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The Analects of Confucius
$15.95 Read moreIn this terse, brilliant translation, Simon Leys restores the human dimension to Confucius. He emerges a full-blooded character with a passion for politics and a devotion to the ideals of a civilizati… [more below]
- Author: Confucius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0393316998
- Language: English
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Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History
$24.95 Read moreKorea has endured a “fractured, shattered twentieth century,” and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings’s leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the… [more below]
- Author: Cumings, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327027
- Language: English
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If I Had Two Wings: Stories
$16.95 Read moreIn Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting
- Author: Kenan, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867404
- Language: English
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
$18.95 Read moreJohn Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the a
- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 132403615X
- Language: English
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
$30.00 Read moreForty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0393254593
- Language: English
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The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux’s Gradus Ad Parnassum
$19.95 Read moreThe most celebrated book on counterpoint is Fux’s great theoretical work Gradus ad Parnassum. Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the grea… [more below]
- Author: Fux, Johann Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 17 1965
- ISBN10: 0393002772
- Language: English
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Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal
$18.99 Read moreIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal–not just its practical policies but the f
- Author: Phillips-Fein, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 393337669
- Language: English
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The Wall
$16.95 Read moreIn this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around its coastline–the Wall. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect hi
- Author: Lanchester, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357775
- Language: English
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Non-Drug Treatments for ADHD: New Options for Kids, Adults & Clinicians
$37.50 Read moreThe prolific use of drugs to treat ADHD stirs heated debate in therapy and parenting circles today. Is this medication really going to improve my son’s symptoms? How best can I help my patient and her… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Richard P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0393706222
- Language: English
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
$18.95 Read moreInner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten … [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320782
- Language: English
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The Haiku Anthology
$56.99 Add to cartOriginally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, fir… [more below]
- Author: Van Den Heuvel, Cor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393321185
- Language: English
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The Great Escape
$17.99 Add to cartThey were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored
- Author: Brickhill, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325792
- Language: English
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Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away with Murder
$34.99 Add to cartHere is the account of the O. J. Simpson case that no one dared to write, that no one else could write. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Vincent Bugliosi, the famed prosecutor of Charles Manson a
- Author: Bugliosi, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330834
- Language: English
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Engine Empire
$17.99 Add to cartEngine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future… [more below]
- Author: Hong, Cathy Park
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 05 2013
- ISBN10: 039334648X
- Language: English
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Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
$18.95 Read moreIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. A
- Author: Sheffer, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357791
- Language: English
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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
$29.95 Read moreJust like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experi
- Author: Hartnell, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1324002166
- Language: English
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
$18.95 Add to cartHailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and finan
- Author: Isaac, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358615
- Language: English
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A Man at Arms
$27.95 Read moreJerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter fr
- Author: Pressfield, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0393540979
- Language: English
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
$17.95 Read moreThe long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s b
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020199
- Language: English
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
$18.95 Add to cartSeashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.
In The Sound of the Sea, accla
- Author: Barnett, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022078
- Language: English
