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Equally adept at fiction (a winner of the National Jewish Book Award) and philosophy (a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation genius prize), Rebecca Newberg...

Unusually Gifted As Both A Physicist And A Novelist, Alan Lightman Has Lived In The Dual Worlds Of Science And Art For Much Of His Life. In These Brilliant ...

From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable pas...

Frank J. Sulloway ; Traducción De Marisa Abdala. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 569-617) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologySocial Psyc...

Chronicles an American mother's year abroad with her two daughters in Aix-en-Provence. Part memoir and part fiction, this adventure is presided over by an a...

Daniel Clowes' cartooning is eerie and dramatic-full of the world as we know it, but as seen from an angle available only to the artist, an angle from whic...

From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countri...

Deals With The Essential Needs, Gifts, Obligations And Aspirations Of Women As Distinct From Those Of Men. The Beach -- Channelled Whelk -- Moon Shell -- Do...

Elegant And Wise Meditations On Youth And Age, Love And Marriage, Solitude, Peace And Contentment. Introduction To The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition / Reeve ...

Fernando Aramburu's internationally acclaimed novel evokes an unresolved history of violence, giving a fictional account of lives shattered by Basque terror...

Nina Simone With Stephen Cleary. Discography: Pages 177-178.Categories: Arts & Photography Music Theory, Composition & PerformanceVocal Biogr...

In Hitler's Shadow by noted historian Richard J. Evans, is a study of recent attempts by some West German historians to free the German conscience from guil...

From The Infinitely Inventive Author Of How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe Comes A Deeply Personal Novel About Race, Pop Culture, Assimilati...

Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the a...

From The Highly Acclaimed Author Of Version Control Comes A Stunning, Powerfully Evocative New Novel Based On A True Story--in 1726 In The Small Town Of God...

Memoir About Vladek Spiegelman, A Jewish Survivor Of Hitler's Europe, And About His Son, A Cartoonist Who Tries To Come To Terms With His Father, His Story,...

From One Of Japan's Most Notable Manga Artists: A Heartbreaking And Redemptive Tale Of Mourning And Acceptance That Compares And Contrasts The Contemporary ...

Cover has only light wear. Previous owner's name on ffep. Very light foxing on page edges, otherwise all pages are very clean. Ships fast from California.Ca...

A portrait of life in late-nineteenth-century Japan makes use of selections from diaries, personal recollections, and fiction to show how industrialization ...

In The Late 1920s Radio Exploded Almost Overnight Into Being America's Dominant Entertainment, Just As Television Would Do Twenty-five Years Later. Gerald N...

Reading Jesus is a personal journey through the fundamental Biblical stories. As celebrated author Mary Gordon ponders the intense strangeness of a deity ...

Rugs to Riches is an authoritative, lively, and eminently practical guide for people who want to learn the dos and don'ts of choosing handmade oriental rug...

From the environmental activist, consumer advocate, renowned crusader, and champion fighter whose courageous case against Pacific Gas and Electric was drama...

Examines How Investors Are Being Exploited And Deceived By Both Financial Institutions And Corporate America, Discussing Such Topics As Broker Compensation,...

Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Susan Jacoby dissects a new American cultural phenomenon--one that is at odds with our heritage...

WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZEThe lives of three women weave together across centuries in this dazzling new novel.   Sarah, accused of being a witch, is fleein...

The political and linguistic writings of America's leading dissident intellectual. He relates his political ideals to his theories about language. Library...

John Cleese And Connie Booth. Originally Published: Methuen London, 1988. Scripts To The Cult Classic British Television Show, Fawlty Towers.Categories: Hum...

Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of...

Bill Chalmers Endures A Battery Of Medical Tests To Find A Diagnosis For His Numbness And Memory Loss. Alan Lightman.Categories: Literature & FictionLit...

in This Irreverent And Illuminating Book, Acclaimed Writer And Scientist Leonard Mlodinow Shows Us How Randomness, Change, And Probability Reveal A Tremend...

Brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the co...

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the ori...

ISABEL DALHOUSIE - Book 9Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious ph...

From the author of the beloved novel Three Junes comes a rich and commanding story about the accidents, both grand and small, that determine our choices in ...

Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to...

From the bestselling author of Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird comes a chronicle of faith and spirituality that is at once tough, personal, affectio...

Thirty-one Essays On Sime Of The Most Influential Artists Of Our Time And Two Saints Of All Time-- Lucia Joyce, Writer's Block, Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, S...

Sociologist Arlene Stein Takes Us Into The Lives Of Four Strangers Who Find Themselves Together In A Sun-drenched Surgeon's Office, Having Traveled To Flori...

Winner Of The National Book Critics Circle Award An American Book Award Finalist Now In Paperback, War Without Mercy Has Been Hailed By The New York Times A...

A Revelatory History--spanning Continents And Millennia--of How The Distribution Of Water Has Shaped Human Civilization, By The Chief Strategy Officer And G...

Neil Shubin, A Leading Paleontologist And Professor Of Anatomy Who Discovered Tiktaalik--the Missing Link That Made Headlines Around The World In April 2006...