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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel Publisher Comments Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover 
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California Design: The Legacy of West Coast Craft and Style by Jo Lauria Publisher Comments The furniture, jewelry, recreational objects, ceramics, fabric arts, and other designs that emerged from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s California would come to identify its outdoorsy, eccentric, sometimes entirely funky persona. And the best of these... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Very Minor Prophet by James Bernard Frost Publisher Comments A Very Minor Prophet is the story of how Barth Flynn, a barista swimming upstream against purposelessness in Portland, Oregon, becomes the faithful scribe of Joseph Patrick Booker. Booker is a dwarf preacher who serves Voodoo donuts, Stumptown coffee... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rain Dragon by Jon Raymond Publisher Comments Damon and his girlfriend Amy have had enough of Los Angeles. Fitful and tired and dreaming of a simpler life, they leave the city to go work on a community farm. But they've scarcely arrived when their vague hopes start to come unraveled: What are they... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper
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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow Publisher Comments Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk and coauthor of The Grand Design (with Stephen Hawking), gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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Games Primates Play: An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships by Dario Maestripieri Publisher Comments Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly Peacock Publisher Comments In 1772, upon the death of her second husband, Mary Delany arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors, and, at the age of seventy-two, created a new art form: mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs. Delany produced an astonishing 985... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Diaries of a Young Artist by Shelly Bancroft Publisher Comments What are the daily challenges, pleasures, obstacles and practical issues of being a successful working artist today? What issues do artists struggle with the most? This pocket-size primer, a companion to the best-selling Letters to a Young Artist of 2006,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paula Hayes by Paula Hayes Publisher Comments Artist Paula Hayes is most famous for her exquisite, high-end art terrariums of organically shaped, handblown glass, but her affinity for all things green extends to full gardens as well. She has created over twenty full gardens for private clients... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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We Heard the Heavens Then: A Memoir of Iran by Aria Minu-Sepehr Publisher Comments ARIA MINU-SEPEHR was raised in a sheltered world of extraordinary privilege as the son of a major general in the Shahs Imperial Iranian Air Force. It seemed his father could do anything—lead the Golden Crowns in death-defying aerobatic maneuvers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Open Heart, Open Mind: Awakening the Power of Essence Love by Tsoknyi Rinpoche Publisher Comments In Open Heart, Open Mind, Tsoknyi Rinpoche—one of the most beloved of the contemporary generation of Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters—explains that a life free of fear, pain, insecurity, and doubt is not only possible, it's our birthright.... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Poster Masterpieces Postcards (Dover Postcards) by Dover (cor) Synopsis Toulouse-Lautrec, Chéret, and Mucha are among the artists whose works appear in 12 color postcards. Ads from the great age of poster art promote nightclubs, chocolate, soap, and other products and services.... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper
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Flesh Into Light: The Films of Amy Greenfield by Robert A. Haller Publisher Comments Over her more than four-decade career, New York-based filmmaker, performer, and writer Amy Greenfield has achieved widespread critical acclaim for her genre-bending experimental films—from Antigone/Rites Of Passion to her major new... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Elevating Western American Art: Developing an Institute in the Cultural Capital of the Rockies by Thomas Brent (edt) Smith Publisher Comments Unprecedented in size and scope, this special issue of Western Passages celebrates the full range of the western American art holdings at the Denver Art Museum. Published to mark the tenth anniversary of the museum’s Petrie Institute of Western... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion by Lizzie Garrett Mettler Publisher Comments Tomboys are confident, rebellious, and adventurous. They are bold, brazen, fierce—and sexy. They aren’t known for following rules, they are known for doing—and wearing—whatever they want. Tomboy captures the tomboy’s... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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Art in Iraq Today by Charles Pocock Publisher Comments A book that highlights the enduring talent of a group of contemporary Iraqi artists who are united in their experience of exile. Modern Iraqi art represents one of the main foundation stones of modern Arab culture. As with Iran, modern and contemporary... (read more) Your price: $85.00 New - Hardcover
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Printmaking Revolution: New Advancements in Technology, Safety, and Sustainability by Dwight W. Pogue Publisher Comments A tome of the newest advances in printmaking for today’s environmentally conscious art students, master printers, teachers, and artists Etching, lithography, and screenprinting shouldn’t be harmful to the artist or the planet. With... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne: Art. Work. Life. by Paul (pht) Kasmin Publisher Comments Revered and collected by design connoisseurs and enthusiasts alike, the work of husband-and-wife team Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne defies categorization. Crossing between sculpture and the functional object, the designs by the Lalannes—... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Rubelli: The Art of Weaving by Irene Favaretto Publisher Comments There has always been a very close tie between precious fabrics and the lagoon city. Even today it is possible to find places in Venice, sometimes hidden away, sometimes located in ancient palaces and residences, where the precious textile still holds... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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A Curator's Quest: Building the Collection of Painting and Sculpture of the Museum of Modern Art, 1967-1988 by William Rubin Publisher Comments The distinguished curator,critic, collector, art historian, and teacher William Rubin was a forceful presence for over two decades at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from the late 1960s through the 1980s. He was extraordinarily successful at acquiring... (read more) Your price: $100.00 New - Hardcover
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