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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems
$18.00 Add to cartMichael Ondaatje’s new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Ondaatje, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 1997
- ISBN10: 0679779132
- Language: English
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Winston Churchill’s War Leadership
$15.00 Add to cartHow does he assess the information that is brought to him? How does his personal or political philosophy, or a moral sense, sustain him? How does he draw inspiration from those around him? How does he… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 140007732X
- Language: English
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A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss. Enchantingly written and stunningly informed, this … [more below]
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 21 1995
- ISBN10: 0679761837
- Language: English
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the Nort… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307948900
- Language: English
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines–and Future
$20.00 Add to cartWith over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of l
- Author: House, Karen Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0307473287
- Language: English
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Aladdin’s Lamp: How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World
$20.00 Add to cartAladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B.C. and, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the … [more below]
- Author: Freely, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0307277836
- Language: English
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Thin Skin: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartONE OF TIME’S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR – A GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – Examining capitalism’s toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking, this incisive new work is “a viscera… [more below]
- Author: Shapland, Jenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469534
- Language: English
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Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War
$19.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR – WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS – Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – A stirring account of how music bears witness … [more below]
- Author: Eichler, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 052556344X
- Language: English
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Dracula
$11.00 Add to cartSince its publication in 1897 Dracula has enthralled generations of readers with the alluring malevolence of its undead Count, the most famous vampire in literature. Though Bram Stoker did not invent … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Stoker, Bram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0307743306
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence
$19.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence–for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves…. [Her] lively book reclaims a
- Author: Berkin, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 14 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075327
- Language: English
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The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets
$22.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE – Every day, thousands of new secrets are created by the United States government. What is all this secrecy really for? And whom does it benefit?
“A brillian- Author: Connelly, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1101973676
- Language: English
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Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic
$20.00 Add to cartDrawing on firsthand experience as a prison psychiatrist, his own family history, and literature, Gilligan unveils the motives of men who commit horrifying crimes, men who will not only kill others bu… [more below]
- Author: Gilligan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 29 1997
- ISBN10: 0679779124
- Language: English
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Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
$26.00 Add to cartA wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump’s fast-food burgers and Biden’s ice… [more below]
- Author: Prud’homme, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0525433031
- Language: English
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
$20.00 Add to cartBoth highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners … [more below]
- Author: Boswell, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 679751645
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Robinson Jeffers
$12.95 Read moreRobinson Jeffers was one of the most controversial poets of the twentieth century. In this volume, essential poems selected from his major works provide an excellent overview of Jeffers’s style and th… [more below]
- Author: Jeffers, Robinson
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 12 1965
- ISBN10: 0394702956
- Language: English
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Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
$19.00 Add to cartA raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad–and doing both at once.
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother–feeling untethered … [more below]- Author: Scanlon, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469100
- Language: English
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The Making of the English Working Class
$27.00 Add to cartA seminal text on the history of the working class by one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and ar- Author: Thompson, E. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: February 12 1966
- ISBN10: 0394703227
- Language: English
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
$20.00 Add to cartIn this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1400078334
- Language: English
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Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
$26.00 Add to cartThe little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk–a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism.
While the Women’s- Author: Greenberg, Amy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0804173443
- Language: English
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My Wicked Wicked Ways: Poems
$15.95 Read moreIn this beautiful collection of poems, remarkable for their plainspoken radiance, the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in Intern… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1101872500
- Language: English
