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“A fascinating short book” on the perils of 21st-century capitalism and its near-complete takeover of our everyday lives (New York Times Magazine)   24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep...

"The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first. Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting...

A guided journal for practical wisdom and self-reflection—featuring insightful quotes, sage advice for a life well-lived, and charming illustrations—from acclaimed philosopher Alan Watts. Whether you...

Slide, spin, pop, and puzzle your way through a gallery of illusions. In his inventive new pop-up book, artist and paper engineer David Carter transforms optical tricks into dazzling...

E.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. RieuOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story...

Masses In Latin America / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Development And Stagnation In Latin America / Celso Furtado -- Working-class Consciousness And Economic Development In Latin America / Alain...

This is the first book to provide a critical history of one of the American theater's most famous plays, Death of a Salesman. Brenda Murphy offers a detailed account of the most significant Salesman...

Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the...

Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work...

This book is a newspaper reader for the American student who has completed one and a half to two years of modern Chinese. The fourteen selections included in the reader show how the U.S. was depicted...

This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily...

The Military Commissions scheme established by President George W. Bush in November 2001 has garnered considerable national and international controversy. In parallel with the detention facilities at...

In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment.Inspired by Albert Camus’s seminal Myth of Sisyphus,...

AVAILABLE NOW -THE RSPB GARDEN BIRDWATCHER'S PUZZLE BOOK A jam-packed puzzle and trivia book about the birds in Britain, in collaboration with the RSPB. Can you tell your rook from your crow? Do...

(Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard Blues Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning blues guitar. This book uses excerpts from real blues songs no corny arrangments of nursery rhymes here! (well,...

An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe.Although hints of a crisis appeared as...

In an in-depth comparative and long-term analysis, first published in 2004, Daniele Caramani studies the macro-historical process of the nationalization of politics. Using a great wealth of data on...

New title in the colourful Artisan Art Notebook collection by Flame Tree Studio, in a range of hues to suit the mood and the moment, crafted with decorated page edges and embellished with beautiful...

Based on a harrowing true story, the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, is a story of love, power, sex, and death during the sexual revolution of the 1970s.Theresa...

Send paper airplanes soaring with ready-to-fold pages!Making paper airplanes doesn't feel like science (although this book explains some of the science behind flying paper airplanes), and it's not...