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Maus, A Survivor's Tale, Book I: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman  
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's...
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Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1763
by Albertus Seba
Powells.com Staff Pick Taschen has always published heavy, lush art books, but they've outdone themselves with Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (weighing in at thirteen pounds). Albertus Seba, a pharmacist in eighteenth-century Amsterdam, collected beautiful and strange animals,...
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Visual Explanations
by Edward R Tufte
Book News Annotation Tufte's (statistical evidence and information design, Yale U.) third book on displaying information that began with the now classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983). Whereas the first considered the display of numbers and the...
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Mini House
by Alejandro Bahamon
Powells.com Staff Pick Tired of McMansions? Take a gander at Mini House, which features more than twenty-five tiny houses, lofts, and studios designed by top architects. The emphasis is on light, storage, and usability with high-quality materials. Integration of architecture...
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The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
by John Seymour
Powells.com Staff Pick This book reminds me of those Laura Ingalls books I read as a kid. Laura's family lived by the seasons. In the summer they harvested hay, canned preserves and tended to livestock. In the fall, they butchered pigs and stored food in the attic for...
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Ham on Rye
by Charles Bukowski
Publisher Comments In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled...
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Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories
by Ben Katchor
Powells.com Staff Pick "A great collection of poignant cartoon vignettes of another time." Recommended by Carole Reichstein...
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Gashlycrumb Tinies : Or After the Outing (63 Edition)
by Edward Gorey
Publisher Comments A new, small-format edition of one of Gorey’s “dark masterpieces of surreal morality” (Vanity Fair) - a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet....
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Biodiesel America
by Joshua Tickell and Meghan Murphy and Claudia Graziano
Powells.com Staff Pick Tickell, an expert on biodiesel, explains how biodiesel is the best alternative to gasoline in today's age of peak oil. America, with its insatiable appetite for fast food, uses more vegetable oil for frying than any other nation. Why not turn that fat...
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Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries: 1971-1973
by Jim Carroll
Synopsis The illuminating, shocking, humorous diary that tells all about the sex, the frugs and the atmosphere of New York in the late '60s and early '70s. A supremely entertaining book that will expand the legion of Carroll's fans....
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The Rachel Papers
by Martin Amis
Publisher Comments In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary fiction. On the...
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
Powells.com Staff Pick Two powerful, definitive chronicles of modern atrocities — the perfect books for anyone who doubts comix have grown up. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus is a staggering personal depiction of the Holocaust, rendered all the stronger by Spiegelman's...
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Six Easy Pieces Essentials of Physics Ex
by Richard P Feynman
Publisher Comments Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the post–World War II period. His career was extraordinarily expansive. From his contributions to the development of the atomic bomb a Los Alamos during...
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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
by Henry Petroski
Review "[A] gem of a book....[I]n marvelously clear prose, he gives valuable insight into the limits of engineering and its practitioners." Library...
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Darkroom Cookbook 2ND Edition
by Stephen G Anchell
Powells.com Staff Pick How wonderful it is to spend a dreamy afternoon in a darkroom, locked away from the world and surrounded by your photos and the smell of D-76. You don't need to be a chemist to understand this book, but a basic knowledge of chemistry is indeed helpful...
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Love Is Hell Jumbo 10TH Anniversary Edition
by Matt Groening
Publisher Comments It's the 10th Anniversary Edition of Love Is Hell! A book that's been in the making for a solid decade! This medium-sized guide is now available to the public with extra bonus fun-pages never-before-included in previous volumes of the same name! Slightly...
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Don't Get Burned on Ebay: How to Avoid Scams and Escape Bad Deals
by Shauna Wright
Powells.com Staff Pick Yikes! This book should be required reading for anyone who buys or sells on eBay. Author Shauna Wright delves into the details of Paypal, pros and cons of various shippers, scams to watch out for, and who to contact if you've fallen prey to a thief. But...
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The Basketball Diaries
by Jim Carroll
Publisher Comments The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New York — once again in print. An urban classic of coming of age....
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Makers: All Kinds of People Making Amazing Things in Garages, Basements, and Backyards
by Bob Parks
Powells.com Staff Pick Get rid of your TV set and make something instead. This book, released by the publishers of Make magazine, rules. It features ordinary people making extraordinary things, like a personal submarine, a washtub Tesla coil, a go-kart with a turbine jet...
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A Moveable Feast (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
Publisher Comments "You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil." Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in...
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