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Readings for Sociology
$52.50 Add to cartThe perfect mix of classic and contemporary readings
- Author: O’Brien, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 10 2023
- ISBN10: 132404408X
- Language: English
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Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition
$20.01 Add to cart“In Dracula, we find a monster who takes away our agency, our choice–even as he consumes us. The fantasy of becoming a vampire is a myth of exceptionalism– nobody fantasizes about being the random p… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Stoker, Bram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: July 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0393679209
- Language: English
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Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
$17.99 Add to cartFungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and a fungus that can persist in the e
- Author: Monosson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105186
- Language: English
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Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers
$31.99 Add to cartInflation is back, and its impact can be felt everywhere, from the grocery store to the mortgage market to the results of elections around the world. Yet the conventional wisdom about inflation is stu
- Author: Blyth, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 132410614X
- Language: English
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Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil
$27.99 Add to cartThis debut novel by beloved rare bookseller and memoirist Oliver Darkshire reimagines the Decameron heroine Isabella (with her creepy pot of basil) in a world of sentient animals, talking plants, and
- Author: Darkshire, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105917
- Language: English
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Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
$19.99 Add to cartConceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world–the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films an
- Author: King, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105232
- Language: English
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The Wanderer’s Curse: A Memoir
$29.99 Add to cartWhen Jennifer Hope Choi first stumbled upon the “curse” known as yeokmasal–an allegedly inheritable affliction causing one to roam farther and farther from home–she immediately consulted her mother.
- Author: Choi, Jennifer Hope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 132403551X
- Language: English
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The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story
$31.99 Add to cartSet in interwar Germany, The Intermediaries tells the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights. Headed by a gay Jewish man, D
- Author: Schillace, Brandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036311
- Language: English
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The Book of Records
$28.99 Add to cartLina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and
- Author: Thien, Madeleine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324078650
- Language: English
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Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Heldt Prize for Translation. A new translation of the Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz. This long-awaited volume samples the full range of Wislawa … [more below]
- Series: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborksa
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: February 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0393323854
- Language: English
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Is a River Alive?
$31.99 Add to cartHailed in the New York Times as “a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,” Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 393242137
- Language: English
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Night in the City
$28.99 Add to cartSam Monroe thought his steamy love affair with Manhattan socialite Laura Nielson was dead and buried, but when she didn’t show up after unexpectedly calling him late at night and asking to meet, he de
- Author: McGarrity, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 132406627X
- Language: English
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Terrestrial History
$29.99 Add to cartHannah is a fusion scientist working alone at a remote cottage off the coast of Scotland when she sees a figure making his way from the sea. It is a visitor from the future, a young man from a human s
- Author: Reed, Joe Mungo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324079371
- Language: English
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Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software
$29.99 Add to cartSoftware was supposed to radically improve society. Outdated mechanical systems would be easily replaced; programs like PowerPoint would make information flow more freely; social media platforms like
- Author: Campbell, Darryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324078952
- Language: English
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
$39.99 Add to cartPaul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention,
- Author: Prideaux, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020423
- Language: English
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The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
$32.99 Add to cartMore than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the “Einstein of Sex,” grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativity. Today, he’s been largely forgotten.
Journalist D
- Author: Brook, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324007249
- Language: English
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I’ve Been Thinking
$21.99 Add to cartDaniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness a
- Author: Dennett, Daniel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105062
- Language: English
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Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America
$18.99 Add to cartSince the election of Donald Trump, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have been faced with a startling and urgent question: Are we threatened by fascism? Some see striking conn
- Author: Steinmetz-Jenkins, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110597
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$12.00 Read moreLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105054
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
$35.00 Add to cartThe eighteenth century was a time of cultural friction: individuals began to assert greater independence and there was a new emphasis on social equality. In this surprising history, Lynn Hunt examines
- Author: Hunt, Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324079037
- Language: English
