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Inventing Human Rights: A History
$16.95 Add to cartHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and i… [more below]
- Author: Hunt, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331997
- Language: English
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How Poems Get Made
$20.99 Add to cartWhy does a great lyric poem ask to be reread, even after we know it by heart? In How Poems Get Made, acclaimed poet and critic James Longenbach answers this question by discussing a wide range of exem… [more below]
- Author: Longenbach, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355209
- Language: English
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One Boat
$16.99 Add to cartAfter losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast–the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. Soon, she encounters some of the people she met last tim
- Author: Buckley, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324131071
- Language: English
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The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation
$35.00 Add to cartNo writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth?a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine tha
- Author: Drout, Michael DC
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324093889
- Language: English
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The Seventh Floor
$18.99 Add to cartA Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scap
- Author: McCloskey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116927
- Language: English
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Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
$29.99 Add to cartWhen the long-awaited day dawns and the aliens finally arrive on Earth, they might eat us and destroy the planet–or, just maybe, they might share the secrets of the Universe with us. When that time c
- Author: Whiteson, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064641
- Language: English
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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agn?s Varda
$18.99 Add to cartOver the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agn?s Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cl?o
- Author: Rickey, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110457
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$18.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110368
- Language: English
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Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life
$35.00 Add to cartFernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Th?r?se Walter, Dora Maar, Fran?oise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women loved and inspired Pablo Picasso. They frequently appear as the
- Author: Roe, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324076402
- Language: English
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Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
$29.99 Add to cartFrom 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. Sponsoring lavish trips to Africa and Central Asia, the mu
- Author: Lunde, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065672
- Language: English
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Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
$35.00 Add to cartDemocracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germany’s first democracy endured for fourteen t
- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110546
- Language: English
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What Remains After a Fire: Stories
$27.99 Add to cartIn eight unflinching and stunningly crafted stories, Kanza Javed unspools the lives of characters desperately trying to forge a path for themselves on the margins of society. An addict teaches his you
- Author: Javed, Kanza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111097
- Language: English
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Making Mary Poppins: The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of a Classic Film
$29.99 Add to cartMaking Mary Poppins reveals the extraordinary true story behind the creation of one of the most beloved films of all time–and the two little-known songwriters who helped make it possible.
Long before
- Author: Pierce, Todd James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111070
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$12.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110317
- Language: English
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Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive Into Everything They Do for Us and We Do to Them
$29.99 Add to cartSlippery, wet, and strange: Fish can be easier to think of as food than as fellow animals. But what do we know about these creatures we meet on our dinner table and how they got there? For the first t
- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881474
- Language: English
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New and Selected Poems
$17.99 Add to cartCharacterized by “a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions” (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie
- Author: Howe, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324117672
- Language: English
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Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
$24.00 Add to cartDrawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as “inaccessible,” “irrelevant,” or “intimidat
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050985
- Language: English
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Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815
$49.99 Add to cartThe Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation a
- Author: Rodger, N. A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 998
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328473
- Language: English
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All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies
$26.99 Add to cartHistorian Elizabeth Leonard has combed archives, memoirs, and histories to unearth the stories of the hidden and forgotten women who risked their lives for the blue or the gray. These women spied for … [more below]
- Author: Leonard, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 039333547X
- Language: English
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Heart of the Jaguar: The Extraordinary Conservation Effort to Save the Americas’ Legendary Cat
$35.00 Add to cartOnce indigenous to North America, the jaguar is one of the wildest creatures left on the planet, a resilient and efficient predator, with a natural habitat that extends throughout Mexico and Central a
- Author: Campbell, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393867617
- Language: English
