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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
$14.99 Add to cartExamining the psyche–and psychoses–of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power an
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356973
- Language: English
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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
$21.99 Add to cartA new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives–and cause profound disruptions in the balance of globa
- Author: Scharre, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074779
- Language: English
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Bones: Inside and Out
$17.95 Read moreHuman bone is versatile and entirely unique: it repairs itself without scarring, it’s lightweight but responds to stresses, and it’s durable enough to survive for millennia. In Bones, orthopedic surge
- Author: Meals, Roy A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868257
- Language: English
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The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
$20.00 Add to cartIn the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard’s life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the “Dean of American
- Author: Birdsall, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020245
- Language: English
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Hold Fast
$16.95 Read moreIt’s 1803. The Napoleonic Wars are raging, Britain is on her heels, and His Majesty’s Secret Service has just lost its best agent, Thomas Grey. Deeply depressed by his wife’s untimely death, Grey resi
- Series: A Thomas Grey Novel #1
- Author: Gelernter, J. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882470
- Language: English
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Wound Is the Origin of Wonder: Poems
$26.95 Read moreAward-winning poet Maya C. Popa suggests that our restless desires are inseparable from our mortality in this pressing and precise collection. Rooting out profound meaning in language to wrench us fro
- Author: Popa, Maya C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021365
- Language: English
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The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
$17.95 Read moreIn The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca, representative selections from Seneca’s writings offer the reader an excellent introduction to the range of his work.
The selections are drawn from the essays, or di… [more below]
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 1968
- ISBN10: 0393004597
- Language: English
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The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
$19.95 Read moreThe Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettab… [more below]
- Author: Hölldobler, Bert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338681
- Language: English
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Desolation Island
$16.95 Read moreCommissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautif
- Series: Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback) #5
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 17 1991
- ISBN10: 039330812X
- Language: English
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Blandings Castle
$13.95 Read moreWelcome to Blandings Castle, home of the well-intentioned but often distracted Lord Emsworth–and there are quite a few distractions at this stately country house. Head gardener Angus McAllister has r
- Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0393341623
- Language: English
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The Self-Compassion Skills Workbook: A 14-Day Plan to Transform Your Relationship with Yourself
$26.99 Read moreDo you struggle with stress or negativity? Learn how self-compassion can help you find greater health, peace, emotional stability, and joy. Cutting-edge research shows that self-compassion is not only
- Author: Desmond, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0393712184
- Language: English
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The World Behind the World: Poems
$26.95 Read moreBalancing emotional openness with formal restraint, April Bernard proves once again a poet who “harmonizes the raucous and the classic, the songful and the wry, the courtly and the quick” (Wayne Koest
- Author: Bernard, April
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036206
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$32.00 Read moreThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005939
- Language: English
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Site Fidelity: Stories
$25.95 Read moreFirmly rooted in the modern American West, Site Fidelity follows women and families who feel the instinctual, inexplicable pull of a home they must work to protect from the effects of economic inequit
- Author: Boyles, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0393531821
- Language: English
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
$20.00 Read moreIn this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The new
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021802
- Language: English
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Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems
$30.00 Read moreIn poems of graceful lyricism and penetrating observation, award-winning poet Linda Pastan sheds new light on the complexities of ordinary life and the rising tide of mortality. Drawing from Pastan’s
- Author: Pastan, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021497
- Language: English
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The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
$19.99 Add to cartThe Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms … [more below]
- Author: Eisner, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328600
- Language: English
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life
$12.95 Read moreThere was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line a
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 039333113X
- Language: English
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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don’ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures
$24.95 Read moreIn today’s data-driven world, professionals need to know how to express themselves in the language of graphics effectively and eloquently. Yet information graphics is rarely taught in schools or is th… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Dona M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 16 2013
- ISBN10: 0393347281
- Language: English
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Mexican Hat: A Kevin Kerney Novel
$15.95 Read moreWith his dazzling debut, Tularosa, Michael McGarrity was hailed “a born storyteller” (Denver Post)–and introduced readers to a memorable new hero, ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney. Now, f
- Series: Kevin Kerney Novels #2
- Author: McGarrity, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 19 2009
- ISBN10: 0393333981
- Language: English
