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At Seventy: A Journal
$25.99 Add to cartMay Sarton–poet, novelist, and chronicler–occupies a special place in American letters. This new journal chronicles the year that began on May 3, 1982, her seventieth birthday. At her home in Maine,… [more below]
- Author: Sarton, May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393310302
- Language: English
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Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”
$23.99 Add to cartMusic example and charts illustrate the analyses, and each essay is fully annotated by the editor. In some cases, the results of original research by the editor or by others working in the field are p
- Series: Norton Critical Scores
- Author: Austin, William W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 1970
- ISBN10: 0393099393
- Language: English
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Iwoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
$49.99 Add to cartBefore slim laptops that fit into briefcases, computers looked like strange vending machines, with cryptic switches and pages of encoded output. But in 1977 Steve Wozniak revolutionized the computer i… [more below]
- Author: Wozniak, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: January 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0393061434
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Great Composers
$39.95 Add to cartIn this new edition, Harold Schonberg offers music lovers a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and all geniuses, unique as they are… [more below]
- Author: Schonberg, Harold C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0393038572
- Language: English
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In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story
$23.99 Add to cartIn Search of Enemies is much more than the story of the only war to be found when the CIA sought to recoup its prestige after the Vietnam debacle. Though no American troops were committed to Angola, o… [more below]
- Author: Stockwell, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0393009262
- Language: English
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The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher’s Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
$26.95 Add to cartSome people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately this is not the case. Stoicism offers us an alternative approach. Plum
- Author: Irvine, William B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 393652491
- Language: English
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
$15.95 Add to cartEveryone knows that America is 50 states and…some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states–American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Island
- Author: Mack, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355616
- Language: English
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Paid for: My Journey Through Prostitution
$16.95 Add to cart“The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incon
- Author: Moran, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351971
- Language: English
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
$16.95 Add to cartIn The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of… [more below]
- Author: Carr, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351637
- Language: English
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
$16.95 Add to cartAmerica’s space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0393350371
- Language: English
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Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions
$26.99 Add to cartWe can’t avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life–and the nature of reality. But science is the only means of answering them. So declares philosopher Alex Rosenberg in this bracing, s… [more below]
- Author: Rosenberg, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0393344118
- Language: English
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Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover’s Courtship, with Recipes
$27.99 Add to cartLife in the city, love, and unforgettable meals–can a food writer find happiness with a man who has an empty refrigerator? Amanda Hesser’s irresistible book is the tale of a romance where food is the… [more below]
- Author: Hesser, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325598
- Language: English
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
$29.99 Add to cartIn the 19th century, New York saw the development of a sex industry at the heart of a consumer world of entertainment, goods, newspapers and advertising. In this book, Gilfoyle blends first-hand exper
- Author: Gilfoyle, Timothy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0393311082
- Language: English
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In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories
$27.99 Add to cartHiguchi Ichiyo, Japan’s first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multiv… [more below]
- Author: Danly, Robert Lyons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 25 2007
- ISBN10: 0393309134
- Language: English
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My Calabria
$45.00 Add to cartAt the tip of Italy’s “boot” lies Calabria. It is a beautiful, mountainous region populated by fishermen and small farmers. Rosetta Costantino grew up in this rugged landscape–her father a shepherd a… [more below]
- Author: Costantino, Rosetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0393065162
- Language: English
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Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
$22.99 Add to cartIn this book Professor Kissinger examines the framework of our foreign policy, the stresses to which that framework is being subjected, and the prospects for world order in an era of high internationa… [more below]
- Series: Norton Library (Paperback)
- Author: Kissinger, Henry a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393004945
- Language: English
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The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness
$29.95 Read moreWhiteness is a pervasive ideology that is rarely overtly identified or examined, despite its profound effects on race relationships. Being intentional about naming, deconstructing, and dismantling whi
- Author: Hardy, Kenneth V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324016906
- Language: English
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of Dna’s Double Helix
$30.00 Add to cartJames Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how
- Author: Markel, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1324002239
- Language: English
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Trauma and the Therapist: Countertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psychothcountertransference and Vicarious Traumatization in Psycho
$44.99 Add to cartThis book explores the role and experience of the therapist in the therapeutic relationship by examining countertransference (the therapist’s response to the client) and vicarious traumatization (the … [more below]
- Author: Pearlman, Laurie Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 474
- Publish Date: June 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0393701832
- Language: English
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
$15.95 Add to cartIn this sparkling debut work of popular science, Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She explores every angle of swearing–why we do it, how we do it, and
- Author: Byrne, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356655
- Language: English
