IVP Academic, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson is one of the most eminent public intellectuals in America today, and her writing offers probing meditations on the Christian faith. Based on the 2018 Wheaton Theology Conference, this volume brings together the thoughts of leading theologians, historians, literary..... More
Avid Reader Press, January 2021. Trade Paperback. The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On..... More
Image Text Ithaca, October 2024. Hardcover. A call-and-response between Lutz's photography of labor conditions in America and Saunders' writings In Orange Blossom Trail, American writer George Saunders (born 1958) and American photographer Joshua Lutz (born 1975) offer an alternately poetic and searing evocation of the cruelty and tender beauty of..... More
Haymarket Books, May 2025. Trade Paperback. A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which there thrives a free, free Palestine. Poetry has always served as a mode..... More
Random House Worlds, August 2003. Trade Paperback. Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their role model, the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien himself..... More
Dover Publications, November 2011. Trade Paperback. Does a curve ball really curve? Why is a football made to spiral when it's thrown? How is the bounce of a basketball tested before a game? These and hundreds of other questions are answered in this fascinating book--an easy-to-follow examination of the scientific..... More
Grand Central Publishing, May 1998. Trade Paperback. The thinking person's comic who uses words as weapons, George Carlin shares all-new, cutting-edge opinion and observational humor in "Brain Droppings." Filled with thoughts, musings, questions, lists, beliefs, curiosities, monologues, assertions, assumptions, and other verbal ordeals, "Brain Droppings" is infectiously funny. Carlin unleashes..... More
Pryor, January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Random House, December 1998. Trade Paperback. Complete book of massage techniques for friends and lovers. Explains in step-by-step detail the most satisfying massage methods and their meaning and purpose. (Ooh, ahh..hey, that tickles!). More
Applewood Books, January 2021. Trade Paperback. An illustrated etiquette guide from 1910 full of wit, personality, and surprising parallels to college life today. Covering a wide range of subjects, from room décor to procrastination, the suggestions in this entertaining book are at times comically antiquated and at others strikingly relevant..... More
Ballantine Books, March 2016. Trade Paperback. Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own? Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his..... More
Dover Publications, January 2012. Trade Paperback. The locale of these 120 brilliantly satiric drawings is that of Berlin in the 1920s, but a most remarkable thing about them is their startling contemporaneity. We have to keep reminding ourselves that they were not drawn in New York, London, and Paris of..... More
Viking, March 2026. Hardcover. "A work of real passion."--The New York Times "A seamless melding of poetry and science."--Wall Street Journal An exquisite exploration of the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today We live on a...... More
Dover Publications, January 2020. Trade Paperback. "In a comic strip of this sort, the spectator, not seduced by a flood of gags, or by any realistic or caricatural reference, or by any appeal to sex and violence, could discover the possibility of a purely allusive world, a pleasure of a...... More
University of Chicago Press, June 2012. Trade Paperback. For more than sixty years, George F. Kennan's American Diplomacy has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an emerging great power..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 1989. Trade Paperback. As participant and observer, George F. Kennan has left an indelible mark on more than six decades of this century. In this new volume of essays, reviews, and speeches, Kennan reflects on the forces that have shaped this tragic century... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2000. Trade Paperback. Beginning with his first foreign service post in 1927 and ending seven decades later, Kennan's account is rich with the insight of a major historical participant. Whether relating the perils of Hitler's Germany or revisiting Kennan's days as ambassador to the..... More
University of Michigan Press, May 1994. Trade Paperback. The Emigrants is an elaborately conceived novel, dense with dynamic characters and evocative details. First published in 1954, it focuses initially on the emigrant journey, then on the settling-in process. The journey by sea and subsequent attempts at resettlement provide the fictional..... More
University of Michigan Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Grand Central Publishing, September 2022. Mass Market Paperback. New York Times bestselling author and Nashville legend Loretta Lynn tells the story of her rise from deep poverty in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, to the top of the male-dominated country music industry -- now with new content. ? Reissued for the 40th..... More
Applewood Books, January 2008. Hardcover. Preserve the rights of all Americans with this elegant hardback gift edition of the Bill of Rights, proudly made in the USA. Collectively known as the United States Bill of Rights, these first ten amendments to the United States Constitution limit the powers of the..... More
Signet Classic, January 1961. Mass Market Paperback. 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary..... More
Berkley, April 1983. Trade Paperback. 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that..... More
David R. Godine, Publisher, June 2019. Trade Paperback. Essays, journalism and essays by the indispensable George Orwell, spanning the first two decades of his writing career. Even many years after his death, the more we read of Orwell, the more clearly we can think about our world and ourselves. Orwell's..... More
Plume, January 2003. Trade Paperback. 75th Anniversary Edition--Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel--a scathing satire of a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." A farm is taken over by its..... More
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