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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
$16.95 Add to cartWith razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of
- Author: Carr, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354741
- Language: English
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Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling
$24.99 Add to cartOriginally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it co
- Author: Satyamurti, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352498
- Language: English
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A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948
$33.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, while fighting a common enemy in Europe, Britain and France were locked in a clandestine struggle for power in the Middle East. From the first agreement to divide the region … [more below]
- Author: Barr, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0393344258
- Language: English
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Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
$27.99 Add to cartIn December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf’s blood into one of Paris’s most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and Denis was framed for murder. A riveting expos? of
- Author: Tucker, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342239
- Language: English
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Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
$27.99 Add to cartOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imp
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338606
- Language: English
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Inferno: A New Verse Translation
$28.99 Add to cartUnlike every known translator before him, Michael Palma re-creates Dante’s masterpiece in all its dimensions, without emphasizing some aspects over others, rendering Inferno into contemporary American… [more below]
- Series: New Verse Translation by Michael Palma
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0393323870
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
$42.99 Add to cartWe all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees but have you heard about the ice man or the bullet baby? This comprehensive and c… [more below]
- Author: Brunvand, Jan Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323587
- Language: English
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Local Knowledge: Poems
$17.99 Add to cartAlthough many of the poems here unfold among the small towns, abandoned farms, and slate skies of the rural Midwest, their larger landscape is the sheer fact; geographical, psychological, metaphysical… [more below]
- Author: Fairchild, B. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: November 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393322211
- Language: English
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Tolstoy: A Biography
$35.99 Add to cartIn this biography of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the drama of the writer’s life: his childhood of aristocratic privilege but emotional deprivation, his discovery of his litera
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393321223
- Language: English
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Vice: New and Selected Poems
$22.99 Add to cartCollected here are poems from Ai’s previous five books–Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed–along with seventeen new poems. Employing her trademark ferocity, these new dramatic monologues co… [more below]
- Author: Ai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320189
- Language: English
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Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
$27.99 Add to cartHe studied with Niels Bohr, taught Richard Feynman, and boned up on relativity with his friend and colleague Albert Einstein. John Archibald Wheeler’s fascinating life brings us face to face with the
- Author: Wheeler, John Archibald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0393319911
- Language: English
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In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
$29.99 Add to cartA landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the explo
- Author: Taylor, Quintard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318893
- Language: English
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Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (Revised)
$26.99 Add to cartOn December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium. The power flowing from the germanium far exceeded what went i… [more below]
- Series: Sloan Technology Series
- Author: Riordan, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: December 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0393318516
- Language: English
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The Young Hemingway
$24.99 Add to cartMichael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America’s greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway’s persona: his father’s self-destructive battl
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0393317765
- Language: English
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God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan
$24.95 Read moreWhether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of … [more below]
- Author: Spence, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315568
- Language: English
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Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
$28.99 Add to cartFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life–how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dresse… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0393313913
- Language: English
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1787: The Grand Convention
$29.99 Add to cartIn this masterly account of the Philadelphia summer when our Constitution was born, Clinton Rossiter establishes his claim that the year 1787 is preeminent in American history. Bringing to life the se… [more below]
- Author: Rossiter, Clinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393304043
- Language: English
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The Moon and the Ghetto: An Essay on Public Policy Analysis
$19.99 Add to cart- Series: Fels Lectures on Public Policy Analysis #0
- Author: Nelson, Richard R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0393091732
- Language: English
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Metamorphoses
$62.99 Add to cartOvid’s epic poem whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages has become one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante’s time to the present day, when wr… [more below]
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 597
- Publish Date: October 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393058107
- Language: English
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$76.99 Add to cartRemembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Compl… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0393051447
- Language: English
