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History MattersAuthor: David McCulloughPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 10/15/2025Pages: 1Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.20dISBN: 9781420527902
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House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American SouthwestA "beautifully written travelogue" that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest (Entertainment Weekly). The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the...
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How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our SelvesA vital testament to how art makes us who we are--and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives. Barbara Kruger once defined art as "the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent shorthand, how it feels to be...
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How to Look Away: On American Cruelty and the Refusal to DisappearA riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. In How to Look Away, Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood--AM radio,...
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In Defense Of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton"In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton" is a captivating collection of G.K. Chesterton's most insightful and witty essays. Covering a wide range of topics, from literature to faith and politics, Chesterton's timeless wisdom shines through. These essays offer a refreshing...
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In Defense Of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. ChestertonEssayist G.K. Chesterton was a master. However, reading his essays is more than just an exercise in studying literature at its best; it is also a chance to come across universal truths that still ring true today.Chesterton's essays are only problematic in that there...
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In Defense Of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton"In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton" is a captivating collection of G.K. Chesterton's most insightful and witty essays. Covering a wide range of topics, from literature to faith and politics, Chesterton's timeless wisdom shines through. These essays offer a refreshing...
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In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the WorldThe seventeen equations that form the basis for life as we know it. Most people are familiar with history's great equations: Newton's Law of Gravity, for instance, or Einstein's theory of relativity. But the way these mathematical breakthroughs have contributed to human progress is...
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Israel: What Went Wrong?A leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion. The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the...
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Jean--Michel Basquiat: The Making of an IconIn a resurrection few could have predicted, Jean-Michel Basquiat joined Picasso, Modigliani, and Munch when one of his paintings sold for more than $100 million. Nearly four decades after his untimely death at 27 years of age, Basquiat is one of the most recognizable...
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LandmarksFrom Robert Macfarlane, the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Underland--a celebration of the language of landscape and the power of words to shape our sense of place For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects...
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives 1975-2025The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman's most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America's changing landscape and chronicle the emergence and evolution of a major presence in fiction. "A towering figure...
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Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults: More Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and RomansIn a series of fast-paced essays, Leaky Aqueducts, War Pigeons, and Mystery Cults answers 36 questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has been asked in the classroom and through his popular YouTube channel ToldinStone. As in the previous books in Ryan's fun and fascinating...
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Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults: More Frequently Asked Questions About the Ancient Greeks and RomansCould a Roman bridge carry a modern freight train? How much would it cost to build the Colosseum today? What if the Romans had grown potatoes? In a series of fast-paced essays, Leaky Aqueducts, Battle Pigeons, and Mystery Cults answers questions that historian Garrett...
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Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the MidwestHow do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology, Andy Oler collects 72 original short essays by a...
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Lynne Tillman: Paying Attention: Essays on Art and CultureFrom award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Paying Attention is the first collection of essays devoted to her incisive, provocative, and singular reflections on art and culture. "A clear eye on contemporary arts. . . Thoughtful, incisive perspectives." --Kirkus Reviews Paying Attention gathers...
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Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life"Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age." --Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work Daily Rituals...
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Making Camp: A Visual History of Camping's Most Essential Items and ActivitiesA visual exploration and history of one of America's favorite pastimes. Car camping, hike-in tent camping, bivouacking, mountaineering, RV camping, glamping, back yard camping . . . whatever your style, outdoor adventure awaits! For camping enthusiasts, this fascinating (and packable) volume holds a comprehensive...
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Mirrors: Stories of Almost EveryoneThroughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism." Mirrors,...
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Mujer Triqui: Una Vida Construyendo La Paz / Triqui WomanEn las montañas de Oaxaca hay una guerra de medio siglo, ignorada por millones... Justo ahí nació una historia de resistencia y dignidad inquebrantable. Mujer triqui es el extraordinario relato de una niña oaxaqueña que, a los cinco años, pasó de vivir en un...
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