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Activities of Daily Living
$26.95 Read moreHow do we take stock of a life–by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice st
- Author: Chen, Lisa Hsiao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0393881121
- Language: English
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The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future
$16.95 Add to cartForests are restless. Any time a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it has shifted. When new trees sprout in the same direction, the whole forest begins to migrate, sometimes at
- Author: St George, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020237
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$26.95 Read moreIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882047
- Language: English
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Dictionary of Symbols
$24.95 Add to cartFrom early cave drawings to modern corporate logos, graphic symbols have been used to convey meanings both tangible and abstract. In this unique dictionary, Carl G. Liungman puts approximately 2,500 W… [more below]
- Author: Liungman, Carl G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312364
- Language: English
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The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction
$17.95 Read moreFinally, a truly creative–and hilarious–guide to creative writing, full of encouragement and sound advice. Provocative and reassuring, nurturing and wise, The Lie That Tells a Truth is essential to
- Author: DuFresne, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: August 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325814
- Language: English
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The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
$15.95 Read moreTwenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin’s epiphany that “natural selection” formed the basis of evolution and the scientist’s publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and … [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332995X
- Language: English
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Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
$18.95 Read moreWhen it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. In this New York Times bestseller, Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337987
- Language: English
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Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
$17.95 Add to cartWhere does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution’s history by describing its … [more below]
- Author: Lane, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338665
- Language: English
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Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
$17.95 Read moreFrom love at first sight and infidelity to hook-up culture and “slow love,” Dr. Helen Fisher, the biological anthropologist and “renowned expert on the science of love” (Scientific American), explains
- Author: Fisher, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393349748
- Language: English
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Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
$17.99 Add to cartThis memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has
- Author: Mengiste, Maaza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338886
- Language: English
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia
$18.95 Read moreBy 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian George Makari started out in search of the idea’s origi
- Author: Makari, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050446
- Language: English
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The Absurd Man: Poems
$15.95 Read moreInspired by Albert Camus’s seminal Myth of Sisyphus, Major Jackson’s fifth volume subtly configures the poet as “absurd hero” and plunges headfirst into a search for stable ground in an unstable world
- Author: Jackson, Major
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867412
- Language: English
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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
$26.95 Read moreIn her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish
- Author: Dove, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393867773
- Language: English
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The Ionian Mission
$15.95 Add to cartJack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain commanding a line-of-battle ship in the Royal Navy’s blockade of… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #8
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393881741
- Language: English
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
$22.00 Add to cartNearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035986
- Language: English
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Beyond the Pleasure Principle
$14.95 Read moreIn reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free association and libido. Of the various English translations of Freud’s major works to appear in his lifetime,… [more below]
- Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud #0
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0393007693
- Language: English
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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
$19.99 Read moreThe stories that make up Why Buildings Fall Down are in the end very human ones, tales of the interaction of people and nature, of architects, engineers, builders, materials, and natural forces all co… [more below]
- Author: Levy, Matthys
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 17 2002
- ISBN10: 039331152X
- Language: English
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How to Read Wittgenstein
$14.95 Read moreApproaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction–a personal master class in reading–that brings you fac… [more below]
- Series: How to Read #0
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393328201
- Language: English
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Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
$19.95 Read moreCensored by the U.S. Army, Dorothea Lange’s unseen photographs are the extraordinary photographic record of the Japanese American internment saga. This indelible work of visual and social history conf… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330907
- Language: English
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Filth
$18.99 Add to cartThere are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some painful below-the-belt eczema, and a string of demanding extramarital affairs. The last th… [more below]
- Author: Welsh, Irvine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0393318680
- Language: English
