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Loot
$18.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION – A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exube… [more below]
- Author: James, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469658
- Language: English
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Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education
$18.00 Read moreMuch has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the curve-… [more below]
- Author: Paglia, Camille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433864
- Language: English
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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
$19.00 Add to cartPrior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South
- Author: Polakow-Suransky, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0307388506
- Language: English
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The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation
$13.00 Read moreA monumental work of moral and political philosophy, a book surpassed only by the Bible in its formative influence on two thousand years of Western thought.
What does it mean to be good? What enables… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733876
- Language: English
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Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror
$20.00 Add to cartDuring the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg – an American Jew – served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. … [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0375726705
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
$19.00 Add to cartA Washington Post Notable Book
In this brilliant and original exploration of some of the formative influences in Adolf Hi
With a new chapter on eugenicist Madison Grant’s The Passing of the Great Race- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307455262
- Language: English
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The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality?
“Lightman…belongs to a noble trad- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469410
- Language: English
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Alexander the Great
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the towering hero of the classical world: a fearless general, the conqueror of the Persians, and the visionary ruler of a vast empire–from one of the world’s foremost scho… [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1400079195
- Language: English
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The Folded Clock: A Diary
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Rereading her childhood diaries, Heidi Julavits hoped to find incontrovertible proof that she was always destined to be a writer. Instead, they “revealed me to possess th- Author: Julavits, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0804171440
- Language: English
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Requiem for a Nun
$18.00 Add to cartThis sequel to Faulkner’s most sensational, Sanctuary, was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in Sanctuary. Temple is now married to
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Faulkner, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0307946800
- Language: English
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Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return
$18.00 Read moreA moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land–this is a “winsome memoir of d… [more below]
- Author: Mead, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593081242
- Language: English
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Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography
$24.00 Add to cartNeil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life – unt… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0679750967
- Language: English
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The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
$20.00 Add to cart“A startling argument . . . provocative . . . absorbing.” —The Boston Globe
“Ambitious . . . arresting . . . celebrates the importance of hands to our lives today as well as to the history of our spe- Author: Wilson, Frank R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 14 1999
- ISBN10: 0679740473
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 067972463X
- Language: English
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The Hour of Our Death: The Classic History of Western Attitudes Toward Death Over the Last One Thousand Years
$26.00 Add to cartAn “absolutely magnificent” book (The New Republic)–the fruit of almost two decades of study–that traces the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to … [more below]
- Author: Aries, Philippe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0394751566
- Language: English
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Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
$20.00 Add to cartThis brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter.Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developmen… [more below]
- Series: Anchor Library of Science
- Author: Drexler, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 16 1987
- ISBN10: 0385199732
- Language: English
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Foxfire 7
$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) #7
- Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: March 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0385152442
- Language: English
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You Can Count on Me: A Screenplay
$16.00 Add to cartAcclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s You Can Count on Me is one of the most highly praised independent films of recent years, earning many of the major screenplay awards.
This is the lovingly drawn- Author: Lonergan, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0375713921
- Language: English
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Living with Our Genes: The Groundbreaking Book About the Science of Personality, Behavior, and Genetic Destiny
$20.00 Add to cart“A lucid, thought-provoking account of the case for ‘nature’ as a determinant of personality.”–Peter D. Kramer, Author of Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?
Nowhere is the nature-nurture cont- Author: Hamer, Dean H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: February 16 1999
- ISBN10: 0385485840
- Language: English
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Refusing Heaven: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. I… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 037571085X
- Language: English
