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How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense
$29.99 Add to cartThere are approximately 25,000 “city killer” asteroids in near-Earth orbit–and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction, and represent ou
- Author: Andrews, Robin George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324050195
- Language: English
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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
$12.00 Add to cartHarriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076151
- Language: English
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So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
$21.99 Read moreRenowned reggae historian Roger Steffens’s riveting oral history of Bob Marley’s life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants–many speaking publ
- Author: Steffens, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 393355926
- Language: English
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The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
$29.99 Add to cartIn this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski–hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly–tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and t
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075287
- Language: English
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
$19.99 Read moreSome 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild a
- Author: Goldfarb, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086319
- Language: English
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
$12.00 Read moreWhen bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning p
- Author: Shew, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076259
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: A History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007184
- 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 Read more“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 Read moreA 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
