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How Music Works by David Byrne Publisher Comments How Music Works is David Byrne's remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - 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. 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 come... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Brother's Book by Maurice Sendak Publisher Comments Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Hardcover
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The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language by Natalie Goldberg Publisher Comments Sit. Walk. Write. These are the barest bones of Natalie Goldberg's revolutionary writing and life practice, which she presents here in book form for the first time. A whole new slant on writing that she developed since the publication of her classic... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Fire, water, air, earth — our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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A Little Book of Sloth by Lucy Cooke Staff Pick Do you shriek or weep easily? Then be prepared to go into overload! These little bundles of SQUEE! will melt even the most curmudgeonly naysayers. You'll find yourself saying, "Kittens? What kittens?", or possibly becoming what I call "sloth-drunk." As... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $11.89 Sale - Hardcover
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On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by Simon Garfield Publisher Comments Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfield's Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver Publisher Comments The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her lifes work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure Publisher Comments Wendy McClure is on a quest to find the world of beloved Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder — a fantastic realm of fiction, history, and places she’s never been to, yet somehow knows by heart. She traces the pioneer... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Why Does the World Exist? Signed Edition by Jim Holt Publisher Comments Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This... (read more) List Price $16.95 Available May 27, 2013 Your price: $11.87 New - Trade Paper
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander Publisher Comments Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prizewinning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.50 Sale - Hardcover
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New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry Synopsis In 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 straightforward search for a life connected to the soil, for marriage as a sacrament and family... (read more) Your price: $20.95 New - Trade Paper
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What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-One Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most by Elizabeth Benedict Publisher Comments Women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter's story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like by Alexander Barrett Publisher Comments A firsthand look at one of the worlds most livable cities, this fun take on the guidebook genre explores the atmosphere of Portland, Oregon, versus detailing its landmarks and restaurants. It both explains and embraces how beautiful and ridiculous... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers by Becky Cooper Publisher Comments Armed with hundreds of blank maps she had painstakingly printed by hand, Becky Cooper walked Manhattan from end to end. Along her journey she met police officers, homeless people, fashion models, and senior citizens who had lived in Manhattan all... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Why Knot?: How to Tie More Than Sixty Ingenious, Useful, Beautiful, Lifesaving, and Secure Knots! [With Rope] by Philippe Petit Publisher Comments On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Centers twin towers, where he performed for nearly an hour. During this history-making walk, and many others throughout his celebrated career, knots... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Beg Signed Edition by Rory Freedman Publisher Comments Rory Freedman, the co-author of the New York Times mega-seller Skinny Bitch, returns with an unapologetically sappy ode” to how animals can enrich our lives, as well as a no holds-barred treatise on how we can better protect them. With the... (read more) Available May 15, 2013 Your price: $18.00 New - Hardcover
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Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs by Ted Kerasote Publisher Comments From the best-selling author who offers “the most utterly compelling translation of dog to human I have ever seen” (Jeffrey Masson), a joyful chronicle of a dog that is also a groundbreaking answer to the question: How can we give our dogs... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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David Bowie Is by Victoria (edt) Broackes Publisher Comments David Bowie Is is the first book that grants access to the internationally acclaimed artist and performers personal archive of costumes, ephemera, original design artwork, and more, bringing it together to present a completely new perspective on... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Hardcover
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Marijuanamerica: One Man's Quest to Understand America's Dysfunctional Love Affair with Weed by Alfred Ryan Nerz Publisher Comments Alfred Ryan Nerz is a Yale-educated author, journalist, and TV producer. He is also a longtime pot smoker who wanted to better understand the drugs use and abuse in the United States. Marijuanamerica is the story of his trek across the country, where he... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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