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Jacob Bronowski

The Western Intellectual Tradition: From Leonardo to Hegel

$18.00
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Lewis Thomas

Notes of a Biology Watcher Box Set: The Lives of a Cell & the Medusa and the Snail

$50.00
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Iris Murdoch

The Sea, the Sea

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$14.00
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Philip K. Dick

The Man in the High Castle

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$10.00
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Anthony Trollope

Cousin Henry

$6.99
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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes: The Adventures of Lord Greystoke

$8.00
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge

$12.00
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Plato

The Republic of Plato ( Francis MacDonald Cornford Translation)

$18.00

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Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.

Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. — Quick view Add to Cart

Michael Herr

Dispatches (Vintage Books Edition, 41st Printing)

MSRP: $16.95

$8.99

This is the story of one of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century: Professor Stephen Hawking, the Cambridge University genius who has earned an international reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. His book A Brief History of Time has sold five and a half million copies worldwide and familiarized a whole generation with complex intensely exciting scientific theories.

When Kitty Ferguson approach Stephen Hawking with the idea of writing a book about him and asked him to help her make certain she understood his theories, he agreed to do so and in addition supplied her with material about his childhood and life. She also interviewed other eminent physicists about the next frontier of physics. The result is a book that is not a biography per se. Rather, it is the story of one man’s quest to find the Theory of Everything—a theory that would be nothing short of an explanation of the universe, and everything that happens in it.

Illustrated with personal photographs and numerous charts and drawings, this highly praised book is an invaluable volume for all who would like to know more about the man and his work. — Quick view Add to Cart

Quest for a Theory of Everything

$8.00

The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.

Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, in debt, and unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all. — Quick view Add to Cart

Émile Zola

Germinal

$10.00

This volume unites, for the first time, Books IV and V of Mill's great treatise on political economy with his fragmentary Chapters on Socialism. It shows him applying his classical economic theory to policy questions of lasting concern: the desirability of sustained growth of national wealth and population, the merits of capitalism versus socialism, and the suitable scope of government intervention in the competitive market economy. His answers to those questions have profound relevance today, and they serve to illustrate the enduring power and imagination of his distinctive liberal utilitarian philosophy. The lucid introduction and explanatory notes clarify Mill's philosophy in relation to his economic theory, and make full use of the most recent scholarship.

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jonathan Riley — Quick view Add to Cart

John Stuart Mill

Principles of Political Economy

MSRP: $12.95

$6.99

The Dursleys were so mean that hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.

And strike it does. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockheart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.

But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone--or something--starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects...Harry Potter himself? — Quick view Add to Cart

J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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All the Pretty Horses tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons—beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. — Quick view Add to Cart

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses (Vintage Edition)

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$8.99

One of the most beloved heroes of the stage, Cyrano de Bergerac is a magnificent wit who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because of his enormous nose. He adores the beautiful Roxanne but, lacking courage, decides instead to help the tongue-tied but winsome Christian woo the fair lady by providing him with flowery sentiments and soulful poetry. Roxanne is smitten—but is it Christian she loves or Cyrano?

A triumph from the moment of its 1897 premiere, Cyrano de Bergerac has become one of the most frequently produced plays in the world. Its perennial popularity is a tribute to the universal appeal of its themes and characters. — Quick view Add to Cart

Edmond Rostand

Cyrano De Bergerac (Barnes & Noble Classics)

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$6.99

One of the greatest masteripieces of all time, Dante's Inferno, now newly translated by John Ciardi for the modern reader, is the magnificent story of a man's way through the infinite torment of Hell in his search for Paradise. — Quick view Add to Cart

Dante Alighieri

The Inferno: Dante's Immortal Drama of A Journey Through Hell

$8.00

The Federalist Papers defended the Constitution and its strong central government. The Anti-Federalist Papers represented the dissenting opinions of such important thinkers as Patrick Henry and John DeWitt, who saw threats in the Constitution to the rights and liberties so recently won from England. Although the Anti-Federalists lost, they came close to winning and their opinions represent an important contribution to the American political tradition.

This volume includes the complete texts of The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention debates, commentaries, and an Index of Ideas. It also lists cross-references to its companion Signet Classic volume, The Federalist Papers. — Quick view Add to Cart

Ralph Ketcham

The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates

MSRP: $7.95

$5.99

A brother and sister discover all kinds of cars as they travel through their own neighborhood, encounter a parade, visit a car wash, and more! Young vehicle enthusiasts will take pride in cruising through the simple, rhyming text. Bright, bouncy art will help them along the reading journey!

Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. — Quick view Add to Cart

Jennifer Liberts

Go, Go, Cars!

$8.99

The Cat in the Hat travels the globe—in his trusty crocodile car—to explore the world of reptiles: lizards, snakes, turtles, and crocodilians. Along the way, young readers learn the characteristics shared by most reptiles; basic information about each group; quirky, fun facts about individual species; and much, much more. Cool creatures featured include komodo dragons, chameleons, geckos, cobras, leatherback turtles, frilled lizards—a virtual Who’s Who of the World’s Most Remarkable Reptiles. Young readers will slither in delight! — Quick view Add to Cart

Tish Rabe

Miles and Miles of Reptiles

$9.99

The Man in Lower Ten (serialized in magazines in 1906) was published as a novel in 1910, and immediately rose to number four on the best-seller list. Combining murder, mystery, and romance, Rinehart's celebrated novel is sure to keep readers in delightful suspense.
In order to pick up legal papers in another city, a young lawyer, Lawrence Blakely, must travel from Pittsburgh to Baltimore on what he expects to be an uneventful train ride. However the trip quickly becomes anything but boring: Blakely's papers are stolen, and his car bunk "lower ten" is occupied by a dead body. But that's not all Blakely finds himself in the middle of. He also grapples with a deadly train wreck, a ghostly haunting, and a sexy yet possibly dangerous love interest.
With an Introduciton by Clea Simon — Quick view Add to Cart

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Man in Lower Ten

$8.99