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Model Citizen
$18.00 Add to cartThe intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr–writer, father, alcoholic, addict.
Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. Every now and again she rips the pick out of m- Author: Mohr, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829488
- Language: English
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves
$25.99 Add to cartGiles Milton’s White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.
“An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose.” –Simon W- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778239
- Language: English
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Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany’s singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole.
The Holocaust- Author: Aly, Götz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787645
- Language: English
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Can Democracy Work?
$23.99 Add to cart“Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experim
- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234670
- Language: English
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals about Our Power to Change Others
$18.99 Add to cartA cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.
In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sha- Author: Sharot, Tali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 125015961X
- Language: English
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Bug Music
$21.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 2013, the cicadas in the Northeastern United States emerged from their seventeen-year cycle–the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experienced this great sonic invasio
- Author: Rothenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1250045053
- Language: English
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The Antelope’s Strategy
$20.00 Add to cartOne hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into the sunshine, singing hallelujahs, their freedom grant
- Author: Hatzfeld, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429371
- Language: English
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Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People
$20.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE
An alternately charming and harrowing account of over 50 years of one remarkable native Alaskan’s life – from living off the land north of the Arctic Circl- Author: Hensley, William L. Iggiagruk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429363
- Language: English
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Indian Summer
$34.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, lib- Author: Von Tunzelmann, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0312428111
- Language: English
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Coyote V. Acme
$17.00 Add to cartTwenty-two side-splitting glimpses into some oddball corners of the American mind from bestselling author Ian Frazier.
The title essay of Coyote v. Acme, Frazier’s second collection of humorous essay- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420587
- Language: English
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartThis third essay collection by America’s leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420080
- Language: English
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On the Rez
$23.99 Add to cartOn the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlan
- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0312278594
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
$33.00 Add to cartYang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.
As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the h- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829704
- Language: English
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On Wanting to Change
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.
We live in a world in which we are invited to change–to become our best selves through po- Author: Phillips, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0374172048
- Language: English
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The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
$18.00 Add to cart“Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the at
- Author: Vigna, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250304172
- Language: English
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Why the West Rules–For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, r- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611692
- Language: English
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
$25.99 Add to cartAn excellent book by a genius,” said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism.
“This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years f
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429126
- Language: English
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Cannabis: A History
$30.99 Add to cartTo some it’s the classic “gateway drug,” to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from pain. Some fear it is dangerous and addictive, while others feel it should be decriminalized. W
- Author: Booth, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312424949
- Language: English
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Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
$25.99 Add to cartLife on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine–a first offense–under New York’s Rockefeller drug laws. The book opens on
- Author: Gonnerman, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424574
- Language: English
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
$25.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening exploration of blood, the life giving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science.
Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes peo- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1250230683
- Language: English
