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Brazil: A Biography
$30.99 Add to cartA sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extrao- Author: Schwarcz, Lilia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538484
- Language: English
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Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most lyrically gifted and socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a firsthand account of hip-hop as a political force
Before Talib Kweli became a world-r- Author: Kweli, Talib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787386
- Language: English
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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco
$24.00 Add to cartImagine a pied piper singing in falsetto, wearing sequins, and leading the young people of the nation to San Francisco and on to a liberation where nothing was straight-laced or old-fashioned. And eve
- Author: Gamson, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0312425694
- Language: English
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
$25.00 Add to cart“An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one.” –Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
“The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully writte- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 125082964X
- Language: English
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Sting in the Tale
$22.00 Add to cartA FACINATING TRAVEL MEMOIR THAT WILL ALTER THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THE BUMBLEBEE
Dave Goulson became obsessed with wildlife as a small boy growing up in rural Shropshire, starting with an increasingly- Author: Goulson, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 125007097X
- Language: English
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What about the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction
$17.00 Add to cartA collection of essays, lectures, and observations on the art of writing fiction from Alice McDermott, winner of the National Book Award and unmatched “virtuoso of language and image” (Rebecca Steinit
- Author: McDermott, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849225
- Language: English
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Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
$22.00 Add to cartIn the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain’s relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world.
When Britain voted to leave the- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872197
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life
$38.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in t- Author: Nusseibeh, Sari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427107
- Language: English
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
$25.99 Add to cartIn a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expos of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in The Impuni
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420315
- Language: English
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Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
$20.00 Add to cartA wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of post-World War II myths of the “good war.”
“Essential reading. This eloquent, far-ranging analysis of the national p- Author: Samet, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859085
- Language: English
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The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers
$36.99 Add to cartOne of TIME‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Longlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize.
“[Mark] Gevisser is clear-eyed and wise enough to have a sharp sense of how tough the struggle has been, and h- Author: Gevisser, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798590
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.
There is- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250114055
- Language: English
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Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
$20.00 Read moreWandering through Paris’s Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited hi… [more below]
- Author: Mercer, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0312347405
- Language: English
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Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World
$18.00 Add to cart“An essential document of our time.” –Charles D’Ambrosio, author of Loitering
In search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailbla- Author: Wells, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849381
- Language: English
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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
$22.00 Add to cart“Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014. It is hard to imagi
- Author: Farmer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800234
- Language: English
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
$21.99 Add to cartPreviously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, this is an updated edition of Greil Marcus’s acclaimed book on the secret music made
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0312572913
- Language: English
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How Markets Fail: The Rise and Fall of Free Market Economics
$20.00 Add to cartIn How Markets Fail, veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 2008 financial crisis–now with a new preface addressin
- Author: Cassidy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250781280
- Language: English
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How to Find Fulfilling Work
$18.00 Add to cartA practical and inspirational guide to examining your career and deciding whether it truly makes you happy–this book will show you the steps it takes to find a job that truly makes you thrive.
The des- Series: School of Life
- Author: Krznaric, Roman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250030692
- Language: English
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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
$18.00 Add to cartSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
One of Fortune Best Books of the Year
One of Inc. Best Business Books of the Year
One of The Times (UK) Best Business Books o- Author: Susskind, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250808251
- Language: English
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The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times perfume critic, a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insider’s view of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents.
No journali- Author: Burr, Chandler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0312425775
- Language: English
