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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
$26.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE RECOMMENDED BOOK
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062101
- Language: English
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Lives Other Than My Own
$19.00 Add to cartSELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
“You begin this memoir thinking it will be about one thing, and it turns into something else altogether–a book at onc- Author: Carrere, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013771
- Language: English
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Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
$20.00 Add to cartPhilosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.
Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacani- Series: Big Ideas//Small Books
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427182
- Language: English
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Dry: A Memoir
$20.00 Read moreThe Tenth Anniversary Edition of the New York Times bestselling book that has sold over half a million copies in paperback.
“I was addicted to “Bewitched” as a kid. I worshipped Darren Stevens the Fir- Author: Burroughs, Augusten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 125003440X
- Language: English
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Conversations with Rbg: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law
$18.00 Add to cartIn her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.
This remarkabl- Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1250762642
- Language: English
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
$26.99 Add to cartAn immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran’s glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah’s widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1250304857
- Language: English
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Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of “dirty work”–the work that society considers essential but morally compromised
Drone pilots- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849349
- Language: English
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As It Turns Out: Thinking about Edie and Andy
$18.00 Add to cartThe story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life.
As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice- Author: Wohl, Alice Sedgwick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872790
- Language: English
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The Transcendentalists and Their World
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the eminent and award-winning historian Robert A. Gross comes his long-awaited, immersive journey through Concord in the age of Emerson and Thoreau, The Transcendentalists and Their World.
One of- Author: Gross, Robert a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859077
- Language: English
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A Woman’s Battles and Transformations
$16.00 Add to cartA Woman’s Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.
One day, ﾉdouard Louis fi- Author: Louis, Édouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872154
- Language: English
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Midnight in Sicily: On Art, Feed, History, Travel and La Cosa Nostra
$23.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From the author of M and A Death in Brazil comes Midnight in Sicily. South of mainland Italy lies- Author: Robb, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0312426844
- Language: English
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Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture
$30.00 Read more“Remarkable.” –Hamish Bowles, Vogue
Miss Dior is a story of freedom and fascism, beauty an
The overdue restoration of Catherine Dior’s extraordinary life, from her brother’s muse to Holocaust survivor- Author: Picardie, Justine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858844
- Language: English
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
$30.00 Add to cartAlex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern ar
- Author: Ross, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800080
- Language: English
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High School
$18.00 Read moreNOW AN 8-EPISODE FREEVEE TELEVISION SERIES! — From the iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their
- Author: Quin, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1250758181
- Language: English
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Argumentative Indian
$28.99 Add to cartIn sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India’s intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy
- Author: Sen, Amartya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 031242602X
- Language: English
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The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London
$19.00 Add to cartThe first behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world’s eeriest monument
The ravens at the Tower of London are of mighty importance: rumor has it that if a raven from the- Author: Skaife, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 125023493X
- Language: English
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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Version 2.0, with a New Afterword)
$25.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller – Los Angeles Times Bestseller
One of The Wall Street Journal‘s 10 Books to Read Now – One of Kirkus Reviews‘s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year – One of Publishers Weekly- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141222
- Language: English
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The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
$19.00 Add to cartAn Architectural Record Notable Book
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between h
A fascinating, thought-provoking journey into our built environment- Author: Anthes, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798817
- Language: English
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Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968
$20.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for non
- Author: Ricks, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872529
- Language: English
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
$20.00 Add to cartCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pin- Author: Pinckney, Darryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1250893550
- Language: English
