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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter Publisher Comments This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche Publisher Comments "What is it I hope for from this book? To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at health and care for the dying, and the whole way we look at life and care for the living." This acclaimed spiritual masterpiece is widely regarded as... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Moon by Maryam Sachs Book News Annotation A compendium of information, legends, lore, superstition, and other approaches to understanding Earth's natural satellite. Color photographs and reproductions and quotations from literature comprise the core of the treatment, with the text filling in... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott From Powells.com In 1998, Alice McDermott's fourth novel, Charming Billy, surprised the literary world by capturing the National Book Award. Few doubted that McDermott deserved the prize and the readership it would deliver she'd also been nominated for... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Hardcover
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Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg Publisher Comments On the last page of the Caldecott-winning book Jumanji, young Danny Budwing is seen running after his brother, Walter, with a game tucked under his arm. Now after twenty years, Chris Van Allsburg is ready to reveal what happens when Danny and Walter roll... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Publisher Comments A new holiday classic from the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever! Holidays On Ice collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice scraper. This... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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One River by Wade Davis Publisher Comments In the 1940s, biologist Richard Evans Schultes uncovered many of the secrets of the rain forest, relying not only on his own prodigious investigations, but on the wisdom passed down by local tribes. Thirty years later his student, Wade Davis, followed in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries by Deepak Chopra Publisher Comments Dr. Deepak Chopra takes a scientific approach to spirituality in this mini version of the enormously inspiring New York Times bestseller, proposing that the human brain is hardwired to know God. The internationally renowned author proposes seven... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $3.50 Sale - Hardcover
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Manhattan Unfurled by Matteo Pericoli and Paul Goldberger Publisher Comments Matteo Pericoli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Top 10 Wines France (Top 10 Wines) by Vincent Gasnier Publisher Comments Both an invaluable resource for travelers in France and a fascinating celebration of the best of French food and wine, this handbook is illustrated with specially commissioned color photography. Includes detailed listings for 3,200 of the best places to... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.75 Sale - Flexible
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Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy by Andro Linklater Publisher Comments Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measuresthe American Customary System, unlike any other in the worldand how this has profoundly shaped our country... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Islam in America by Jane I Smith Publisher Comments Most Americans are only vaguely aware of the Muslim community in the United States and know little about the religion itself, despite Islam's increasing importance in international affairs and the rapid growth in the number of Americans who call... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $8.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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