The History Press, July 2011. Trade Paperback. Although the New Mexico Territory was far distant from the main theaters of war, it was engulfed in the same violence and bloodshed as the rest of the nation. The Civil War in New Mexico was fought in the deserts and mountains of... More about New Mexico and the Civil War (Civil War Series
Random House, March 1990. Hardcover. More about Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner
University of Georgia Press, September 2018. Hardcover. Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that's just the beginning. André Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping off point to tell the story of a changing... More about A High Low Tide: The Revival of a Southern Oyster (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, September 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for... More about The Namesake: A Novel
State University of New York Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. In this new translation and commentary, LaFargue interprets the concept of "Tao" in the Tao Te Ching as a spiritual state of mind cultivated in a particular school in ancient China' a state of mind which also expressed itself in... More about The Tao of the Tao Te Ching (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy & Culture) (Suny Series,...
Checkmark Books, October 2005. Oversize Softcover. The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories documents, discusses, and explores provocative questions. This reference provides more than 500 detailed entries that define the major conspiracies, both proven and unproven, throughout history. More about Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1983. Oversize Softcover. Twenty-nine woodcuts and lithographs make use of optical illusions and unusual perspectives and are accompanied by the artist's comments. More about M.C. Escher : 29 Master Prints
Sterling Publishing, January 2011. Hardcover. More about Picasso's World
Penguin Press, July 2019. Hardcover. Microdoses of the straight dope, stories so true they had to be wrapped in fiction for our own protection, from the best-selling author of But What if We're Wrong? A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. A new coach of a.... More about Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
Pantheon, October 1985. Hardcover. More about Shoah
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1999. Trade Paperback. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the... More about Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2008. Trade Paperback. The definitive firsthand account of the groundbreaking research of Philip Zimbardo--the basis for the award-winning film The Stanford Prison Experiment Renowned social psychologist and creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment Philip Zimbardo explores the mechanisms that make good people do bad things... More about The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Schocken, January 1995. Trade Paperback. More about Light on Yoga: The Bible of Modern Yoga
Penguin (Non-Classics), June 2003. Trade Paperback. A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America's most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and... More about East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club
Routledge, November 2003. Trade Paperback. First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. More about Organs Without Bodies: Deleuze and Consequences
Penguin Books, March 2017. Trade Paperback. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK "Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she's not... More about Cork Dork
International Collectors Library, 1961. Hardcover. More about Tobacco Road & God's Little Acre
Waveland Press Inc, February 1981. Trade Paperback. More about Mandragola
Scribner Paper Fiction, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More about HOUSE OF MIRTH
Random House, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons is the story of one man's remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey... More about Thirteen Moons: A Novel
Akashic Books, March 2007. Trade Paperback. "New Orleans Noir explores the dark corners of our city in eighteen stories, set both pre- and post-Katrina...In Julie Smith, Temple found a perfect editor for the New Orleans volume, for she is one who knows and loves the city and its writers and... More about New Orleans Noir (Akashic Noir
A&C Black, September 2003. Trade Paperback. This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writings charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades, demonstrating how his theories changed and evolved. More about Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
W. W. Norton & Company, May 1996. Trade Paperback. "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, "The Metamorphosis." It is the story of... More about The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions
Everyman Paperback Classics, March 1995. Trade Paperback. Did he live his life through in every detail of desire, temptation and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried whisperingly at some image at some vision,–he cried twice, with a cry that was no more than a breath– "The..... More about The Heart of Darkness (Everyman's Library (Paper
