Penguin Press, May 2022. Hardcover. From a University of Michigan professor of law and philosophy, a fresh, deep, and funny inquiry into life's biggest questions with the help of first-rate philosophers--including his two young children Some of the best philosophers in the world gather in surprising places--preschools and playgrounds. They..... More
Abo Akademi University Press, January 2002. First Edition. Paper Back. Scarce. Octavo. Sun-bleached spine. Clean & sound with a few marginal pencil notes and tick marks. Also the last, blank page has a bunch of pencil notes, but there is nothing to distract from reading. 215 pages. More
Vintage, November 1993. Trade Paperback. For those of us who know and love the incomparable Odyssey of Homer (and there are many), Dr. Hexter has created a valuable, detailed analysis, taking into account many of Homer's most fascinating subtleties. More
Delta, February 2000. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir--a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of..... More
Syracuse University Press, March 2001. Paper Back. This title seeks to show through detailed analysis of Proust's philosophical and literary influences as well as his conscious aesthetic, how the various motifs in his works intertwine. It includes sections on Proust's earlier works. Octavo with previous owner's name inked inside half..... More
MacMillan Co., January 1947. First Edition. Cloth. First/first. Octavo. In heavily edgeworn DJ with darkened spine & clipped flaps. Maroon cloth with gold lettering and decor. Clean interors. [268 pp.]. More
Basic Books, November 2001. Hardcover. "Art of Mentoring" seriesIn the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a...... More
Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books, November 2004. Trade Paperback. I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other 'profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays..... More
Hill and Wang, November 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In DJ with mildly distressed top edge. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Sound binding. Very good overall. [357 pp.]. More
Da Capo Press, May 2011. Trade Paperback. Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God -- appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Although literary theories describe a world of strategies--textual, discursive, interpretive, and political--what is missing is the strategist. Poststructuralists try to explain agency as the effect of large-scale systems or formations; as a result, intuitions about individual action and responsibility are expressed in..... More
Trafalgar Square, January 1998. Hardcover. Some minor shelf wear and edge creasing on the jacket. More
Penguin Books, February 2016. Trade Paperback. "The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is already funny, and George Hodgman reaps that humor with great charm. But then he plunges deep, examining the warm yet fraught relationship between..... More
Viking, October 2017. Hardcover. "I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size." --Jon Stewart Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John..... More
Canongate Books, April 2022. Hardcover. Mark Hodkinson grew up among dark satanic mills in a house with just one book: Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate..... More
Vintage Books USA, October 1991. Paper Back. When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece. Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard..... More
Vintage Books USA, August 1993. First Thus. Paper Back. Mild shelfwear/user wear. The third & 4th volumes (in one book) of Holroyd's massive Shaw biography. [635 pages]. More
Noonday Press, December 1995. Trade Paperback. When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring Bloomsbury revival. In the 1960s, however, many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still..... More
One World, March 2021. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - ONE OF TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE - A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness "Brilliant . . . To read this..... More
Pantheon, February 2022. Hardcover. A poet's audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that "ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth" (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan)..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2022. Hardcover. In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamor and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world--and maybe, one day, write about it--Ann Hood joined their ranks. After..... More
Henry Holt & Company, January 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. W. E. B. DuBois elegantly dissected the double consciousness of African Americans; with similiar insight and vision, bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers, especially those whose work goes against the grain. Born and raised in the rural South..... More
Henry Holt & Co, November 1999. Paper Back. In Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, award-winning author and renowned academic "bell hooks reveals the heart of her writing life and the process through which she has come to be known as a 'visionary feminist'" (Essence). Born and raised in the..... More
Holt McDougal, January 1999. Paper Back. "bell hooks's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence." --Gloria Steinem With her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual bell hooks traces her writer's journey in Wounds of Passion. She shares the difficulties and triumphs..... More
Penguin Press, May 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail..... More
