Pantheon, March 2023. Hardcover. A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous blend of memoir and philosophy that examines why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there's always another solution--from the acclaimed writer and philosophy professor, based on his viral..... More
Viking Compass Book / An Esalen Book, December 1973. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Abraham H. Maslow was one of the foremost spokespersons of humanistic psychology. In The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature, an extension of his classic Toward a Psychology of Being, Maslow explores the complexities of human nature by using..... More
Penguin Books, September 1970. Reprint. Paper Back. 8th printing. Octavo. Sunned spine. Cover design by Stuart Rosenberg. [123 pages + one page list of 'recent' Viking titles]. More
Southern Illinois University Press, September 2000. Trade Paperback. In this richly illustrated study, Carol Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century. Tapping previously unexplored sources, Mattingly uncovers new voices and different perspectives, thus greatly expanding our knowledge of temperance..... More
Shambhala/ New Science Library, June 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/2'} In dustjacket with edgewear and tanned/damp stained verso. Black fabric covered spine with gold lettering & ochre paper covered boards. [263 pages. More
Pantheon, August 2023. Hardcover. A bold and deeply personal exploration of wealth, power, and the American elite, exposing how the ruling class--intentionally or not--perpetuates cycles of injustice "[A] story about American inequity, and how it mindlessly, immorally, reproduces itself. Unlike most such stories, however, this one left me believing in..... More
Diversion Books, October 2023. Hardcover. How a miracle treatment turned deadly and changed the course of the AIDS crisis. By the mid 1980s, AIDS hysteria was so rampant that a fearful and prejudiced public ignored stories of gay men falling ill with lesions and mouth ulcers. President Reagan avoided mentioning..... More
The MIT Press, August 2023. Paper Back. A powerful, pocket-sized citizen's guide on how to fight back against the disinformation campaigns that are imperiling American democracy, from the bestselling author of Post-Truth and How to Talk to a Science Denier. The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't..... More
Currency, April 2014. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn't about getting more done in less time. It's about getting only the right things done. "A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked."--Adam Grant Have you ever: - found..... More
Penguin Books, September 2019. Trade Paperback. Hope and insight and empathy spring from every page. . . . [McKesson] stares down the faces of bigotry and unfreedom and cynicism and doesn't flinch in writing out our marching orders toward freedom. --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of..... More
Holt Paperbacks, April 2023. Paper Back. One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States..... More
Times Books, April 2003. Hardcover. From the bestselling author of "The End of Nature" comes a passionate plea to limit the technologies that could change the very definition of who we are We are on the verge of crossing the line from born to made, from created to built. Sometime..... More
SUNY Press, June 2000. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Winner of the 2001 Joel Gregory Prize, presented by the Canadian Association of African Studies Offering Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses as an original contribution to the critical debate about identity and self-representation, Lisa McNee asks how Senegalese women represent themselves, rather than..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2023. Hardcover. One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall Named a most anticipated book of the fall by The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America's..... More
Harpercollins, March 2001. Trade Paperback. The groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead's first field work at age 23, establishing Mead's core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in..... More
New American Library, January 1949. Mass Market PaperBack. Seventeenth printing. Moderate shelf wear. Previous owner's name. More
Dell, 1968. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Front cover badly creased at spine, not far from splitting. Previous owner's name. More
Mentor Books, January 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. Eight printing. Previous owner's name. Moderate shelf wear. More
Morrow Quill Paperback, January 1971. Reprint. Paper Back. "Coming of Age in Samoa, " Margaret Mead's psychological study of youth in a primitive society, is today recognized as a scientific classic. However, when first published, as Dr. Mead points out in her preface to this Morrow Quill edition, it was..... More
William Morrow & Company/ American Museum of Natural History, 1973. Book Club. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback. Bruised/bumped top & bottom of spine. [170 pages]. More
Henry Holt and Co., August 2023. Hardcover. Can a group of well-intentioned people fulfill the promise of racial integration in America? In this searing and intimate examination of the ideals and realities of racial integration, award-winning Washington Post journalist Laura Meckler tells the story of a decades-long pursuit in Shaker..... More
Yale French Studies, January 1972. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo with darkening of spine & margins. Sticker affixed to front cover upper left corner. Some scattered pencil markings through interior text. Foxing & soiling especially to rear cover panel. Library pocket affixed to last inside page. [203 pages]. More
Pushkin Press, April 2023. Paper Back. "Moving, poetic, cogent and honest." -- Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon An intimate study of depression that draws on personal experience and a deep knowledge of philosophy--perfect for fans of Maggie Nelson and Leslie Jamison The Limits of My Language is both..... More
Indiana University Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a...... More
SAGE Publications Ltd, October 1988. Trade Paperback. More
