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Series: The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs At Great Risk Memoirs of Rescue during the Holocaust Paperback Fishel Goldig 9781989719107 $17.95 HISTORY May 01, 2021

Poland. Ukraine. France. Slovakia. Everywhere across Nazi-occupied Europe, Jews suddenly found their lives in danger during World War II. Locked away in ghettos and facing deportation to death camps and concentration camps, Jews were desperate to find shelter and safety. When no democratic country came forward to open their doors widely enough, or at all, it was up to ordinary people to stand up and risk their lives to save their friends, their neighbors and sometimes, even strangers. Decades after the war, Holocaust survivors honored their sav... + Read More
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Series: Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs A Promise of Sweet Tea Paperback Pinchas Blitt 9781989719152 $14.95 EDUCATION Jul 15, 2021

In a village in prewar Eastern Europe, young Pinchas Blitt is surrounded by colorful characters, vivid stories and the rich language and traditions of his ancestors. As antisemitism rises, Pinchas is beset by fears, but he finds belonging in family, Jewish texts, and prayers. In 1939, Pinchas adapts to the new Soviet occupation, but when the Nazis arrive, his beloved village is decimated, and he and his family must flee. A precarious existence on the run brings Pinchas face to face with his own mortality and faith, and with a sense of dislocati... + Read More
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Series: The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs A Passport to Reprieve Paperback Sonia Caplan 9781989719169 $14.95 HISTORY Dec 21, 2021

In spring 1939, Sonia's father leaves Poland amid rising antisemitism to go to North America and find a new home where his family can live peacefully. Stranded there when the war breaks out, he will stop at nothing to reunite his family. In Nazi-occupied Poland, seventeen-year-old Sonia is equally determined, and she faces the dreaded Gestapo armed with exit visas and a precious Nicaraguan passport her father has miraculously obtained. Locked in a ghetto, witnessing atrocities and deportations, Sonia?s ominous wait for a reprieve turns desperat... + Read More
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Series: Untold Lives Driven The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers Paperback Marcello Di Cintio 9781771963848 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 04, 2021

Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occu... + Read More
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Series: Best Canadian Fifty Years of Best Canadian Stories Paperback John Metcalf 9781771963749 $26.95 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Nov 08, 2022

A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian Stories Now in its fiftieth year, the Best Canadian Stories series has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over the decades, making Best Canadian Stories the go-to source for what’s new in Cana... + Read More
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Series: A Ghost in the Throat Paperback Doireann Ní Ghríofa 9781771964111 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jun 01, 2021

An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Guardian Best Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize • Winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize • A New York Times New & Noteworthy Title • Longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize • A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 • A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 • An NPR Best Book of 2021 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A Wi... + Read More
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Series: Lucia Paperback Alex Pheby 9781771964234 $22.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

A GLOBE & MAIL RECOMMENDED SUMMER 2021 READ "A writer possessed of unusual indeed, extraordinary powers... Read [Lucia] with your eyes wide open."—The Guardian She is about thirty-three, speaks French fluently. . .[she] is gay, sweet and ironic, but she has bursts of anger over nothing when she is confined to a straightjacket, writes James Joyce in one of the few surviving documents concerning his daughter. A gifted dancer, Beckett’s lover, an aspiring writer—what little we know about Lucia Joyce effectively ends with a diagnosis of schizophren... + Read More
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Series: Field Notes On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years An Investigation Paperback Elaine Dewar 9781771964258 $22.95 SCIENCE Aug 31, 2021

In this compelling whodunnit, Elaine Dewar reads the science, follows the money, and connects the geopolitical interests to the spin. When the first TV newscast described a SARS-like flu affecting a distant Chinese metropolis, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar started asking questions: Was SARS-CoV-2 something that came from nature, as leading scientists insisted, or did it come from a lab, and what role might controversial experiments have played in its development? Why was Wuhan the pandemic's ground zero—and why, on the other side of the... + Read More
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Series: Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's Paperback Tiffany Midge 9781496224934 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 01, 2021

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge’s musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social commentary, and meditations on love and loss, Midge weaves short, standalone musings into a memoir that stares down colonialism while chastising hipsters for abusing pumpkin spice. She explains why she doesn’t like pussy hats, mercilessly dismantles pretendians, and confesses her own struggles with white-bread privilege. Midge ponders Standing Rock... + Read More
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Series: Black Snake Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice Paperback Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys 9781496222664 $33.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jun 01, 2021

2022 IPPY Gold Medal in Environment/Ecology 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize Short List 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Culture 2022 Montaigne Medal Finalist 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist in History The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made headlines around the world in 2016. Supporters called the pipeline key to safely transporting American oil from the Bakken oil fields of the northern plains to markets nationwide, essential to both national security and prosperity. Native activists named it the “black snake,” referri... + Read More
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Series: Death of a Whale The Challenge of Anti-Whaling Activists and Indigenous Rights Paperback Captain Paul Watson 9781570674013 $25.95 NATURE Jun 01, 2021

A compelling, in-depth account of how Sea Shepherd Conservation Society fights to defend and protect our oceans from human predators who hunt and murder whales and other aquatic marine mammals under the false pretense of Indigenous rights. In the process of discharging its duties, the organization has created global enemies and allies and, by necessity, has put its staff and vessels in harm’s way. Reading like an electrifying adventure tale, this true-life logbook reveals how one community, the Makah (located on Washington’s Olympic peni... + Read More
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Series: Errol's Adventures Once Upon an Iceberg Errol's Twillingate Adventure Paperback Sheilah Lukins 9781550818901 $12.95 JUVENILE FICTION Reading age from 7 - 12 May 31, 2021

When the dog’s away, the mice go on an adventure! Errol is off on another adventure! With his new-found friend Gus, Errol travels to Twillingate to help search for Gus’s father. In the course of his search, he finds treasures on the beach, almost floats away with the icebergs, and visits the Long Point Lighthouse. There he meets Olivia and her family, who help him on his quest, showing him around and hunting for clues. But time is running out; they have to head home to Beachy Cove—and there’s still no sign of Gus’s dad!
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Series: Last Hummingbird West of Chile Paperback Nicholas Ruddock 9781550818840 $22.95 FICTION Jun 15, 2021

***IPPY AWARDS: LITERARY FICTION – BRONZE*** An audacious tale of murder, privilege, and servitude - of both humans and nature. A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird West of Chile spins a tale of adventure that is in turn comedic, violent, poignant and thoughtful. Through the exploits of a young sailor born in questionable circumstance and a pair of murderous servants, as well as an assortment of other 19th century regulars, the vital subjects of today—race, religion, sexuality, environment—are framed in history and huma... + Read More
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Series: Crippled Paperback Paul Power 9781550818932 $17.95 DRAMA Jul 01, 2021

***2021 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FINALIST, DRAMA CATEGORY*** Crippled is a story about love, death, life and redemption. You will laugh, you will cry and you will walk away with a new perspective about life and what matters. Paul Power’s play, Crippled, has garnered awards and glowing reviews for his portrayal of his experiences as a person living with a disability. Now in a published form, his story of challenge, loss, and redemption presents universal themes and emotions told through a voice that is not often heard in the mai... + Read More
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Series: Land of Many Shores Perspectives from a Diverse Newfoundland and Labrador Paperback Ainsley Hawthorn Ph.D. 9781550818963 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 30, 2021

Seeing through the eyes of others brings new perspective on the place we call home. In Land of Many Shores, writers share their perspectives about life in Newfoundland and Labrador from often- neglected viewpoints. In this collection, Indigenous people, cultural minorities, 2SLGBTQ+ people, people living with mental or physical disabilities, workers in the sex industry, people from a variety of faiths, people who have experienced incarceration, and other marginalized and under-represented voices are brought to the forefront, with personal, ... + Read More
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Series: Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador Paperback Michael Collins 9781550813562 $34.95 NATURE Oct 15, 2022

A rich and informative guide to the common—and uncommon—beauty of the province. The most comprehensive guide of its kind on the market today, the Field Guide to Newfoundland and Labrador features more than 900 photographs and illustrations: from flora and fauna to icebergs and weather, no stone is left unturned in this perfect introduction to the province’s life and landscape. Compiled and edited by Memorial University biologist Michael Collins, with contributions from over twenty renowned experts, the guide is accessible, durable, perfectl... + Read More
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Series: Essential Tremor Poems Paperback Barbara Nickel 9781773860602 $18.00 POETRY Apr 02, 2021

Award-winning poet Barbara Nickel returns with a contemporary and enchanting reflection on the many manifestations of the body—human life, the divine, and the world.Taking the name of a nervous system disorder that causes involuntary shaking, Essential Tremor undertakes an exploration of the body that holds disruption at its heart. The captivating and timely poems in Essential Tremor attend to many bodies—the body of the world, changing, unreachable, at times momentarily illumined; the human body, loved, ill, mourning, passing or passed from th... + Read More
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Series: The List of Last Chances Paperback Christina Myers 9781773860596 $22.95 FICTION Apr 29, 2021

In this witty and heartwarming novel, Ruthie launches a last-ditch effort to pull herself up from rock bottom, only to discover that life and love don’t always go as planned. At thirty-eight years old, Ruthie finds herself newly unemployed, freshly single, sleeping on a friend’s couch and downing a bottle of wine each night. Having overstayed her welcome and desperate for a job, Ruthie responds to David’s ad: he’s looking for someone to drive his aging mother, Kay, and her belongings from PEI to Vancouver. Ruthie thinks it’s the perfect ch... + Read More
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Series: Music from a Strange Planet Stories Paperback Barbara Black 9781773860589 $22.95 FICTION May 06, 2021

A striking and genre-bending debut short story collection from writer and musician Barbara Black, woven through with eerie tones, quirky imagery and sharp lyricism. Off-beat, provocative, philosophical, Music from a Strange Planet traces the fault lines of identity and emotional attachment. Grief, tenderness, and longing soak the pages, admitting the reader into the intimate places of the heart: An awkward child envisions herself as a darkling beetle; an unemployed business analyst prefers water-walking over “rebranding” himself; after bei... + Read More
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Series: MindYourSelf Rewriting Our Stories Education, empowerment, and well-being Paperback Derek Gladwin 9781782054177 $24.95 PSYCHOLOGY Jan 29, 2021

Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment, and Well-being harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of fear and powerlessness into affirmative life narratives. Rather than seeing fear as an outcome, we can view it as a feeling in the moment largely governed by narratives. Many of our fears are stories we tell ourselves, even if they are largely fictional and rooted in sociocultural belief systems. The result is that we often feel helpless in the face of those fears. This transformational book considers a potent ant... + Read More
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Series: Ireland [1913] Hardcover Richard Arnold Bermann 9781782054351 $47.95 HISTORY May 28, 2021

The volume contains the first, and only, English translation of Richard Bermann?s Ireland, produced by Dr Leesa Wheatley, a professional translator and author of a major study on German travel writing on Ireland since 1780, and Professor Florian Krobb, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth University, who counts amongst his specialisms the writings of Richard Arnold Bermann (1883-1939), one of the most prominent and the most travelled of journalists of the first decades of the 20th century. This translation is complemen... + Read More
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Series: Romantic-Era Irish Women Poets in English Hardcover Stephen Behrendt 9781782054474 $60.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Apr 23, 2021

This book offers a representative sampling of the still mostly unknown poetry by Romantic-era Irish women. It represents most of the period?s active poets by multiple (rather than only a few) works, demonstrating the diversity and the subject range of these four dozen or so poets over the 50-year period. Although several of these poets appear (briefly) in Andrew Carpenter?s Verse in English from Eighteenth-Century Ireland, no comparable or competing collection exists. Anthologies of ?British? poetry by Romantic-era women devote scant space to t... + Read More
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Series: The Coastal Atlas of Ireland Hardcover Robert Devoy 9781782054511 $93.95 SCIENCE Sep 29, 2021

he Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland?s coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from across the island of Ireland and beyond, the Atlas takes an explicitly all-island approach; though the work has a much wider relevance and potential reader interest. It is organised into six sections, comprising a total of 33 chapters, that take the reader from the distant geological past, by way of the prehistoric era and a focus on the island?s physical environments, through time and the human coloni... + Read More
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Series: Rockaway Blue A Novel Hardcover Larry Kirwan 9781501754227 $37.95 FICTION Age (years) from 18 Mar 15, 2021

When terrorists attacked on September 11, 2001, Lieutenant Brian Murphy rescued seven people from the World Trade Center. Even as steel girders buckled and groaned, Brian rushed back up the stairs of the North Tower in search of those in need. He died a hero, one of more than four hundred police officers, firefighters, and other first responders who perished that fateful day. Three years later, Vietnam veteran and retired NYPD detective-sergeant Jimmy Murphy is on a mission to find the truth behind his son's death. Why was Brian in the tower th... + Read More
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Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work The Caring Class Home Health Aides in Crisis Hardcover Richard Schweid 9781501754104 $36.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Mar 15, 2021

The number of elderly and disabled Americans in need of home health care is increasing annually, even as the pool of people?almost always women?willing to do this job gets smaller and smaller. The Caring Class takes readers inside the reality of home health care by following the lives of women training and working as home health aides in the South Bronx.Richard Schweid examines home health care in detail, focusing on the women who tend to our elderly and disabled loved ones and how we fail to value their work. They are paid minimum wage so that... + Read More
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Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History Drunk on Genocide Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany Hardcover Edward B. Westermann 9781501754197 $44.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Mar 15, 2021

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence. Such inebriated exhibiti... + Read More
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Series: The Beekeeper's Handbook 5th edition Paperback Diana Sammataro 9781501752612 $40.95 TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have created the best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping. The Beekeeper's Handbook provides step-by-step instructions for setting up an apiary, handling bees, and working throughout the season to maintain a healthy colony and a generous supply of honey. Various colony care options and techniques are explained so that beekeepers can make the best choices for their hives.The Beekeeper's Handbook is an invaluable resource for both beginner and veteran beekeepers. This fully updated ... + Read More
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Series: Our Changing Menu Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need Paperback Michael P. Hoffmann 9781501754623 $29.95 SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system. Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escal... + Read More
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Series: Rich Thanks to Racism How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice Hardcover Jim Freeman 9781501755132 $40.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

More than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country's leading civil rights lawyers, explains why as he reveals the hidden strategy behind systemic racism. He details how the driving force behind the public policies that continue to devastate communities of color across the United States is a small group of ultra-wealthy individuals who profit mightily from racial inequality.In this groundbreaking examination of "s... + Read More
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Series: All Societies Die How to Keep Hope Alive Hardcover Samuel Cohn 9781501755903 $36.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

In All Societies Die, Samuel Cohn asks us to prepare for the inevitable. Our society is going to die. What are you going to do about it? But he also wants us to know that there's still reason for hope. In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America and the French Revolution to explain how societal dec... + Read More
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Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History Dragonslayer The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich Hardcover Jay Lockenour 9781501754593 $44.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

In this fascinating biography of the infamous ideologue Erich Ludendorff, Jay Lockenour complicates the classic depiction of this German World War I hero. Erich Ludendorff created for himself a persona that secured his place as one of the most prominent (and despicable) Germans of the twentieth century. With boundless energy and an obsession with detail, Ludendorff ascended to power and solidified a stable, public position among Germany's most influential. Between 1914 and his death in 1937, he was a war hero, a dictator, a right-wing activist,... + Read More
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Series: Warsaw Ghetto Police The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation Hardcover Katarzyna Person 9781501754074 $44.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

In Warsaw Ghetto Police, Katarzyna Person shines a spotlight on the lawyers, engineers, young yeshiva graduates, and sons of connected businessmen who, in the autumn of 1940, joined the newly formed Jewish Order Service.Person tracks the everyday life of policemen as their involvement with the horrors of ghetto life gradually increased. Facing and engaging with brutality, corruption, and the degradation and humiliation of their own people, these policemen found it virtually impossible to exercise individual agency. While some saw the Jewish pol... + Read More
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Series: Bird Talk An Exploration of Avian Communication Hardcover Barbara Ballentine 9781501753428 $40.95 SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

Bird Talk delves into new scientific developments to reveal the complexities of how birds make, learn, and use sound in a bewildering array of songs and calls. The beauty of birdsong is one of the joys of nature, and this book reveals how songs are learnt and performed, why the quality of a male's repertoire can affect his mating success, and how birds use song-matching and countersinging in territorial disputes. Bird Talk illustrates how birds communicate through visual signals too, from the dazzling feathers of a Peacock to the jumping displa... + Read More
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Series: Zona Tropical Publications / Antlion Media Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica A Field Guide Paperback Dennis R. Paulson 9781501713163 $47.95 SCIENCE Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

Among the largest of all insects, dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous. Active during the day, often brightly colored, and extremely photogenic?something about their appearance and dashing flight suggests a primeval world of tree ferns and dinosaurs.The first guide of its kind, this book includes an in-depth introduction with an overview of Costa Rican biodiversity and illustrated morphological terms. The species accounts show males and females of most species, detailed illustrations and close-ups of key distinguishing features, and desc... + Read More
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Series: A Wild Idea How the Environmental Movement Tamed the Adirondacks Hardcover Brad Edmondson 9781501759017 $40.95 TRAVEL Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North ... + Read More
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Series: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work Kidney to Share Hardcover Martha Gershun 9781501755439 $36.95 MEDICAL Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

In Kidney to Share, Martha Gershun tells the story of her decision to donate a kidney to a stranger. She takes readers through the complex process by which such donors are vetted to ensure that they are physically and psychologically fit to take the risk of a major operation. John D. Lantos, a physician and bioethicist, places Gershun's story in the larger context of the history of kidney transplantation and the ethical controversies that surround living donors. Together, they help readers understand the discoveries that made transplantation re... + Read More
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Series: Possessed A Cultural History of Hoarding Paperback Rebecca R. Falkoff 9781501752803 $26.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Age (years) from 18 May 15, 2021

In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding?once a paradigm of economic rationality?came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5, because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity: the hoard. Possessed therefore considers the hoard as an aesthetic object produced by clashing perspectives about the meaning or value of objects. The 2000s have seen a surge of cultural interest in hoarding and those whose possessions overwhelm their liv... + Read More
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Series: Moirémotion Hardcover Takahiro Kurashima 9783037786574 $39.00 ART Sep 29, 2020

Following the worldwide success of his Poemotion trilogy, Takahiro Kurashima’s latest book delights the eye with ingenious visual play Kurashima’s interactive book objects feature graphic patterns that are animated by the reader/viewer with a special foil contained within the book, so that figures and forms are created out of optical overlays, set in motion and then disappear again.Here, an astonishing panorama of unseen moiré effects (i.e. interference patterns produced when an opaque ruled pattern with gaps is overlaid on another similar patt... + Read More
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Series: Moby-Dick Hardcover Herman Melville 9781949172430 $49.00 FICTION Oct 20, 2020

A sumptuous edition of Melville’s epic tale of hubris and obsession, gorgeously illustrated by Alex KatzIn 1948, while enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union, Alex Katz (born 1927) created 27 pen and ink drawings inspired by Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Katz, who had first read the book at 13 years old, was drawn to its experimental and digressive structure. Moby-Dick “doesn’t really have a beginning, a middle, and an end,” he notes; rather, “it’s a big form.” The artist’s whimsical illustrations capture th... + Read More
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Series: David Tung Can't Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College Paperback Ed Lin 9781885030627 $26.95 FICTION Oct 28, 2020

“A beautifully observed, hilariously truthful, uplifting coming-of-age story that captures the heart and humanity of a Chinese American male teenager.” –David Henry Hwang“You’re not allowed to have a girlfriend until college,” my mother warned. “And you’d better get into an Ivy League school!”In David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College, novelist Ed Lin conjures up “a fast-paced, acid-tongued, hilarious teen drama for our age,” says Marie Myung-Ok Lee, acclaimed author of Somebody’s Daughter and Finding My Voic... + Read More
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Series: Matthew Wong: Postcards Hardcover Matthew Wong 9781949172508 $49.00 ART Nov 10, 2020

An intimate clothbound volume compiling the exquisite postcard paintings of Matthew WongThis fully illustrated volume collects Matthew Wong’s small-scale postcard paintings made during the last year of his life in 2019. As Winnie Wong writes in her newly commissioned essay for the book, “Art critics have observed that Matthew Wong's landscapes are ‘uncannily familiar,’ and they do prompt viewers to search our own memories, but he almost never titled them as places. Instead, he consistently named them as moments in time: midnight, 5:00am, dawn, ... + Read More
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Series: Grimes: Miss Information, a Coloring Book Paperback Grimes 9781942884859 $27.95 GAMES & ACTIVITIES Nov 24, 2020

Musician and artist Grimes’ first art publication: a coloring book with more than 16 original digital drawings and AI-generated poetryGrimes’ first art publication is rooted in the DIY production and audience participation central to her work. The form of the coloring book is necessarily incomplete, and invites collaboration in much the same vein as the artist’s recent Grimes Art Kit, a collective project that allowed fans to create and share music videos using official footage of the artist and open-source digital assets.Here, users can modify... + Read More
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Series: Edward Burtynsky: Natural Order Hardcover Edward Burtynsky 9783958298699 $175.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

Nature thrives as humankind pauses: Burtynsky’s ode to the dynamic cusp of winter and springIn spring 2020 Edward Burtynsky (born 1955) found himself, like most of us, in lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time Burtynsky was in his beloved Grey County, Ontario—an area of wild beauty where he made his earliest photos—and he used his isolation there to reflect and create: with a new camera in hand he began recording nature in images which, in his words, are an “affirmation of the complexity, wonder and resilience of the natural order i... + Read More
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Series: Wicked Arts Assignments Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education Paperback Emiel Heijnen 9789492095756 $35.00 ART Feb 02, 2021

Fun, poetical and inspiring challenges for teaching the arts—for students of all ages and teachers of all disciplinesThe almost 100 arts assignments compiled in this instructive new volume are designed to foster cross-disciplinary creativity in the visual arts, performance, theater, music and design. Everyone who teaches the arts knows the value of the assignment that is seemingly simple but which nonetheless challenges participants, students and pupils to the maximum. In Wicked Arts Assignments the tasks are organized around the following them... + Read More
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Series: The Mayor of Leipzig Hardcover Rachel Kushner 9781949172478 $28.00 FICTION Mar 30, 2021

An acidic portrait of the grifters and pretenders of the art world, from the celebrated author of The Mars RoomIn Rachel Kushner’s latest work of fiction, The Mayor of Leipzig, an unnamed artist recounts her travels from New York City to Cologne—where she contemplates German guilt and art-world grifters, and Leipzig—where she encounters live “adult entertainment” in a business hotel. The narrator gossips about everyone, including the author. “Taking a time out from what happened to me in Cologne and in Leipzig,” Kushner writes, “I want to let y... + Read More
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Series: Danny Lyon: American Blood Selected Writings 1961-2020 Hardcover Danny Lyon 9781949172454 $49.00 PHOTOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

A half-century of social change in America, documented in the writings of Danny Lyon, photographer and author of The Bikeriders and The Destruction of Lower Manhattan“From the beginning, even before he left the University of Chicago and headed south to take up a position as the first staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Danny Lyon dreamed of being an artist in language as well as in pictures,” writes Randy Kennedy in the introduction to American Blood. In 1961, at the age of 19, for example, Lyon penned a brutal... + Read More
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Series: Led Zeppelin Vinyl The Essential Collection Hardcover Ross Halfin 9781909526808 $83.95 MUSIC Aug 10, 2021

A tribute to the world’s greatest rock band through a kaleidoscopic collection of vinyl, from obscure international records to handmade albums of historic performancesLed Zeppelin released only eight studio albums and no singles over the course of their 12-year career, but to date there are more than 1,000 singles and 2,000 LPs in the market.This definitive volume illustrates in full color some of the rarest and most interesting vinyl releases, including one-of-a-kind rarities, bizarre regional variations, official albums and historic recording... + Read More
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Series: Fabric of a Nation American Quilt Stories Hardcover Pamela Parmal 9780878468768 $63.00 ART Jun 01, 2021

Made by Americans of European, African, Native and Hispanic heritage, these quilts and bedcovers range from family heirlooms to acts of political protest, each with its own story to tellA New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pickA mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation ... + Read More
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Series: Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction Hardcover Sophie Taeuber-Arp 9781633451070 $105.00 ART Jun 15, 2021

A definitive survey on the Dada participant and pioneer of abstraction between art and craft, spanning her textiles, marionettes, stained glass, paintings and moreA New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2021Accompanying the first retrospective of Taeuber-Arp’s work in the United States in 40 years, Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction is a comprehensive survey of this multifaceted abstract artist’s innovative and wide-ranging body of work. Her background in the applied arts and dance, her involvement in the Zurich Dada movement and he... + Read More