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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
ctor and dancer Alyson Stoner offers a raw and unflinching memoir—spanning family violence, betrayal, eating disorders, and religious trauma. Though their story begins in Hollywood, its haunting relatability speaks to anyone navigating identity, privacy, and mental health in a digital age. Raised on sets...- $ 560.00
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Marina Abramovic
Over the last fifty years, Marina Abramović has become one of the most acclaimed and influential figures in contemporary art, widely recognized as a pioneer of performance art. In fall 2023, the Royal Academy in London presents a landmark retrospective spanning her entire career—an...- $ 950.00
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The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt
A Tyranny of Truth. Hannah Arendt—one of the twentieth century’s most profound political thinkers—remains a figure both celebrated and misunderstood. Best known for her seminal 1951 work The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt offered a fierce defense of openness, freedom, and critical thought in political...- $ 520.00
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Einstein in Kafkaland
How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe. From 1911 to 1912, the city of Prague played host to two of the 20th century’s most enigmatic minds: Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka. Though they moved in different circles, the...- $ 550.00
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Waiting for Britney Spears
A True Story, Allegedly. Los Angeles, 2003: America is unraveling beneath a glossy surface of reality TV, low-rise jeans, and celebrity tabloids. At the heart of it all stands Britney Spears—young, iconic, endlessly scrutinized. Chasing rent and elusive literary ambitions, a fledgling writer finds...- $ 400.00
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
An extraordinary journey into the inner world of artist and musician Nick Cave. Formed from over forty hours of candid conversations with journalist Sean O’Hagan, this book is less a traditional biography and more a profound meditation on a life lived through creativity, loss...- $ 400.00
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
What do the English “daughter,” the Sanskrit duhitár, the Armenian dustr, and the Lithuanian dukte have in common? They all carry the echo of a long-lost language—Proto-Indo-European—spoken thousands of years ago on the steppes between Europe and Asia. Though its last speaker vanished millennia...- $ 500.00
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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 endeavors...- $ 380.00
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Roberto Burle Marx Lectures
Roberto Burle Marx Lectures: Landscape as Art and Urbanism Essential lectures on the art of landscaping from Roberto Burle Marx, described by the New York Times as "the designer most responsible for our utopian impressions of the Brazilian built environment Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94)...- $ 600.00
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Architecture and Plurality
Architecture and Plurality: Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 Showcasing a curated selection of groundbreaking architectural projects from around the world, this volume highlights innovative design that responds to today’s complex social, cultural, and environmental realities. Rooted in the guiding principle of plurality, this...- $ 800.00
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The Gift
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society—governed by the marketplace—is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists’ work. He...- $ 450.00
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The Lesson of Japanese Architecture
This vintage book contains Jiro Harada's fascinating treatise on Japanese architecture; "The Lesson of Japanese Architecture". It contains numerous articles introducing Japanese architecture, along with black-and-white photographs of Japanese buildings and establishments - of which many were sadly destroyed during the Second World War....- $ 900.00
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Walkable City
Over the past decade, Walkable City has become the definitive guide to urban transformation, sparking a nationwide conversation about how we design our communities. Translated into seven languages and widely influential, this groundbreaking book is now reissued with a major update—including eight new chapters...- $ 500.00
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Happy City
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can―and do―make us happier people. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea...- $ 550.00
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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. It takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya to watch a python...- $ 480.00
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Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession
In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy, and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.- $ 500.00
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Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
It had never been done before. Not in 2,000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan. But, heady on sakura and sake,...- $ 600.00
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Nexus
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge...- $ 500.00
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Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe...- $ 350.00
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Becoming
In this deeply personal and inspiring memoir, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares the story of her extraordinary journey—from growing up on the South Side of Chicago to becoming a lawyer, a mother, and a historic figure in American life. With honesty, warmth, and...- $ 430.00
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A Walk in the Woods
After two decades abroad, Bill Bryson returns to the United States with a plan to reconnect with his homeland—by attempting to hike the entire 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail. Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the trail winds through some of America’s most breathtaking and remote landscapes....- $ 400.00
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Wild
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. After the sudden death of her mother, the collapse of her family and the unraveling of her marriage, she found herself in a deep emotional spiral....- $ 400.00
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
What does it mean to live—and survive—on a damaged Earth? This groundbreaking anthology brings together twenty leading voices in science, the humanities, and the arts to explore the tangled relationships between humans, nonhumans, and the planet we share. From haunted landscapes to unexpected interspecies...- $ 580.00
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On Women
A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on aging, equality, beauty, sexuality, and fascism Susan Sontag was one of the most formidable, original, and influential thinkers of the last century. On Women presents seven essays and exchanges,...- $ 400.00
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Entangled Life
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living...- $ 400.00
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her-what to call it?-depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work,...- $ 550.00
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Think Again
Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, Adam Grant investigates how we...- $ 350.00
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Hooked
From the author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a 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. Everyone knows how hard it can be to...- $ 400.00
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Arctic Dreams
A classic blend of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing, Arctic Dreams explores the stark, breathtaking world (and incredibly harsh climate) of the Far North. Barry Lopez brings to life the Arctic’s unique wildlife—from narwhals to polar bears—and its mesmerizing landscapes, including frozen seas...- $ 400.00
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The Creative Act: A Way of Being
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Many famed music producers are known for...- $ 600.00
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Want: Sexual Fantasies
A powerful collection of confessions from women across the globe, revealing the hidden depths of female sexuality. This groundbreaking and eye-opening exploration asks a bold question: How do women experience sex when they can be completely anonymous? What do you want when no one...- $ 650.00
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The Years
The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6...- $ 400.00
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Say Nothing
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict...- $ 880.00
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Magic Pill
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs upending weight loss as we knew it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to what these drugs mean for our society’s deeply dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our...- $ 450.00
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Knife
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife.What...- $ 650.00
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Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of...- $ 500.00
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Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré...- $ 400.00
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A Flat Place
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud is a beautifully written blend of memoir, nature writing, and literary reflection that explores the emotional and psychological significance of flat landscapes. Often dismissed as dull or featureless, these terrains become sites of deep meaning as Masud, shaped...- $ 350.00
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Ninth Street Women
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as...- $ 500.00
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The Liars' Club
A 20th-anniversary edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, featuring a new foreword by Lena Dunham. When it was first published twenty years ago, THE LIARS' CLUB took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new...- $ 360.00
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The Lemon Tree
The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East – with an updated afterword by the author. In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to...- $ 300.00
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Dictionary of Received Ideas
A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of...- $ 250.00
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Pageboy - Signed
Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate...- $ 500.00
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The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in...- $ 350.00
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The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump
What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump's words for signs of poetry. What he found was a revelation. By simply taking the 45th President of the United States' tweets...- $ 450.00
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Vladimir Putin: Life Coach
Unleash your inner autocrat with this darkly comic guide to everyday success—drawing dubious inspiration from the world’s most notorious strongman. The perfect stocking filler for the would-be tyrant in your life. What can the rise of one of the 21st century’s most feared leaders...- $ 450.00
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The Expectation Effect
People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer.Lucky charms really do improve an athlete’s performance.Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still improve your health.Welcome to The Expectation Effect. David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge...- $ 420.00
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Madly, Deeply
Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard’s villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and...- $ 400.00
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If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...
In If I Could Tell You Just One Thing… some of the world’s most remarkable people share their most valuable pieces of wisdom. Is not only packed with great advice but is also enormously entertaining, brilliantly written and stunningly designed. From advice on work...- $ 600.00
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The Power of Regret
Everybody has regrets. They’re a fundamental part of our lives. In The Power of Regret, Pink explains how we can enlist our regrets to make smarter decisions, perform better and deepen our sense of meaning and purpose. Drawing on the largest sampling of attitudes...- $ 550.00
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