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"A biography [of Nobel Prize winner Madame Curie] that stirs the heart and the mind by a fine counterpoint of sense and sensibility, a great story superbly told."--New York TimesMarie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win...List Price $21.99List Price $21.99 -
This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent...List Price $12.95List Price $12.95 -
A dollar is a dollar—or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing relations to cold, hard cash. After all, it's just money. Or is it?...List Price $27.95List Price $27.95 -
"A must-read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world." - San Francisco ChronicleThe Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic...List Price $21.99List Price $21.99 -
"Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her...List Price $22.99List Price $22.99 -
This book is a rich collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger's Being and Time as its permanent point of reference and dispute, this collection also...List Price $35.00List Price $35.00 -
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout“This book, this...List Price $27.00Our Price $16.00List Price $27.00Our Price $16.00 -
"A sprawling, ambitious underwater journey studded with fascinating tidbits." - New York Times Book ReviewWild fish hover in seas, rivers and lakes, out of sight and out of mind. But from the very first time Helen Scales immersed herself into their...List Price $18.00List Price $18.00 -
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson’s sharp observational...List Price $23.99List Price $23.99 -
The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's...List Price $29.95Our Price $17.99List Price $29.95Our Price $17.99 -
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the original women's empowerment manifestoAn ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off its noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and...List Price $19.99Our Price $14.99List Price $19.99Our Price $14.99 -
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact,...List Price $52.50Our Price $39.50List Price $52.50Our Price $39.50 -
Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important analyses of Nietzsche. It is also one of the best introductions to Deleuze's thought,...List Price $30.00List Price $30.00 -
Published in German during the last 15 years, the 13 essays in this volume provide readers with valuable knowledge of the much discussed theme of hermeneutics today. Gadamer was an early student of Martin Heidegger and has been a lifelong friend and...List Price $34.95List Price $34.95 -
First published in English in 1965, this timeless classic explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike.List Price $22.00Our Price $10.00List Price $22.00Our Price $10.00 -
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The mega-bestselling novel that made Jeffrey Archer a star, Kane and Abel, “a sprawling blockbuster!”―Publishers WeeklyTWO STRANGERS BORN WORLDS APART. ONE DESTINY THAT WOULD DEFINE THEM BOTH...William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a...List Price $14.99List Price $14.99 -
National Bestseller • A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize • Long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award • One of Time Magazine's Top 10 Fiction Books of the YearA New York Times Book Review Notable...List Price $18.00List Price $18.00 -
The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing...List Price $35.00Our Price $16.99List Price $35.00Our Price $16.99 -
A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long-awaited first full-length book: a kaleidoscopic study of Rainer...List Price $16.95List Price $16.95