of Haiti that traces the sources of the country’s devastating present back to its turbulent and traumatic history
Even before the devastating- Author: DuBois, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1250002362
- Language: English
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White House Diary
$38.99 Add to cartThe edited, annotated New York Times bestselling diary of President Jimmy Carter–filled with insights into his presidency, his relationships with friends and foes, and his lasting impact on issues th
- Author: Carter, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312577192
- Language: English
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The Book of All Books
$20.99 Add to cartA book that begins before Adam and ends after us. In this magisterial work by the Italian intellectual superstar Roberto Calasso, figures of the Bible and its whole outline emerge in a new light: one
- Author: Calasso, Roberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859026
- Language: English
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Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
$32.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Both controversi
The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth century.- Author: Brennan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829682
- Language: English
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
$17.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR
An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. –Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a- Author: Minoui, Delphine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 125080017X
- Language: English
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Left Bank
$25.99 Add to cartAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris.
In this- Author: Poirier, Agn?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1250231469
- Language: English
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Barefoot Lawyer
$25.99 Add to cart” Chen’s] story is a reminder that the desire for basic human rights . . . arises from the deep well of the human spirit.”–The New York Times Book Review
It was like a scene out of a thriller: One ni- Author: Guangcheng, Chen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081599
- Language: English
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I Left It on the Mountain
$21.99 Add to cartOn his fifty-third birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. For years he had interviewed the bright lights–… [more below]
- Author: Sessums, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1250078180
- Language: English
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Trip to Echo Spring
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2014
Olivia Laing’s widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of alcoholism created some of the greatest works of America
A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1250063736
- Language: English
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Rise to Greatness
$32.99 Add to cartAuthor of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
As 1862 dawned, the American republic was at death’s door. The government appeared overwhelmed, the U.S. Treasury was broke,
New York Times Bestseller- Author: Von Drehle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037808
- Language: English
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Diaghilev’s Empire
$20.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year at The New Yorker and The Telegraph
“Amusing and assertive . . . [Christiansen’s] delight is infectious.” –Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review Rupert Christiansen- Author: Christiansen, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872537
- Language: English
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The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
$28.99 Add to cartA fascinating look at history’s losers-the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again
History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argue- Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423195
- Language: English
