Ecco, February 2023. Hardcover. A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all time How does the brain--a three-pound wrinkly mass--give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was Freud right that..... More
Ecco, December 2022. Paper Back. "This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It's an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity." --Adam Grant, #1 New York..... More
Crown, September 2008. Hardcover. A masterpiece of narrative history that vividly brings to life the original crime of the century, American Lightning shows the lasting impact the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times offices had on three remarkable individuals and, through them, the country itself. b&w photo insert. More
Princeton Architectural Press, December 1997. Paper Back. Contributors include Giovanna Borradori, Jennifer Bloomer, Sandra Buckley, Manuel De Landa, Deborah Esch, Bruce Ferguson, Hal Foster, BruceGrenville, Elizabeth Grosz, Linda Hutcheon, Ronald Jones, David Joselit, Sanford Kwinter, Andrew Payne, Jeanne Randolph, and BruceSterling. More
Open Letter, November 2021. First Edition. Paper Back. Oral history of the 2011 T?hoku earthquake and tsunami, and the Fukushima accident in a style resembling Svetlana Alexievich. More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, February 2013. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE "Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find..... More
Prometheus Books, March 2002. Hardcover. Presents a collection of essays, from print and TV journalists, detailing the perilous state of American journalism in today's world by revealing their own personal experiences with censorship. 3rd printing in very good dust jacket. Clean, sound, with no markings. More
Moody Publishers, September 2012. Trade Paperback. Stories of survivors of sex-trafficking. Sex trafficking. We hear about it on the nightly news and in special interest stories from around the world, but it occurs daily in communities all around us. Every year, thousands of young women are forced into sexual exploitation..... More
University of California Press, July 2001. Paper Back. Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something..... More
n/a. Trade Paperback. People are often inclined to view our gestures as something natural. Yet a closer look at history tells us that they change from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with vital insights into social and cultural developments of the past. Very clean..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1957. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild darkening of spine. Some wear & bruising top edge and left corner of back cover. Brown splotch about 1/2' x one inch likewise back cover. Some dog-eared corners top corner of last 75 or so pages. Clean, unmarked interiors. (224 pages plus..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass Market paperback with mild wear and likewise mild darkening of spine. [183 pages]. More
Simon & Schuster, May 2023. Paper Back. Following his explosive New York Times bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another "explosive and compulsive" (Stephen Fry) thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of millions of dollars and..... More
AK Press, May 2021. Paper Back. In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating..... More
AK Press, March 2019. Trade Paperback. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls..... More
AK Press, November 2020. Paper Back. Cancel culture addresses real harm...and sometimes causes more. It's time to think this through. "Cancel" or "call-out" culture is a source of much tension and debate in American society. The infamous Harper's Letter," signed by public intellectuals of both the left and right, sought..... More
Crown, March 2022. Trade Paperback. WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - A FINANCIAL TIMES, FORTUNE, AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - "The riveting, definitive account of WeWork, one of the wildest business stories of our time."--Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist, Bloomberg Opinion The definitive story of the rise and..... More
Oxford University Press, July 2020. Hardcover. Radicalization, and the terrorism that is frequently linked to it, have been subject to much study and governmental intervention. Nevertheless, the processes that lead to radicalization remain thinly conceptualized although governments and their agencies worldwide have invested heavily in counter and de-radicalization programs. There..... More
Pegasus Books, October 2022. Hardcover. *A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE* "An impassioned, informative love letter to Iceland." --New York Times Book Review "This compelling and highly readable book offers a thought-provoking examination of nature of belief itself" --Bookpage, starred review In exploring how Icelanders interact with nature--and..... More
Wesleyan University Press, April 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. 4th printing stated, 1972; Covers gently worn from handling; Spine gently creased from use; Spine text sun-faded; Outer edge text-block lightly soiled; Pages free of markings; A solid reading/research copy. More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2017. Hardcover. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short..... More
Viking, January 2023. Hardcover. "Philip Bump helps us understand that no matter the troubles of our days, the future of this nation rests with what we do now. And that means all of us--not just Baby Boomers." --Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Princeton University A...... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, April 2023. Hardcover. For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural. In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982..... More
Penguin Press, September 2006. Hardcover. Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist. It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On..... More
Duquesne University Press; distributed by Humanities Press [New York], January 1974. Hardcover. More
