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The Book of Men
$17.99 Add to cartDorianne Laux’s fifth collection of poetry peels back time to the summer of love and the Vietnam War. Her keen hindsight uncovers the humanity at the center of conflict with language that goes straigh
- Author: Laux, Dorianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342654
- Language: English
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
$18.95 Read moreIn the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Ech
- Author: Echols, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338916
- Language: English
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Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World
$25.99 Add to cartAmong these original essays by prize-winning historians, James M. McPherson examines Lincoln’s deft navigation of the crosscurrents of politics and wartime strategy. Sean Wilentz elegantly explores Li
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337057
- Language: English
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Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
$25.99 Add to cartThe fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedde
- Author: Kiernan, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331601
- Language: English
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City of Oranges: An Intimate History of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa
$30.99 Add to cartThe millennia-old port of Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv, was once known as the Bride of Palestine, one of the truly cosmopolitan cities of the Mediterranean. There Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived, w… [more below]
- Author: LeBor, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329844
- Language: English
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Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
$17.99 Add to cartB. H. Fairchild’s memory systems are the collective vision of America’s despairing dreamers–failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, college boys at a burlesque theater, the … [more below]
- Author: Fairchild, B. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 125
- Publish Date: June 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325660
- Language: English
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The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
$29.99 Add to cartMeticulously researched, Rodger’s portrait draws the reader into this fascinatingly complex world with vivid, entertaining characters and full details of life below the decks. The Wooden World provide… [more below]
- Author: Rodger, N. A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0393314693
- Language: English
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The Battle for the Falklands
$28.99 Add to cartMust be read by all our military people and anyone who wants to find out what really happened on the Falkland Islands. James M. Gavin
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0393301982
- Language: English
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The Art of the Psychotherapist: How to Develop the Skills That Take Psychotherapy Beyond Science
$25.99 Add to cartUnlike the brief, specific-solution oriented therapies that many people demand today, the goal of depth therapy is life change. James Bugental has been practising, teaching and writing about depth the… [more below]
- Author: Bugental, James F. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0393309118
- Language: English
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
$21.99 Add to cartThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to American readers. The very wide audience which Rilke’s work commands toda… [more below]
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393308812
- Language: English
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No Excuse to Lose
$19.99 Add to cartNo Excuse to Lose is the book Dennis Conner still refers to as “the bible,” He says (Time magazine, 9 February 1987), “I like to compete. I guess I don’t dislike it, but my sailing is just bottom line… [more below]
- Author: Conner, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0393304329
- Language: English
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Conversations with Kennedy
$22.99 Add to cartBen Bradlee first came to know John Kennedy well when they were Washington neighbors in 1958. They remained good friends and off-the-record confidants until President Kennedy’s death. They also had a … [more below]
- Author: Bradlee, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0393301893
- Language: English
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
$26.95 Add to cartGrunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries–panic, exhaustion, heat, noise–and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges host
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393245446
- Language: English
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Kings and Philosophers, 1689-1789
$41.99 Add to cartThese years also encompassed the birth, maturation, and waning of the Enlightenment. Leonard Krieger shows how the monarchical tradition and the new intellectual developments were reflected in the lat
- Series: Norton History of Modern Europe #0
- Author: Krieger, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: November 01 1970
- ISBN10: 0393099059
- Language: English
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Civilization and Its Discontents (The Standard)
$44.99 Add to cartCivilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud’s best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How d
- Series: Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud #0
- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393059952
- Language: English
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In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us about Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World
$22.95 Read moreWho has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche’s passionate quest for mea
- Author: Anderson, Nate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1324004797
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$26.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324003774
- Language: English
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Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
$19.99 Read moreDecades of research document plants’ impressive abilities: they communicate with each other, manipulate other species, and move in sophisticated ways. Lesser known, however, is that although plants ma
- Author: Calvo, Paco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074612
- Language: English
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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor tha
- Author: King, Michelle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324021284
- Language: English
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Thinking at Every Desk: Four Simple Skills to Transform Your Classroom
$19.99 Add to cartDesigned to transform teaching practice, this book provides the tools to understand thinking patterns and how learning actually happens. It empowers teachers to structure learning in the most meaningf… [more below]
- Series: Norton Books in Education
- Author: Cabrera, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0393707563
- Language: English
