Harper Torchbooks, 1967. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Mosly clean & sound. Slight dust staining of textblock edges. Cover design by Fred Burrell. [251 pages + 8 page list of Harper Torchbook titles then available]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2023. Paper Back. We live in enormously polarized times. From politics to race, religion, gender, and class, division runs rampant. In 2020, 40 percent of each political party said that supporters of the opposing party were "downright evil." In 2019, hate crimes reached a...... More
Little, Brown, January 1967. First Edition. Paper Back. First Delta paperback. [401 pages]. More
Repeater, August 2023. Paper Back. Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self-portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, January 2017. Trade Paperback. 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
Grand Central Publishing, July 2023. Paper Back. This definitive guide to America's present-day racial reckoning examines the forces that pushed our unjust system to its breaking point after the death of George Floyd. For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the..... More
HarperCollins, September 2023. Paper Back. An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ... Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer to the question might have arrived. Award-winning investigative journalist Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs..... More
National Academies Press, February 1981. Paper Back. More
Quirk Books, June 2023. Hardcover. Embrace your inner goblin! Learn to decorate, dress, craft, forage, and live according to the goblin principles of community, diversity, and joyful mess. Do you ever feel strange, gross, chaotic, underappreciated, or like you don't quite fit in? Great news: you might be a goblin!..... More
Ankoben House, August 2015. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), April 2010. Trade Paperback. 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, author of..... More
Pegasus Books, April 2023. Hardcover. "Crawford's book stands apart from its predecessors because of its sustained focus on one threatened city. Charleston is a fascinating and haunted locale, and Crawford is gifted at sketching its grossness and grace." --New York Times Book Review An unflinching look at a beautiful, endangered..... 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
Thomas Nelson, September 2023. Hardcover. Loving your kids isn't supposed to mean you completely disappear or get swallowed up by the demands of motherhood. You want to be a great mother. But how do you care for yourself without neglecting your kids needs, feeling overwhelmed by guilt, or succumbing under..... 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
Routledge, February 2009. Trade Paperback. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the..... 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
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
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2023. Paper Back. One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native and acclaimed author Nicholas Dawidoff..... More
DELTA BOOK, 1968. Soft Cover. Octavo. Heavy sunning to spine. Light damp staining/discoloration to cover. [252 pages]. More
Other Press, August 2023. Paper Back. A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children's minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her..... 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
