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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$26.99 Add to cartIn this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre.
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036508
- Language: English
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
$29.99 Add to cartThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881105
- Language: English
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What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change
$29.99 Add to cartWith so many competing priorities pulling us in different directions every day–family, friends, work, our health–it can feel difficult to make decisions that are aligned with what we care about most
- Author: Falk, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324037091
- Language: English
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The Collaboration Book: A Guide to Achieving Great Things Together
$17.99 Add to cartWhat makes a great team?
How do we reach consensus and have better meetings?
And what should we do when a group isn’t working?The Collaboration Book shows us how to work as a cohesive unit, breakin
- Author: Krogerus, Mikael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075376
- Language: English
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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940
$15.95 Read moreMarc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless “brought to his study o
- Author: Bloch, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319113
- Language: English
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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
$37.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the most famous figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era bookended by their lives–the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC)–is little known. In The
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324052031
- Language: English
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Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality
$29.99 Add to cartOur nation’s transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in
- Author: Archer, Deborah N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092130
- Language: English
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Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen
$35.00 Add to cartAs the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Marie Mitchell cooks to understand and celebrate recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation. In Kin, her hotly anticipated debut cookbook,
- Author: Mitchell, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324089210
- Language: English
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Imagination: A Manifesto
$12.00 Add to cartA world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, lo
- Author: Benjamin, Ruha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105011
- Language: English
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Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
$29.99 Add to cartAlexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met L
- Author: Howe, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324066334
- Language: English
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How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
$32.99 Add to cart“Art has poisoned our life,” proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-
- Author: Falconer, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051426
- Language: English
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A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation
$21.99 Add to cartThe first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks r
- Author: Lukeman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329801
- Language: English
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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star
$29.99 Add to cartMerle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that “launched a thousand ships,” a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and f
- Author: Sen, Mayukh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050810
- Language: English
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The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
$50.00 Add to cartOne summer afternoon in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took a rowboat out on the Thames. With him were three young friends from the Liddell family–the sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice. Dodgs
- Series: Annotated Books #0
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393245438
- Language: English
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Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
$29.99 Add to cartWith the development of the B-29 “Superfortress” in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central component of the Allied war effort against Germany, arrived in the Pacific theater. In 1945 Japan experien
- Author: Overy, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105305
- Language: English
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Yoga for Osteoporosis: The Complete Guide
$29.99 Add to cartForty-four million Americans suffer from low bone mass, and osteoporosis is responsible for more than 1.5 million fractures annually. Drugs and surgeries can alleviate pain, but study after study has
- Author: Fishman, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 132405199X
- Language: English
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Wild and Distant Seas
$17.99 Add to cartEvangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island’s small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a
- Author: Roberts, Tara Karr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105070
- Language: English
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Muscle: The Gripping Story of Strength and Movement
$17.99 Read moreMuscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump, and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athlet
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076224
- Language: English
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Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins
$21.99 Add to cartMarguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberatio
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086408
- Language: English
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Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
$18.99 Add to cartOf all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates four major mysteries about these elusive beings. H
- Author: Scheel, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076291
- Language: English
