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Norse Mythology
$15.95 Add to cartNeil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheava
- Author: Gaiman, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356183
- Language: English
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The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
$20.00 Add to cartThe Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this
- Author: Smith, Benjamin T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021829
- Language: English
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The Overstory
$18.95 Add to cartThe Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of–and paean to–the natural world. From the
- Author: Powers, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 02, 2019
- ISBN10: 039335668X
- Language: English
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The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life
$19.99 Add to cartGame theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It’s the art of anticipating your opponent’s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game th… [more below]
- Author: Dixit, Avinash K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 393337170
- Language: English
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Adjustment Day
$16.95 Read moreAdjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357074
- Language: English
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
$18.95 Read moreBrian Greene, one of the world’s leading string theorists, peels away layers of mystery to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions, where the fabric of space tears and repairs itself, and
- Author: Greene, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11, 2010
- ISBN10: 039333810X
- Language: English
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Invisible Monsters
$15.95 Add to cartShe’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway “accident” leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beauti
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01, 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355950
- Language: English
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Fight Club
$16.99 Add to cartChuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club‘s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler
- Author: Palahniuk, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355942
- Language: English
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Playground
$19.99 Add to cartFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beauli
- Author: Powers, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1324123737
- Language: English
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The Mauritius Command
$15.95 Add to cartThe year is 1810 and Great Britain is again at war with France. British naval officer Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command, living in domestic bliss with his young family–until… [more below]
- Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #4
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541614
- Language: English
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Feminine Psychology
$22.99 Add to cartIn this collection of papers, many previously unavailable in English, she brings to the subject of femininity her acute clinical observations and a rigorous testing of both her own hypotheses and thos… [more below]
- Series: Norton Library (Paperback)
- Author: Horney, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: July 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0393310809
- Language: English
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The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles
$21.99 Add to cartIn a book that is “a must for anyone who has loved a motorcycle” (Oliver Sacks), Melissa Pierson captures in vivid, writerly prose the mysterious attractions of motorcycling. She sifts through myth an… [more below]
- Author: Pierson, Melissa Holbrook
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0393318095
- Language: English
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
$18.99 Add to cartA young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352609
- Language: English
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
$14.95 Add to cartRichard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon–a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggerin… [more below]
- Author: Hugo, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 09 2010
- ISBN10: 039333872X
- Language: English
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M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
$15.95 Read moreIn 1936, teenager MacNolia Cox became the first African American finalist in the National Spelling Bee Competition. Supposedly prevented from winning, the precocious child who dreamed of becoming a do… [more below]
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393327647
- Language: English
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
$17.95 Add to cartAt last! A new edition of the economics book that won’t put you to sleep. In fact, you won’t be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of studen
- Author: Wheelan, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356493
- Language: English
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Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
$19.95 Add to cartOur true origins are not only human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Orig
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0393866882
- Language: English
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Forever Island
$19.99 Add to cartIn a corner of the Big Cypress Swamp, to the north of the Florida Everglades, lives Charlie Jumper, and eighty-six-year-old Seminole man. Unlike the younger American Indians who have adopted white civ
- Author: Smith, Patrick D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: October 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0393336913
- Language: English
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Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History
$49.99 Add to cartEvangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to ar… [more below]
- Author: White, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345238
- Language: English
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Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us
$24.00 Add to cartSince Stephen Porges first proposed the Polyvagal Theory in 1994, its basic idea–that the level of safety we feel impacts our health and happiness–has radically shifted how researchers and clinician
- Author: Porges, Stephen W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1324030259
- Language: English
