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Philip K. Dick

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

MSRP: $16.00

$8.99
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Ransom Riggs

Tales of the Peculiar

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$16.99
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Adam Smith

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

$22.00
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William Faulkner

Sanctuary (A Vintage Book)

$10.00
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Peter C. Craigie

Ezekiel

$8.99
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Walter Truett Anderson (Editor)

The Truth About The Truth: De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World

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Madeleine L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet Series #1)

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George Eliot

Middlemarch

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A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present. While several of the essays deal with major women artists, the book is essentially about Western art history and the extent to which it has been distorted, in every period, by sexual bias. With 306 illustrations. — Quick view Add to Cart

Norma Broude

Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

$15.00

The publishing event of the decade--Mario Puzo's first work of fiction since the release of The Godfather in 1969 that went on to sell more than fifteen million copies in the U.S. alone and created a body of language and a cast of characters that have become part of America's folklore.

Fools Die focuses dramatically on forty years in the life of an orphaned American boy named Merlyn who, in time, comes to understand how he relates to the magician of Arthurian legend. His haphazard youth is spent outside the law, and only his overwhelming interest in writing and extraordinary success as an author save him from a life behind bars.

Merlyn's books bring fame and fortune and open doors to the literary coteries of New York and the Hollywood world of film moguls, actors, agents and beautiful women. Neither the wife of his youth, his family, nor his beloved brother can compete with the delights of Hollywood or the heady addition of Las Vegas casinos. His friends, a cross-section of the beautiful and the damned, are the dramatis personae of this great story.

Surrounded by dazzling actors in life's most risky game, Merlyn plays out his destiny the role of a man who witnesses treachery and still believes in honor, who loves one woman but constantly betrays her, and who observes—as Fools Die.

Panoramic in scope, peopled with brilliantly realized men and women, Fools Die is a novel of ambition and power, passion and "the poisons of love," friendship and betrayal, the human comedy—and tragedy—that only Mario Puzo could write. — Quick view Add to Cart

Mario Puzo

Fools Die

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The Use of Force, long considered a classic in its own right, brings together enduring, influential works on the role of military power in foreign policy and international politics. The fifth edition of this classic text retains the best from earlier editions and adds sixteen new selections that highlight emerging issues, such as NATO expansion, intervention in ethnic conflicts, and the relevance of force in the twenty-first century. Strategies for using force, together with case studies that illustrate the general principles, are hallmarks of the text. A theme that runs throughout the book is the effect of new technologies on military strategy and the utility of force. — Quick view Add to Cart

Robert J. Art

The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics

$12.00

Motivated by a love of her Mexican American heritage, Patricia Preciado Martin set out to document the lives and memories of the women of her mother's and grandmother's eras; for while the role of women in Southwest has begun to be chronicled, that of Hispanic women largely remains obscure. In Songs My Mother Sang to Me, she has preserved the oral histories of many of these women before they have been lost or forgotten.

Martin's quest took her to ranches, mining towns, and cities throughout southern Arizona, for she sought to document as varied an experience of the contributions of Mexican American women as possible. The interviews covered family history and genealogy, childhood memories, secular and religious traditions, education, work and leisure, environment and living conditions, rites of passage, and personal values. Each of the ten oral histories reflects not only the spontaneity of the interview and personality of each individual, but also the friendship that grew between Martin and her subjects.

Songs My Mother Sang to Me collects voices not often heard and brings to print accounts of social change never previously recorded. These women document more than the details of their own lives; in relating the histories of their ancestors and communities, they add to our knowledge of the culture and contributions of Mexican American people in the Southwest. — Quick view Add to Cart

Patricia Preciado Martin

Songs My Mother Sang to Me

$25.00

Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century — Quick view Add to Cart

Donald Gillies

Philosophy of Science in the Twentieth Century

$35.00

In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, in Micro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and too dangerous to ignore.

In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found dead with no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye.

In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology has ushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillions of microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are being discovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs and applications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined.

In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at the forefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneering microbiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches the group to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier.

But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising dangers at every turn. Armed only with their knowledge of the natural world, they find themselves prey to a technology of radical and unbridled power. To survive, they must harness the inherent forces of nature itself.

An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment. — Quick view Add to Cart

Michael Crichton

Mirco

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One of the most influential books in the Western philosophical and literary tradition, Sir Thomas More’s Utopia appeared in 1516. The formidable Henry VIII had recently assumed the throne in England, and conflicting ideas about religion were fueling the Reformation throughout Europe. A scathing satire, Utopia was hugely successful and vaulted More to the forefront of the growing humanist movement.

The story of Utopia is told by a mysterious sailor named Raphael Hythloday, who travels to the New World with the Italian explorer Vespucci and remains at a fort built at the farthest point reached. From there, he discovers a strange island kingdom named Utopia, a pagan and communist city-state in which language, social customs, dress, architecture, and education are identical throughout the country’s fifty-four cities. The Utopians have eliminated wealth, the nobility, and currency. Labor and goods are distributed equally and property is held in common. And there are no monasteries, alehouses, or academies to tempt a person to withdraw from society.

Given More’s satiric leanings and eventual execution, is Utopia simply an attack on Europe’s wickedness? Or is it a philosophical tract extolling the ideal way to live? Ultimately, Utopia navigates a course between the desire to create perfection and the pragmatic understanding that perfection, given the fallibility of mankind, is impossible. — Quick view Add to Cart

Sir Thomas More

Utopia

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Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews―now with a new afterword and additional photographs.

Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.

While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition.

Ordinary Men is a powerful, chilling, and important work with themes and arguments that continue to resonate today. — Quick view Add to Cart

Christopher R. Browning

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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$7.99

The Last of the Mohicans is the second and most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales. Set in 1757 during the fierce French and Indian wars, Cooper's classic novel of adventure follows an adroit scout and his companion as they weave through the lush and spectacular wilderness of upstate New York, fighting to save the beautiful daughters of a fort commander from a treacherous Huron renegade.

With its death-defying chases and teeth-clenching suspense, this historical romance established many archetypes of American frontier fiction: the brave, skillful loner (Hawkeye), who rejects "white" civilization while aiding the settlers who spread it; the "noble savage" (Chingachgook) who becomes his best friend; a plot involving chases, epic battles, and lovely heroines (Cora and Alice Munro) menaced by an Indian renegade (Magua); and the central role played by the most important "character" of all, the awesomely beautiful but dangerous wilderness. — Quick view Add to Cart

James Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Edition)

$12.00

A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851 — Quick view Add to Cart

Henry D. Thoreau

A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851

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$9.99

This revised and enlarged edition of a classic in Old Testament scholarship reflects the most up-to-date research on the prophetic books and offers substantially expanded discussions of important new insight on Isaiah and the other prophets. — Quick view Add to Cart

Joseph Blenkinsopp

A History of Prophecy in Israel

MSRP: $29.99

$15.99

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social categories are always fundamentally shaped by gender and that questions of gender are essential to considerations of difference in history. Exploring topics ranging from language and class to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a vital contribution to feminist history and historical methodology that also speaks more broadly to the ongoing redefinition of gender in our political and cultural vocabularies. — Quick view Add to Cart

Joan Wallach Scott

Gender and the Politics of History

$18.99