Selling Culture
Pantheon, September 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. One corner slightly bumped. More
Pantheon, September 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. One corner slightly bumped. More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1999. Trade Paperback. How do you pronounce affluent: AF-loo-int or uh-FLOO-int? Does it make a difference? Charles Harrington Elster believes that yes, it does make a difference (and that, for the record, one should pronounce the word AF-loo-int). More
Simon & Schuster, September 2000. Trade Paperback. ENTER A GALLERY OF WIT AND WHIMSY As the largest and most dynamic collection of words ever assembled, the English language continues to expand. But as hundreds of new words are added annually, older ones are sacrificed. Now from the author of Forgotten..... More
Pantheon Books, January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. First American Edition {8 & 1/2' x 5 & 3/4'} Dustjacket is missing. Grey cloth covered boards with red (fading) lettering along spine and a darker grey lettered title on front board. Dust staining to textblock edges. Lightly tanned spine and board edges..... More
Little, Brown, January 1967. First Edition. Paper Back. First Delta paperback. [401 pages]. More
Viking Adult, December 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that..... More
Portfolio, February 2022. Paper Back. America's top cleaning expert and star of the hit series Legacy List with Matt Paxton distills his fail-proof approach to decluttering and downsizing. Your boxes of photos, family's china, and even the kids' height charts aren't just stuff; they're attached to a lifetime of memories--and..... More
University of Chicago Press, April 1992. First Thus. Paper Back. How can we account for the power of ritual? This is the guiding question of Black Critics and Kings, which examines how Yoruba forms of ritual and knowledge shape politics, history, and resistance against the state. Focusing on deep knowledge..... More
Doubleday, April 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. You mean this place we go to five days a week has a history? Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work--our work--gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to..... More
University of Texas Press, November 2022. Paper Back. The Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment..... More
Atheneum, January 1974. Trade Paperback. As is. Dampstaining/foxing. All text clear. More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, January 1989. Trade Paperback. The first book that explains how to open to the immensity of living with death--and how participating fully in life is the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. In Who Dies?, the Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama..... More
HarperOne, July 1991. Trade Paperback. The author illuminates how contemporary Americans come to believe what we believe. Comparing the varying value systems in our pluralistic society--authority, logic, experience, emotion, intuition, and science--he brings clarity and a common vocabulary to the diversity that is a source of both strength and dissension..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2012. Hardcover. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the "New York Times "best-selling author of "How We Decide" comes a sparkling and..... More
Times Books, April 2003. Hardcover. From the bestselling author of "The End of Nature" comes a passionate plea to limit the technologies that could change the very definition of who we are We are on the verge of crossing the line from born to made, from created to built. Sometime..... More
Harvard Univ Pr, April 1987. Trade Paperback. Russian psychologist A. R. Luria presents a compelling portrait of a man's heroic struggle to regain his mental faculties. A soldier named Zasetsky, wounded in the head at the battle of Smolensk in 1943, suddenly found himself in a frightening world: he could..... More
Flatiron Books, September 2022. Hardcover. "Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville. --Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Sarah Kendzior delves into the difference between conspiracy and conspiracy theory, deftly separat[ing] fact from fiction..... More
Columbia University Press, April 1996. Paper Back. The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the eighteenth century and..... More
Andrews McMeel Publishing, May 2022. Paper Back. The instant New York Times bestseller! Pack up your Ouija board, wine bra, and squirt guns full of holy water ... we're going on a road trip! From the hit podcast And That's Why We Drink, this is your interactive travel guide to..... More
Penguin Press, September 2022. Hardcover. An instant New York Times Bestseller! "Stirring...Lithwick's approach, interweaving interviews with legal commentary, allows her subjects to shine...Inspiring."--New York Times Book Review "In Dahlia Lithwick's urgent, engaging Lady Justice, Dobbs serves as a devastating bookend to a story that begins in hope."--Boston Globe Dahlia Lithwick..... More
Penguin Press, September 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the..... More
St. Martin's Press, April 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Interviews with more than one thousand gay servicepeople highlight an investigation into the presence and treatment of homosexuals in the military. The bestselling author of And the Band Played On follows with a book of even greater power and sweep as he..... More
University of California Press, September 1994. Trade Paperback. Perhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His familiarity with the New York art world and its practitioners in the 1970's and 1980's makes his writing an unparalleled..... More
Basic Books, February 1976. Trade Paperback. The definitive edition of one of Freud's most important works in which he describes his theory of the development, transformation, and aberrations of the sexual instinct from its earliest beginnings in childhood. More
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