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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide England's South Coast
Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff. - DK Eyewitness Travel
Format: Paperback
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Visit and explore England's south coast, and discover historic churches and cathedrals, take hikes in the beautiful countryside, and eat authentic English fare with the first edition of this DK travel guide.From top restaurants, bars, and clubs to standout scenic sites and walks, our insider... |
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Barron's SSAT/ISEE, 3rd Edition: High School Entrance Examinations
Kathleen Elliott - Barron's Educational Series
Format: Paperback
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This updated manual prepares students to pass either the Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT) or the Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) , nationally administered tests used as high school admission requirements by many private secondary schools. Students can improve their test-taking... |
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The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker
Robert Mankoff - Black Dog & Leventhal
Format: Paperback
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The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperback - fully updated and featuring a brand new introduction... |
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Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader
Peter Catapano - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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From the editors of the widely influential The Stone Reader comes the most thorough and engaging guide to modern ethical thought available. Since 2010, The Stone -- the immensely popular, award-winning philosophy column in the New York Times -- has revived and reinterpreted age-old inquiries... |
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The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons
Robert Mankoff - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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A wry look at the golfing world, from the beloved cartoonists at The New Yorker A hilarious hole-in-one for golfers and cartoon-lovers alike, The New Yorker Book of Golf Cartoons, Second Edition brings together over a hundred classic images from across the magazine's eighty-plus-year... |
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Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide
DK Publishing - DK
Format: Hardcover
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The natural world is a dynamic place and our understanding of it is forever growing and changing. Since Animal was first published in 2001, the African elephant has been reclassified into two species, a cat-sized rat has been discovered in Papua New Guinea, the only plant-eating... |
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The Best 382 Colleges, 2018 Edition
PRINCETON REVIEW. - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback
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NO ONE KNOWS COLLEGES LIKE THE PRINCETON REVIEW!The Princeton Review's college rankings started in 1992 with surveys from 30,000 students. Over 25 years and more than a million student surveys later, we stand by our claim that there is no single "best" college, only the best college... |
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Insight Guides Rajasthan
Gavin Thomas - Insight Guides
Format: Paperback
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The name Rajasthan is deeply evocative, summoning up quintessential images of the India of popular imagination: forts, deserts and palaces. Be inspired to visit by the new edition of Insight Guide Rajasthan, a comprehensive full-colour guide to this vibrantly colourful Indian state.Inside... |
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Korea Reborn a Grateful Nation
Service Productions South Korea - Remember My Service Productions / StoryRock, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Brand new condition hardcover book in its also mint condition decorative dustjacket. |
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Insight Guides Taiwan
Insight Guides (Firm) - Insight Guides
Format: Paperback
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Taiwan is a fascinating country to visit, with ruggedly beautiful scenery and a vibrant culture that preserves the best of ancient traditions, while passionately embracing the newest in high-tech modernity. This new edition of Insight Guide Taiwan is a comprehensive full-colour travel... |
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The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics
Robert Aitken - North Point Press
Format: Paperback
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In Taking the Path of Zen, Robert Aitken provided a concise guide to zazen (Zen meditation) and other aspects of the practice of Zen. In The Mind of Clover he addresses the world beyond the zazen cushions, illuminating issues of appropriate personal and social action through... |
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Taking the Path of Zen
Robert Aitken - North Point Press
Format: Paperback
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There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight, in a manner that both guides and inspires. In Taking the Path of Zen Robert Aitken presents the practice, lifestyle, rationale, and ideology of Zen Buddhism with remarkable clarity. The foundation of Zen is the practice... |
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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"A landmark." - Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyFor more... |
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
GEORGE ANDERS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable... |
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The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution
Virginia DeJohn Anderson - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general,... |
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Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Nina Auerbach - University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Hardcover
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Auerbach examines the writer of depth and recklessness now largely known only as the author of Rebecca, looking at the way her sharp-edged fiction, with its brutal and often perverse family relationships, has been softened in film adaptations of her work. She reads both du Maurier's... |
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To the New Owners: A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
MADELEINE BLAIS - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais's in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. A little more than two miles down a poorly marked one-lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack -- it had no electricity or modern plumbing, the roof leaked,... |
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Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto
Lonely Planet - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Venice & the Veneto is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Watch a Murano glass-blower practice his craft, stroll past... |
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From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon
MATTIAS BOSTRM - Mysterious Press
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting... |
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Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture
Lisa Boucher - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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Have you ever wondered if social drinking has unintended consequences to your health, family, relationships, or your profession? Have you ever thought that losing control of your drinking couldn't happen to you or someone you love? All the women you know are too smart. Too rich. Too kind.... |
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The Heart of Meditation: Discovering Innermost Awareness
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho Dalai Lama XIV - Shambhala
Format: Hardcover
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama provides intimate details on an advanced meditation practice called Dzogchen using a visionary poem by the 19th-century saint Patrul Rinpoche, author of the Buddhist classic Words of My Perfect Teacher. The Dalai Lama deftly connects how training the mind... |
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Seven Steps to Managing Your Memory: What's Normal, What's Not, and What to Do About It
ANDREW E BUDSON - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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As you age, you may find yourself worrying about your memory. Where did I put those car keys What time was my appointment What was her name again With more than 41 million Americans over the age of 65 in the United States, the question becomes how much (or, perhaps, what type) of memory... |
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The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood
Paula Byrne - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Perfect for fans of Jane Austen, this updated edition of Paula Byrnes debut book includes new material that explores the history of Austen stage adaptations, why her books work so well on screen, and what that reveals about one of the worlds most beloved authors.Originally published by Bloomsbury... |
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How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays
MANDY LEN CATRON - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An insightful, charming, and absolutely fascinating memoir from the author of the popular New York Times essay, "To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This," (one of the top five most popular New York Times pieces of 2015) explores the romantic myths we create and explains... |
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The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Deepak Chopra - New World Library / Amber-Allen Publishing
Format: Audiobook
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Deepak Chopra's best-selling guide to creating abundance and prosperity is now on CD and read by the author. Based on seven natural laws that govern all creation, this book shatters the myth that success results only from hard work, exacting plans, and driving ambition. Deepak Chopra offers... |
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Stephen Colbert's Midnight Confessions
LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Forgive him, Father, for Stephen Colbert has sinned. He knew it was wrong at the time. But he went ahead and did it anyway. Now he's begging for forgiveness. Based on his popular segment from The Late Show, Stephen Colbert and his team of writers now reveal his most shameful... |
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The Essential Confucius
Confucius. - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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A deluxe paperback edition: Thomas Cleary's brilliant translation of the sayings of Confucius presented in the order of the 64 classic I Ching hexagrams. |
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Your Pregnancy After 35: Revised Edition
Glade B. Curtis - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Paperback
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Today, 1 in 5 women in the United States has her first child after age 35. When a woman becomes pregnant in her late thirties or forties, she has different needs than a younger mother-to-be. Now, after more than ten years, Your Pregnancy after 35 has been fully revised with cutting-edge... |
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Supreme Democracy: The End of Elitism in Supreme Court Nominations
Richard Davis - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Supreme Court nominations were driven by presidents, senators, and some legal community elites. Many nominations were quick processes with little Senate deliberation, minimal publicity and almost no public involvement. Today, however, confirmation... |
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Science in the Soul: Selected Shorter Writings
RICHARD DAWKINS - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The legendary biologist and bestselling author mounts a timely and passionate defense of science and clear thinking with this career-spanning collection of essays, including twenty pieces published in the United States for the first time. For decades,... |
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The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary Edition
Richard Dawkins - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution... |
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Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change
Geoff Dembicki - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A declaration of independence, and a call for systemic change, from the generation that will be most impacted by climate change.If anyone doubted the potential political power of the Millennial generation, Bernie Sanders' campaign put it in the spotlight. Are We Screwed makes clear... |
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Skillful Coping: Essays on the phenomenology of everyday perception and action
Hubert L Dreyfus - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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For fifty years Hubert Dreyfus has addressed an astonishing range of issues in the fields of phenomenology, existentialism, cognitive science, and the philosophical study of mind. Dreyfus has inspired a whole generation of philosophers as he has creatively drawn on and clearly articulated... |
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The Du Mauriers
Daphne Du Maurier - Virago
Format: Paperback
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When Daphne du Maurier wrote this book she was only thirty years old and had already established herself both as a biographer, with the acclaimed Gerald: A Portrait, and as a novelist. The Du Mauriers was written during a vintage period of her career, between two of her best-loved novels:... |
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Vanishing Cornwall
Daphne Du Maurier - Virago
Format: Paperback
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'There was a smell in the air of tar and rope and rusted chain, a smell of tidal water. Down harbour, around the point, was the open sea. Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known. Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone... |
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The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
Martin Edwards - Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested. To illustrate this, the leading expert on classic crime discusses one hundred... |
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The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, and Baseball's Most Historic Record
John Eisenberg - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The fascinating story of baseball's legendary "Ironmen," two players from different eras who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea... |
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Jesse Eisinger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice.Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing... |
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We the People
Harold Evans - Little
Format: Hardcover
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"Harry Evans has edited everything from the urgent files of battlefield reporters to the complex thought processes of Henry Kissinger. He's even been knighted for his services to journalism. In DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?, he brings his indispensable insight to us all in his definite guide... |
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What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
KATE FAGAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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From noted on-air commentator and sports journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Maddy Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young... |
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Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation in Crete
Patrick Leigh Fermor - New York Review Books
Format: Hardcover
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One of the most daring feats in Patrick Leigh Fermor's daring life was the kidnapping of General Kreipe, the German commander in Crete, on April 26, 1944.Abducting a General, now published for the first time in the United States, is Leigh Fermor's own account of the kidnapping. Written... |
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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece
Patrick Leigh Fermor - NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback
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Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece - stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past. Roumeli describes... |
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Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking
Simon Quellen Field - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback
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When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe, you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired microbial... |
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On Inequality
Harry G. Frankfurt - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The poor suffer because they don't have enough, not because others have more, and some have far too much. So why do many people appear to be more distressed... |
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On Truth
Harry G. Frankfurt - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional... |
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Be a Hero: The Essential Survival Guide to Active-Shooter Events
John Geddes - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Dealing with the unthinkableIt's never going to be you. Then one day you hear the clatter of automatic fire at the mall. You have been drawn into the chaos and terror of an active shooter event. What do you do? Who do you turn to? Be a Hero is the essential guide to terrorist attacks... |
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Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir
Martha Gellhorn - TarcherPerigee
Format: Paperback
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"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor... |
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The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics
David Goodhart - Hurst
Format: Hardcover
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A robust and timely investigation into the political and moral fault-lines that divide Brexit Britain and Trump's America -- and how a new settlement may be achieved.Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have... |
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Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult
BRUCE HANDY - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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An irresistible, nostalgic, insightful - and totally original - ramble through classic children's literature from Vanity Fair contributing editor (and father) Bruce Handy. "Consistently intelligent and funny ... The book succeeds wonderfully." - The New York Times... |
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
MONICA HESSE - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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Recommended Summer reading by TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, and Elle. A breathtaking feat of reportage, American Fire combines procedural with love story, redefining American tragedy for our time.The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night... |
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Amish Society
John Andrew Hostetler - Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
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Highly acclaimed in previous editions, this classic work by John Hostetler has been expanded and updated to reflect current research on Amish history and culture as well as the new concerns of Amish communities throughout North America. |
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Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before
Ken Ilgunas - Blue Rider Press
Format: Paperback
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Now that President Donald Trump has revived the Keystone XL pipeline that was rejected by former President Obama, Trespassing Across America is the book to help us understand the kaleidoscopic significance of the project. Told with sincerity, humor, and wit, Ilgunas's story is both... |
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Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry into a Life of Meaning
AARON JAMES - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of Assholes: A Theory, a book that - in the tradition of Shopclass as Soulcraft, Barbarian Days and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - uses the experience and the ethos of surfing to explore key concepts in philosophy. The existentialist... |
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Palestine: The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration
J M N Jeffries - Olive Branch Pr
Format: Paperback
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A comprehensive history and analysis of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, published in the run up to its 100th anniversary.First published by Longman Green, London, this book had a short life; the entire stock and the publisher's premises were destroyed by the German blitz in 1941.... |
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Being the Change: How to Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution
PETER KALMUS - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome.We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens.Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth's climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban father... |
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
NAOMI KLEIN - Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback
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The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic... |
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Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta "Reading with Patrick could be the most affecting book you'll read this year."... |
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Mark Kurlansky - Modern Library
Format: Paperback
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In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice... |
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The Boy Who Loved Too Much: A True Story of Pathological Friendliness
Jennifer Latson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The poignant story of a boy's coming-of-age complicated by Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes people biologically incapable of distrust.What would it be like to see everyone as a friend? Twelve-year-old Eli D'Angelo has a genetic disorder that obliterates social inhibitions,... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point... |
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Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Donna M Lucey - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"Sargent's Women has a distinct elegance and potency -- Lucey's writing propels you forward, straight to the heart of the story, along the vibrant ties that linked this fascinating artist to the women he made infamous." -- Christene Barberich, global editor-in-chief and cofounder,... |
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It's All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives
Kevin Avery - Fantagraphics
Format: Hardcover
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This is a prose series of unpublished interviews with, and a visual retrospective of, the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer. In 1976, the critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing his literary hero, legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald. Beginning in the late... |
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Melancholy Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck
Peter Manseau - Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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Did you know that fatal gun mishaps have been so common in America that for centuries, newspapers carried regular columns reporting on "melancholy accidents"?It came as a surprising discovery when, while conducting research that involved reading colonial-era newspapers, acclaimed... |
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
BRIAN MERCHANT - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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We know the iPhone as the device that transformed our world, changing everything from how we talk to each other and do business, to how we exercise, travel, shop, and watch TV. But packed within its slim profile is the fascinating, untold story of scientific, technological, and business... |
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Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
KATHRYN MILES - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It's a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes.... |
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The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry
CLARE MULLEY - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Biographers' Club Prize-winner Clare Mulley's The Women Who Flew for Hitler -- a dual biography of Nazi Germany's most highly decorated women pilots.Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make... |
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Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
Johanna Neuman - NYU Press
Format: Hardcover
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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names - Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like... |
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The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories
Ilan PappeÌ - Oneworld Publications
Format: Hardcover
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Israeli expat historian Pappe ... boldly and persuasively argues for understanding the occupied territories as the world's 'largest ever mega-prison..... Pappe's conclusions won't be welcome in all quarters but this detailed history is rigorously supported by primary sources." -- Publishers... |
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Ten Myths About Israel
Ilan Pappé - Verso
Format: Paperback
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The myths - and reality - behind the state of IsraelIn this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state... |
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He's Not Lazy: Empowering Your Son to Believe In Himself
Adam Price - Sterling
Format: Hardcover
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"Clinical psychologist Price offers one of the most significant books of the year in this new look at an old problem - the underperforming teenage boy ... Price's book brings an important voice to a much needed conversation." - Library Journal (Starred review) On the surface,... |
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Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution
WILLARD STERNE RANDALL - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Willard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged... |
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The Structure of Design: An Engineer's Extraordinary Life in Architecture
Leslie E Robertson - The Monacelli Press
Format: Hardcover
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In The Structure of Design, Leslie Earl Robertson recounts a storied career in engineering which has generated among the most innovative and formally daring buildings of the modern era, as well as his extensive collaborations with several titans of the practice: Minoru Yamasaki,... |
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Take Nothing With You
Sarah V. Schweig - University Of Iowa Press
Format: Paperback
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There are worlds we can imagine, but we live in this one: contingent and absurd. In her first full-length collection, Sarah V. Schweig aims to capture something essential and universal about this faulted inheritance. ?These poems operate on the notion that the lyric can be discovered in scattered... |
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How To Raise An Amazing Child the Montessori Way, 2nd Edition
TIM SELDIN - DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Format: Paperback
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"A practical parenting program to help build a calm and happy home life with your child, from birth through age six. This guide is based on Montessori school methods and packed with creative activities to help children discover more about their world as well as foster independence,... |
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The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage
Jared Yates Sexton - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover
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On June 14, 2016, Jared Yates Sexton reported from a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the first journalists to attend these rallies and give mainstream readers an idea of the raw anger that occurred there, Sexton found himself in the center of a maelstrom. Following... |
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Night Thoughts
WALLACE SHAWN - Haymarket Books
Format: Hardcover
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Although he is guided and inspired by the people he respects, and despite the insufficiency of his knowledge and experience - an insufficiency shared by most (or all) other humans, Wallace Shawn can't see any real alternative to trying to figure out his own answers to the most essential... |
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Hygge: The Danish Art of Happiness
Marie Tourell Soderberg - Penguin UK
Format: Hardcover
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Other books will tell you how to be hygge. This is the only book that will show you. Though we all know the feeling of hygge instinctively, few of us ever manage to capture it for more than a moment. Now Danish actress and hygge aficionado Marie Tourell Sderberg has traveled the length... |
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Algebra I Workbook For Dummies
Mary Jane Sterling - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The grade-saving Algebra I companion, with hundreds of additional practice problems online Algebra I Workbook For Dummies is your solution to the Algebra brain-block. With hundreds of practice and example problems mapped to the typical high school Algebra class, you'll crack... |
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The Elements of Style
William Strunk - Longman
Format: Hardcover
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You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when... |
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Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
James Suzman - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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A vibrant portrait of the "original affluent society"--the Bushmen of southern Africa--by the anthropologist who has spent much of the last twenty-five years documenting their encounter with modernity. If the success of a civilization is measured by its endurance over time, then... |
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Accepted! 50 Successful College Admission Essays
Gen Tanabe - SuperCollege
Format: Paperback
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Students will prepare powerful and successful admission essays with the tools provided in this invaluable, newly-updated resource for the college-bound. Examples of 50 real essays are included, discussing such topics as leadership, personal obstacles, athletics, public service, special... |
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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From the legendary journalist and creator of "Gonzo" journalism Hunter S. Thompson comes the bestselling critical look at Nixon and McGovern's 1972 presidential election.Forty years after its original publication, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 remains a cornerstone... |
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Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 For Dummies
Ed Tittel - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Your full-color, friendly guide to getting started with HTML5 and CSS3! HTML and CSS are essential tools for creating dynamic websites and help make your websites even more effective and unique. This friendly-but-straightforward guide gets you started with the basics of the latest versions... |
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
David Treuer - Grove Press
Format: Paperback
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Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle... |
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
Ellen Ullman - Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback
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With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. With intimate and unflinching detail, software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange... |
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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
ELLEN ULLMAN - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, the author of the seminal Close to the MachineThe last twenty years have brought us the rise of the internet, the development of artificial intelligence, the ubiquity of once unimaginably... |
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America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History
Margaret E Wagner - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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"A uniquely colorful chronicle of this dramatic and convulsive chapter in American--and world--history. It's an epic tale, and here it is wondrously well told." --David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of FREEDOM FROM FEARFrom August 1914 through... |
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Josh Waitzkin - Free Press
Format: Paperback
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In his riveting new book, The Art of Learning, Waitzkin tells his remarkable story of personal achievement and shares the principles of learning and performance that have propelled him to the top - twice.Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure... |
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Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
Oscar Wilde - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. In addition to Dorian... |
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The Wicked Wit of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde - Michael O'Mara
Format: Paperback
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Oscar Wilde's needle-sharp rejoinders are often repeated with delight. However, his jibes were rarely cruel, and displayed a profound understanding of the human character and its vanities. This collection includes such notable quotes as: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes"... |
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
ROBERT WRIGHT - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped... |
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Dangerous
Milo Yiannopoulos - Dangerous Books
Format: Audiobook
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The liberal media machine did everything they could to keep this book out of your hands. Now, finally, Dangerous, the most controversial book of the decade, is tearing down safe spaces everywhere. |
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Why Poetry
Matthew Zapruder - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry's accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew ZapruderIn Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry - and poetry alone - can do. Zapruder argues... |
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