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The Seine: The River That Made Paris
$17.95 Add to cartBlending memoir, travelogue, and history, The Seine is a love letter to Paris and the river that determined its destiny. Master storyteller and longtime New York Times foreign correspondent Elaine Sci
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358593
- Language: English
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Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
$22.95 Read moreVenus, maiden, wife, mother, monster–women have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumpti
- Author: McCormack, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393542084
- Language: English
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Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
$17.99 Add to cart“The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life triumphs and disasters..
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 039334987X
- Language: English
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A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
$20.00 Read moreDecember 1862 drove the United States toward a breaking point. The Battle of Fredericksburg shattered Union forces and Northern confidence. As Abraham Lincoln’s government threatened to fracture, this
- Author: Matteson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 039388242X
- Language: English
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Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published
$17.95 Read moreOver 50,000 books are published in America each year, the vast majority nonfiction. Even so, many writers are stymied in getting their books published, never mind gaining significant attention for the
- Author: Rabiner, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393324613
- Language: English
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Lifespan of a Fact
$19.99 Read moreHow negotiable is a fact? In 2003, after publishing his book of experimental essays, Halls of Fame, John D’Agata was approached by Harper’s magazine to write an essay for them, one that was eventually
- Author: D’Agata, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340732
- Language: English
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The Fall of Public Man
$19.99 Read moreA sweeping, farsighted study of the changing nature of public culture and urban society, The Fall of Public Man spans more than two centuries of Western sociopolitical evolution and investigates the c… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353745
- Language: English
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Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms
$27.99 Read moreFinland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a set of tests evaluating critical-thinking skills in math, scie
- Author: Walker, Timothy D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052619
- Language: English
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The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age
$30.00 Read morePrivacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and di
- Author: Citron, Danielle Keats
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882314
- Language: English
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The Book of Embraces
$16.95 Add to cartEduardo Galeano’s is considered a passionate literary voice. In The Book of Embraces, he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, iron… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 1992
- ISBN10: 0393308553
- Language: English
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When Brains Dream: Understanding the Science and Mystery of Our Dreaming Minds
$17.95 Read moreQuestions on the origins and meaning of dreams are as old as humankind, and as confounding and exciting today as when nineteenth-century scientists first attempted to unravel them. Why do we dream? Do
- Author: Zadra, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020296
- Language: English
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The Nutmeg of Consolation
$15.95 Add to cartShipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the wreck. A vicious a
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #14
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020547
- Language: English
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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
$21.00 Read moreNearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true–yet never provable–continues to unsettle mathematics,
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035935
- Language: English
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Underland: A Deep Time Journey
$27.95 Add to cartHailed as “the great nature writer of this generation” (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underl
- Author: MacFarlane, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0393242145
- Language: English
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
$20.00 Add to cartFirst discovered and then painstakingly edited and annotated by Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution related the astounding and previously unknown collaboration of Sigmund Freud with Sherlock H
- Series: The Journals of John H. Watson, M.D. #0
- Author: Meyer, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0393311198
- Language: English
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The Money Culture
$17.99 Add to cartThe 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ’29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338657
- Language: English
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Invisible Monsters Remix
$15.95 Add to cartInjected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion indust… [more below]
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345114
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$30.00 Read moreIn eight extraordinary volumes spanning five decades, Ellen Bryant Voigt has created a body of work distinguished by its formal precision, rigorous intelligence, and meticulous observation of nature,
- Author: Voigt, Ellen Bryant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324035323
- Language: English
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The Thirteen Gun Salute
$15.95 Read moreCaptain Jack Aubrey sets sail for the South China Sea with a new lease on life as a privateer. Now he is to shepherd Stephen Maturin–his friend, ship’s surgeon, and sometimes intelligence agent–on a
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #13
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020539
- Language: English
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Thank You, Jeeves
$13.95 Add to cartBertram Wooster’s interminable banjolele playing has driven Jeeves, his otherwise steadfast gentleman’s gentleman, to give notice. The foppish aristocrat cannot survive for long without his Shakespear… [more below]
- Series: Bertie Wooster & Jeeves
- Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345998
- Language: English
