Broadway, January 2013. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement and revolutionized how the world sees introverts--and how introverts see themselves--by offering validation, inclusion, and inspiration "Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a fascinating read, Quiet is an indispensable resource for anyone..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Acclaimed science writer Jeremy Campbell explains how the failed attempts at artificial intelligence have given us surprising new insights into how the mind works. Line drawings throughout. Cream colored boards with a tan cloth spine lettered in copper. First edition with full..... More
MIT Press, October 1987. First Thus. Paper Back. Are children fundamentally different kinds of thinkers than adults? Or are the cognitive differences between young children and adults merely a matter of accumulation of knowledge? In this book, Susan Carey develops an alternative to these two ways of thinking about childhood..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2022. Hardcover. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1974. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with worn corners and edges. Originally published in hardcover 1973. [468 pages]. More
Little, Brown, January 1967. First Edition. Paper Back. First Delta paperback. [401 pages]. More
Knopf, November 2022. Hardcover. From Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Newjack, a passage through an America lived wild and off the grid, where along with independence and stunning views come fierce winds, neighbors with criminal pasts, and minimal government and medical services. "In these..... More
University of Chicago Press, February 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback. The Law of the Other is an account of the English doctrine of the mixed jury. Constable's excavation of the historical, rhetorical, and theoretical foundations of modern law recasts our legal and sociological understandings of the American jury and our..... More
Basic Books (AZ), October 1993. Paper Back. The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes, Coontz sheds new light on..... More
The MIT Press, February 2023. Paper Back. A short, accessible primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers. Why do we vividly recall a traumatic childhood event but forget where we left our keys five minutes ago? How can a scent take us back..... More
Ankoben House, August 2015. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Press HC, The, May 2009. Reprint. 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..... More
New Press, May 1996. Trade Paperback. What is Critical Race Theory and why is it under fire from the political right? This foundational essay collection, which defines key terms and includes case studies, is the essential work to understand the intellectual movement Why did the president of the United States..... More
Avon Books, January 1981. Mass Market PaperBack. More
PublicAffairs, April 2023. Trade Paperback. This powerful report on what went wrong--and right--with America's Covid response, from a team of 34 experts, shows how Americans faced the worst peacetime catastrophe of modern times Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe..... More
University of Chicago Press, August 2022. First Thus. Paper Back. Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals. For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and evokes the..... More
Smithsonian, February 1998. Hardcover. Drawing on his fieldwork experience among the Komachi nomads of southern Iran, Daniel Bradburd explores the role of the anthropologist as an interpreter of culture. Very good all round. More
LSU Press, April 2020. Hardcover. Winner of the SAMLA Studies Award Honorable Mention for the MLA William Sanders Scarborough Prize From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of U.S. race relations, the African American novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness..... More
Atria/Keywords Press, August 2016. Trade Paperback. In the tradition of Post Secret and Other People's Love Letters, a crowdsourced compilation of letters, stories, and art work about the modern state of love and relationships, edited by rising filmmaker and beloved YouTube vlogger Will Darbyshire. "What would you say to your..... More
Georgia State Univ Pr, April 1993. Trade Paperback. Very good all round. More
Pearson Education, May 2012. Oversize Softcover. This edition places the fundamental tenets of computer programming into the context of MATLAB, employing hands-on exercises, examples from the engineering industry, and a variety of core tools to increase programming proficiency and capability. More
House of Anansi Press, October 2020. Trade Paperback. In the 2020 CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author and renowned technology and security expert Ronald J. Deibert exposes the disturbing influence and impact of the internet on politics, the economy, the environment, and humanity. Digital technologies have given rise to a new..... More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, March 2023. Paper Back. A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving--and, at times, harrowing--clinical stories "[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emotions."--Nature "Beautifully connects the inner feelings within..... More
Crown, March 2023. Hardcover. #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. "Urgent and accessible . . . Its moral..... More
