Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2000. Reprint. Trade Paperback. "A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." -- New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language..... More
Penguin Press, July 2021. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller A Washington Post Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in..... More
Knopf, March 2020. Hardcover. A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal. Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, December 2005. Trade Paperback. Television has conditioned us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in spoonfuls of time, to the detriment of rational public discourse and reasoned public affairs. In this eloquent, persuasive book, Neil Postman alerts us to the real and present dangers of..... More
Indiana Univ Pr, January 1989. First Edition. Cloth. {8 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/2'} In very good dustjacket. Burgundy cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Front flap is not clipped. Tightly bound. Complete number string. [437 pages]. More
Atheneum, 1968. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. First Atheneum edition. Well worn with soiling/foxing. Curled cover. Stains & foxing textblock edges. Sunned spine. Previous owner's name inked blue sharpie, first inside page. Mildew odor. [408 pp.]. More
Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1988. Trade Paperback. Based on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees..... More
University of Minnesota Press, July 2003. Trade Paperback. What begins as a meditation on "the museum" by one of the world's leading art historians becomes, in this book, a far-reaching critical examination of how art history and museums have guided and controlled not only the way we look at art..... More
University Of Chicago Press, May 1991. Trade Paperback. What is so "primitive" about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources--including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological research and even comic strips like "Doonesbury" --Price explores..... More
Dialogue House Library, December 1975. Trade Paperback. More
McGraw-Hill, January 1974. Paper Back. Octavo with shelfwear and soiling. Dust stained textblock edges. [275 pages]. More
Tarcherperigee, May 1992. Trade Paperback. What would you like your life to be? Ira Progoff's Intensive Journal Process combines one of the oldest methods of self-exploration and expression--keeping a journal--with a structured format that enables you to get to know the inner core of your life on ever-deeper levels and..... More
Harper & Row, January 1966. Paper Back. Mild user wear. Corners slightly dog-eared. Interior is clean & without markings. More
Rayo, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Immigrants in America are at the heart of what makes this country the most prosperous and visionary in the world. Writing from his own heartfelt perspective as an immigrant, Jorge Ramos, one of the world's most popular and well-respected Spanish-language television news broadcasters, listens to..... More
Dover Publications, November 2011. Paper Back. Psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, teacher, Otto Rank (1884-1939) wrote on such subjects as the artist, myth, the hero, sexuality, guilt, dreams, neurosis, and the technique and history of psychoanalysis. His ideas stimulated new lines of investigation not only in psychology but also in social science..... More
Cambridge University Press, October 2016. Hardcover. From the seemingly insignificant theft of some bread and a dozen apples in nineteenth century rural Germany, to the high courts and modern-day property laws, this English-language translation of Habermas' Diebe vor Gericht explores how everyday incidents of petty stealing and the ordinary people..... More
Flatiron Books, August 2023. Hardcover. The concept of feminism has evolved and changed so much over the last few decades that it can be confusing for people to keep up. Luckily, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey break it all down every week on their popular iHeart podcast, Stuff Mom Never..... More
Noonday Press/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Heavy soiling & dust staining to covers front and back. Top right corner of front panel is torn off. Dust stains on textblock top edge and fore-edge. Large previous dealer's stamp on verso of front cover. Pages a bit dog-eared..... More
Island Press, January 2022. Hardcover. On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie dashing across four lanes of traffic, then scurrying through a narrow underpass as cars whizzed by within..... More
Basic Books, March 2017. Hardcover. Why the modern world forgot how to sleep Why is sleep frustrating for so many people? Why do we spend so much time and money managing and medicating it, and training ourselves and our children to do it correctly? In Wild Nights, Benjamin Reiss finds..... More
Notable Trials Library, January 1991. Leather. Decorative boards in gilt titled leather backstrip with raised bands. More
Cambridge University Press, August 1987. Trade Paperback. An engaging study of the dilemmas faced by American nursing, which examines the ideology, practice, and efforts at reform of both trained and untrained nurses in the years between 1850 and 1945. Ordered to Care provides an overall history of nursing's development and..... More
La Nacion, January 1750. Hardcover. Moderate creasing and shelf wear on the jacket. Two lightly bumped corners on the boards. More
University of Virginia Press, July 1990. Trade Paperback. The Long Day is a wonderfully readable personal narrative of the trials and tribulations of an "unskilled, friendless, almost penniless girl of eighteen, utterly alone in the world" who arrives in New York City in 1905 to earn her livelihood. The book..... More
Northwestern University Press, June 1974. Cloth. Bound in heavy grey cloth with bright silver lettering on the front board and spine. Two very lightly bumped corners. Minor foxing on the top edge of the print block. More
