David Quammen

Dust sleeve missing, water mark on outside binding

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Iowa

Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called “spillover” where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic. 70,000 first printing.

Spillover

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Walter Robinson

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Art, music, drama/theater

From Cave Art to Pop Art

Presents the history of art, from prehistoric times to the present day.

Instant Art History

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An Autobiography

Jane Eyre

Omar El Akkad

A Novel

-Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place---

American War

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Anne Berest

Audrey Diwan

Caroline De Maigret

Sophie Mas

No dust cover- otherwise excellent condition 

Love, Style, and Bad Habits

Four savvy and accomplished Frenchwomen share lighthearted insights into Parisian life, romance and freedom, offering illustrated counsel on topics ranging from staying unmarried and having children to smoking in bed and honoring culture. 100,000 first printing.

How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are

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Scott Dikkers

Oswald T. Pratt

Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

Takes a humorous look at inspirational self-help books by providing hundreds of depressing nuggets of wisdom.

You Are Worthless

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Patrick M. Lencioni

A Leadership Fable

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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Mike Dooley

Has writing on second inner page, otherwise excellent condition 

Uncommon Ideas for Living an Unusually Happy Life

Mike Dooley is a beloved teacher and thought leader for seekers around the world, known for his trademark humor, wisdom, and sheer joy in living-all of which he's shared in his 17 books and his free daily e-mails of "Notes from the Universe." Now he returns with what he expects to be his best-selling-and most impactful-book yet- a volume of elegant, brief lessons conceived as a message from a father to his daughter, and equally relevant to everyone who's living a life on earth. (In other words, everyone.)

Inspired by such classics of gem-like wisdom as Life's Little Instruction Book, The Four Agreements, and The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, Mike's Beginner's Guide to the Universe gives voice to his most essential, heartfelt advice about living deliberately and creating consciously. Guiding the reader thoughtfully and joyfully through a range of topics-including family and relationships, power and responsibility, adversity and bouncing back from it, even the nature of heaven, angels, and God-Mike succeeds in making a happy life in this universe seem easily within our reach.

With short passages of text placed artfully on each page, and a format that's a pleasure to hold in the hand, this is an ideal gift for a parent, a parent-to-be, a child, a new graduate, a dear friend, or anyone who needs a dose of Dooley, whether they know it or not.

A Beginner's Guide to the Universe

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Boris Draznin

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Science

The handbook concise reviews the entire discipline of endocrinology, including diabetes and obesity, two of the most common and pressing health care concerns today.

Oxford American Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes

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Martin Amis

Laughter and the Twenty Million

A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of 20th-century thought: the indulgence of Communism by the intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginnings and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one-hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. The author’s father, Kingsley Amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was a “Comintern dogsbody” (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist whose book of 1968, The Great Terror, was second only to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. The present memoir explores these connections. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere “statistic.” Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin’s aphorism.

Koba the Dread

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Enrica Crispino

Michelangelo

La vita di uno degli artisti più significativi del Rinascimento italiano, Michelangelo Buonarroti, appronfondita attravaerso l'analisi delle sue opere più importanti fin dalla formazione nella bottega di Domenico del Ghirlandaio attraverso la protezione di Lorenzo il Magnifico e la realizzazione dei suoi capolavori nella Roma dei papi.

Michaelangelo

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Elizabeth Kolbert

An Unnatural History

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

The Sixth Extinction

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Jack Maguire

A Complete Guide to Beliefs and Practices

It identifies how the principal concepts and practices originated and evolved through diverse cultural adaptations into three formats: Theraveda, Mahayana, and Vajrayana.".

Essential Buddhism

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Paulo Coelho

Alan R. Clarke

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams." Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has already established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's charming fable, now available in English for the first time, will enchant and inspire an even wider audience of readers for generations to come. The Alchemist is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. From his home in Spain he journeys to the markets of Tangiers and across the Egyptian desert to a fateful encounter with the alchemist. The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories have done, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.

The Alchemist

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John M. Barry

The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.

The Great Influenza

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George Orwell

Erich Fromm

Back cover ripped, as pictured, but does not impact inner text. 

1984

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George. Orwell

Russell Baker

Tea Obreht

75th Anniversary Edition

Animal Farm

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Paramhansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda's remarkable life story takes you on an unforgettable exploration of the world of saints and yogis, science and miracles, death and resurrection.

Autobiography of a Yogi

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Philip Pullman

Huge Paperback (6 to 8 lbs)

Living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College, Lyra hears rumors of a magical dust that supposedly possesses powers that can unite whole universes, and begins a difficult and dangerous journey to find it. Reissue. Teacher's Guide available.

His Dark Materials: the Golden Compass (Book 1)

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His Dark Materials: the Subtle Knife (Book 2)

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His Dark Materials: the Amber Spyglass (Book 3)

Jen Sincero

How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Offers a blunt and irreverent guide to achieving the money, relationships, career, and happiness that one desires through recognizing and doing away with self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors.

You Are a Badass®

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Upton Sinclair

First published serially in 1905, "The Jungle" is American journalist Upton Sinclair's dramatization of the harsh working conditions for and exploitation of immigrant workers in industrial cities like Chicago during the early part of the 20th century. Sinclair spent seven weeks prior to publication working 'in cognito' in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards gathering information for the novel. The work is principally concerned with Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant trying to make ends meet in Chicago, and his family's struggle for survival. Having come to America in want of a better life, Jurgis instead finds that a combination of poor working conditions, slave level wages, and mounting debt, offers little hope for it. While Sinclair, a noted socialist, showed the vast socio-economic divide between the haves and have-nots and the corrupt alignment of American politicians with the industrial-capitalist machine, the greater impact of the novel would be on reforming the health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry, which were brought to light by the work. Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" dramatized the plight of the working class in a way that no American novel before had and thus has established itself as one of the most important socialistic novels of all time. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

The Jungle

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Niki Brantmark

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Not Too Little, Not Too Much: the Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life

In a fast-paced world, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could slow down and enjoy a life with less pressure, less stress, and more time for the things you love? Sweden is ranked in the top three of the world’s happiest places to live, and lagom, which means “not too much and not too little—just right,” is the Swedish philosophy for enjoying balance in every aspect of life—from work and leisure to family and food, and everything in between. Experienced bakers know by touch when the dough they are kneading is lagom—not too moist and not too dry. At the office, professionals who work hard—but not to the detriment of other parts of their lives—are following the lagom ideal. Lagom is moderation, balance, and equality. By using the Swedish lifestyle as an example, Niki Brantmark offers insightful suggestions and bite-sized actions to help you make subtle changes to your life, so you too can make time for the things that matter most and find greater happiness.

Lagom

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Kathryn Berwick

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Walter Robinson

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Jane Eyre

Omar El Akkad

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How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are

Scott Dikkers; Oswald T. Pratt

You Are Worthless

Patrick M. Lencioni

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Mike Dooley

A Beginner's Guide to the Universe

Boris Draznin

Oxford American Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes

Martin Amis

Koba the Dread

Enrica Crispino

Michaelangelo

Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction

Jack Maguire

Essential Buddhism

Paulo Coelho; Alan R. Clarke

The Alchemist

John M. Barry

The Great Influenza

George Orwell

1984

George. Orwell; Russell Baker; Tea Obreht

Animal Farm

Paramhansa Yogananda

Autobiography of a Yogi

Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials: the Golden Compass (Book 1)

Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials: the Subtle Knife (Book 2)

Philip Pullman

His Dark Materials: the Amber Spyglass (Book 3)

Jen Sincero

You Are a Badass®

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Niki Brantmark

Lagom

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