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Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation
by Studs Terkel and Harvey Pekar
Staff Pick
The most powerful thing about Studs Terkel's Working is that the same logic applies whether you're a highfalutin CEO or an overworked, underpaid waitress: If you do something you like — no matter what the wage — you'll like your job. If you hate... (read more)

List Price $22.95
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Used - Trade Paper

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The New Annotated Dracula
by Bram Stoker and Leslie S. Klinger
Staff Pick
Leslie Klinger does it again! By approaching Dracula as he did Sherlock Holmes, Klinger provides insights and historical inquiries into the validity of Stoker's "fictional" telling of the Count, ultimately leaving the reader to truly wonder if the Count... (read more)

Your price: $39.95
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Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff
Staff Pick
Going further than Joel Bakan's documentary The Corporation ever could, Rushkoff delivers another outstanding meditation on the influence of conglomerates on humanity. Life Inc. isn't another one of the "corporations are bad, very very very bad" rants... (read more)

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Garfield Minus Garfield
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Staff Pick
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List Price $13.00
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Used - Trade Paper

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Wondermark: Clever Tricks to Stave Off Death
by David Malki
Staff Pick
What can one say about Wondermark? Unlike most books, which have a plot and characters and wordsmithery to write about, Wondermark has none of these. You see, Wondermark must be experienced. That's it, the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything... (read more)

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Used - Hardcover

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