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Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
$17.95 Read moreFuchsia 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 Add to cartArchetypal 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 Read more“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 Read moreMary 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
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The Seine: The River That Made Paris
$17.95 Read moreBlending 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 Read more“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
$29.99 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 Read moreEduardo 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 Read moreShipwrecked 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
