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Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
$22.00 Add to cartIn the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain’s relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world.
When Britain voted to leave the- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872197
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
$38.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in t- Author: Nusseibeh, Sari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427107
- Language: English
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
$25.99 Add to cartIn a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expos of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in The Impuni
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420315
- Language: English
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Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
$20.00 Add to cartA wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of post-World War II myths of the “good war.”
“Essential reading. This eloquent, far-ranging analysis of the national p- Author: Samet, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859085
- Language: English
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The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers
$36.99 Add to cartOne of TIME‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Longlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize.
“[Mark] Gevisser is clear-eyed and wise enough to have a sharp sense of how tough the struggle has been, and h- Author: Gevisser, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798590
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.
There is- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250114055
- Language: English
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
$20.00 Add to cartWandering through Paris’s Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited hi… [more below]
- Author: Mercer, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0312347405
- Language: English
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Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World
$18.00 Add to cart“An essential document of our time.” –Charles D’Ambrosio, author of Loitering
In search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailbla- Author: Wells, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849381
- Language: English
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
$22.00 Add to cart“Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014. It is hard to imagi
- Author: Farmer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800234
- Language: English
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
$21.99 Add to cartPreviously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, this is an updated edition of Greil Marcus’s acclaimed book on the secret music made
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0312572913
- Language: English
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How Markets Fail: The Rise and Fall of Free Market Economics
$20.00 Add to cartIn How Markets Fail, veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 2008 financial crisis–now with a new preface addressin
- Author: Cassidy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250781280
- Language: English
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How to Find Fulfilling Work
$18.00 Add to cartA practical and inspirational guide to examining your career and deciding whether it truly makes you happy–this book will show you the steps it takes to find a job that truly makes you thrive.
The des- Series: School of Life
- Author: Krznaric, Roman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250030692
- Language: English
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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
$18.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
One of Fortune Best Books of the Year
One of Inc. Best Business Books of the Year
One of The Times (UK) Best Business Books o- Author: Susskind, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808251
- Language: English
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The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times perfume critic, a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insider’s view of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents.
No journali- Author: Burr, Chandler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0312425775
- Language: English
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The Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
$23.00 Add to cartAn against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen.
We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small business- Author: Cowen, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 125025132X
- Language: English
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Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“A grounded and expansive examination of the American economic divide . . . It takes a skillful journalist to weave data and anecdotes together so effective- Author: Macgillis, Alec
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829275
- Language: English
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Double Blind
$17.00 Add to cartDouble Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set in London, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambiti
- Author: St Aubyn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849411
- Language: English
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Silence
$19.00 Read moreShusaku Endo’s New York Times bestselling classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Dr
- Series: Picador Classics
- Author: Endo, Shusaku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 10, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250082277
- Language: English
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Before All the World
$19.00 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of the Year
I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old.- Author: Rothman-Zecher, Moriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872162
- Language: English
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The Fortune Teller
$18.00 Add to cartNOW A USA TODAY AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
From the award-winning author of The Memory Painter comes a sweeping and suspenseful tale of romance, fate, and fortune.
Semele Cavnow appraises antiqu- Author: Womack, Gwendolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1250099773
- Language: English
