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His Excellency: George Washington
$20.00 Read moreNational Bestseller
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400032539
- Language: English
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the- Author: Hofstadter, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 12 1966
- ISBN10: 0394703170
- Language: English
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Boris Godunov, Little Tragedies, and Others: The Complete Plays
$17.00 Read moreThe award-winning translators bring us the complete plays of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era.
Known as the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin was celebrated for his- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Pushkin, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593467566
- Language: English
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Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939
$27.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – This landmark biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs.
“[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how t- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1101872055
- Language: English
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$25.00 Add to cartOne of the most acclaimed books of our time–the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel Jo- Author: Sheehan, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: September 19 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724141
- Language: English
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
$16.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles “big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness … in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal)… [more below]
- Author: Lightman, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593081323
- Language: English
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From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
$16.00 Add to cartAfter two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the story of his remarkable journey and … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Seth, Vikram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 12 1987
- ISBN10: 039475218X
- Language: English
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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
$26.00 Add to cartFounder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and … [more below]
- Author: Bushman, Richard Lyman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 1400077532
- Language: English
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The Foucault Reader
$20.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary critici… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394713400
- Language: English
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Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
$20.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A collection of provocative essays exploring the key social justice issues of our time–from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality and the Supreme Court.
- Author: Kennedy, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593313364
- Language: English
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Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
$30.00 Add to cartOne of the Best Books of the Year
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can su
* The Economist * The Christian Science Monitor * Financial Times *- Author: Gardiner, John Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1400031435
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
$16.95 Add to cartThe further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”– the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappe- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 28 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722122
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language
$18.00 Add to cartMadness, sexuality, power, knowledge–are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 1982
- ISBN10: 0394711068
- Language: English
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
$18.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2012 Cundill Prize in History
A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unfor… [more below]- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 11 2012
- ISBN10: 0307472213
- Language: English
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
$16.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. … [more below]
- Author: Kristof, Nicholas D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0525564179
- Language: English
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The Summer Friend: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreAlive with the intoxicating magic of summer in New England, former editor of the New York Times Book Review Charles McGrath’s evocative memoir looks back at that sun-soaked season, at family, youth, a… [more below]
- Author: McGrath, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 593466489
- Language: English
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The Journalist and the Murderer
$18.00 Add to cartA seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm del… [more below]
- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0679731830
- Language: English
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Samba
$20.00 Add to cartTo the 70 million poor of Brazil, dreaming and planning for Carnival is an upside down ritual for exorcising their pain–a brilliant cultural and sexual release in which sequins are brighter than diam… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures #0000
- Author: Guillermoprieto, Alma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 1991
- ISBN10: 067973256X
- Language: English
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Five Modern No Plays
$22.00 Add to cartFive No plays–one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world–from one of Japan’s outstanding post-war writers. – “Mishima’s is a wonderful, astonishing, and frightening c… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0307473112
- Language: English
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Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America’s Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt
$19.00 Read more“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer wh… [more below]
- Author: Barbarisi, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0525566112
- Language: English
