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Books 1 - 10 of 30 next » by Jared Diamond
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In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Glenn Yeffeth and Jane Espenson
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In this eclectic anthology of essays, former cast member Jewel Staite ("Kaylee"), philosopher Lyle Zynda, sex therapist Joy Davidson, and noted science fiction and fantasy authors Mercedes Lackey, David Gerrold, and Lawrence Watt-Evans contribute to a... (read more) Your Price $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
by A. J. Jacobs
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33,000 pages 44 million words 10 billion years of history 1 obsessed man Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Bill Bryson
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"Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us. Three billion year old fossilized organisms off the western coast; a giant lobster on the side of a highway; empty, forbidding spaces... In a... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Jon Stewart
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Why do we love America so much? For the much-celebrated naked pictures of Supreme Court justices? The flashbacks to those stultifyingly dull high school textbooks? Or can it be that seeing the polished irreverence of the Daily Show writers in book form... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Patricia Schultz
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Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books. A joyous, passionate gift book for travelers both the real and the armchair variety 1,000 Places to See Before You Die delivers exactly the promise of its around-the-world, continent-by... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Tom Tomorrow
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For over fifteen years, Tom Tomorrow has been providing his uniquely acerbic, witty, and altogether clearheaded view of media, politics, and overall society in his syndicated cartoon. With an ever increasing fan base, an expanding number of publications... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
by Arthur Phillips
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From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922... (read more) Used - Hardcover
by Douglas Adams
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Forty-two. Now read this classic to see what we're talking about. Sort of. It's pretty complicated you better read the book. Bring a towel.... (read more) Used - Mass Market
by Vladimir Nabokov
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Pale Fire consists of a long, elegiac poem written by John Shade and a rambling commentary on the poem produced by a Professor Charles Kinbote. Shade's poem is a touching, emotional work portraying the poet's attempt to understand and confront death... (read more) Used - Trade Paper
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