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The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970
$50.00 Read moreA revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness
“[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement of- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300238894
- Language: English
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Why Food Matters
$17.00 Read moreFrom the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food’s cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history
“A rich and fascinating narrative that reaches deep- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Freedman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268084
- Language: English
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Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives
$22.00 Read moreThe misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship
“A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship- Author: Roach, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273991
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
$23.00 Read moreA revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life
“Kidd’s biography may well be the best treatment of Jefferson’s religious and moral life available, and certa- Author: Kidd, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300271050
- Language: English
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The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race
$27.50 Add to cartA ground-breaking account of the potential and failures of Christianity since the colonialist period–winner of the 2015 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion and of an American Academy of Religion
- Author: Jennings, Willie James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0300171366
- Language: English
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Big World, Small Planet: Abundance Within Planetary Boundaries
$29.00 Read moreA profoundly original vision of an attainable future that ensures human prosperity by safeguarding our threatened planet
“If you have time to read one book on this subject, I highly recommend the new- Author: Rockström, Johan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0300218362
- Language: English
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Culture
$18.00 Read moreOne of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture a- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270615
- Language: English
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Matisse in the 1930s
$50.00 Read moreThe first in-depth examination of Matisse’s work in the 1930s, a key decade of creative innovation and renewal for this celebrated artist
In 1930, as Henri Matisse (1869-1954) embarked on The Dance,- Author: Affron, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0876332998
- Language: English
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The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family
$18.00 Read moreAn inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder–told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle
As seen on 60 Minutes “A comprehensive, meticulously constructed and eye-- Author: Lahoud, Nelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270429
- Language: English
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Rapture and Melancholy: The Diaries of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$24.00 Read moreThe first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters'” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Provides an occasion to revisit- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271131
- Language: English
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On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
$40.00 Read moreA sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia
“Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book histor- Author: Holsinger, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260210
- Language: English
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Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance
$28.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinator
“An evocative journey that awakens one’s curiosity to an oft-for- Author: Pearlstine, Elise Vernon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 030024696X
- Language: English
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The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media
$32.50 Read moreA compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and- Author: Marwick, Alice E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300229623
- Language: English
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Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
$23.00 Read moreA New York Times bestselling scholar’s illuminating exploration of the earliest Christian narrated journeys to heaven and hell
“[An] illuminating deep dive . . . An edifying origin story for contempor- Author: Ehrman, Bart D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271042
- Language: English
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The Library at Night
$19.95 Read moreA celebration of reading, of libraries, and of the mysterious human desire to give order to the universe
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, i- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0300151306
- Language: English
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Tudor England: A History
$37.50 Read moreA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
When Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this- Author: Wooding, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0300162723
- Language: English
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The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
$16.00 Read moreThe social dynamics of “alternative facts” why what you believe depends on who you know
“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to o- Author: O’Connor, Cailin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251858
- Language: English
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Why Argument Matters
$20.00 Read moreHailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence”
“An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Siegel, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271077
- Language: English
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Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
$35.00 Read moreAmongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed u… [more below]
- Author: Darlington, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 030025928X
- Language: English
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Home: 100 Poems
$25.00 Read moreEvocative poems and prose fragments about home, selected by one of the most celebrated poets of our time
“This is a book of longing, yes, and also spiritual discernment, political awareness, historica- Author: Wiman, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0300253451
- Language: English
