Vintage
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
$17.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A profoundly moving spiritual journey through our system of capital punishment and an unprecedented look at the human consequences of the death penalty – “Stunning moral clari… [more below]
- Author: Prejean, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 31 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751319
- Language: English
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
$24.00 Add to cartThe national bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wives of Henry VIII. France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subjec… [more below]
- Author: Fraser, Antonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0385489498
- Language: English
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Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
$18.00 Add to cart“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal
What does it take to master French cookin- Author: Buford, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0307455807
- Language: English
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
$19.00 Add to cartFrom admired historian–and coiner of one of feminism’s most popular slogans–Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history.
In 1976, in an obscure scholarly- Author: Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1400075270
- Language: English
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Collected Poems of W. H. Auden
$30.00 Add to cartBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face. Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: April 23 1991
- ISBN10: 0679731970
- Language: English
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
$22.00 Add to cartDividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 13 1996
- ISBN10: 0679730052
- Language: English
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Richard Nixon: The Life
$24.00 Read moreFrom a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made.… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0345804961
- Language: English
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The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
$28.00 Add to cartA sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation
- Author: Fisk, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: February 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400075173
- Language: English
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How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartA collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life.
Socrates famously said “the unexamined l- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525566147
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Based on the celebrated PBS television series, the complete text of an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict, “a significant milestone [that] will no doubt do… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1984897748
- Language: English
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Oaxaca Journal
$17.00 Add to cartFrom “the poet laureate of medicine” and national bestselling author of Awakenings comes a fascinating investigation of Southern Mexico that explores the origins of chocolate and mescal, pre-Columbian… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Sacks, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 307947440
- Language: English
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Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus
$18.00 Add to cartBass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, his celebrated, wild, funny, demonic, anguished, shocki… [more below]
- Author: Mingus, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 1991
- ISBN10: 0679737618
- Language: English
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
$20.00 Add to cartWith the Great Sioux War as background and context, and drawing on many new materials, Thomas Powers establishes what really happened in the dramatic final months and days of Crazy Horse’s life.
He wa- Author: Powers, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0375714308
- Language: English
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A Civil Action
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – The true story of one man so determined to take down two of the nation’s largest corporations accused of killing children from wate… [more below]
- Author: Harr, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772677
- Language: English
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The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy
$16.00 Add to cartIn this classic work, internationally known Viennese psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, founder of the school of logotherapy, sets forth the principles of existential psychiatry. He holds that man’s searc
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 12 1986
- ISBN10: 0394743172
- Language: English
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All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of “Revolutionist Returnees” inspired by the promise of pan-African… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 1991
- ISBN10: 067973404X
- Language: English
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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
$23.00 Add to cartIn this dazzling portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty, Tom Holland traces the astonishing century-long story of the rise and fall of the Julio-Claudians–Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, a… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345806727
- Language: English
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The English and Their History
$29.00 Add to cartNamed a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist
The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before- Author: Tombs, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1101873361
- Language: English
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Women, Culture & Politics
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, a… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 19 1990
- ISBN10: 0679724877
- Language: English
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What It Takes: The Way to the White House
$27.00 Add to cart“Quite possibly the finest book on presidential politics ever written, combining meticulous reporting and compelling, at times soaringly lyrical, prose.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer
An American Iliad in- Author: Cramer, Richard Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1072
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0679746498
- Language: English
