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A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
$21.95 Add to cartBorn in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included
- Author: Curtis, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052082
- Language: English
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Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story of the Refugee Crisis
$15.95 Add to cartSituated more than one hundred miles off Italy’s southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African an
- Author: Bartolo, Pietro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393356558
- Language: English
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This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm
$15.95 Add to cartThe family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-gener
- Author: Genoways, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356450
- Language: English
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Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-Created
$18.99 Add to cartInterweaving archaeology and science, Patrick E. McGovern tells the enthralling story of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and the cultures that created them. Humans invented heady concoctions, e
- Author: McGovern, Patrick E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356442
- Language: English
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The Brewer’s Tale: A History of the World According to Beer
$16.95 Add to cartThe Brewer’s Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer’s quest to bring them–and their ancient, forgotten beers–back to life, one taste at a time… [more below]
- Author: Bostwick, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351998
- Language: English
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The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human
$17.95 Add to cartIn this landmark work, V. S. Ramachandran investigates strange, unforgettable cases–from patients who believe they are dead to sufferers of phantom limb syndrome. With a storyteller’s eye for compell
- Author: Ramachandran, V. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340627
- Language: English
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Thinking in an Emergency
$19.99 Add to cartIn Thinking in an Emergency, Elaine Scarry lays bare the realities of emergency politics and emphasizes what she sees as the ultimate ethical concern: equality of survival. She reveals how regular cit
- Series: Amnesty International Global Ethics #0
- Author: Scarry, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340589
- Language: English
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Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives
$22.99 Add to cartThe brain’s power is confirmed and touted every day in new studies and research. And yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting that those masses of hard-working neurons might not … [more below]
- Author: Fine, Cordelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331636
- Language: English
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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
$31.99 Add to cartNoted jazz author Ashley Kahn brings to life the behind-the-scenes story of Impulse Records, one of the most significant record labels in the history of popular music. “Kahn mingles engaging stories o… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330710
- Language: English
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Sciatica Solutions: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Cure of Spinal and Piriformis Problems
$20.99 Add to cartSciatica is the feeling of pain, numbness, “electric shocks,” or strange sensations in the seat and running down the leg. It will afflict some five million Americans this year. In easy-to-understand t
- Author: Ardman, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330419
- Language: English
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How to Read Foucault
$18.99 Add to cartMichel Foucault was a philosopher of extraordinary talent, political activist, social theorist, cultural critic, and creative historian. He irreversibly shaped the way we think today about such contro
- Series: How to Read #0
- Author: Oksala, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393328198
- Language: English
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
$28.99 Add to cartIn a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tel… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 039332754X
- Language: English
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Victorians
$40.99 Add to cartAs one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers,
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 738
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325431
- Language: English
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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
$18.95 Read moreIn The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon–what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues t
- Author: White, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022124
- Language: English
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Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
$26.95 Add to cartWho’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an in
- Author: Sen, Mayukh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1324004517
- Language: English
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
$17.99 Read moreNew attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 132407521X
- Language: English
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Difficult Students and Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom: Teacher Responses That Work
$39.99 Add to cartDifficult Students and Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom provides skills-based interventions for educators to address the most common problem behaviors encountered in the classroom. Offering not ju
- Author: Austin, Vance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0393707547
- Language: English
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Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and Their Families
$50.99 Add to cartThis book describes a basic theory of collaborative narrative play, as well as verbal and nonverbal techniques that clear the way for stories of hope, possibility, and change. Compelling case examples… [more below]
- Series: Norton Professional Books (Hardcover)
- Author: Epston, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0393702294
- Language: English
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The Intimate Edge: Extending the Reach of Psychoanalytic Interaction
$25.99 Add to cartUsing vivid case examples, she looks at the “intimate edge”, intense encounters and playfulness in a way that is based in traditional psychoanalytic thought and yet open to the possibilities of the mo… [more below]
- Author: Ehrenberg, Darlene Bregman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: June 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0393701409
- Language: English
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Stories for the Third Ear: Using Hypnotic Fables in Psychotherapy
$22.99 Add to cartThis book includes a step-by-step preparation for clients’ receptivity to the stories, describing how rapport can be established and resistance lowered during the initial sessions of hypnotherapy. The… [more below]
- Author: Wallas, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0393700194
- Language: English
