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An examination of what we do when we think, of where we are when we think, of why we think at all. Arendt freely moves through the entire philosophical history of thinking and willing. Read More
$100.00
In the early 70’s Eggleston purchased the first portable video recorder and took hours of footage of his crazy friends around Memphis and New Orleans. This book includes the only film William Eggleston ever made. Read More
$70.00
Harpur and Iles series book. Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur investigates the murder of thirteen-year-old Mandy Walsh, a drug runner, who was caught in the crossfire between two rival drug gangs. Read More
$15.00
From an exciting era in the history of Black fiction. The first detective novel written by an African American. Fisher’s witty novel has a gripping plot and vividly drawn characters. Set in 1930s New York. Read More
$15.00
The now classic story centers on totalitarianism with its mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people. Introduced “Newspeak”, “Doublethink”, “Big Brother”, and the “Thought Police” into the English language. Read More
$200.00
Wifeless, childless, bulldog Mugsy, enjoys life without responsibilities. Then his nephews come to visit for Christmas. Ugh. Of course, Mugsy comes to appreciate family. Wonderful illustrations. Poetic text. Read More
$50.00
Ewing celebrated queer culture and documented it with his amateur photographs. Chronicles the swirling social rounds of New York City in the 1920’s and early 1930’s. Read More
$50.00
No photographer came close to capturing the sensations, scandals, and catastrophes of 1930s and ’40s New York like Weegee. He had the uncanny ability to be at the right place at the right time and ready to shoot. Read More
$70.00
Vollmann went to Afghanistan in 1982, during the Soviet-Afghan War, planning to gather information and images to help determine who most deserved American aid. Along the way he realized he was clueless. This is the book about that adventure. Read More
$70.00
China fought with Allied Forces during WW II against the Axis powers, specifically Japan. Rosset was an Army photographer stationed in China. This is a collection of the remarkable photographs he took of actual confrontations between Chinese and Japanese units. Read More
$100.00
Sankara, a military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist, became president of Burkina Faso in 1983 after a military coup. He held that position until 1987, when he was killed during another coup. A must-read for anyone interested in the man or revolutionary movements. Read More
$30.00
Ibadism is the third-largest branch of Islam. It is a moderate Islam subsect that has continued to persist, leading to the creation of Ibadi communities in areas of the Arabian Peninsula, the Maghreb, and sub-Saharan Africa. Read More
$35.00
Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. Read More
$100.00
After World War II, Yugoslavia practiced a unique form of self-managed socialism, allowing workers to have democratic control over their workplaces. It lasted until the country’s dissolution in the early 1990s. Woodward argues about why it failed. Read More
$50.00
Brezina’s creation of this entirely new genre represents the apotheosis of his work, as well as a prime example of his ability to apply metaphorical language to an exploration of the mystical links between art and life and between the visible and invisible worlds. Read More
$50.00
Archibald Rutledge writes about his thirty years of hunting along the game trails of the Santee Delta of South Carolina. He observed the demise of many plantations and the rebirth of nature. Read More
$90.00
The political and social changes of the 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe forced Russian oil companies to reinvent themselves, and to create new identities as market-facing business organisations. Read More
$70.00
The Rwandan genocide, aka the Tutsi genocide, occurred from April 7 to July 19, 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. An estimated 800,000 were killed. Longman explores how its government responded. Read More
$25.00
Compiled by the Vermont Town of Corinth History Committee. The book includes family biographical sketches & genealogy plus old maps, 20 chapter titles that include Charters and Reservations, Early Settlers and Land Records, Folklore, and much more. Read More
$60.00
The printing press was invented around 1440. This book offers comprehensive accounts of the men who modified and improved presses through each revolution of the industry. Read More
$40.00
A complete collection of Frazetta’s comic book art and covers, along with essays and information about his work in the field. Features several full-page covers of Frazetta’s amazing brush work. Read More
$80.00
An American cartoonist and a landscape painter, Swinnerton experimented with narrative continuity, and played a key role in developing the comic strip at the end of the 19th century. Read More
$170.00
Beside the artists themselves, features include talk about the colors of the strip, the coloring process itself, whether Doré inspired Foster?, and how the script was turned into finished art. Read More
$150.00
Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition, known principally for revolutionizing the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, Suffolk, England. Read More
$300.00
Except for winter painting in Vermont, Hibbard spent much of his life in Rockport, Massachusetts and helped evolve a style of painting known as The Rockport School of Painting. Read More
$80.00
Through documentary photography, photojournalism, portraiture, still life, self-portraiture, and constructed tableaux, women photographers define the world. Read More
$25.00
A seemingly simple memoir by the pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery turns into something greater – a philosophy of life, with all its complexities and anxieties revealed. Read More
$30.00
Billy, instrument repairman, takes you to sound stages, studios and shows for emergency repairs. It’s the story of another day with the music technician. Read More
$20.00
McCloskey both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year’s best-illustrated picture book. Read More
$25.00
A good parody of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A zombie awakes with a terrible appetite and eats his way through several groups of people until his appetite is fully satiated by a pile of brains. Read More
$25.00
The serendipitous use of Sloan’s horse liniment on a human back lead the Sloan brothers to begin selling even more of the liniment advertising it as “good for man and beast”. Read More
$40.00
History of four principal towns past the Revolutionary era. Beyond those four principal towns, this book chronicles the history of smaller surrounding towns on the bay, such as Jamestown. Read More
$80.00
Dieter Kafitz was Professor of Modern German Literary History. This book presents theories about structuralism, poststructuralism and feminist literature in current culture. German Text. Read More
$70.00
Through Lord Minto’s personal letters and official correspondence, the book sheds light on the challenges and complexities of British governance in India during a pivotal period in colonial history. Read More
$80.00
Jakobson (translator) was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language. Read More
$30.00
The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by English author C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis Read More
$40.00
LAID IN: Bird’s Eye View Of The White Mountains 1890’s ORIGINAL MAP. This multi-colored view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region. Read More
$700.00
This is an interesting look at Billy Wilder’s Hollywood output, weaving in his background in Europe. Wilder was one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Read More
$28.00
Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris’s songs, “which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are deservedly celebrated”. Read More
$60.00
An intensely researched portrait of the man and the athlete, Illingworth writes a compelling story of secrecy, misconceptions, stereotypes, hype, greed, even racism. Read More
$25.00