Essays
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The Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature
$36.00 Add to cartA gorgeously illustrated exploration of the science behind the universe’s most stunning natural phenomena–from atoms and parameciums to rainbows, snowflakes, spider webs, the rings of Saturn, galaxie… [more below]
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593701488
- Language: English
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the … [more below]
- Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668072246
- Language: English
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What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters
$17.95 Add to cartA short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value–and what to do when your goals conflict
What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money–or work for justice? To run ma- Author: Tiberius, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0691241392
- Language: English
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I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumult
- Author: Mayer, Youngmi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316569232
- Language: English
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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
$26.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author Katherine Rundell comes a “rare and magical book” (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world
The world is more astonishing, more miraculous,- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0385550820
- Language: English
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Sticky Notes: Memorable Lessons from Ordinary Moments
$19.99 Add to cartFrom popular personality and storyteller Matt Eicheldinger, a collection of 100 true, uplifting short stories that capture the meaning behind everyday encounters, and the small lessons woven in-betwee… [more below]
- Author: Eicheldinger, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1524894354
- Language: English
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The Book Against Death
$16.95 Add to cartThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death.
- Author: Canetti, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237990
- Language: English
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Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing
$18.99 Read moreBy the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guraln… [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0316412600
- Language: English
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The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores
$7.95 Read moreA bookseller is the being who is most aware of the futility of a book, and of its importance.–Hector Yç–£over
Like most of our cultural institutions and workers, bookshops and booksellers have worked
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1771964650
- Language: English
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The Science of Star Trek: The Scientific Facts Behind the Voyages in Space and Time
$14.99 Read moreBoldly go where no man has gone before and discover the real science behind the cyborgs, starships, aliens, and antimatter of the Star Trek galaxy.
Star Trek is one of the highest-grossing media franc- Series: Science of
- Author: Brake, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1510757880
- Language: English
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Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
$16.00 Read moreIn this bestselling tour de force of a culinary manifesto, Great British Bake Off alum and former Guardian columnist Ruby Tandoh will help you fall back in love with food–from a great selection of re… [more below]
- Author: Tandoh, Ruby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593466810
- Language: English
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Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction
$38.00 Read moreAs defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditio
- Series: Integrative Natural History Series, Sponsored by Texas Resea
- Author: Gruesser, John Cullen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430201
- Language: English
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Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe
$26.95 Read moreInsightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist’s everyday conversations with his fellow humans–taxi drivers, to be pr
- Author: Cockell, Charles S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271831
- Language: English
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Gerhard Richter: Painting After the Subject of History
$49.95 Read moreThe first full-scale monographic study in English of one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century.
In this first full-scale monograph in English on the German painter- Series: October Books
- Author: Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543532
- Language: English
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Missing Time: Essays
$16.00 Read moreOver the past few years, Ari M. Brostoff has grappled with the intellectual upheavals and political contradictions that surfaced during the Trump era. Missing Time collects five remarkable essays and … [more below]
- Author: Brostoff, Ari M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953813046
- Language: English
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Fables for Our Time
$15.99 Add to cart“These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us humans how we really are, are completely uproarious.” –The Saturday Review of Literature
James Thurber has been called “one of our grea
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0060909994
- Language: English
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A Short Philosophy of Birds
$19.99 Read more“This little book does a beautiful job of inspiring awe for the capacities of birds and applying lessons from their lives to the struggles of humanity”
— Wall Street Journal“Brilliant, magical and en
- Author: DuBois, Philippe J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 006294567X
- Language: English
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Don’t!: Misadventures of a Sword Guy
$22.99 Read moreLarger Than Life Swords – and Larger Than Life Injuries
Micheal Craughwell’s homemade weapons were an overwhelming success the moment they hit the Internet, from his replica of Cloud Strife’s sword to- Author: Craughwell, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1645678784
- Language: English
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Walden: Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenbourg
$28.00 Read moreBy virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 11 1993
- ISBN10: 0679418962
- Language: English
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The Gardener’s Bed-Book: Short and Long Pieces to Be Read in Bed by Those Who Love Green Growing Things
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1929, The Gardener’s Bed-Book is a much beloved gardening classic by the renowned editor of House & Garden magazine in the 1920s and ’30s. Each of its 365 perfectly sized little ess… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Gardening
- Author: Wright, Richardson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968735
- Language: English
