Social conditions
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartA witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles’ urban ecology and the city’s place in America’s cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, an- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1786636247
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$24.95 Add to cartTolstoy’s epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkons… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics Hardback Collection
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1392
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0198800541
- Language: English
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War and Peace
$30.00 Add to cartA stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy’s great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great Am… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1440
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0241265541
- Language: English
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
$22.99 Add to cart“One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than
- Series: Modern Classics
- Author: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 006112009X
- Language: English
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Cien Años de Soledad (50 Aniversario) / One Hundred Years of Solitude: Illustrated Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude
$30.00 Add to cartEn ocasi?n del 50 aniversario de la publicaci?n de Cien a?os de soledad, llega una edici?n con ilustraciones in?ditas de la artista chilena Luisa Rivera y con una tipograf?a creada por el hijo del aut… [more below]
- Author: Garc?a M?rquez, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 525562443
- Language: Spanish
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Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
$19.00 Add to cart“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”
That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and- Author: Ewing, Eve L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 10 2020
- ISBN10: 022652616X
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691216436
- Language: English
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Street of Eternal Happiness: Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
$21.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable portrait of individuals who hope, struggle, and grow along a single street cutting through the heart of Shanghai, from one of the most acclaimed broadcast journalists reporting on Chi
- Author: Schmitz, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16, 2017
- ISBN10: 0553418106
- Language: English
