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40 Nights to Knowing the Sky: A Night-by-Night Sky...
$7.92
The first practical, interactive guide for learning astronomy. Fred Schaaf has spent years perfecting the teaching of skywatching and astronomy to newcomers. Here, he distills his experience into a revolutionary new approach to learning about the night sky. No other book on the market offers anythin..
A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Imm...
$8.49
A New York Times Notable Book, 1997Library Journal, Best Book of 1997Beginning with the "occasional miracles" of a mysterious turn-of-the-century cancer vaccine called Coley's toxins, Stephen S. Hall traces the story of how doctors have learned to harness the immune system and its "commotions" to de..
A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the B...
$8.69
"A delightful, quirky, awe-inspiring journey . . . Sanghavi is a vivid and effortless teller of human tales and quite evidently a special doctor, too." Atul Gawande, author of ComplicationsIn this compelling book, Dr. Darshak Sanghavi takes the reader on a dramatic tour of a child's eight vital org..
A Primer of Drug Action: A Concise, Non-Technical ...
$10.16
Since 1975, Robert M. Julien's A Primer of Drug Action has been the definitive guide to the effects of psychoactive drugs on the brain and on behavior.Now fully updated, this popular guide continues to lead the way through a rapidly changing field, providing readers with a clear, contemporary, and o..
A Rumor of War
$7.92
The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago.In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang with the first ground combat unit deployed to Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he re..
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of P...
$8.99
Americans create 57% of the world's advertising while representing only 6% of its population; half of our waking hours are spent immersed in the mass media. Persuasion has always been integral to the democratic process, but increasingly, thoughtful discussion is being replaced with simplistic soundb..
America 1900: The Turning Point
$9.78
America 1900 is a sweeping narrative that follows an eclectic group of men and women over the course of one pivotal year. As it happened, the issues they were dealing with are surprisingly similar to those their grandchildren and great-grandchildren face in the year 2000. Change had come so fast tha..
Among the Bears: Raising Orphaned Cubs in the Wild
$7.84
In the spring of 1993, Benjamin Kilham, a naturalist who lives in the woodlands of New Hampshire, began raising a pair of orphaned wild black bears. The experience changed his life.While spending thousands of hours with the cubs, Kilham discovered unknown facets of bear behavior that have radically ..
And the Beagles and the Bunnies Shall Lie Down Tog...
$12.38
Snoopy writes a book on theology, Linus dreams of becoming a prophet, Marcie waits for the Great Pumpkin, and Peppermint Pattie sees an angel Author: Schulz, Charles M. Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0030710839 ISBN-13: 9780030710834..
Ansel Adams: A Biography
$10.27
In his 1985 autobiography, Ansel Adams presented a life almost as neatly cropped and printed as his magnificent pictures. Here, Mary Street Alinder--who collaborated with Adams on his memoir and was his assistant in later life--is not reticent about the major emotional episodes in Adams's life, incl..
Aveda Rituals : A Daily Guide to Natural Health an...
$10.11
A lushly illustrated guide to holistic beauty and health by the founder of AVEDA(r)cross promotion with AVEDA.The understanding that our beauty and health are depent on the environment around us as well as the personal landscape of our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls, is the foundation of Horst Rec..
Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Cr...
$8.79
Beer and Circus presents a no-holds-barred examination of the troubled relationship between college sports and higher education from a leading authority on the subject.Murray Sperber turns common perceptions about big-time college athletics inside out. He shows, for instance, that contrary to popula..
Biko
$10.16
Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's close friend and a leading white South African newspaper editor, exposed the murder helping to ignite the black revolution. Author: Woods, Do..
Black Hawk: The Battle for the Heart of America
$11.42
"Blending history with ethnography and a bit of sociology, Trask's volume explains the war and its lingering impact extremely well . . . Fascinating." Chicago Sun-TimesIn the spring of 1832, Black Hawk and his Sauk followers, including 700 warriors, rose up in a rage and defiantly crossed the Missis..
Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57
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This "expert piece of journalism by a brave man about brave men" follows three soldiers and a reporter through eighteen months on Ward 57, Walter Reed's amputee wing (The Washington Post)Time magazine's Michael Weisskopf was riding through Baghdad in the back of a U.S. Army Humvee when he heard a me..
Bone Black
$12.56
“A canvas of vividly impressionistic splashes of growing up young, gifted, Black, and female.” The Philadelphia InquirerIn this memoir of perceptions and ideas, renowned feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a stirringly intimate account of growing up in the South. Stitching together the gossam..
Canadian Bicycle Tours: Twelve Breathtaking Tours ...
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Features information and history about the people, places, and sights along each tour route Author: Dennis, Jerry Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0805014926 ISBN-13: 9780805014921..
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos
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In this compelling life of Carl Sagan, award-winning science writer William Poundstone details the transformation of a bookish young astronomer obsessed with life on other worlds into science's first authentic media superstar. The instantly recognizable Sagan, a fixture on television and a bestselli..
Churchill: A Life
$9.36
Distilled from years of meticulous research and documentation, filled with material unavailable when the earliest books of the official biography's eight volumes went to press, Churchill is a brilliant marriage of the hard facts of the public life and the intimate details of the private man. The res..
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Close Kin: Book II -- The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy (...
$15.89
Clare Dunkle's acclaimed fantasy trilogy now available in paperbackFor thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from Hallow Hill, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have moved there with no idea of the land's dreadful heritage until Marak decides to tell them himself. Marak is a ..
Darconville's Cat
$186.77
The conflicts between love and hate, good and evil, and life and art are explored in a portrait of Alaric Darconville, a twenty-nine-year-old professor at Quinsy College--a women's college in Virginia--who falls in love with and is jilted by one of his students Author: Theroux, Alexander Publisher: ..
Doctor Dogbody's Leg (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Se...
$139.14
Ripping sea yarns from the creator of Mutiny on the Bounty.James Norman Hall is best known as the co-author of the classic Bounty trilogy. In his later years, his favorite work was writing the tales spun by Dr. Dogbody, a peg-legged old salt who never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. D..
Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings ...
$8.99
“Beautifully interweaves research with anecdotes, recommendations, and the behind-the-scenes flubs, accidental discoveries and debates . . . that are the essence of scientific inquiry.” -Scientific AmericanA renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Paul Ekman led a revolution in our scientific un..
Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit: 101 Best-Loved Psalm...
$10.09
An important historical document as well as an inspirational gift, Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit captures the rich connections between song and experience as no other volume does.For over 200 years in African-American churches throughout the country, gospel and spiritual music have offered solace and..
Field Guide to the Mysterious Places of Eastern No...
$9.07
A fully illustrated, one-of-a-kind guide to the unexplained rocks, ruins, and phenomena of eastern North America. Author: Trento, Salvatore M. Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0805044493 ISBN-13: 9780805044492..