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A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now
$31.99 Add to cartCollectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, and considered great public benefactors. But collectors have also been seen as dangerous obsessives who love objects to
- Author: Delbourgo, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0393541967
- Language: English
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartIn this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays–Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Mo
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 132410516X
- Language: English
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
$31.99 Add to cart“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsul
- Author: Ansfield, Bench
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 132409351X
- Language: English
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The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
$19.99 Add to cartThe Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation’s culture and history. Its watershed spans almost half the country, Mark Twain’s travel
- Author: Upholt, Boyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110473
- Language: English
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Alice in Wonderland: A Norton Critical Edition
$18.74 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The texts and original illustrations from the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass as well as the 1878 edition of The
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324059605
- Language: English
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What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution
$29.99 Add to cartFood in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted, and upended by queer creatives. Beloved food writer John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channeling the twin forces of cr
- Author: Birdsall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324073799
- Language: English
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Doggerel: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartReginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic–but equally rich–lens: dogs.
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324089253
- Language: English
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$26.99 Add to cartIn this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre.
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036508
- Language: English
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
$29.99 Add to cartThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881105
- Language: English
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What We Value: The Neuroscience of Choice and Change
$29.99 Add to cartWith so many competing priorities pulling us in different directions every day–family, friends, work, our health–it can feel difficult to make decisions that are aligned with what we care about most
- Author: Falk, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324037091
- Language: English
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The Collaboration Book: A Guide to Achieving Great Things Together
$17.99 Add to cartWhat makes a great team?
How do we reach consensus and have better meetings?
And what should we do when a group isn’t working?The Collaboration Book shows us how to work as a cohesive unit, breakin
- Author: Krogerus, Mikael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075376
- Language: English
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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940
$15.95 Add to cartMarc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless “brought to his study o
- Author: Bloch, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319113
- Language: English
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The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra
$37.99 Add to cartAlexander the Great and Cleopatra may be two of the most famous figures from the ancient world, but the Egyptian era bookended by their lives–the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC)–is little known. In The
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324052031
- Language: English
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Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality
$29.99 Add to cartOur nation’s transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in
- Author: Archer, Deborah N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092130
- Language: English
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Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen
$35.00 Add to cartAs the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, Marie Mitchell cooks to understand and celebrate recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation. In Kin, her hotly anticipated debut cookbook,
- Author: Mitchell, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324089210
- Language: English
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Imagination: A Manifesto
$12.00 Add to cartA world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. Work that doesn’t strangle the life out of people? Naive. A society where everyone has food, shelter, lo
- Author: Benjamin, Ruha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105011
- Language: English
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Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare
$29.99 Add to cartAlexander Lemons is a Marine Corps scout sniper who, after serving multiple tours during the Iraq War, returned home seriously and mysteriously ill. Joshua Howe is an environmental historian who met L
- Author: Howe, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324066334
- Language: English
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How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
$32.99 Add to cart“Art has poisoned our life,” proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-
- Author: Falconer, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051426
- Language: English
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A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation
$21.99 Add to cartThe first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks r
- Author: Lukeman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329801
- Language: English
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Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star
$29.99 Add to cartMerle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that “launched a thousand ships,” a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and f
- Author: Sen, Mayukh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050810
- Language: English
