Arnold: Selected Prose (English Library)
Penguin Classics, May 1971. Trade Paperback. More
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Works of Matthew Arnold
The Wordsworth Poetry Lirary, June 1995. Paper Back. More
Secondary: Matthew Barney
Rizzoli Electa, April 2025. Oversize Softcover. In SECONDARY, world-renowned artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney explores the spectacle of violence in American football and culture. This is the definitive two-volume companion to this important work. SECONDARY is a five-channel video installation, performed in Barney's Long Island City studio in 2023, then..... More
Peter Pan and Other Plays: The Admirable Crichton; Peter Pan; When Wendy Grew Up; What Every Woman Knows; Mary Rose (Revised)
Oxford University Press, USA, July 1999. Paper Back. As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays, Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and entertaining contributions to the politics of..... More
Library: An Unquiet History
W. W. Norton & Company, July 2003. Hardcover. On the survival and destruction of knowledge, from Alexandria to the Internet. Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge.Matthew Battles, a rare books librarian and a gifted narrator, takes us on a...... More
Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation
Univ Of Minnesota Press, March 2022. First Thus. Paper Back. The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media This is the first book-length study dedicated to the artist Robert Heinecken, whose innovative photographic practices sought to interrogate how mass..... More
Keep It Simple Y'All: Every Day: Foolproof Recipes to Make Your Life Delicious: A Cookbook
Clarkson Potter Publishers, April 2026. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Boost your confidence in the kitchen with 80 foolproof recipes for busy weeknights, lazy weekends, date nights, and other special occasions--from the beloved creator of Your Barefoot Neighbor and New York Times bestselling author of Keep It Simple Y'all..... More
Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy
Portfolio, June 2026. Hardcover. From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the gilded halls of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, a tale of stolen treasures and the battle to reclaim a nation's soul. Amidst the chaos of Cambodia's brutal genocide, a new crime wave emerged--one that would sweep across..... More
Crick: A Mind in Motion
Basic Books, November 2025. Hardcover. A major new biography of Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and twentieth-century genius "Vivid and authoritative... [an] intriguing portrait of a gifted, self-absorbed, exuberant, and intuitive man." --The New York Times Named a Best Book of the Year by Economist..... More
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Penguin Press HC, The, May 2009. Hardcover. A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands "This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving." --Richard Sennett, author..... More
Midnight's Gate: Poetry
New Directions Publishing Corporation, May 2005. Paper Back. Twenty essays about Bei Dao's life in exile since Tiananmen Square."Knowledge of death is the only key that can open midnight's gate."Bei Dao Bei Dao has gained international acclaim over the last decade for his haunting interior poetic landscapes; his poetry is..... More
Poverty, by America
Crown, March 2024. Paper Back. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a "provocative and compelling" (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The..... More
Income Inequality: Why It Matters and Why Most Economists Didn't Notice
Yale University Press, November 2015. Hardcover. The first book-length treatment to conclusively demonstrate the link between income inequality and the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to low interest rates, relaxed borrowing standards, and the housing price..... More
Six Easy Pieces : Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Perseus Books Group, October 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post-World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos during World War II to his work..... More
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
Harper, December 2024. Hardcover. "Fascinating." -- The Wall Street Journal "An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset." -- Publishers Weekly The authors of The Bright Ages return with a "real-life Game of Thrones" (New York Times Book Review)--the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother..... More
Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (Re-Reading the Canon)
Pennsylvania State University Press, February 1999. Paper Back. This landmark anthology is the first to engage critically the writings of Ayn Rand from feminist perspectives. The interdisciplinary feminist strategies of re-reading Rand range from the lightness of camp to the darkness of de Sade, from postandrogyny to poststructuralism. A highly..... More
After Southern Modernism
University Press of Mississippi, November 2009. Paper Back. A provocative reckoning of the challenging new direction southern literature has taken in the works of nine authors The literature of the contemporary South might best be understood for its discontinuity with the literary past. At odds with traditions of the Southern..... More
Age of Everything: How Science Explores the Past
University of Chicago Press, October 2007. Hardcover. Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13,000 years..... More
George Michael's Faith (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, June 2022. Paper Back. On Saturday, June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his tasselled leather jacket, walked out of London's Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history. He'd just disposed of Wham!, the band he'd formed with school friend Andrew Ridgeley when..... More
George Michael's Faith (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, June 2022. Paper Back. On Saturday, June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his tasselled leather jacket, walked out of London's Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history. He'd just disposed of Wham!, the band he'd formed with school friend Andrew Ridgeley when..... More
Stendhal, or, the pursuit of happiness
Doubleday & Co, January 1946. Cloth. Black cloth with pink lettering on spine & front board. Residue from catalog sticker removal bottom of spine. Tanning/foxing to end pages. Edgeworn jacket especially across top & bottom of spine. Darkening to margins & verso of jacket spine. NOT price clipped: original price..... More
English Passengers
Anchor Books, January 2001. Trade Paperback. In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen..... More
Worst of Sports: Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love
Ballantine Books, September 2007. Trade Paperback. TAKE THEM OUT OF THE BALL GAME-PLEASE! From star running back Bryon "Bam" Morris's interesting (and totally illegal) sideline career to the 1950s Kansas City A's sneaky relationship with the New York Yankees; from French golfer Jean Van de Velde's epic choke on 18..... More
Greenlights
Crown, October 2020. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award-winning actor's unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. "The No. 1 celebrity memoir..... More
