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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
$28.99 Add to cartZoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant r
- Author: Bronin, Sara C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881660
- Language: English
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Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartHave you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thin
- Author: Plait, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 132407471X
- Language: English
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
$19.99 Read moreSoaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, a
- Author: Falk, Seb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868400
- Language: English
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Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years
$18.99 Read moreTwenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing clothing created from spun fibers. In Women’s Work, archaeologist-linguist Elizabeth Wayland Barber “weaves the strands of mythology and litera
- Author: Barber, Elizabeth Wayland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 132407602X
- Language: English
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A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
$32.50 Read moreThe Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035757
- Language: English
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Fruiting Bodies: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartIn stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters–mostly queer, mostly women–on the precipice of change.
- Author: Harlan, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1324089016
- Language: English
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Into the Amazon: The Life of C?ndido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
$19.99 Read moreC?ndido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked hi
- Author: Rohter, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076208
- Language: English
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The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution
$32.50 Add to cartWhen Kyle Shanahan became the NFL’s youngest offensive coordinator in 2008, he had one prevailing rule: Tell me the why. If a colleague couldn’t justify his position by providing the unassailable reas
- Author: Silver, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093609
- Language: English
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Playground
$29.99 Add to cartFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Be
- Author: Powers, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086033
- Language: English
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Sturge Town: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartThe site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes’s family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the jo
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076313
- Language: English
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Thinning Blood: An Indigenous Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
$15.99 Add to cartLeah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the storie
- Author: Myers, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076275
- Language: English
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The Wren, the Wren
$17.99 Add to cartNell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her moth
- Author: Enright, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076038
- Language: English
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She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
$29.99 Add to cartFirst came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens–the “smart cookies” who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned
- Author: Bren, Paulina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035153
- Language: English
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Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
$16.95 Add to cartAcclaimed science journalist Christie Aschwanden takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening tour through the latest science on sports and fitness recovery. She investigates claims about sports
- Author: Aschwanden, Christie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357716
- Language: English
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Finger Exercises for Poets
$17.99 Read moreFrom “a poet of immense insight and masterful craft” (Kwame Dawes), Finger Exercises for Poets is an engaging and inspiriting invitation to practice poetry alongside one of its masters. With wide-rang
- Author: Laux, Dorianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1324050667
- Language: English
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Moscow X
$18.99 Add to cartCIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin’s moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max’s family business in M
- Author: McCloskey, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086467
- Language: English
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Trainspotting
$16.95 Read moreIt 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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8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World
$28.95 Read moreAs the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world’s poorest and le
- Author: Sciubba, Jennifer D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1324002700
- 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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A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
$29.99 Add to cartOver the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agn?s Varda (1928-2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cl?o
- Author: Rickey, Carrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0393866769
- Language: English
