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Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
$22.00 Add to cartThis wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the fight to implement it–and its implica
- Author: Motley, Constance Baker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0374526184
- Language: English
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The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes
$13.00 Add to cartThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the Greeks marooned on
- Author: Heaney, Seamus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 04 1991
- ISBN10: 0374522898
- Language: English
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Mystics and Zen Masters
$17.00 Add to cartThomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russia
- Author: Merton, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0374520011
- Language: English
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Chairs Are Where the People Go
$19.00 Add to cartShould neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why isn’t making the city m
- Author: Glouberman, Misha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0865479453
- Language: English
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Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music
$44.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave musicians looked back instead, trying to recover the los- Author: Young, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0865478562
- Language: English
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
$26.99 Add to cartA fully updated edition of David J. Skal’s Hollywood Gothic, “The ultimate book on Dracula” (Newsweek).
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the moder- Author: Skal, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0571211585
- Language: English
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The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973
$18.00 Add to cartThe Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 is an expanded edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning provocative poetry collection that crossed the line between art and life.
I have sat and listened to too many
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- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0374538271
- Language: English
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Walking Out on the Boys
$21.00 Add to cartIn May 1991, Frances K. Conley, the first female tenured professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headline news when she resigned from Stanford University to protest the medical school’s unabash
- Author: Conley, Frances K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0374525951
- Language: English
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Derek Walcott Collected Poems 1948-1984
$34.99 Add to cartThis remarkable collection, which won the 1986 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, includes most of the poems from each of Derek Walcott’s seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiogr
- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 515
- Publish Date: January 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520259
- Language: English
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Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet
$30.99 Add to cartDelmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined.
Delmore Schwartz was only tw- Author: Atlas, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539146
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz
$50.00 Read moreThe first complete collection of the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, “the most underrated poet of the twentieth century” (John Berryman).
When Delmore Schwartz published his first short story, “In Dreams- Author: Schwartz, Delmore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0374604304
- Language: English
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Retromania
$32.99 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake- Author: Reynolds, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0865479941
- Language: English
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Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins
$15.00 Add to cartIn this first play from the award-winning memoirist and poet Nick Flynn, four strangers meet during a blackout on a New York City sidewalk. Gideon finds himself locked out of his apartment, stranded o
- Author: Flynn, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: July 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0865479852
- Language: English
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The Hypochondriacs
$21.99 Add to cartCharlotte Bront found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body
- Author: Dillon, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0865479461
- Language: English
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Detroit: A Play
$19.00 Add to cartIn a “first ring” suburb outside a midsize American city, Ben and Mary fire up the grill to welcome the new neighbors who’ve moved into the long-empty house next door. The fledgling friendship soon ve
- Author: D’Amour, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0865478651
- Language: English
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
$22.00 Add to cart“Smart, funny, clear, unflinching: Ben Goldacre is my hero.” –Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and Bonk
We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and cli- Author: Goldacre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0865478066
- Language: English
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A Serious Man
$16.00 Add to cartIt is 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him since she has fallen in love with one of his more p
- Author: Coen, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0571255329
- Language: English
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The Brothers Vonnegut: Science and Fiction in the House of Magic
$23.99 Add to cartWorlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut
In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenect- Author: Strand, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536538
- Language: English
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Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
$23.99 Add to cartThe dramatic history of America’s tropical paradise
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals–from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy- Author: Moore, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536171
- Language: English
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Passage to Ararat
$23.99 Add to cartIn Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exile
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Arlen, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530122
- Language: English
