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Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child’s Education
$16.95 Add to cartOur K-12 school system isn’t a good fit for all–or even most–students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356841
- Language: English
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Anybody: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartIn Anybody, Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed, the ways he and she, us and them, here and elsewhere are kept separate, and at what cost i
- Author: Banias, Ari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355446
- Language: English
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Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience
$17.99 Add to cartA traumatic or near-death experience can change every aspect of the survivor’s being. It can erase the body’s learned adaptations, and in some cases, those who live through such a shock suffer more in
- Author: Gonzales, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0393346633
- Language: English
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Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life
$23.99 Add to cartLively and brilliantly argued, The Belief Instinct explains the psychology behind belief. Drawing on surprising new studies as well as on literature, philosophy, and even pop culture, The Belief Insti… [more below]
- Author: Bering, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: February 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0393341267
- Language: English
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In a Time of Violence: Poems
$15.99 Add to cartThis, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed “the meeting place between womanhood and history.”
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0393312984
- Language: English
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If You Love Me, You Will Do My Will
$26.99 Add to cartThis is a story of a vast cattle and oil fortune left hanging by the thread of a widow’s dying wish; a story of prodigious egos and ambitions competing for the fortune before the widow was even buried
- Author: Michaud, Stephen G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0393338630
- Language: English
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Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage
$17.95 Add to cartIn this revised edition, Paul Ekman, a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication, adds a new chapter to present his latest research on his groundbreaking inquiry into lying and
- Author: Ekman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337456
- Language: English
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The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
$25.99 Add to cartIs stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become well? When it comes to healing, we believe we must look beyond doctors and drugs; we must
- Author: Harrington, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393333973
- Language: English
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Remarkable Trees of the World
$35.00 Add to cartThe publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photogra… [more below]
- Author: Pakenham, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393325296
- Language: English
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The Hemingway Women
$33.99 Add to cartMany books have been written about Ernest Hemingway, but no book has focused on the women he knew and loved and sometimes hated — his mother, who was the lifelong recipient of his invective; his wive… [more below]
- Author: Kert, Bernice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: May 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0393318354
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
$40.99 Add to cartThe Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay’s brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes’ program and their vi… [more below]
- Series: Enlightenment an Interpretation
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 746
- Publish Date: September 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393313662
- Language: English
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The Way of Duty
$25.99 Add to cartThe Buels have used a rich trove of documents to tell the story of a Connecticut woman, Mary Fish Silliman (1736-1818), whose adventures illuminate the day-to-day realities of living through the Ameri… [more below]
- Author: Buel, Joy Day
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312100
- Language: English
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Joseph E, Johnston: A Civil War Biography
$29.99 Add to cartGeneral Joseph E. Johnston was in command of Confederate forces at the South’s first victory–Manassas in July 1861–and at its last–Bentonville in April 1965. Many of his contemporaries considered h… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: June 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0393311309
- Language: English
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Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
$18.99 Add to cart“[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer…. Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance…. A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0393308227
- Language: English
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Home Is Where We Start from: Essays by a Psychoanalyst
$23.99 Add to cartHis ideas have influenced the diverse psychoanalytic schools of Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and Hans Kohut. But his reach extends far beyond professional circles: his talks to general audiences over th… [more below]
- Author: Winnicott, Donald Woods
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0393306674
- Language: English
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The Apple Lover’s Cookbook: Revised and Updated
$30.00 Add to cartThe Apple Lover’s Cookbook is more than a recipe book. It’s a celebration of apples in all their incredible diversity, as well as an illustrated guide to 70 popular (and rare-but-worth-the-search) ap
- Author: Traverso, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0393540707
- Language: English
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Add to cartOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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Guide to Musical Analysis
$36.99 Add to cartThe text is divided into two parts: part One deals with the most important analytical methods current in the English-speaking world, treating each in turn. They are presented method by method because
- Author: Cook, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0393962555
- Language: English
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
$16.95 Add to cartOver the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipat
- Author: Milner, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354369
- Language: English
