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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
$17.95 Read moreThe most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, accla
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356264
- Language: English
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Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History
$14.95 Read moreSit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy.
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- Author: Sevilla, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319288
- Language: English
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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
$20.00 Add to cartPaul Preston is the world’s foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisc… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329879
- Language: English
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A History of Opera
$24.95 Read moreWhy has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of ope… [more below]
- Author: Abbate, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0393348954
- Language: English
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
$16.99 Add to cartWhen the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, “Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York…. [more below]
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0393350363
- Language: English
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Miss Jane
$15.95 Add to cartSince his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as
- Author: Watson, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354385
- Language: English
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An Ordinary Life: Poems
$26.95 Read moreIn this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, the
- Author: Fairchild, B. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036850
- Language: English
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome
$17.95 Read moreStigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift o
- Author: Boin, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 039386751X
- Language: English
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The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
$21.99 Read moreHere in Robert Alter’s bold new translation are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient meanings and rhythm… [more below]
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2011
- ISBN10: 393340538
- Language: English
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
$17.95 Read moreWhat happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie
- Author: Ashcroft, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2013
- ISBN10: 039334679X
- Language: English
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The Envious Siblings: And Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes
$20.00 Read moreInspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief, rhyming vignet
- Author: Blair, Landis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0393651622
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$33.99 Add to cartThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021845
- Language: English
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Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea
$15.95 Read moreIn Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey–a
- Author: Oswald, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021780
- Language: English
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What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
$16.95 Read moreA chestnut with a white blaze is scorching across the turf towards the finishing post.
- Author: Addonizio, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327094
- Language: English
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Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump
$19.99 Read moreIn this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz addresses globalization’s new discontents in the United States and Europe.
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0393355160
- Language: English
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
$18.95 Read moreFrom Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan f
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342360
- Language: English
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On Reading
$29.95 Add to cartAndr Kert sz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium’s history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works…. [more below]
- Author: Kertész, André
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393066568
- Language: English
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The Great Nowitzki: Basketball and the Meaning of Life
$20.00 Read moreThe seven-foot Dirk Nowitzki is one of the greatest players in basketball history. The Dallas Maverick’s legend revolutionized the sport, redefining the role of the big man in the modern game. Dirk mo
- Author: Pletzinger, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050586
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
$27.95 Read moreThe term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The fi
- Author: Dreilinger, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1324004495
- Language: English
