Anchor Books
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Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
$30.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
In 1852, at age sixteen, Cixi was chosen as one of Emperor Xianfeng’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succ
An NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Chang, Jung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0307456706
- Language: English
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A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies
$22.00 Add to cartA Pretext for War reveals the systematic weaknesses behind the failure to detect or prevent the 9/11 attacks, and details the Bush administration’s subsequent misuse of intelligence to sell preemptive
- Author: Bamford, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 10 2005
- ISBN10: 140003034X
- Language: English
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
$19.00 Add to cart“Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.” —… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0767923057
- Language: English
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Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant: Essays
$18.00 Add to cart*National Bestseller*
Joel Golby’s writing f
“This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard.” –Russell Brand
“Every paragraph is like doing a shot with a friend. A double.” –Caitlin Moran- Author: Golby, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 052556277X
- Language: English
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today–and brilliantly illuminates the path … [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0345803620
- Language: English
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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women
$23.00 Add to cartMonths before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler–prime architect of the Holocaust–designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small numbe… [more below]
- Author: Helm, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0307278719
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – And Us
$21.00 Add to cartA major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences–what Darwin termed “the taste for the beautiful”–create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.… [more below]
- Author: Prum, Richard O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0345804570
- Language: English
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Foxfire 8
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #8
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 20 1984
- ISBN10: 0385177410
- Language: English
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Contempt of Court: The Turn-Of-The-Century Lynching That Launched 100 Years of Federalism
$20.00 Add to cartIn this profound and fascinating book, the authors revisit an overlooked Supreme Court decision that changed forever how justice is carried out in the United States.
In 1906, Ed Johnson was the innoce… [more below]- Author: Curriden, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720823
- Language: English
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London: The Biography
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s an… [more below]- Author: Ackroyd, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: April 08 2003
- ISBN10: 0385497717
- Language: English
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The Foxfire 40th Anniversary Book: Faith, Family, and the Land
$23.00 Read moreAn anthology of Appalachian crafts, culture, and wisdom of simple living.
In 1966, an English teacher and students in Northeast Georgia founded a quarterly magazine, not only as a vehicle to learn the- Series: Foxfire #13
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 0307275515
- Language: English
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
$25.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. – “Cahill is our king of popula… [more below]
- Series: Hinges of History #06
- Author: Cahill, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0385495587
- Language: English
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The Foxfire 45th Anniversary Book: Singin’, Praisin’, Raisin’
$23.00 Add to cartFor almost half a century, Foxfire has brought the philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers, teaching creative self-sufficiency and preserving the stories, crafts, and customs o… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0307742598
- Language: English
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartRenowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for i… [more below]
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1101910518
- Language: English
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock’n’roll as Literature and Literature as Rock ‘N’roll
$17.95 Add to cartVintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs–the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s–edited and with an introduction by the reigning dea… [more below]
- Author: Bangs, Lester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0679720456
- Language: English
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Foxfire 2
$23.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]
- Series: Foxfire (Paperback) #2
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 22 1973
- ISBN10: 0385022670
- Language: English
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Goethe’s Faust
$16.00 Add to cartThe best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann’s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm a… [more below]
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 04 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031149
- Language: English
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Notes from the Field
$18.00 Add to cart“Smith’s powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.” —The Village Voice
Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0525564594
- Language: English
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
$18.00 Read moreThe compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, … [more below]
- Author: Applegate, Debby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0307744124
- Language: English
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A brilliant evocation of one of the greatest presidents in American history by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War
“It- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0307277941
- Language: English
