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$21.00 Add to cartEduardo Lalo is one of the most vital and unique voices of Latin American literature, but his work is relatively little known in the English-speaking world. That changes now: this masterful translatio… [more below]
- Author: Lalo, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2015
- ISBN10: 022620748X
- Language: English
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The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
$31.67 Add to cartThe Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that if they do, they will invite a disastrous fate upon their… [more below]
- Author: Narayan, R. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 05 2013
- ISBN10: 022605165X
- Language: English
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The Raj Quartet, Volume 1: The Jewel in the Crown Volume 1
$23.00 Add to cartNo set of novels so richly recreates the last days of India under British rule–“two nations locked in an imperial embrace”–as Paul Scott’s historical tour de force, The Raj Quartet. The Jewel in th… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Scott, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 22 1998
- ISBN10: 0226743403
- Language: English
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Old Masters: A Comedy
$21.00 Add to cartIn this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher–who fears Reger’… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Fiction
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0226043916
- Language: English
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Nobody Runs Forever: A Parker Novel
$18.00 Add to cartNobody Runs Forever opens a three-part saga with a job at a poker game that sours into a necktie party. When Parker goes in on a messy scam–stealing an armored car–with someone he barely knows, as u… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 022650848X
- Language: English
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Ask the Parrot: A Parker Novel
$19.00 Add to cartIn Ask the Parrot, Parker’s back on the run, dodging dogs, cops, and even a helicopter. His escape brings him to rural Massachusetts, where he meets a small-town recluse who Forced to work with a smal… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2017
- ISBN10: 022648565X
- Language: English
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Walking: A Novella
$18.00 Add to cartThomas Bernhard is “one of the masters of contemporary European fiction” (George Steiner); “one of the century’s most gifted writers” (Newsday); “a virtuoso of rancor and rage” (Bookforum). And althou… [more below]
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 022631104X
- Language: English
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Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
$18.00 Read moreFrom the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country.
A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826414
- Language: English
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
$18.00 Add to cartTo be an environmentalist early in the twenty-first century is always to be defending, arguing, acknowledging the hurdles we face in our efforts to protect wild places and fight climate change. But le… [more below]
- Author: Monbiot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 26 2017
- ISBN10: 022632527X
- Language: English
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Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans’ Most Advanced Invertebrates
$43.00 Add to cart“Cephalopods are often misunderstood creatures. Three biologists set the record straight.”–Science News
Largely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda- Author: Hanlon, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 31 2018
- ISBN10: 022645956X
- Language: English
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The Book of Snakes: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World
$60.00 Add to cartUpdated to reflect the most recent species classifications, a second edition of the beautifully illustrated and beloved guide to 600 members of the suborder Serpentes.
For millennia, humans have rega- Author: O’Shea, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226832856
- Language: English
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America
$30.00 Read moreA riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media.
“The whole world is watching!” cried protestors at the 1968 Democra- Author: Hendershot, Heather
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 022676852X
- Language: English
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring t… [more below]
- Author: D’Emilio, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0226142698
- Language: English
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Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion
$23.00 Add to cart- Author: Kripal, Jeffrey J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 594
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0226453707
- Language: English
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Oedipus the King
$16.67 Add to cartAvailable for the first time as an independent work, David Grene’s legendary translation of Oedipus the King renders Sophocles’ Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to sav
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0226768686
- Language: English
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Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers, Fifth Edition
$31.50 Add to cartStudents of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper–and for decades Kate L. Turabian’s Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers has helped them to develop this … [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Turabian, Kate L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2019
- ISBN10: 022643026X
- Language: English
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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at Nasa, Enlarged Edition
$46.67 Add to cartThe original publication of The Challenger Launch Decision occurred on January 28th, 1996, the 10th anniversary of that catastrophe. That very morning, a Sunday, the book was features in the New York … [more below]
- Author: Vaughan, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 620
- Publish Date: January 04 2016
- ISBN10: 022634682X
- Language: English
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Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
$34.50 Read moreLet’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clich s: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is in… [more below]
- Author: Wineburg, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 022635721X
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Alchemy
$27.00 Add to cartIn The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and cu… [more below]
- Series: Synthesis
- Author: Principe, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 18 2015
- ISBN10: 022610379X
- Language: English
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
$18.00 Add to cartA look at the history and myth of the objective journalist and how this ideal has been used to silence marginalized voices.
In The View from Somewhere, Lewis Raven Wallace dives deep into the history- Author: Wallace, Lewis Raven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826589
- Language: English
