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Series: The Deadly 7 Who Needs Friends When You've Got Monsters? Hardcover Garth Jennings 9781250052759 $15.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Apr 05, 2016

When eleven-year-old Nelson's beloved older sister goes missing, he is devastated. She's his only friend and means the world to him. Then his parents join the search and leave Nelson in the care of his crazy uncle Pogo, a plumber who is working at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. There in a dusty crypt Nelson stumbles across an ancient machine that accidentally extracts the so-called seven deadly sins from his soul. The machine turns them into ugly, cantankerous, and embarrassing creatures who follow him everywhere. But there is more to these mo... + Read More
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Series: Clash of Extremes The Economic Origins of the Civil War First Edition Paperback Marc Egnal 9780809016457 $24.50 HISTORY Jan 05, 2010

Clash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861.Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Egnal shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises. After midcentury, however, all that changed as the rise of the Great Lakes economy reoriented Northern trade al... + Read More
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Series: Pout-Pout Fish Novelty The Pout-Pout Fish Undersea Alphabet Touch and Feel Board book Deborah Diesen 9781250063922 $17.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 1 - 4 Aug 16, 2016

The star of theNew York Times-bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series is back in this interactive touch-and-feel alphabet board book.A is Angelfish. B is for Bull Shark. P is for Pout-Pout Fish!With touch-and-feel textures perfect for small hands, this book is sure to turn little pouts into big smiles! Your child will love to learn their ABCs with Pout-Pout Fish.
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Series: Gilgamesh A New Rendering in English Verse First Edition Paperback David Ferry 9780374523831 $15.00 POETRY Jun 01, 1993

A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makesGilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for.
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Series: Pout-Pout Fish Adventure The Pout-Pout Fish Giant Sticker Book Over 1000 Stickers Paperback Deborah Diesen 9781250063946 $13.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 May 10, 2016

Preschoolers will love the fun-packed pages of this oh-so-cute Pout-Pout Fish sticker book. Little hands will be kept busy using over 1,000 stickers featuring characters from the series to finish sticker scenes, solve mazes, and complete other puzzles. Perfect for rainy days inside or sunny days outside, car trips or at home, to share with friends or individual play, this sticker book is sure to delight little guppies.
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Series: American Transcendentalism A History First Edition Paperback Philip F. Gura 9780809016440 $18.50 PHILOSOPHY Sep 02, 2008

American Transcendentalismis a sweeping narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the American Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas, illustrating how these informed the fierce theological debates that, so often first in Massachusetts and eventually throughout America, gave rise to practical, personal, and quixot... + Read More
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Series: Indivisible by Four A String Quartet in Pursuit of Harmony First Edition Paperback Arnold Steinhardt 9780374527006 $19.00 MUSIC Jun 15, 2000

The Guarneri Quartet is fabled for its unique longevity and high-spirited virtuosity. Here is its story from the inside--a story filled with drama, humor, danger, compassion, and, of course, glorious music.A player who studies and performs the exalted string-quartet repertoire has opted for a very special life. Arnold Steinhardt, tracing his own development as a student, orchestra player, and budding young soloist, gives a touching account of how he and his intrepid colleagues were converted to chamber music despite the daunting odds against su... + Read More
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Series: The Naked Tourist In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall First Edition Paperback Lawrence Osborne 9780865477414 $28.50 TRAVEL Jun 12, 2007

From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east—and of the tour itselfSick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway—a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists with its manufactured dreams of the exotic Orient. And like many a lost soul on this same route, he... + Read More
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Series: The Lady Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner First Edition Paperback Barbara Victor 9780571211777 $24.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 07, 2002

Now in paperback, the first full account of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's role in the struggle against Burma's military junta. Included is a new afterword by the author, which covers events from the time of the original publication in 1998 to Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest in May 2002.
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Series: American Smoke Journeys to the End of the Light Paperback Iain Sinclair 9780865478275 $18.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 05, 2015

The visionary writer Iain Sinclair turns his sights to the Beat generation in America in his most epic journey yet"How best to describe Iain Sinclair?" asks Robert Macfarlane inThe Guardian. "A literary mud-larker and tip-picker? A Travelodge tramp (his phrase)? A middle-class dropout with a gift for bullshit (also his phrase)? A toxicologist of the twenty-first-century landscape? A historian of countercultures and occulted pasts? An intemperate WALL-E, compulsively collecting and compacting the city's textual waste? A psycho-geographer (from w... + Read More
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Series: FSG Classics The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love A Novel Paperback Oscar Hijuelos 9780374535834 $18.50 FICTION Dec 15, 2015

From FSG Classics, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning novelIt's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth, exuberance, love, and freedom—a golden time that decades later is remembered wit... + Read More
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Series: To Tell the Truth Freely The Life of Ida B. Wells First Edition Paperback Mia Bay 9780809016464 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2010

Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. Though she eventually helped found the NAACP in 1910, she would not remain a member for long, as she rejected not only Booker T. Washington's accommodationism but also the moderating ... + Read More
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Series: Alice in Bed A Play Paperback Susan Sontag 9780374523855 $19.00 DRAMA Jun 01, 1993

Alice in Bedis a free dramatic fantasy which merges the life of Alice James, the brilliant sister of William and Henry James, with the heroine of Lewis Carroll'sAlice in Wonderland. It is a play about the anguish and grief and rage of women; and about the triumphs and limitations of the imagination.
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Series: Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution First Edition Paperback Woody Holton 9780809016433 $22.50 HISTORY Oct 14, 2008

Average Americans Were the True Framers of the ConstitutionWoody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution's origins by telling the history of the average Americans who challenged the framers of the Constitution and forced on them the revisions that produced the document we now venerate. The framers who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were determined to reverse America's post–Revolutionary War slide into democracy. They believed too many middling Americans exercised too much influence over state and national policies. That the f... + Read More
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Series: Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club Poems: 1975-1990 First Edition Paperback August Kleinzahler 9780374527013 $22.00 POETRY May 15, 2000

The early poems of an American master"I have loved the air outside Shop-Rite Liquoron summer eveningsbetter than the Marin hills at dusklavender and goldstretching miles to the sea.At the junction, up from the synagoguea weeknight, necessarilyand with my father--a sale on German beer.Air full of living dust:bus exhaust, air-borne grains of pizza crustwounded crystalsappearing, disappearingamong streetlights and unsuccessful neon."--"Poetics"August Kleinzahler's first collections won him a cult following but have long been out of print and hard ... + Read More
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Series: Uncommon Carriers First Edition Paperback John McPhee 9780865477391 $17.00 TRANSPORTATION Apr 03, 2007

This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John McPhee rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, five-axle, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats—in Ainsworth's opinion "the world's most beautiful truck," so highly polished you could part your hair while looking at it. He goes "out in the sort" among the machines that process a million packages a day at... + Read More
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Series: The Violet Hour A Play First Edition Paperback Richard Greenberg 9780571211845 $20.50 DRAMA Feb 17, 2004

In this new play by the Tony Award-winning playwright ofTake Me Out, a fledgling (and upper-class) World War I-era publisher is trying to decide which work to choose as his imprint's first title. He has two manuscripts but lacks the funds to publish both. His difficult decision--whether to publish his lover's memoir or the novel written by his best friend--is further complicated by the arrival of a mysterious machine that produces pages predicting the future of the play's protagonists, affecting their lives and relationships in haunting and une... + Read More
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Series: The Selfishness of Others An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism Paperback Kristin Dombek 9780865478237 $18.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 16, 2016

They're among us, but they are not like us. They manipulate, lie, cheat, and steal. They are irresistibly charming and accomplished, appearing to live in a radiance beyond what we are capable of. But narcissists areempty. No one knows exactly what everyone else is full of--some kind of a soul, or personhood--but whatever it is, experts agree that narcissists do not have it.So goes the popular understanding of narcissism, or NPD (narcissistic personality disorder). And it's more prevalent than ever, according to recent articles inThe New York Ti... + Read More
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Series: Goodhouse A Novel Paperback Peyton Marshall 9780374535865 $15.99 FICTION Oct 06, 2015

A bighearted dystopian novel about the corrosive effects of fear and the redemptive power of love.With soaring literary prose and the tense pacing of a thriller, the first-time novelist Peyton Marshall imagines a grim and startling future. At the end of the twenty-first century-in a transformed America-the sons of convicted felons are tested for a set of genetic markers. Boys who test positive become compulsory wards of the state-removed from their homes and raised on "Goodhouse" campuses, where they learn to reform their darkest thoughts and i... + Read More
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Series: Adam's Tongue How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans First Edition Paperback Derek Bickerton 9780809016471 $22.00 SCIENCE Mar 02, 2010

How language evolved has been called "the hardest problem in science." In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom.Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other spec... + Read More
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Series: The Odyssey A Stage Version Paperback Derek Walcott 9780374523879 $20.50 DRAMA Jul 01, 1993

With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poemOmeros.Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his island home of Ithaca are pungently interspersed with a commentary by the blind singer Billy Blue. Proteus, the Old Man of the Sea, the giant Cyclops, Circe and her revellers, ghosts, and mermaids are among the cast. With its vast sweep and richly figurative... + Read More
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Series: Good Germs, Bad Germs Health and Survival in a Bacterial World First Edition Paperback Jessica Snyder Sachs 9780809016426 $22.99 SCIENCE Sep 30, 2008

Public sanitation and antibiotic drugs have brought about historic increases in the human life span; they have also unintentionally produced new health crises by disrupting the intimate, age-old balance between humans and the microorganisms that inhabit our bodies and our environment. As a result, antibiotic resistance now ranks among the gravest medical problems of modern times.Good Germs, Bad Germstells the story of what went terribly wrong in our war on germs. It also offers a hopeful look into a future in which antibiotics will be designed ... + Read More
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Series: The Old Glory Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno First Edition Paperback Robert Lowell 9780374527044 $28.50 DRAMA Aug 15, 2000

Winner of Five Obies, now back in print after fifteen years, a stage adaptation of classic stories by Hawthorne and MelvilleIn the three plays inThe Old Glory--Endecott and the Red Cross;My Kinsman, Major Molineux; andBenito Cereno--the most powerful figure in postwar American poetry confronts the most haunting American fiction writers of the nineteenth century. The result is a mythical, nightmare history of three centuries in America. In Endecott and the Red Cross, Hawthorne's Puritan governor, horrified by his colony's high living, declares, ... + Read More
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Series: What to Eat Aisle-by Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating First Edition Paperback Marion Nestle 9780865477384 $19.00 HEALTH & FITNESS Apr 17, 2007

Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle'sWhat to Eathas become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as "radiant with maxims to live by" inThe New York Times Book Reviewand "accessible, reliable and comprehensive" inThe Washington Post,What to Eatis an indispensable resource, packed with important information and useful advice from the acclaimed nutritionist who "has become to the food industry what . . . Ralph Nader [was] to the automobile industry" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).How we ... + Read More
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Series: The Exonerated A Play First Edition Paperback Jessica Blank 9780571211838 $16.00 DRAMA Dec 15, 2003

What effect does it have on a person--a soul, a life--to have freedom and self-respect stripped away and then, ostensibly, returned years later after decades of incarceration?The Exonerated attempts to answer this question through the words of six innocent men and women who, after years in jail, emerged from death row to try to reclaim what was left of their lives.Among them are Sunny Jacobs, a mother of two whose unwavering belief during sixteen years in jail that she would be released (despite the execution of her husband, who was also innoce... + Read More
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Series: Romanian Notebook Paperback Cyrus Console 9780865478305 $19.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 21, 2017

The day before Cyrus Console and his pregnant wife leave for a monthlong visit to Romania, they receive troubling news-the fetus she's carrying is at elevated risk for Down syndrome. As the trip unfolds, his worry spirals into broader meditations on parenthood, language, addiction, love, marriage, and the passage and management of time. In and among the cities of Roman, Iasi, and Bucharest, Console chronicles his loving but comically awkward interactions with friends and family, taking place as they do in a language and culture unfamiliar to hi... + Read More
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Series: Hurt People A Novel Paperback Cote Smith 9780374535889 $23.00 FICTION Mar 01, 2016

It’s the summer of 1988 in northeastern Kansas, an area home to four prisons that has been shaken by the recent escape of a convict. But for two young brothers in Leavenworth, the only thing that matters is the pool in their apartment complex. Their mother forbids the boys to swim alone, but she’s always at work trying to make ends meet after splitting with their police-officer father. With no one home to supervise, the boys decide to break the rules.While blissfully practicing their cannonballs and dives, they meet Chris, a mysterious stranger... + Read More
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Series: Out of Our Heads Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness First Edition Paperback Alva Noe 9780809016488 $17.00 SCIENCE Feb 02, 2010

Alva NoÃ« is one of a new breed—part philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. InOut of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling solution: do away with the two-hundred-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the confines of the brain.Our culture is obsessed with the brain—how it perceives; how it remembers; how it determines... + Read More
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Series: Seeing Things Poems Paperback Seamus Heaney 9780374523893 $16.00 POETRY Apr 01, 1993

Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote inThe New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from theAeneid and theInferno, this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father.
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Series: Fortunate Son The Life of Elvis Presley First Edition Paperback Charles L. Ponce de Leon 9780809016419 $24.50 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 07, 2007

Elvis Presley was celebrity's perfect storm. His sole but substantial contribution was talent, a fact Charles L. Ponce de Leon is careful to demonstrate throughout his wonderfully contextualFortunate Son.Even as the moments of lucidity necessary to exercise that talent grew rarer and rarer, Elvis proved his musical gifts right up to the end of his life. Beyond that, however, he was fortune's child.Fortunate Sonsuccinctly traces out the larger shifts that repeatedly redefined the cultural landscape during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, using Elvis... + Read More
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Series: The Oresteia of Aeschylus A New Translation by Ted Hughes First Edition Paperback Ted Hughes 9780374527051 $19.50 DRAMA Sep 04, 2000

In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine'sPhedre, Euripedes'Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as atTheOresteia, a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry.The Oresteia--Agamemnon, Choephori, and the Eumenides--tell the story of the house of Atreus: After King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he return... + Read More
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Series: Doing Nothing A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America First Edition Paperback Tom Lutz 9780865477377 $34.99 HISTORY May 15, 2007

Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Whenever the world of labor changes in significant ways, the pulpits, politicians, and pedagogues ring with exhortations of the value of work, and the slackers answer with a strenuous call of their own: "To do nothing," asOscar Wilde said, "is the most difficult thing in the... + Read More
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Series: Urinetown The Musical First Edition Paperback Greg Kotis 9780571211821 $17.00 DRAMA Feb 19, 2003

Winner of three Tony Awards, including Best Book, Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann'sUrinetown: The Musicalis a tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.After a twenty-year drought made water a scarce commodity, private toilets became outlawed. Now, all restroom necessaries are controlled by the Urine Good Company (UGC), a megacorporation that charges fees for using public toilets. Anyone unable to pay fees--or who dares to relieve themselves outside the commode--are arrested and banished to "U... + Read More
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Series: The Eight Limbs of Yoga A Handbook for Living Yoga Philosophy Paperback Stuart Ray Sarbacker 9780865477681 $17.50 HEALTH & FITNESS Jul 07, 2015

A clear, concise guidebook to the essentials of yogic thought and practiceMany people think yoga simply means postures and breathing. Not true. The intention of this short guide is practical and straightforward: to say what yoga really is and to apply its principles to everyday life. It leads us through the eight-limbed system, a coherent framework that has been handed down and elaborated upon for thousands of years and consists of five "outer limbs," which pertain to our experience of the social world and the operation of our senses, and three... + Read More
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Series: Ugly Girls A Novel Paperback Lindsay Hunter 9780374535896 $15.99 FICTION Nov 03, 2015

BuzzFeed Books' Best Book of 2014Perry and Baby Girl and two teenage girls with very little to lose. They're best friends with sharp edges, and they cut to bleed--no one's off-limits, not even each other. To survive the loneliness and boredom of a world that pays them no mind, they spend their nights sneaking out and stealing cars and their days sleeping through class. But when a dangerous stranger from the Internet begins to give them all the attention they never knew they craved, Perry and Baby Girl have to decide what their friendship is tru... + Read More
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Series: The Beats A Graphic History First Edition Paperback Harvey Pekar 9780809016495 $22.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 13, 2010

InThe Beats: A Graphic History, those who were mad to live have come back to life through artwork as vibrant as the Beat movement itself. Told by the comic legend Harvey Pekar, his frequent artistic collaborator Ed Piskor, and a range of artists and writers, including the feminist comic creator Trina Robbins and theMad magazine artist Peter Kuper,The Beats takes us on a wild tour of a generation that, in the face of mainstream American conformity and conservatism, became known for its determined uprootedness, aggressive addictions, and startlin... + Read More
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Series: Annals of the Former World Assembling California First Edition Paperback John McPhee 9780374523930 $19.00 SCIENCE Feb 01, 1994

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally inter... + Read More
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Series: The American Civil War A Hands-on History First Edition Paperback Christopher J. Olsen 9780809016402 $24.50 HISTORY Jul 24, 2007

Succinct, with a brace of original documents following each chapter, Christopher J. Olsen'sThe American Civil Waris the ideal introduction to American history's most famous, and infamous, chapter. Covering events from 1850 and the mounting political pressures to split the Union into opposing sections, through the four years of bloodshed and waning Confederate fortunes, to Lincoln's assassination and the advent of Reconstruction,TheAmerican Civil Warcovers the entire sectional conflict and at every juncture emphasizes the decisions and circumsta... + Read More
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Series: Repair Poems First Edition Paperback C. K. Williams 9780374527068 $17.50 POETRY Jun 15, 2000

Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets"Always, "These gigantic inconceivables."Always, "What will have been done to me?"And so we don our mental armor,flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.A violent alertness, the muscularity of risk,though still the secret inward cry: What else, what more?"--from "Risk"Repairis body work in C. K. Williams's sensual poems, but it is also an imaginative treatment of the consternations that interrupt life's easy narrative. National Book Critic... + Read More
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Series: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary First Edition Paperback Edwin F. Bryant 9780865477360 $40.00 RELIGION Jul 21, 2009

A landmark new translation and editionWritten almost two millennia ago, PataÃ±jali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of thepurusa: the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the technique of meditation, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West.Edwin F. Bryant's translation is clear, direct, and exact. Each sutra is presented as Sanskrit text, transliterat... + Read More
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Series: Quills and Other Plays First Edition Paperback Doug Wright 9780571211807 $26.99 DRAMA Nov 29, 2005

Selected early works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.Throughout his work, Doug Wright has often combined the personal, the social, and the political, in the process unearthing fundamental truths about life and art while casting an unblinking eye on the dark--and darkly funny--side of human nature. Gathered here are three of Wright's early plays, includingInterrogating the Nude, a tongue-in-cheek reimagining of the uproar surrounding the debut of Marcel Duchamp's work in America;Watbanaland, a satiric dissection of yuppie desire and a... + Read More
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Series: Birth of a Theorem A Mathematical Adventure Hardcover Cedric Villani 9780865477674 $29.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 14, 2015

In 2010, French mathematician CÃ©dric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof which he devised with his close collaborator ClÃ©ment Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics.Birth of aTheoremis Villani's own account of the years leading up to the award. It invites readers inside the mind of a great mathematician as he wrestles with the most important work of his career.But you don't have to understand nonlinear Landau damping to loveBirth of aTheorem. I... + Read More
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Series: Holy Cow A Novel Paperback David Duchovny 9780374535902 $19.50 FICTION Apr 05, 2016

A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won't soon forgetElsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that--her long, lazy days are spent eating, napping, and chatting with her best friend, Mallory. One night, Elsie and Mallory sneak out of their pasture; but while Mallory is interested in flirting with the neighboring bulls, Elsie finds herself drawn to the farmhouse. Through the window, she sees the farmer's family gathered around a bright Box God--and what the Box God reveals about something c... + Read More
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Series: Slavery's Constitution From Revolution to Ratification First Edition Paperback David Waldstreicher 9780809016501 $18.50 HISTORY Jun 22, 2010

Taking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the U.S. Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four clauses, six were directly concerned with slaves and the interests of their owners. Five other clauses had implications for slavery that were considered and debated by the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the citizens of the states during ratification. This "peculiar institution" was not a moral bl... + Read More
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Series: Canvas Poems Paperback Adam Zagajewski 9780374523985 $15.00 POETRY Apr 01, 1994

Canvas, Zagajewski's second book to appear in English, features all of this poet's distinctive traits. In these sixty-one poems, syntax explodes, masses of detail spill from profuse catalogs, lines break in ways apt but unexpected, and compressed lyrics alternate with extended riffs. European culture is the poet's native province throughout these explorations, and time is a recurrent metaphysical concern.
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Series: Shades of Hiawatha Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 First Edition Paperback Alan Trachtenberg 9780809016396 $26.99 HISTORY Oct 19, 2005

"A book of elegance, depth, breadth, nuance and subtlety." --W. Richard West Jr. (Founding Director of the National Museum of the American Indian), The Washington PostA century ago, U.S. policy aimed to sever the tribal allegiances of Native Americans, limit their ancient liberties, and coercively prepare them for citizenship. At the same time, millions of new immigrants sought their freedom by means of that same citizenship. Alan Trachtenberg argues that the two developments were, inevitably, juxtaposed: Indians and immigrants together preoccu... + Read More
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Series: A Small Place First Edition Paperback Jamaica Kincaid 9780374527075 $15.00 HISTORY Apr 28, 2000

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author ofAnnie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."So begins Jamaica Kincaid's... + Read More
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Series: Soccerhead An Accidental Journey into the Heart of the American Game First Edition Paperback Jim Haner 9780865477339 $28.50 SPORTS & RECREATION Apr 03, 2007

A YOUTH SOCCER COACH'S INVESTIGATION INTO THE ORIGINS OF SOCCERMANIABefore his son enlisted for a season of Youth Soccer at the neighborhood Boys and Girls Club in College Park, Maryland, Jim Haner was just your typical white, middle-class, suburban father. And as an award-winning journalist forThe Sun(Baltimore), he was more likely to write about scoundrels than soccer. But his son caught the bug, and before long, Haner was giving pep talks to nine-year-olds in shin guards and cleats and the game had become an all-consuming obsession.Digging d... + Read More
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Series: Some Girl(s) A Play First Edition Paperback Neil LaBute 9780571229826 $16.00 DRAMA Jun 27, 2006

Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side—so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (that he's already broken up with).Some Girl(s) is the latest work from Neil Labute, American theater's great agent provocateur. In grand LaBute fashion, this by turns out... + Read More
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Series: Hell's Traces One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Three Holocaust Memorials Hardcover Victor Ripp 9780865478336 $35.00 HISTORY Mar 21, 2017

In July 1942, the French police in Paris, acting for the German military government, arrested Victor Ripp's three-year-old cousin. Two months later, Alexandre was killed in Auschwitz. To try to make sense of this act, Ripp looks at it through the prism of family history. In addition to Alexandre, ten members of Ripp's family on his father's side died in the Holocaust. The family on his mother's side, numbering thirty people, was in Berlin when Hitler came to power. Without exception they escaped the Final Solution. Hell's Traces tells the ... + Read More
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Series: KL A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps Paperback Nikolaus Wachsmann 9780374535926 $28.00 HISTORY Aug 02, 2016

AWall Street Journal Best Book of 2015AKirkus ReviewsBest History Book of 2015Finalistfor theNational Jewish Book Award in the HolocaustcategoryThe first comprehensive history of the Nazi concentration campsIn a landmark work of history, Nikolaus Wachsmann offers an unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945. The Third Reich has been studied in more depth than virtually any other period in history, and yet until now there has been ... + Read More
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Series: Understanding China [3rd Edition] A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture Third Edition, Revised Paperback John Bryan Starr 9780809016518 $19.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Aug 31, 2010

In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future.After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised and updated his classic introduction to the background of, the data about, and the issues at stake in China's present and future. In the new edition, Starr seamlessly weaves in additional material on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese government'... + Read More
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Series: A Gilded Lapse of Time Poems First Edition Paperback Gjertrud Schnackenberg 9780374523992 $22.00 POETRY Apr 01, 1994

Nadine Gordimer once remarked that Gjertrud Schnackenberg's poems "move me in a way that I don't really think I have experienced since I first read Rilke at sixteen or seventeen."A Gilded Lapse of Time, Schnackenberg's third volume, is presented in three sections: the title sequence, concerning a visit to Dante's tomb in Ravenna; "Crux of Radiance," a series of poems exploring the making and unmaking of the image of God in scenes from the Passion narrative; and "A Monument in Utopia," about the destruction of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam at... + Read More
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Series: Murdering McKinley The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America First Edition Paperback Eric Rauchway 9780809016389 $23.00 HISTORY Sep 18, 2004

When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliantMurdering McKinley restages Leon Czolgosz's hastily conducted trial and then traverses America with Dr. Vernon Briggs, a Boston alienist who sets out to discover why Czolgosz rose up to kill his president.
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Series: The Secret of Parenting How to Be in Charge of Today's Kids - from Toddlers to Preteens - Without Threats or Punishment First Edition Paperback Anthony E. Wolf Ph.D. 9780374527082 $16.00 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Sep 01, 2000

Essential advice from the author of the bestsellingGet Out Of My LifeToday's children--from toddlers to preteens--challenge their parents in ways that would have been unthinkable a generation ago, notes Anthony E. Wolf, and parents are often uncertain about how to cope.In his new book, Wolf presents a fresh perspective on this less pleasant behavior and a surprisingly simple method for dealing with it. He argues that punishments and rewards don't work and may even be counterproductive. Instead, parents must act swiftly and decisively following ... + Read More
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Series: Return to Wild America A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul First Edition Paperback Scott Weidensaul 9780865477315 $18.50 SCIENCE Oct 31, 2006

In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and into Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Two years later,Wild America, their classic account of the trip, was published.On the eve of that book's fiftieth anniversary, naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson and Fisher's steps to tell the... + Read More
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Series: Watching Them Be Star Presence on the Screen from Garbo to Balthazar Hardcover James Harvey 9780571211975 $31.00 PERFORMING ARTS Jul 08, 2014

An intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the mysteries of "star presence" in cinema"One does not go to see them act," James Baldwin wrote about the great iconic movie stars, "one goes to watch them be." It seems obvious . . . Where else besides the movies do you get to see other persons so intimately, so pressingly, so largely? Where else are you allowed such sustained and searching looks as you give to these strangers on the screen, whoever they really are? In life you try not to stare; but at the movies that's exactly what you get to do,... + Read More
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Series: Organ Grinder A Classical Education Gone Astray Paperback Alan Fishbone 9780865478343 $17.00 PHILOSOPHY Apr 18, 2017

After my accident, I thought I was done with bikes. Until a few years ago-I was lying in bed having trouble sleeping when I heard a voice say to me, "Alan, get a Harley and ride to Death Valley." I didn't even like Harleys. And I didn't believe that God had called down and told me to get one. It seemed unlikely that the monotheistic God we're stuck with would endorse a brand of motorcycle-maybe the pagan gods of antiquity would. Zeus might have ridden a Harley, or Apollo a BMW; you can imagine Aphrodite on the back of Ares' Ninja, zooming aroun... + Read More
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Series: Cool How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World Paperback Steven Quartz 9780374535933 $24.50 SCIENCE Apr 12, 2016

If you have ever wondered why SUVs replaced minivans, how one rap song turned the cognac industry upside down, or what gives Levi's jeans their iconic allure, look no further—inCool, Steven Quartz and Anette Asp finally explain the fascinating science behind unexpected trends and enduring successes.We live in a world of conspicuous consumption, where the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, and the food we eat lead double lives: they don't merely satisfy our needs; they also communicate our values, identities, and aspirations. In Beverly Hills, ... + Read More
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Series: American Apostles When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam Paperback Christine Leigh Heyrman 9780809016525 $32.50 HISTORY Sep 20, 2016

The surprising tale of the first American Protestant missionaries to proselytize in the Muslim worldInAmerican Apostles, the Bancroft Prize–winning historian Christine Leigh Heyrman chronicles the first fateful collision between American missionaries and the diverse religious cultures of the Levant. Pliny Fisk, Levi Parsons, Jonas King: though virtually unknown today, these three young New Englanders commanded attention across the United States two hundred years ago. Steeped in the biblical prophecies of evangelical Protestantism, these boys be... + Read More