Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Citing costly memory-related inconveniences suffered by average individuals, a science journalist chronicles his own struggles with chronic forgetfulness and his life-changing year in memory training, in a guide that shares historical lore and ancient memory techniques.

Moonwalking with Einstein

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

“Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory An instant bestseller that is poised to become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlong quest to improve his memory under the tutelage of top "mental athletes." He draws on cutting-edge research, a surprising cultural history of remembering, and venerable tricks of the mentalist's trade to transform our understanding of human memory. From the United States Memory Championship to deep within the author's own mind, this is an electrifying work of journalism that reminds us that, in every way that matters, we are the sum of our memories.

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Washington

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Tennessee

California

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Florida

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Texas

Massachusetts

An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

It's time to get off the beaten path. Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 700 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Talk about a bucket list: here are natural wonders—the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M.C. Escher-like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby Jumping Festival in Spain, where men dressed as devils literally vault over rows of squirming infants. Not to mention the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Virginia, Turkmenistan's 40-year hole of fire called the Gates of Hell, a graveyard for decommissioned ships on the coast of Bangladesh, eccentric bone museums in Italy, or a weather-forecasting invention that was powered by leeches, still on display in Devon, England. Created by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, ATLAS OBSCURA revels in the weird, the unexpected, the overlooked, the hidden and the mysterious. Every page expands our sense of how strange and marvelous the world really is. And with its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, it is a book to enter anywhere, and will be as appealing to the armchair traveler as the die-hard adventurer. Anyone can be a tourist. ATLAS OBSCURA is for the explorer.

Atlas Obscura

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Pennsylvania

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

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Super neat book full of unique and obscure places all over the world! There is slight discoloration to the dust jacket and a mark from rubbing it with a damp cloth to clean it. It also has some staining on the top part of the pages. The red cover underneath is still gorgeous though! 


Missouri

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Illinois

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

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Georgia

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New Hampshire

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Arkansas

Discover wonder. “A wanderlust-whetting cabinet of curiosities on paper.”— New York Times Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura is a phenomenon of a travel book that shot to the top of bestseller lists when it was first published and changed the way we think about the world, expanding our sense of how strange and marvelous it really is. This second edition takes readers to even more curious and unusual destinations, with more than 100 new places, dozens and dozens of new photographs, and two very special features: twelve city guides, covering Berlin, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Cairo, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Moscow, New York City, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Plus a foldout map with a dream itinerary for the ultimate around-the-world road trip. More a cabinet of curiosities than traditional guidebook, Atlas Obscura revels in the unexpected, the overlooked, the bizarre, and the mysterious. Here are natural wonders, like the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa so large it has a pub inside where 15 people can sit and drink comfortably. Architectural marvels, including the M. C. Escher–like stepwells in India. Mind-boggling events, like the Baby-Jumping Festival in Spain—and no, it’s not the babies doing the jumping, but masked men dressed as devils who vault over rows of squirming infants. Every page gets to the very core of why humans want to travel in the first place: to be delighted and disoriented, uprooted from the familiar and amazed by the new. With its compelling descriptions, hundreds of photographs, surprising charts, maps for every region of the world, and new city guides, it is a book you can open anywhere and be transported. But proceed with caution: It’s almost impossible not to turn to the next entry, and the next, and the next.

Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition

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Connecticut

From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about a modern American family and a man on a secret mission to uncover the world's hidden truths--until his two lives come crashing together. Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot. Then, against all odds, something goes right for a change: Charlie is granted a second act. With help from his storyteller son, he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true calling where he least expects it--in a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and love--at last becoming the man his son always knew he could be. A Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall, and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned.

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer; Ella Morton; Dylan Thuras

Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer; Ella Morton; Dylan Thuras

Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer; Ella Morton; Dylan Thuras

Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer; Ella Morton; Dylan Thuras

Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer; Ella Morton; Dylan Thuras

Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer; Ella Morton; Dylan Thuras

Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras, Ella Morton

Atlas Obscura

Joshua Foer; Ella Morton; Dylan Thuras

Atlas Obscura

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Atlas Obscura, 2nd Edition

Joshua Ferris

A Calling for Charlie Barnes