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Dance Dance Revolution: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartNamed one of the Los Angeles Times‘s Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolution is a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour gui… [more below]
- Author: Hong, Cathy Park
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393333116
- Language: English
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
$16.95 Add to cartIn this vibrant memoir, Alysia Abbott recounts growing up in 1970s San Francisco with Steve Abbott, a gay, single father during an era when that was rare. Reconstructing their time together from a rem
- Author: Abbott, Alysia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348903
- Language: English
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
$27.95 Read moreSeashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.
In The Sound of the Sea, accla
- Author: Barnett, Cynthia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0393651444
- Language: English
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The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
$18.95 Add to cartThroughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Begi… [more below]
- Author: Kunitz, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329976
- Language: English
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The Inimitable Jeeves
$13.95 Add to cartFollow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic short story collections in the English language. This classic c… [more below]
- Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0393339807
- Language: English
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Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
$20.00 Read moreWhy do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a m
- Author: Ogas, Ogi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050578
- Language: English
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My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson
$16.95 Read moreMilton H. Erickson has been called the most influential hypnotherapist of our time. Part of his therapy was his use of teaching tales, which through shock, surprise, or confusion–with genius use of q… [more below]
- Author: Rosen, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 1991
- ISBN10: 0393301354
- Language: English
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The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself
$15.95 Add to cartThe Artful Edit explores the many-faceted and often misunderstood–or simply overlooked–art of editing. The book brims with examples, quotes, and case studies, including an illuminating discussion of… [more below]
- Author: Bell, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393332179
- Language: English
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The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
$17.99 Read moreMalba Tahan is the creation of a celebrated Brazilian mathematician looking for a way to bring some of the mysteries and pleasures of mathematics to a wider public. The adventures of Beremiz Samir, Th… [more below]
- Author: Tahan, Malba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351475
- Language: English
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Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
$16.95 Read moreBefore the United States’ invasion, a million Soviet troops fought a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties–and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. The Sovie
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051124
- Language: English
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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
$14.95 Read more“We want to live as if there is no other place,” Hogan tells us, “as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the world of waters and the universe of life.” In offering praise to sk… [more below]
- Author: Hogan, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393322475
- Language: English
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Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
$27.99 Add to cartMarie Mutsuki Mockett’s family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial o
- Author: Mockett, Marie Mutsuki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352293
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$22.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 132407387X
- Language: English
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Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
$22.00 Read moreHow do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their supery
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Harrington, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064943
- Language: English
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On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
$24.99 Add to cartSince Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7, the term “settler colonialism” has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and inf
- Author: Kirsch, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324105348
- Language: English
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Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
$29.99 Add to cartIn the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed t
- Author: Green, Nile
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324002417
- Language: English
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
$32.50 Read moreMusic is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using s
- Author: Levitin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324036184
- Language: English
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Still Life
$28.99 Add to cartEverything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend,
- Author: Burke, Katherine Packert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076364
- Language: English
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No Bones
$15.95 Read moreNo Bones is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland–but don’t tell Amelia that. She’s the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn’t want to know what’s going on. But
- Author: Burns, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 039332303X
- Language: English
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To Do: 41 Tools to Start, Stick With, and Finish Things
$17.99 Add to cart– Want to stop procrastinating? Ask yourself four easy questions to help you reframe your mindset.
– Overwhelmed by competing priorities? Use kanban to visualize your tasks, structure them, and complet
- Author: Krogerus, Mikael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 132407535X
- Language: English
