Beacon Press, September 2023. Hardcover. In this stunning blend of memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, a new mother examines the intersection between misogyny and motherhood, considering how caregivers can take back their bodies and pass on a language of consent to their children Motherhood and the culture of misogyny in..... More
Harper Wave, June 2021. Hardcover. The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power. What makes "cults" so intriguing and frightening? What makes them..... More
Rutgers University Press, May 1997. Paper Back. Building Bodies is an exciting collection of articles that strive toward constructing theoretical models in which power, bodies, discourse, and subjectivity interact in a space we can call the "built" body, a dynamic, politicized, and biological site. Contributors discuss the complex relationship between..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, October 1998. Hardcover. With more than 1 million copies in print, the original edition of "Care of the Soul" is a remarkable study of the creative opportunities that are available to us in everyday life. Thomas Moore is now a world-renowned writer, psychotherapist, and speaker, and this new..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, February 2000. Hardcover. "I spent many years trying to become conscious, but all that effort led merely to self-consciousness, which in turn generated guilt, anxiety, and ambition. I was told that higher consciousness was a worthy goal and that its opposite, unconsciousness, was the result of laziness and..... More
Spiegel & Grau, January 2011. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the governor-elect of Maryland, the "compassionate" (People), "startling" (Baltimore Sun), "moving" (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White..... More
Spiegel & Grau, January 2011. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the governor-elect of Maryland, the "compassionate" (People), "startling" (Baltimore Sun), "moving" (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White..... More
Harper, September 2023. Hardcover. An Instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller With her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to answer society's weirdly unasked question: What About Men? Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Executioner's Current' is the amazing story of how the electric chair was developed not out of the desire for a method of execution more humane than hanging, but in an effort by one 19th-century electric company to discredit the other. 22 illustrations..... More
McGraw-Hill Book Co., January 1967. Book Club. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very Good, mildly edge-worn w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An exceptional copy. More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2023. Hardcover. Six decades ago, visionary doctors achieved the impossible: the humble kidney, acknowledged since ancient times to be as essential to life as the heart, became the first human organ to be successfully replaced with a machine. Yet huge dialysis corporations, ambitious doctor-entrepreneurs..... More
Mariner Books, April 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "[From] an influential educational leader and activist...an impassioned, penetrating critique and inspiring model for progress."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review It was a wrong turn that changed everything. When Luma Mufleh--a Muslim, gay, refugee woman from hyper-conservative Jordan--stumbled upon a pick-up game of soccer in..... More
Picador, October 2017. Trade Paperback. Twenty-Three Leading Feminist Writers on Protest and Solidarity When 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump and 94 percent of black women voted for Hillary Clinton, how can women unite in Trump's America? Nasty Women includes inspiring essays from a diverse group of..... More
HERMITAGE HOUSE, 1952. First Edition. Cloth. Tattered dustjacket: chipped & torn, vertical crease down center of jacket spine, darkened at margins. Not price clipped. Original price of $3.50 on jacket front flap. Library catalogue style sticker affixed jacket spine. Another such sticker affixed to book spine. Black cloth covered boards..... More
Celadon Books, August 2021. Paper Back. You're Not Listening is New York Times contributor Kate Murphy's eye-opening wake-up call about the worldwide epidemic of not listening. "If you're like most people, you don't listen as often or as well as you'd like. There's no one better qualified than a talented..... More
Crown Forum, January 2013. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity. "I'll be shocked if there's another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1979. Cloth. Blue cloth bound book in very good condition. Name in pen on the front free endpaper. Jacket has light shelf wear and some minor chipping at the top of the spine. Mylar wrapped to protect. More
Crown, September 2023. Hardcover. A sweeping behind-the-scenes look at the last four turbulent decades of "the paper of record," The New York Times, as it confronted world-changing events, internal scandals, and faced the existential threat of the internet "Beneath the utter brilliance of the Times's front page, Succession-level theatrics broil."--Graydon..... More
Penguin Books, February 2015. Trade Paperback. "One of the more momentous books of the decade."--The New York Times Book Review Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair's breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger--all by the time he..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2007. Trade Paperback. An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more--the definitive edition of a...... More
The MIT Press, April 2016. Paper Back. What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking. People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use..... More
The MIT Press, February 2022. Trade Paperback. How Brazilian favela residents engage with and appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Brazilian favelas are impoverished settlements usually located on hillsides or the outskirts of a city. In Technology of the..... More
Prentice Hall, January 1980. Hardcover. 2nd prinitng; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards, gently edge-worn; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
The MIT Press, February 2012. Trade Paperback. From the complex city-planning game SimCity to the virtual therapist Eliza how computational processes open possibilities for understanding and creating digital media. What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough--or should we look..... More
Scribner, March 2023. Hardcover. "Nuila's storytelling gifts place him alongside colleagues like Atul Gawande." --Los Angeles Times This "compelling mixture of health care policy and gripping stories from the frontlines of medicine" (The Guardian) explores the question: where does an uninsured person go when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and..... More
