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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
$18.99 Read moreConfessing to “familiarity with the devils,” Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her ne
- Author: Karlsen, Carol F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0393317595
- Language: English
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Now We’re Getting Somewhere: Poems
$15.95 Read moreKim Addonizio’s sharp and irreverent eighth volume, Now We’re Getting Somewhere, is an essential companion to your practice of the Finnish art of kalsarik?nit–drinking at home, alone in your underwea
- Author: Addonizio, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021942
- Language: English
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
$18.95 Read moreThe epic history of the “iron men in wooden boats” who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville proclaimed,… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331571
- Language: English
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The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary
$150.00 Add to cartA masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compa… [more below]
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 3500
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0393292495
- Language: English
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American Bulk: Essays on Excess
$17.99 Add to cartAmericans are caught up in bulk. We guiltily watch Amazon boxes pile up on the porch, wade through endless reviews to find the perfect product, and crave the comforting indulgence of a chain restauran
- Author: Mester, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035234
- Language: English
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Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can’t Stop Eating Food That Isn’t Food
$18.99 Add to cartIt’s not you, it’s the food.
We have entered a new age of eating. For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food. Th
- Author: Van Tulleken, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324076267
- Language: English
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The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering
$32.50 Add to cartWhether in the name of conquest, science, or the divine, humans across the centuries have had myriad reasons to climb mountains. From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges o
- Author: Light, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066210
- Language: English
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Life’s Short, Talk Fast: Fifteen Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls
$17.99 Add to cartFast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Conn
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079452
- Language: English
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Munichs
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young group of star players nicknamed the “Busby Babes”
- Author: Peace, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086262
- Language: English
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Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
$29.99 Add to cartBenjamin Franklin was one of the preeminent scientists of his time. Driven by curiosity, he conducted cutting-edge research on electricity, heat, ocean currents, weather patterns, chemical bonds, and
- Author: Munson, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882233
- Language: English
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Norse Mythology: The Illustrated Edition
$35.00 Add to cartIn this dazzling, illustrated edition of the instant classic that has sold more than a million copies, award-winning illustrator Levi Pinfold brings Neil Gaiman’s bravura rendition of the Norse gods a
- Author: Gaiman, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086505
- Language: English
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Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals
$17.99 Read moreAll tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave entrepreneurs, botanists, distillers, beverage distributor
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076100
- Language: English
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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans–then imperiled aga
- Author: Smee, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006951
- Language: English
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Whale Fall: Poems
$26.95 Read moreAcclaimed as an essential voice of the American Midwest, David Baker expands both his environment and his form in his eleventh collection. Whale Fall is about time, measured in the wingbeats of a humm
- Author: Baker, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020636
- Language: English
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Totem and Taboo
$15.95 Read moreAdducing evidence from “primitive” tribes, neurotic women, child patients traversing the oedipal phase, and speculations by Charles Darwin, James G. Frazer, and other modern scholars, Freud attempts t… [more below]
- Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud #0
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0393001431
- Language: English
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The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War
$17.99 Read moreAmong the best books ever written about men in combat, The Killing Zone tells the story of the platoon of Delta One-six, capturing what it meant to face lethal danger, to follow orders, and to search … [more below]
- Author: Downs, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0393310892
- Language: English
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The Golden Ocean
$25.99 Add to cartIn the year 1740, Commodore (later Admiral) George Anson embarked on a voyage that would become one of the most famous exploits in British naval history. Sailing through poorly charted waters, Anson a… [more below]
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17 1996
- ISBN10: 0393315371
- Language: English
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
$16.95 Read moreDrawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy–as well as the author’s own experience of life on three continents–Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a p… [more below]
- Series: Issues of Our Time (Norton Paperback) #0
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 039332933X
- Language: English
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What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained
$16.95 Read more“Wolke, longtime professor of chemistry and author of the Washington Post column Food 101, turns his hand to a Cecil Adams style compendium of questions and answers on food chemistry. Is there really
- Author: Wolke, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393329429
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
$20.00 Read moreThis incisive interpretation of American foreign policy ranks as a classic in American thought. First published in 1959, the book offered an analysis of the wellsprings of American foreign policy that… [more below]
- Author: Williams, William Appleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334740
- Language: English
