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Head Wounds: A Kevin Kerney Novel
$16.95 Read moreGiven a chance to salvage his law enforcement career, Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Detective Clayton Istee catches a bizarre late-night double homicide at a Las Cruces hotel. Both victims, a man and a wo
- Author: McGarrity, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868427
- Language: English
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
$17.95 Read moreThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022027
- Language: English
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People of the Whale
$17.99 Add to cartRaised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393335348
- Language: English
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Climbing Mount Improbable
$16.95 Read moreThe human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by c… [more below]
- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0393354083
- Language: English
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Magdalene: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartMagdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape–hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the
- Author: Howe, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 393356035
- Language: English
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Great House
$14.95 Read moreWinner of the 2011 ABA Indies Choice Honor Award in Fiction
Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award
Shortlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize in FictionA powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that con… [more below]
- Author: Krauss, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0393340643
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
$16.95 Read moreIn this real-life historical treasure hunt, bestselling author Graham Robb–“one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet (New York Times)”–reveals the mapping of an
- Author: Robb, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349926
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$17.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051027
- Language: English
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Ship Fever: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartThe elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters… [more below]
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 132403601X
- Language: English
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Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
$17.99 Add to cartStorm in a Teacup is Helen Czerski’s lively, entertaining, and richly informed introduction to the world of physics. Czerski provides the tools to alter the way we see everything around us by linking
- Author: Czerski, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355470
- Language: English
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How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information
$16.95 Read moreToday, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers. While charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us smarter, they can also deceive–intentionally or unintentionally. To be informed ci
- Author: Cairo, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358429
- Language: English
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The Future of an Illusion
$13.95 Add to cartIn the manner of the eighteenth-century philosophe, Freud argued that religion and science were mortal enemies. Early in the century, he began to think about religion psychoanalytically and to discuss… [more below]
- Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud #0
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0393008312
- Language: English
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The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
$26.95 Read moreFrederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu’s transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0393240991
- Language: English
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The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel
$19.99 Add to cartAcclaimed for its masterful new translation and insightful commentary, The David Story is a fresh, vivid rendition of one of the great works in Western literature. Robert Alter’s brilliant translation… [more below]
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320774
- Language: English
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The Ego and the Id
$14.95 Read moreThe Ego and the Id ranks high among the works of Freud’s later years. The heart of his concern is the ego, which he sees battling with three forces: the id, the super-ego, and the outside world.
Of th… [more below]
- Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud #0
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0393001423
- Language: English
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Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
$21.99 Add to cartFor centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and
- Author: Grinker, Roy Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 132402013X
- Language: English
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Trainspotting
$17.99 Add to cartIt accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.’s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of jun… [more below]
- Author: Welsh, Irvine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393314804
- Language: English
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Extreme North: A Cultural History
$18.95 Read moreScholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man’s-land, an icy realm of marauding Vikings, or an unspoiled cr
- Author: Chase, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050284
- Language: English
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
$16.95 Read moreFor millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life’s necessities–not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious rituals. But this symbol of purity has become d
- Author: Mueller, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0393343618
- Language: English
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When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
$16.95 Read moreWith poignant insight and humor, Frank Vertosick Jr., MD, describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumor in her brain, a young man struck down in
- Author: Vertosick, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393330494
- Language: English
