Essays
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Leading a Worthy Life: Finding Meaning in Modern Times
$24.99 Add to cartMost American young people, like their ancestors, harbor desires for a worthy life: a life of meaning, a life that makes sense. But they are increasingly confused about what such a life might look lik… [more below]
- Author: Kass, Leon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1641770988
- Language: English
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Cache Lake Country: Or, Life in the North Woods
$19.99 Read more“Cache Lake Country is a gem for many reasons–a simple narrative, the ways in which it conveys the work-a-day joys and exertions of life in the wilderness, the woodscraft techniques it illustrates,
- Author: Rowlands, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1581574916
- Language: English
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Micrographia
$22.00 Read moreAs Jennifer Bowering Delisle was on her path through infertility towards motherhood, she was simultaneously losing her own mother to a rare degenerative neurological disease and an approaching medical
- Author: Delisle, Jennifer Bowering
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1774220946
- Language: English
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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
$18.00 Add to cart“A Really Big Lunch showcases Harrison’s enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well . . . His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp. The more we have of his voice, the
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0802127665
- Language: English
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Egyptian Mythology: A Traveler’s Guide from Aswan to Alexandria
$24.95 Add to cartJoin Egyptologist Garry J. Shaw on an entertaining tour up the Nile, through a beautiful and fascinating landscape populated with a rich mythology: the stories of Horus, Isis, Osiris, and their enemie
- Author: Shaw, Garry J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0500252289
- Language: English
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Just Enough Design: Reflections on the Japanese Philosophy of Hodo-Hodo
$16.95 Add to cartA Japanese designer offers a compelling alternative way to engage with our possessions, our history, our environment, and each other.
The Japanese phrase “hodo-hodo” originates in ancient times. When- Author: Satoh, Taku
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1797209906
- Language: English
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Selected Cronicas
$16.95 Add to cart“In 1967, Brazil’s leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #834
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 17 1996
- ISBN10: 811213404
- Language: English
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On Confidence
$15.99 Add to cartConfidence is a skill that anyone can learn.
Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence – one
- Series: Essay Books
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0995573670
- Language: English
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Yellow Rain: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 LENORE MARSHALL POETRY PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK- Author: Vang, Mai Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450658
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Add to cartRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems
$29.95 Read moreMarbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems was conceived from a poetic dialogue on how to shed light on the art and science behind the material construction of a poetry collection, and to g
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Konchan, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1629222542
- Language: English
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Where I Come from: Stories from the Deep South
$18.00 Add to cartIn this irresistible collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Bragg muses o… [more below]
- Author: Bragg, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0593310802
- Language: English
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Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007
$32.95 Read moreJ. G. Ballard’s collected nonfiction from 1962 to 2007, mapping the cultural obsessions, experiences, and insights of one of the most original minds of his generation.
J. G. Ballard was a colossal fig- Author: Ballard, J. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048329
- Language: English
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Sick in the Head: Conversations about Life and Comedy
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE A.V. CLUB – Includes new interviews
From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a c… [more below]- Author: Apatow, Judd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 0812987284
- Language: English
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American Bulk: Essays on Excess
$17.99 Add to cartAmericans are caught up in bulk. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product, and crave the comforting indulgence of a chain restauran
- Author: Mester, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035234
- Language: English
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A Certain Idea of America: Selected Writings
$31.00 Add to cartFrom Pulitzer-prize winning Wall Street Journal columnist and New York Times bestselling author Peggy Noonan, a masterclass in how to see and love America.
For a quarter century, Peggy Noonan has been- Author: Noonan, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593854772
- Language: English
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Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me
$29.99 Add to cartEveryone has an opinion about Matt Rife, who at twenty-eight years old is both the hottest and most controversial comedian in America. Now, in his new book, Matt gives his legions of fans and haters p… [more below]
- Author: Rife, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1668060418
- Language: English
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Stugotz’s Personal Record Book: The Real Winners and Losers in Sports
$29.00 Add to cartSports radio legend Stugotz rewrites the record books, taking rings away from undeserving champions and giving them to the rightful winners.
Without Tom Brady, Bill Belichick is a worse head coach tha- Author: Weiner, Jon Stugotz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0593734084
- Language: English
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Israel Alone
$18.99 Add to cartWeaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri L?vy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is wagi… [more below]
- Author: Levy, Bernard-Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Life’s Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls
$17.99 Add to cartFast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Conn
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079452
- Language: English
