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Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments New York Times best-selling author Jonah Lehrer shows us how we can all learn to be more creative. Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $18.20 Sale - Hardcover 
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A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry Publisher Comments From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry’s instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy—including its profound... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Enlightened Cyclist: Commuter Angst, Dangerous Drivers, and Other Obstacles on the Path to Two-Wheeled Trancendence by BikeSnobNYC Publisher Comments The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts every year. But as fresh-faced cyclists fill the roads, they also encounter their share of frustrations: careless drivers, wide-flung car doors, zoned-out pedestrians, and aggressive fellow... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Hardcover
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Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guide to Riding Your Bike by Grant Petersen Publisher Comments In the same way that Michael Pollan's slim bestseller Food Rules brought a gust of common sense to the everyday activity of eating, Just Ride is a revelation. Forget the ultralight, uncomfortable bikes, flashy jerseys, clunky shoes that clip onto tiny... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish Staff Pick In 2009, Matt Kish had an idea, a dream, a plan. Every day he would read a page from Moby-Dick, choose one passage, and then create an image based on the text — for all 552 pages! A year and a half later his epic quest came to an end, and Portland's... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative by Austin Kleon Publisher Comments You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an... (read more) Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson Staff Pick There is nothing on this planet that Bryson cannot make fascinating. In his hands, exploring the minutiae of his house becomes an adventure. (Granted, his house is a Victorian vicarage in Norfolk, England.) At Home is a joyful, chatty dip into the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings Publisher Comments Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, "a literary gem" (The Atlantic) now available in paperback. It may come as no surprise that as a kid, Ken Jennings... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins Publisher Comments Billy Collins is widely acknowledged as a prominent player at the table of modern American poetry. And in this smart, lyrical, and mischievous collection of poetry, which covers the everlasting themes of love and loss, youth and aging, solitude and union,... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry Synopsis In Wendell Berry's upcoming The New Collected Poems, the poet revisits for the first time his immensely popular Collected Poems, which The New York Times Book Review described as "a straight-forward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Good Poems, American Places by Garrison Keillor Publisher Comments P> Another wonderful poetry anthology from Garrison Keillor-rooted in the American landscape. Greatness comes in many forms, and as Garrison Keillor demonstrates daily on The Writer's Almanac, the most affecting poems in the canon are in plain English.... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me about Life, Love, and Coming Clean by Jackson Galaxy Publisher Comments “Mr. Galaxy—shaved head, arms full of tattoos—seems physically at odds with his gentle voice and gentle approach to animals. . . . But though he may be dealing with humans who have been terrorized and even bloodied by their out-of... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Just My Type: A Book about Fonts by Simon Garfield Publisher Comments A delightfully inquisitive tour that explores the rich history and the subtle powers of fonts.and#160;Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product that we buy. But where do fonts... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter by Frank Deford Publisher Comments Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined Sports Illustrated in... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean Publisher Comments He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean's sweeping, powerfully moving story of Rin Tin Tin's journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon. From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation by Tom Bissell Synopsis In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. He takes us from the set of The Big Bang Theory to the first novel of Ernest Hemingway to the final work of David Foster Wallace; from the films of... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008 by John Leonard Publisher Comments Right up until his death in 2008, John Leonard was a lion in American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. He reviewed the most celebrated writers of his age—from Kurt Vonnegut... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror by Jason Zinoman Publisher Comments Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but at the same time that Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorcese were producing their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film. Shock... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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