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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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The Wanting Seed
$16.99 Read moreTristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalist… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
- Author: Burgess, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 393315088
- Language: English
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Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon,
- Author: Bernstein, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327957
- Language: English
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
$16.99 Read moreFirst published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay’s distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artis
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393322394
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
$18.99 Add to cartWe know it simply as “the pill,” yet its genesis was anything but simple. Jonathan Eig’s masterful narrative revolves around four principal characters: the fiery feminist Margaret Sanger, who was a ch
- Author: Eig, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 19 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351890
- Language: English
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments
$15.95 Read moreAn urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them.
- Author: Thompson, Erin L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050497
- Language: English
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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
$32.50 Read moreVirtual reality is genuine reality; that’s the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of “technophilosophy,” David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. H
- Author: Chalmers, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0393635805
- Language: English
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The Truelove
$15.95 Read moreA British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the Sandwich Islands at French instigation, and Captain Jack Aubrey is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #15
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020555
- Language: English
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
$16.95 Read moreLenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps read
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868265
- Language: English
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The Yellow Admiral
$15.95 Read moreLife ashore may once again be the undoing of Jack Aubrey in The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O’Brian’s best-selling novel and eighteenth volume in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Aubrey, now a considerable thou… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #18
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021705
- Language: English
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The Hundred Days
$15.95 Read moreNapoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #19
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021713
- Language: English
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When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
$17.95 Read moreIn this “penetrating new analysis” (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history and demonstrates that all the key programs
- Author: Katznelson, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328511
- Language: English
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The Ugly American
$15.95 Add to cartA piercing expos? of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely her
- Author: Burdick, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356728
- Language: English
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Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
$17.95 Add to cartFuchsia Dunlop, the first Westerner to train at the prestigious Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, “has done more to explain real Chinese cooking to non-Chinese cooks than anyone” (Julia Moskin, New… [more below]
- Author: Dunlop, Fuchsia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357740
- Language: English
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Team Human
$17.99 Add to cartTeam Human is a manifesto–a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, h
- Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541533
- Language: English
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All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
$18.99 Read moreArchetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all over the western landscape. Now, award-winning nature writer David Gessner follows the ghosts of these
- Author: Gessner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352374
- Language: English
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The Far Side of the World
$15.95 Read moreThe war of 1812 continues, and Jack Aubrey sets course for Cape Horn on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling tra
- Series: Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback) #10
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308626
- Language: English
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Childhood and Society
$19.99 Add to cartThe original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of human development. His insights into the interdependence of the individuals’ growth and historical ch… [more below]
- Author: Erikson, Erik H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 1993
- ISBN10: 039331068X
- Language: English
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Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure
$16.99 Add to cart“You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?” asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. “What the ice gets, ” replied Sir Ernest Shackleton,
- Author: Worsley, Frank Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319946
- Language: English
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
$15.95 Add to cartMary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experien
- Author: Norris, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352145
- Language: English
