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Rising Up and Rising Down
$16.99Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney’s in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, contemporary case…
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Rough Crossings
$16.99“The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary expeience of slaves in and after the American Revolution. . . . Schama’s gift for plunging us into the very center…
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Rousseau’s Dog
$14.99In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume—now recognized as the foremost philosopher in…
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Salt
$15.99For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word salary), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors,…
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Selected Poems
$24.95“One of the century’s most important poets.”—San Francisco Chronicle“One of the greatest poets of our time, perhaps the greatest.”—Joseph Brodsky“Nobody tells the story of this age better than Czeslaw Milosz.”—New…
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sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way
$27.50One of the most recognizable poets of the last century, Charles Bukowski is simultaneously a common man and an icon of urban depravity. He uses strong, blunt language to describe…
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Summerhouse, Later
$15.99In nine luminous stories of love and loss, loneliness and hope, Judith Hermann’s stunning debut collection paints a vivid and poignant picture of a generation ready and anxious to turn…
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Take Me, Take Me with You
$15.99Lauren Kelly, with amazing power and authority, explores the secret kinship of “soul mates,” in a mysterious and demonic love story.Lara Quade, a disaffected intellectual associated with a prominent Princeton…
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Terrorist Hunter
$25.95The remarkable memoir of an Iraqi woman who escaped from captivity in Baghdad and became America’s leading undercover counter-terrorist expert. Here is the story of an anonymous counter-terrorism expert, a…
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The Best American Science Writing 2004
$13.95Jennifer Kahn’s “Stripped for Parts” was selected as the lead story of this year’s Best American Science Writing because, as Dava Sobel, best-selling author of Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, reveals,…
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The Best American Science Writing 2005
$13.95Together these twenty-seven articles on a wide range of today’s most current topics in science, from Oliver Sacks, James Gleick, Atul Gawande, and Natalie Angier, among others, represent the full…
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The Best American Science Writing 2006
$14.95Together these twenty-one articles on a wide range of today’s most leading topics in science, from Dennis Overbye, Jonathan Weiner, and Richard Preston, among others, represent the full spectrum of…