Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of..... More
Vintage, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a...... More
Harper Perennial, February 2021. Paper Back. A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growing up mixed race... and she writes beautifully about questions of identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding..... More
Penguin Books, May 2019. Trade Paperback. New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller. A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own..... More
Penguin Press, January 2021. Hardcover. "Hart's argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country's war on drugs, we should all share his outrage." --The New York Times Book..... More
W.W. Norton, January 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Atria Books, February 2021. Hardcover. Thought leader, racial justice educator, and sought-after spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level. Heart-centered and spirit-based practices are the missing but vital piece to achieving racial justice. Do Better..... More
Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2021. Hardcover. From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries "We are the apes who tell stories," writes William Bernstein. "And no matter how misleading the narrative, if it is compelling..... More
Random House Inc, November 1992. Trade Paperback. A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all..... More
Bantam, January 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Doubleday, March 2021. Hardcover. A hidden set of rules governs who owns what--explaining everything from whether you can recline your airplane seat to why HBO lets you borrow a password illegally--and in this lively and entertaining guide, two acclaimed law professors reveal how things become mine. Mine is one of..... More
Random House, March 2021. Hardcover. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a powerful exposé of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate with food, and legal loopholes in their pursuit of profit over public health. "The processed..... More
Penguin Press, March 2021. Hardcover. MIT psychologist and bestselling author of RECLAIMING CONVERSATION and ALONE TOGETHER, Sherry Turkle's intimate memoir of love and work *New York Times Books to Watch for in March* For decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here..... More
Anchor, March 2021. Paper Back. OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR PEOPLE'S #1 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Named a BEST BOOK OF..... More
W.W. Norton, January 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo -- Five & 1/2-inch x Eight-inch. First American edition in price-clipped dustjacket. Jacket is elsewise very good overall with mild curl & darkening at edges. Black faux cloth paper covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Unmarked text. Complete number line. (63..... More
Little, Brown & Company / Atlantic Monthly, 1970. Soft Cover. Previous dealer's rubber stamp verso of cover. Clean, without internal markings. Sound, very good+/fine overall. Better than usual reading copy of classic study of African culture. More
AK Press, March 2019. Trade Paperback. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1969. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack. More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2021. Hardcover. Self-deception does terrible harm to us, to our communities, and to the planet. But if it is so bad for us, why is it ubiquitous? In Useful Delusions, Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler argue that, paradoxically, self-deception can also play a vital..... More
Penguin Press, June 2020. Hardcover. The New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book "The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 2020. Paper Back. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is..... More
Atria/One Signal Publishers, March 2021. Hardcover. "To Raise a Boy is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking view of the world that we have created for boys, and a call for change." --Peg Tyre, author of the New York Times bestseller The Trouble with Boys "A stunning work of investigative journalism..... More
Penguin Books, February 2021. Paper Back. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most important books of the current moment."--Time "A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone."--Gabrielle Union, author of We're Going to Need More Wine "A brutally candid and unobstructed portrait of mainstream..... More
Little, Brown and Company, September 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers--and why they often go wrong. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times..... More
Astra House, February 2021. Hardcover. Deeply moving...full of humor, introspection and glimpses into a vanishing lifestyle. --The New York Times Book Review Winner of the People's Literature Award, WINTER PASTURE has been a bestselling book in China for several years. Li Juan has been widely lauded in the international literary..... More
