London: Penguin Books, 2019. Reprint. Paperback. The story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the Soviet myth. Adam Higginbotham has written a harrowing and compelling narrative which brings the 1986 disaster to life through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it first-hand..... More
New York: Perseus Book Group, 2001. Paperback. As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound..... More
New York: Vintage International, 1991. Reprint. Paperback. One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide;..... More
New York: Modern Library, 1994. Alan Lightman (intro), Sonja Bargmann (tr.). Reprint. Hardback. A collection of insightful and thought provoking essays from one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The selections range from Einstein's earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such..... More
New York: Library of America, 2018. Christopher Sergio. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its place in..... More
New York: Library of America, 2018. Christopher Sergio (jacket design). First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its..... More
Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013. Softcover. A memoir and meditation on faith, A Muslim on the Bridge: On Being an Iraqi-Arab Muslim in the Twenty-first Century tells a story of transformation and reflection as the author thoughtfully but pointedly deconstructs the widespread misconceptions about Islam, arguably the world's most-misunderstood..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Paperback. Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks..... More
San Francisco, California: Perfect Strangers, 2018. Softcover. Delve into our first issue to read about Korean dramas in Panama. Or English literature in Tehran. Or how an Argentinian-Thai couple work together to create locally-inspired desserts in Shanghai. Or how about a Turkish entrepreneur’s global vision for streaming movies? Or the..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. David Frye (tr.), Ilan Stavans (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the..... More
London: Pushkin Press, 2019. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Exile lies at the root of our earliest stories. Charting varied experiences of people forced to leave their homes from the ancient world to the present day, The Heart of a Stranger is an anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that journeys..... More
New York: Verso, 2020. Trade Paperback. New Updated 2020 Edition With a preface by Tariq Ali Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later. Their..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 2017. Paperback. The fascinating history of an island that has haunted our imagination and culture. From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world: Robinson Crusoe, in the South Pacific..... More
New York: Penguin Classics, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. Paperback. Anna Funder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of the resistance against East Germany’s communist dictatorship in these harrowing,personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain—and, especially, of life under the iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany’s brutal state security force. In..... More
New York: Dell Publishing, 1971. Fifth Dell Printing. Paperback. More
Connecticut: Konecky & Konecky, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. The young Schlesinger, for all the tradition he embodied, had a refreshing streak of informality. While working in the Kennedy White House, he found time to review movies for Show magazine. He also admitted his mistakes. One, he said, was neglecting to mention..... More
London: Penguin Classics, 2020. Catherine Dixon (art). Paperback. Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2019. Olga Grlic (cover design). First Edition. First Printing. Paperback. "Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note..... More
New York: New Directions Books, 2017. Jeffrey Yang (tr.). Paperback. In 2001, to visit his sick father, China’s legendary poet Bei Dao returned to his homeland for the first time in over eleven years. The city of his birth, however, had totally changed. “Everything was difficult to recognize, nothing familiar,”..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2019. Milan Bozic (cover design). First Harper Paperbacks Edition. Paperback. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the..... More
London: Arrow Books, 2004. Paperback. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. Richard Neal (book design). First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Translated with an Introduction by Giovanni Gullace Benedetto Croce KOCI, COSML (Italian: [beneˈdetto ˈkroːtʃe]; 25 February 1866 – 20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including..... More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995. Trade Paperback. Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2020. Trade Paperback. Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson 'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip Roth In the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague. There, until his death, he tended to an ever-growing..... More
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