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Parasites: The Inside Story
$32.00 Add to cartAn exciting look at the essential roles that parasites play in Earth’s ecosystems
This book looks at the weird and wonderful world of parasites, the most abundant form of life on Earth. Parasites come- Author: Gardner, Scott Lyell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0691206872
- Language: English
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What a Mushroom Lives for: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
$27.95 Add to cartHow the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China–and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds
What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renais- Author: Hathaway, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691225885
- Language: English
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The Ways of Zen
$24.95 Add to cartFrom bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightfully illustrated collection of classic Zen Buddhist stories that enlighten as they entertain
C. C. Tsai is one of Asia’s most popular cartoonists, and- Series: Illustrated Library of Chinese Classics #21
- Author: Tsai, C. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 069117976X
- Language: English
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Birds of Malaysia and Singapore
$42.00 Read moreA comprehensive illustrated field guide to the birds of Malaysia and Singapore
This comprehensive field guide looks at all 829 officially recorded bird species of Malaysia and Singapore. More than 165- Series: Princeton Field Guides #144
- Author: Seng, Lim Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209901
- Language: English
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How to Give: An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving
$16.95 Add to cartTimeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do–but it is also the closest you can come to divinity- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 069119209X
- Language: English
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Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces
$16.95 Add to cartAn outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more–from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon-explore the influe
- Author: Burnham, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0691230684
- Language: English
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The Mathematics of Secrets: Cryptography from Caesar Ciphers to Digital Encryption
$18.95 Add to cartExplaining the mathematics of cryptography
The Mathematics of Secrets takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematics behind cryptography-the science of sending secret messages. Using a wide ra- Author: Holden, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183317
- Language: English
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Hezbollah: A Short History Updated and Expanded Third Edition
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing a new prologue and conclusion and two new chapters on recent developments
With Hezbollah’s entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the p- Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics #69
- Author: Norton, Augustus Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180881
- Language: English
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Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
$24.95 Add to cartAn entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought
This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the excitin- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0691168695
- Language: English
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Wildlife of Ecuador: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians
$35.00 Add to cartMainland Ecuador’s spectacular wildlife makes it a magnet for nature tourists, but until now there hasn’t been a go-to, all-in-one guide geared to the general reader. With this handy and accessible gu
- Series: Wildlife Explorer Guides #15
- Author: V?squez Noboa, Andr?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0691161364
- Language: English
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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition
$60.00 Add to cartOriginally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the “Chieh Tzu Y?n Hua Chuan” (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has tran
- Series: Bollingen #80
- Author: Sze, Mai-Mai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: March 21 1978
- ISBN10: 0691018197
- Language: English
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Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die
$17.95 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questions
In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community f- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691233950
- Language: English
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Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards
$35.00 Read moreA photographic exploration of mathematicians’ chalkboards
“A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns,” wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer- Author: Wynne, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0691199221
- Language: English
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The Art of War: An Illustrated Edition
$22.95 Add to cartA delightfully illustrated version of Sunzi’s classic The Art of War by bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai
C. C. Tsai is one of Asia’s most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics- Series: Illustrated Library of Chinese Classics #3
- Author: Sunzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0691179786
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
$27.95 Read moreA one-of-a-kind walking guide to Manhattan, from the man who walked every block in New York City
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City–six-thousand miles in all–to write the award-winni- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0691166994
- Language: English
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Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art
$29.95 Add to cartThe first time she made a pizza from scratch, art historian Nancy Heller made the observation that led her to write this entertaining guide to contemporary art. Comparing modern art not only to pizzas
- Author: Heller, Nancy G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13 2002
- ISBN10: 0691090521
- Language: English
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Velvet Ants of North America
$35.00 Add to cartAn authoritative, marvelously illustrated field guide to the velvet ants of North America
Velvet Ants of North America is a beautiful photographic guide to the species of the wasp family Mutillidae fo- Series: Princeton Field Guides #145
- Author: Williams, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 069121204X
- Language: English
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
$19.95 Add to cartA sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dolla- Author: Mears, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0691227055
- Language: English
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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
$14.95 Add to cartFrom the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James
In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a- Author: Kaag, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216711
- Language: English
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Canids of the World: Wolves, Wild Dogs, Foxes, Jackals, Coyotes, and Their Relatives
$29.95 Add to cartThe most complete and user-friendly photographic field guide to the world’s canids
This stunningly illustrated and easy-to-use field guide covers every species of the world’s canids, from the Gray Wol- Series: Princeton Field Guides #116
- Author: Castelló, José R
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 069117685X
- Language: English
