Essays
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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
$18.00 Add to cartA personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they’ve wrought
“An authoritative, generous, and persuasive debut that I wi- Author: Clein, Emmeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593471008
- Language: English
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The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the History of Rome from Its Foundation
$17.00 Add to cartWith stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy’s monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the es… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Livy, Titus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 25 2002
- ISBN10: 0140448098
- Language: English
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100 Mistakes That Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World
$32.00 Add to cartCollected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world.
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history i- Author: Fawcett, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 042523665X
- Language: English
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On Booze
$15.95 Add to cart“First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debu… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239942
- Language: English
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The Franchise: Philadelphia Eagles
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Franchise: Philadelphia Eagles, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans’ history- Series: The Franchise
- Author: Berman, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1637278519
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 – 2023
$22.95 Add to cartEssays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India’s preeminent writers.
“I’m an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again,- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379651
- Language: English
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Bioleninism
$14.99 Add to cartBioleninism, by Spandrell, covers the essential essays that develop and explain the theory behind the emergent blend of Leninism and biological disadvantages. As Lenin and the communists rallied the d
- Series: Wmlc Pamphlets #1
- Author: Spandrell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: March 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218632434
- Language: English
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What Is Happiness?: A Monk’s Guide to a Happy Life
$24.99 Add to cartThis timely meditation on taking ownership of our own happiness distills the wisdom of one of the world’s most revered monks and teachers into a conversational, approachable guide to understanding our… [more below]
- Author: Sunim, Pomnyun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881605643
- Language: English
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Stranger Things and Philosophy: Thus Spake the Demogorgon
$19.95 Add to cartThe authors turn existing theories about Stranger Things Upside Down.
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #126
- Author: Ewing, Jeffrey A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0812694708
- Language: English
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Born Naked: The Early Adventures of the Author of Never Cry Wolf
$16.99 Add to cartFarley Mowat’s youth was charmed and hilarious, and unbelievably free in its access to unspoiled nature through bird-banding expeditions and overnight outings in the dead of winter. The author writes
- Author: Mowat, Farley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 22 1995
- ISBN10: 0395735289
- Language: English
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The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
$18.00 Add to cartA feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.
Deborah Levy’s vital litera- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397731
- Language: English
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A Dream of Stone
$15.00 Add to cartA selection of texts on art and artists by the Belgian French novelist and essayist Marguerite Yourcenar
Best known for her seminal novel Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), an imagined autobiography of the Ro- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Yourcenar, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1644231719
- Language: English
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Salvador Dal? the Persistence of Memory: MoMA One on One Series
$14.95 Add to cartA fascinating and detailed analysis of one of the most iconic works of Surrealism
In 1931, Salvador Dal? (1904-89) painted The Persistence of Memory, a work that has become virtually synonymous both wi
- Author: Dali, Salvador
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1633451755
- Language: English
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A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature
$26.00 Add to cartCurated from the archives of World Literature Today, this landmark anthology celebrates a century of exploration through pen and ink, and reimagines what international readership can be.
From Nobel lau
- Author: Simon, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1632064138
- Language: English
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To Catch a Fish: Essays on the Joy, Frustration, Curiosity, and Allure of Fishing
$25.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, To Catch a Fish is an entertaining and beautifully written illustrated collection of essays that explore a lifetime fascinat… [more below]
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1635869722
- Language: English
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Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life
$30.00 Add to cart“Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age.” –Cal Newport,
- Author: Currey, Mason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1250824524
- Language: English
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With a Bird,: A Reader on Avian Kinship
$25.00 Add to cartSpeculative fiction, art, social science and ornithology take flight together in this imaginative reader proposing a multispecies dialogue with birds
Following the runaway success of A Tree, With a Bir
- Author: Nivon, Daniel Godinez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: December 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9493382028
- Language: English
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Lambs in Winter: Sketches of a Vermont Life Through Seasons of Change
$24.95 Add to cartFinding hope in a small farm, an engaged community, and an age-old connection to the earth
After half a lifetime spent moving from place to place, Alexis Lathem at last settled down with her husband- Author: Lathem, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1625349017
- Language: English
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Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu
$22.00 Add to cartWhat do coyotes have to do with culture?
This unique collection of essays offers a gripping exploration of the precarious beauty and peril of California’s iconic coastline. Through essays blending pe… [more below]- Author: McEachern, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1647792150
- Language: English
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Touched / Tocado: Revelations at San Ignacio Lagoon: Spirit, Science, People, Politics
$25.00 Add to cartLaguna San Ignacio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, comes alive in the essays within Touched/Tocado. Michael Branch writes the essays are “ingeniously organized as a four-stranded narrative which deftly
- Author: Nevle, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1955140049
- Language: English
