The MIT Press, August 2016. Paper Back. The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes--with or without "brain training." Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains... More
Rick Steves, February 2018. Paper Back. Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever. With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from... More
Random House UK, March 2007. Trade Paperback. The collected works of Britain's most wanted artist. Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible... More
Arcadia Publishing, February 2018. Paper Back. Atlanta! The very name evokes a sense of grandeur and splendor and an aura of dominance. Indeed, today's Atlanta has no rival. It easily claims the title of the Southeast's leading commercial and transportation hub. Present-day Atlanta prides itself in having one of the... More
Dey Street Books, April 2018. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller "Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I've ever read." - Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, June 2018. Hardcover. A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match... More
Amistad, May 2018. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller "A profound impact on Hurston's literary legacy."--New York Times "One of the greatest writers of our time."--Toni Morrison "Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece."--Alice Walker A major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2018. Paper Back. Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world from their origin though their upheaval in Ragnarok. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to... More
Harpercollins, July 2006. Trade Paperback. An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no... More
The MIT Press, October 2015. Paper Back. Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term... More
Tor Books, July 2018. Paper Back. Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars." The Verge--12 fantastic science fiction and fantasy novels for July 2018 Unbound Worlds--Best SciFi and Fantasy Books of July 2018 Den of Geek--Best Science Fiction... More
One World, July 2018. Hardcover. A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory--between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death Winner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood, her father, Marco Antonio, was an... More
Del Rey, July 2018. Hardcover. In an irreverent new series in the tradition of Monty Python, the bestselling authors of the Iron Druid Chronicles and Star Wars: Phasma reinvent fantasy, fairy tales, and floridly written feast scenes. "Ranks among the best of Christopher Moore and Terry Pratchett."--Chuck Wendig "When you... More
Blue Rider Press, July 2018. Paper Back. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms during a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive identification... More
Tim Duggan Books, July 2018. Hardcover. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America's retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced... More
Repeater, July 2018. Paper Back. The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker's new book traces the contours of pessimism, caught as it... More
Vintage, July 2018. Paper Back. The epic climax to B. Catling's beloved Vorrh Trilogy. A Vintage Books Original. In the stunning conclusion to this endlessly imaginative saga, the young Afrikaner socialite Cyrena Lohr is mourning the death of her lover, the cyclops Ishmael, when she rekindles a relationship with famed... More
Watkins Publishing, July 2018. Paper Back. We are on the brink of an ecological and political mega-crisis. Our actions over the next few years may well determine the destiny of our descendants. Part manifesto, part tactical plan of action, How Soon is Now? outlines a vision for a mass social... More
Anchor, July 2018. Unknown. Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever." The evening's host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon's first students. But... More
University of Texas Press, June 2018. Paper Back. This summer, No Depression will dig into topics of immigration and migration in roots music. Stories will delve into the ways songs spread across borders and profiles on the songwriters who undertake those journeys. The issue will also highlight means of transportation... More
Catalan Communications/Comcat Comics, October 1989. Paper Back. Clean, sound, without markings. Quarto. First/first. Complete number line. More
Harry N Abrams, December 1978. Oversized Hardcover. The two artists who have created this book, Alan Lee and Brian Froud, have studied fairy history, myths, legends, and folklore, and embodied their findings in 185 paintings and drawings. All the fairy types are identified and pictured - water fairies elves, gnomes... More
Howell-North Books, February 1970. Cloth. 6TH printing; Quarto; Dark grey cloth with gold lettering in rubbed, mildly edgeworn jacket with three inch closed tear from top of front fold down to the 's' in 'Rockies' of title. Sound binding. Clean interiors. Railroad mail with index and mileage gauge end pages... More
Hudson Hills Press in association with The Saint Louis Art Museum, June 1981. First Thus. Paper Back. Quarto, Clean sound. First paperback edition. Exhibition catalogue for Lichtenstein show at The Saint Louis Art Museum laid-in. More
Augener, January 1962. Hardcover. Blue cloth spine with paper covered white boards with blue lettering. Sound binding. Clean interiors. Previous price stamped top corner front free end page. Library catalogue number [ML1255.C3] inked in neat hand bottom corner of front pastedown toward gutter. More
