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Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health
$18.00 Add to cartDoes timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden side of medicine and how unexpected–but predictable–events can profoundly affect our health. –… [more below]
- Author: Jena, Anupam B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0593468104
- Language: English
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The Master of Go
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenge… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761063
- Language: English
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A Fable
$18.00 Read moreThis novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0307946770
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Fascism
$18.00 Read moreWhat is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.
From the first violent uniformed bands b- Author: Paxton, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033918
- Language: English
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Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)
Why are we sometimes blind to the minds of others, treating them like- Author: Epley, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2015
- ISBN10: 030774356X
- Language: English
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Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do about It
$19.00 Read moreFrom the environmental activist, consumer advocate, and renowned crusader comes a riveting book that is “part memoir, part non-fiction report, and part call-to-action–a plea to readers to engage with… [more below]
- Author: Brockovich, Erin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0525434593
- Language: English
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$11.00 Read moreA Harlem Renaissance classic: seven inspirational poems inspired by the powerful rhetorical traditions of African-American sermons and spirituals.
James Weldon Johnson, the co-author of “Lift Every Vo- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0593468813
- Language: English
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them.” —The Wall Street Journal
One of our greatest scientists–and the winner of two Puli- Author: Wilson, Edward O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 30 1999
- ISBN10: 067976867X
- Language: English
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And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive account of one of American history’s most repellent and most fascinating moments, combining investigative journalism and sweeping social history
“Brilliane…. Years later, the tale of- Author: Oney, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 12, 2004
- ISBN10: 0679764232
- Language: English
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Anne Sexton: A Biography
$22.00 Add to cartNominated for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, controversial for its revelations of infidelity and incest and for its use of tapes released by the Pulitzer Priz… [more below]
- Author: Middlebrook, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 27 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741828
- Language: English
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American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
$22.00 Add to cartONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE
The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from- Author: Kazin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307279197
- Language: English
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: An Extraordinary New Journey Through History’s Greatest Treasures
$20.00 Add to cartSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – From the award-winning historian and broadcaster comes an immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shar… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0593686152
- Language: English
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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
