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Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
$25.99 Add to cartPhilosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist S ren Kierkegaard’s life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world.
S ren- Author: Carlisle, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798426
- Language: English
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Silver Swan
$25.99 Add to cartMen who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebell
- Author: Bingham, Sallie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787335
- Language: English
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Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang
$22.00 Add to cartA PERFECT COMPANION READ TO THE SHOWTIME DOCUMENTARY, WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN
Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire
Couldn’t put it down. – Charlamagne Tha God
Mesmerizing. – Raekwon da C- Author: Hawkins, Lamont U-God
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250191173
- Language: English
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The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves
$18.00 Add to cartIn this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition
While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429576
- Language: English
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The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums
$18.00 Add to cartIn short, gloriously inventive essays, the Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach’s The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected world
Humans, please turn your gu- Author: Leach, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858852
- Language: English
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Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires
$18.00 Add to cartA dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires.
Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and- Author: Lowe, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849217
- Language: English
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Model Citizen
$18.00 Add to cartThe intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr–writer, father, alcoholic, addict.
Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. Every now and again she rips the pick out of m- Author: Mohr, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829488
- Language: English
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves
$25.99 Add to cartGiles Milton’s White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco.
“An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose.” –Simon W- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1250778239
- Language: English
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Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning historian of the Holocaust, Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 is the first book to move beyond Germany’s singular crime to the collaboration of Europe as a whole.
The Holocaust- Author: Aly, Götz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250787645
- Language: English
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Can Democracy Work?
$23.99 Add to cart“Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experim
- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234670
- Language: English
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The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals about Our Power to Change Others
$18.99 Add to cartA cutting-edge, research-based inquiry into how we influence those around us, and how understanding the brain can help us change minds for the better.
In The Influential Mind, neuroscientist Tali Sha- Author: Sharot, Tali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 125015961X
- Language: English
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Bug Music
$21.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 2013, the cicadas in the Northeastern United States emerged from their seventeen-year cycle–the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experienced this great sonic invasio
- Author: Rothenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1250045053
- Language: English
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The Antelope’s Strategy
$20.00 Add to cartOne hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into the sunshine, singing hallelujahs, their freedom grant
- Author: Hatzfeld, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429371
- Language: English
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Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People
$20.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE
An alternately charming and harrowing account of over 50 years of one remarkable native Alaskan’s life – from living off the land north of the Arctic Circl- Author: Hensley, William L. Iggiagruk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429363
- Language: English
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Indian Summer
$34.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, lib- Author: Von Tunzelmann, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0312428111
- Language: English
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Coyote V. Acme
$17.00 Read moreTwenty-two side-splitting glimpses into some oddball corners of the American mind from bestselling author Ian Frazier.
The title essay of Coyote v. Acme, Frazier’s second collection of humorous essay- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420587
- Language: English
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartThis third essay collection by America’s leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420080
- Language: English
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On the Rez
$23.99 Add to cartOn the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlan
- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0312278594
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
$33.00 Add to cartYang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.
As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the h- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829704
- Language: English
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On Wanting to Change
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the UK’s foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.
We live in a world in which we are invited to change–to become our best selves through po- Author: Phillips, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0374172048
- Language: English
