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  • The Best American Essays 2017 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B01NBKE4VV
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    "Jamison has done an exceptional job curating this volume, selecting essayists who are diverse in ideas and experiences, and essays that are challenging, passionate, sobering, and clever." --Publishers Weekly “The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its exp... [Read More]

  • Contemporary Latin American Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0449912264
    • ISBN: 0449912264
    • Brand: McNees, Pat (EDT)/ Mancini, Pat McNees
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    Striking in its imagery, its history, and its breathtaking scope, Latin American fiction has finally come into its own throughout the world. Collected in this brilliant volume are thirty-five of the finest writers of this century, including:Jorge Luis BorgesCarlos FuentesJulio CortazarMiguel Angel AsturiasGabriel Garcia MarquezJorge AmadoOctavio Pa... [Read More]

  • The North American Indian. The Complete Portfolios (Bibliotheca Universalis)

    • ASIN: 3836550563
    • ISBN: 3836550563
    • Brand: Taschen
    • Manufacturer: TASCHEN

    At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious, he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that wa... [Read More]

  • Everything You Need to Ace Math in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

    • ASIN: 0761160965
    • ISBN: 0761160965
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

    It’s the revolutionary math study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace Math . . . covers everything to get a student over any math hump: fractions, decimals, and how to multiply and divide them; ratios, proportions, and percentages; geometry; statistics and probability; expre... [Read More]

  • Which Way for the Ecology Movement?: Essays by Murray Bookchin

    • ASIN: 1873176260
    • ISBN: 1873176260
    • Manufacturer: AK Press

    In the essays that make up this book, Murray Bookchin calls for a critical social standpoint that transcends both "biocentrism" and "ecocentrism." A call for new politics and ethics of complementarity, in which people, fighting for a free, nonhierarchical, and cooperative society, begin to play a creative role in natural evolution. Bookchin attacks... [Read More]

  • The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 (The Best American Series ®)

    • ASIN: B00HK3ESKS
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    “Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings“A stimulating compendium.” — Kirkus ReviewsPulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year’s to... [Read More]

  • If I Live to Be 100: The Wisdom of Centenarians

    • ASIN: 1599621355
    • ISBN: 1599621355
    • Brand: Welcome Books
    • Manufacturer: Welcome Books

    More than fifty extraordinary Americans, who have all celebrated their one hundredth birthday, share a century of insights. Paul Mobley has taken his camera on the road once again, this time to photograph America’s oldest and wisest citizens. Mobley traveled to all fifty states to find these indomitable, extraordinary centenarians. In this inspir... [Read More]

  • The Complete Works of John Adams: Autobiography, Discourses On Davila, Essays On The Constitution, Essays And Controversial Papers Of The Revolution, Autobiography ... (11 Books With Active Table of Contents)

    • ASIN: B005FZ1RH0

    This collection gathers together the works by John Adams in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!AutobiographyA Defence Of The Constitutions Of GovernmentNotes Of Debates Diary: With Passages From An Autobiography Discourses On DavilaEssays And Controversial Papers Of The Revolution Essays On The Constitution N... [Read More]

  • Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair

    • UPC: 884177370001
    • ASIN: 1594205981
    • ISBN: 1594205981
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

    For the magazine’s centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity FairIn honor of the 100th anniversary of Vanity Fair magazine, Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells celebrates the publication’s astonishing early catalogue of writers, with works by Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, Jean C... [Read More]

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: With Linked Table of Contents

    • ASIN: B01KN16MF2
    • Manufacturer: Dancing Unicorn Books

  • The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition (Earthsea Cycle)

    • ASIN: 1481465589
    • ISBN: 1481465589
    • Brand: Gallery / Saga Press
    • Manufacturer: Gallery / Saga Press

    WINNER OF THE HUGO AND LOCUS AWARDS FOR BEST ART BOOK Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of Earthsea that “reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago” (David Mitchell)—this complete omnibus edition of the entire Earthsea chronicles, including over fifty illustrations illuminating Le Guin’... [Read More]

  • Edward S. Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks

    • ASIN: 3791354213
    • ISBN: 3791354213
    • Brand: Cardozo Christopher
    • Manufacturer: Prestel

    Showcasing Edward Curtis's most compelling and important works, this beautiful publication highlights both iconic and rarely seen images, demonstrating his artistry and mastery of photographic mediums, and his commitment to documenting and preserving for posterity the Native Americans’ traditions and ways of life. Widely acknowledged as the world... [Read More]

  • F*ck Whales: Also Families, Poetry, Folksy Wisdom and You

    • ASIN: 1476794979
    • ISBN: 1476794979
    • Brand: Gallery Books
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

    A collection of satirical, crass, comedic essays from famed Internet personality and New York Times bestselling author Maddox of the infamous website The Best Page in the Universe.In this third book from Maddox, the reigning king of Internet satire delivers a collection of humorous, unapologetic essays in the same voice that propelled him into come... [Read More]

  • Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.

    • ASIN: 1501157922
    • ISBN: 1501157922
    • Brand: 37 Ink
    • Manufacturer: 37 Ink

    From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the BLACK GIRLS ROCK! movement comes an inspiring and beautifully designed book that pays tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world.Fueled by the insights of women of diverse backgrounds, including Michelle Obama, Angela Davis, Shonda Rhimes, Mis... [Read More]

  • Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook

    • ASIN: 0922915296
    • ISBN: 0922915296
    • Manufacturer: Feral House

  • New York Times Story of the Yankees: 1903-Present: 390 Articles, Profiles & Essays

    • ASIN: 0316463868
    • ISBN: 0316463868
    • Brand: BLACK DOG LEVENTHAL
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    There has never been a team like the New York Yankees. No team has won as many World Series titles. No team has hit as many home runs. No team has had as many great superstars playing for them: Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, Ford, Rivera, and Jeter to name a few. No team draws as many fans--and enemies--as the Yankees.The New York Times Sto... [Read More]

  • My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories [A Cookbook]

    • UPC: 884416593239
    • ASIN: 1607742675
    • ISBN: 9781607742678
    • Brand: Ten Speed Press
    • Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press

  • The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed

    • ASIN: 1419718185
    • ISBN: 1419718185
    • Brand: Serrano Shea
    • Manufacturer: Abrams Image

    NOW BEING TURNED INTO A DOCUMENTARY TO BE AIRED ON AMC IN 2018.****New York Times Best Seller********Picked by Billboard as One of the 100 Greatest Music Books of All-Time********Pitchfork Book Club's first selection****.Here's what The Rap Year Book does: It takes readers from 1979, widely regarded as the moment rap became recognized as part of t... [Read More]

  • Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips

    • ASIN: 1426201257
    • ISBN: 1426201257
    • Brand: National Geographic Society
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic

    This lavish volume reveals National Geographic's top picks for the world's most fabulous journeys, along with practical tips for your own travels. Compiled from the favorite trips of National Geographic's travel writers, this inspirational book spans the globe to highlight the best of the world's most famous and lesser known sojourns. It presents a... [Read More]

  • The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau: With linked Table of Contents

    • ASIN: B00QYIYHB0
    • Manufacturer: Wilder Publications

    Collected here are nineteen essays by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was one of America's best known and most influential writers. His work has helped shape the American Discourse and had a lasting effect on the environmental movement in America. Included here are The Service, A Walk to Wachusett, Paradise (to be) Regained, The Landlord, Herald of Fr... [Read More]

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