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On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe
$38.25 Add to cartA compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize–winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a gian- Series: Writers on Writers #14
- Author: Hoffman, Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0691212694
- Language: English
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A Deadly Indifference: A Henry Spearman Mystery
$17.95 Add to cartProfessor and amateur detective Henry Spearman trails a killer in the UK, using economics to try to solve the case
Harvard professor Henry Spearman–an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to s- Author: Jevons, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0691164169
- Language: English
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The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka
$41.58 Add to cartA splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature-featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographer
In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aph- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0691205922
- Language: English
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Nart Sagas: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians
$22.95 Add to cartThe sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths pres
- Author: Colarusso, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 691169144
- Language: English
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Murder at the Margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery
$17.95 Add to cartProfessor and amateur sleuth Henry Spearman uses economics to try to solve a murder while on a Caribbean vacation
Cinnamon Bay seems like the ideal Caribbean getaway. But for Harvard economist and ama- Author: Jevons, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0691164010
- Language: English
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A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel
$19.95 Add to cartWhile taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had fac
- Author: Suri, Gaurav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 21 2010
- ISBN10: 0691146012
- Language: English
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The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
$27.95 Add to cartHow an iconic bird’s final days exposed the reality of human-caused extinction
The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on t- Author: Pálsson, GÃsli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0691230986
- Language: English
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The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media
$49.92 Read moreA critical history of the social media influencer’s rise to global prominence
Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion- Author: Hund, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691231028
- Language: English
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Ants: A Visual Guide
$32.00 Read moreA richly illustrated natural history of ants, covering their diversity, ecology, anatomy, behavior, and more
Plentiful and familiar, ants make up an estimated one-third of the world’s insect biomass a- Author: Campbell, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0691228523
- Language: English
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How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic
$16.95 Add to cartAn energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politician
In 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Repub- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Sallust
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212368
- Language: English
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Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and What to Do about It
$19.95 Add to cartWhen confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Baz
- Author: Bazerman, Max H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0691156220
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
$27.95 Add to cartThis classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewe
- Series: Princeton Classics #3
- Author: Kaufmann, Walter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160260
- Language: English
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Wildlife of Madagascar
$35.00 Add to cartThe most comprehensive single-volume field guide to Madagascar’s wildlife
The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is one of the world’s great natural treasures and ecotourism destinations. Despite being- Author: Behrens, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0691161712
- Language: English
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The Lives of Animals
$16.95 Add to cartThe idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her
- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173907
- Language: English
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Becoming Great Universities: Small Steps for Sustained Excellence
$66.58 Read moreHow campus communities of every kind can transform themselves from good to great
Becoming Great Universities highlights ten core challenges that all colleges and universities face and offers practical- Author: Light, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0691212597
- Language: English
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Why Not Socialism?
$13.95 Read moreA compelling case for why it’s time for socialism
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world’s leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a c- Author: Cohen, G. A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0691143617
- Language: English
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The Way of Nature
$24.95 Add to cartA delightfully illustrated selection of the great Daoist writings of Zhuangzi by bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai
C. C. Tsai is one of Asia’s most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese- Series: Illustrated Library of Chinese Classics #6
- Author: Zhuangzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0691179743
- Language: English
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The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can’t Count on
$19.95 Add to cartAn entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century
The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn’t until the nineteenth century that irra- Series: Princeton Science Library #135
- Author: Havil, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247668
- Language: English
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Black: The History of a Color
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the color black in art, fashion, and culture–from the beginning of history to the twenty-first century
Black–favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion desig- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 16 2008
- ISBN10: 069113930X
- Language: English
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Birds of Southern Africa
$34.00 Read moreBirds of Southern Africa surpasses other field guides to the region by illustrating and describing all 1,250 bird species of South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mozamb
- Series: Princeton Illustrated Checklists
- Author: Van Perlo, Ber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2009
- ISBN10: 069114169X
- Language: English
