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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics) by Pema Chodron Publisher Comments A stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levelsincluding a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values Ten years ago, in his best-sellingEthics for a New... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto Publisher Comments In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine — and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Annals of the Former World by John McPhee From Powells.com In 1978, New Yorker science writer John McPhee set out on a series of road trips with prominent geologists. In each case, they remained close to Interstate 80, which spans the country at about the 40th parallel. McPhee's purpose was to write an... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks Publisher Comments It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin Publisher Comments No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond by Denis Johnson Staff Pick The best thing about Denis Johnson's writing is that he never seems to take the easy way out. Some of these nonfiction pieces in this collection are searing and brutal, a few are soul searching, and a couple just plain funny. They made me think about... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Battle For God by Karen Armstrong From Powells.com "In The Battle for God, Armstrong brilliantly traces the struggle between the burgeoning Western secularism and the religious fundamentalism that has dogged its heels for the past five hundred years, culminating in that greatest of all fundamentalist... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Teaching and Writing Fiction by Wallace Stegner and Lynn Stegner Publisher Comments Wallace Stegner founded the acclaimed Stanford Writing Program-a program whose alumni include such literary luminaries as Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and Raymond Carver. Here Lynn Stegner brings together eight of Stegner's previously uncollected essays-... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Clearing In the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski From Powells.com Rarely are biographer and subject so well-matched as in Witold Rybczynski's seminal biography of the great nineteenth century landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. In such classic works as Home: The Short History of an Idea and City... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir by James Ellroy Staff Pick James Ellroy is the heir apparent to Raymond Chandler. His dark, convoluted, steroid-infused crime novels have made him the reigning king of LA Noir. Ellroy's stylized prose is "so hard-boiled it burns the pot" and his outlook is as cynical as a frog in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments No one has more authority to call the shots the way they really are than award-winning economist Paul Krugman, whose provocative New York Timescolumns are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists, Krugman has been named... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.25 Used - Hardcover
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Seventies : the Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (01 Edition) by Bruce Schulman Publisher Comments Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s. Arguing that it was one of the most important of the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Borges: Selected Non-Fictions: Volume 3 by Jorge Luis Borges Publisher Comments It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues,... (read more) Your price: $23.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas Basbanes Publisher Comments The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ill Nature by Joy Williams Publisher Comments Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched forests, and violence both home and abroad. Joy Williams does more than watch. In... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra Publisher Comments After a quarter of a century in print, Capra's groundbreaking work still challenges and inspires. This updated edition of The Tao of Physics includes a new preface and afterword in which the author reviews the developments of the twenty-five years since... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man by Susan Faludi Publisher Comments One of the most talked-about books of last year, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Backlash now explores the collapse of traditional masculinity that has left men feeling betrayed. With Backlash in 1991, Susan Faludi broke new ground when she put her... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye by Katherine Roucoux From Powells.com "Heaven and Earth is cleverly conceived and elegantly executed, but what best recommends it, what makes it a bargain at 230 million times the price, are the photographs themselves. Here is Nature in all her vast variety, ravishing color, and myriad... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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