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A Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir delivers a stark and unflinching account of her mother’s final days. Written with clarity, tenderness, and unsparing honesty, this memoir traces the physical and emotional unraveling of a once-vibrant woman, as witnessed by a daughter grappling with love, guilt, and helplessness....- $ 300.00
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Landmarks
Landscapes #4. For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from dozens of languages and dialects of the British Isles. In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and...- $ 450.00
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A Collection of Essays
In this compelling collection of Essays, George Orwell—one of the twentieth century’s sharpest minds—wields his pen with unmatched clarity and conviction. From the dark corridors of British boarding schools to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, and from the quiet struggles of the...- $ 350.00
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The Beauty of Everyday Things
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even...- $ 320.00
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The Comfort Book
Collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations offer new ways of seeing ourselves and the world. This is the book to pick up when...- $ 300.00
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Time on Rock
With great lyricism, Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing and the developing appreciation of the natural world it brings her. Through the story of her progress from terrified beginner to confident lead climber, she shows us how...- $ 500.00
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A Field Guide To Getting Lost
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit is a beautifully written exploration of how uncertainty and disorientation can lead to growth and discovery. Combining memoir, philosophy, and cultural history, Solnit reflects on moments of loss and transformation in her own life while...- $ 500.00
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Hope In The Dark
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall...- $ 450.00
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The Dun Cow Rib
John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. Lister-Kaye’s joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of...- $ 450.00
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The Lonely City
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works...- $ 450.00
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The Living Mountain
In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers,...- $ 500.00
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Algospeak
How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language. As a professional linguist, Adam Aleksic —known to millions as @etymologynerd— grasps the profound importance of language, how it evolves, mirrors society, and carries centuries of human history in everyday speech. As a social media...- $ 540.00
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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
This elegant clothbound edition features Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on December 7, 2017. Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature for the emotional depth and precision of his fiction, Ishiguro reflects in this lecture on...- $ 350.00
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Eat the World
A Collection of Poems. Marina’s gift for crafting powerful, evocative lyrics finds fresh expression in her poetry. Each poem echoes the creative melodies and emotional depth that have made her an artistic force. Praised by The New York Times for “redefining songs about coming...- $ 400.00
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Surrender
40 Songs, One Story. As one of the most iconic figures in music, and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono has been written about for decades. But in Surrender, he finally tells his own story. In his unmistakable voice, Bono takes...- $ 550.00
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Blue Nights
From one of America’s most powerful writers comes a work of profound honesty about grief, memory, and the passage of time. In Blue Nights, Joan Didion reflects on the death of her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, exploring the fears, doubts, and questions that accompany...- $ 500.00
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Outstanding!
The Relief from Rodin to Picasso. No artistic medium challenges and expands the limits of perception quite like relief. Its inherent ambiguity—hovering between two and three dimensions—has long captivated some of the world’s most visionary artists. Beginning with neoclassical works that echo the reliefs...- $ 1,200.00
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Gustav Klimt: Interiors
Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art. Interior design held deep significance for Klimt, and many of his paintings were conceived for specific environments. This beautifully produced volume brings that dimension to life, showing how his most celebrated canvases once...- $ 850.00
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The Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meals
100 Recipes to Live to 100 After more than 20 years spent uncovering the secrets of the blue zones—the happiest and healthiest places around the world—Dan Buettner (Emmy-winning host of Netflix's Live to 100) puts the lessons he's learned into practice with research-backed recipes...- $ 650.00
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Rad Future
The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How It Will Save the World. Science influencer Isabelle Boemeke dismantles decades of fear and misinformation to reveal the truth: the science tells a radically different story. Nuclear-generated electricity isn’t the threat we’ve been taught to fear; it’s...- $ 580.00
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Ginseng Roots
When Blankets debuted in 2003, Craig Thompson’s memoir of first love and lost faith in rural Wisconsin captivated readers and earned multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards. Now, in his long-awaited return to autobiographical storytelling, Thompson explores the story that Blankets left untold. Ginseng Roots...- $ 550.00
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad tweeted: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will...- $ 400.00
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The Little Book of Chanel
Little Book of Chanel is a beautifully crafted, pocket-sized celebration of the world’s most iconic fashion designer. Tracing the life and legacy of Coco Chanel, this exquisite volume captures her journey from humble beginnings as a milliner to the visionary who redefined modern style....- $ 320.00
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Epic Disruptions
From the iPhone to the printing press, from gunpowder to generative AI, Epic Disruptions explores how eleven groundbreaking innovations have rewritten the rules of business, culture, and human potential. Innovation expert Scott Anthony traces the hidden patterns behind history’s most transformative breakthroughs—from the transistor...- $ 600.00
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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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Autumn
Written as a letter to his unborn daughter, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to introduce her to the world she will soon enter—not through grand declarations, but through the small, often overlooked details that make up a life. Each short essay, written daily, captures...- $ 450.00
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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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The Anxious Generation
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt presents...- $ 550.00
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