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The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
$29.99 Read moreWe embraced the mediated life–from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse–because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp t
- Author: Rosen, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0393241718
- Language: English
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A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
$35.00 Add to cartThe Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisp
- Author: Tejani, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093552
- Language: English
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Little Tales of Misogyny
$14.95 Read moreWith an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door neighbors into sadistic psychopaths, lying in wait among white picket fences and manicured lawns. In the darkly satiric, often mordantl
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323374
- Language: English
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American Salvage
$21.99 Add to cartAmerican Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to co
- Author: Campbell, Bonnie Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 039333919X
- Language: English
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She Came to Stay
$18.95 Add to cartSet in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Fran?ise cons… [more below]
- Author: Beauvoir, Simone De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318842
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
$17.95 Read moreArchetypal 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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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
$21.99 Read moreThis incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational an… [more below]
- Author: Nirenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347915
- Language: English
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
$17.95 Read moreAn authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and J
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 039335833X
- 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: 393335348
- Language: English
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Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
$17.99 Add to cartBetween Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street thro
- Author: Lauterbach, Preston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352137
- Language: English
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Thinking Strategically
$19.99 Add to cartA major bestseller in Japan, Financial Times Top Ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Dixit, Avinash K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0393310353
- Language: English
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
$15.95 Read moreA brilliant example of the comparative method, The Gift presents the first systematic study of the custom–widespread in primitive societies from ancient Rome to present-day Melanesia–of exchanging g
- Author: Mauss, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 17 2000
- ISBN10: 039332043X
- Language: English
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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
$14.95 Add to cart“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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Middle Distance: Poems
$16.95 Read moreAfter a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance–looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future sha
- Author: Plumly, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882497
- Language: English
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
$27.95 Read moreWhat does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in “a room of one’s own,” but in a domestic space? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Ju
- Author: Phillips, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0393088596
- Language: English
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A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
$21.95 Add to cartBorn in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included
- Author: Curtis, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052082
- Language: English
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story of the Refugee Crisis
$15.95 Add to cartSituated more than one hundred miles off Italy’s southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African an
- Author: Bartolo, Pietro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356558
- Language: English
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
$15.95 Add to cartThe family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-gener
- Author: Genoways, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356450
- Language: English
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Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-Created
$18.99 Add to cartInterweaving archaeology and science, Patrick E. McGovern tells the enthralling story of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and the cultures that created them. Humans invented heady concoctions, e
- Author: McGovern, Patrick E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356442
- Language: English
