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Celadon Books, 2021. Hardcover. Used Like New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2021 Celadon Books in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Publishers overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It's as if the price of a Ferrari went from $350,000 to a mere forty cents. Through breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley's team at Stanford and other dedicated groups around the world, analyzing the human genome has decreased from a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing less than $1,000. For the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our genetic future, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins, and to decode what it really means to be human. In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome… Leer más

Santa Fe Writer's Project, 2021. New. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 12mo. (5.5 x 0.2 x 8.5 inches) 82pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Using characters doubled over with grief, fear, and desire, the love poems in Worn mirror a photo album of legends, rumors, and memories exchanged over drinks in the early evening. Tenderness meets pain meets joy here, offering up the voices of Black folks fostering connection with their children, their lovers, and themselves. Christian's third collection of poetry (after A Proper Lover and 12023 Woodmont Ave) takes the reader through love and longing, and manifests how we all cope and get dressed again after the harsh reality of our world lays us bare. From ghazals about erotic kinks to the disappointment of a father, these poems explore the clothes we reach for first when loss strips us naked.

Casemate, 2017. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index, timeline, glossary, photos, and illustrations. 160 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duels in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared at the whim of the crowd or the Emperor. Few lasted more than a dozen fights, yet they were a valuable asset to their owners. But how did they fight and how did their weapons and techniques develop? Who were they? This book gives an entertaining overview of the history of the gladiator, debunking some myths along the way. We learn about the different forms of combat, and the pairings which were designed to carefully balance the strengths and weaknesses of one against the other. The retiarii (with nets) were… Leer más

Mutual Publishing, 2005. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks and underlining. 64 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A follow up to The Hawaiian Word Book, this handy, compact guide is perfect for students or anyone else interested in an easy introduction to the Hawaiian Language. Packed with basic, useful words and terms for everyday conversation, it is written in English-Hawaiian translation and organized by category for quick referencing. Complete with common definitions and pronunciation tips, this guide will help beginners become familiar with speaking Hawaiian.

Dover Publications, 2000. Paperback. New. New oversized softcover in printed wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (7.75 x 0.25 x 10.5 inches) 48 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This accurate coloring book gives youngsters and colorists of all ages a chance to discover and learn about the many fascinating plant and animal species that make their home where the sea meets the land. Included are 42 carefully researched and rendered drawings: a seaside grasshopper, beach plums, a ghost crab, sanderlings, herring gulls, a sift-shell clam, a hermit crab, an American oystercatcher, a horseshoe crab, a mantis shrimp, a two-gilled bloodworm, sea lettuce, the common Atlantic octopus, kelp, a northern sea star, a frilled anemone, a northern horse-mussel, and more. This inexpensive coloring book offer hours of educational coloring fun, making it ideal for home or school use.

The Experiment, 2020. Paperback. New. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 18mo. (4.1 x 0.5 x 6.1 inches) Includes bibliography. 144 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A clear-eyed guide to demagoguery―and how we can defeat it What is demagoguery? Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who reduces all questions to us vs. them. Why is it dangerous? Demagoguery is democracy's greatest threat. It erodes rational debate, so that intelligent policymaking grinds to a halt. The idea that we never fall for it―that all the blame lies with them―is equally dangerous. How can we stop it? Demagogues follow predictable patterns in what they say and do to gain power. The key to resisting demagoguery is to name it when you see it―and to know where it leads.

PublicAffairs Publishing, 2017. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2017 PublicAffairs hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future. We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the internet age in the 1990s: leaders must transform how they run their organizations, or competitors will bring them crashing to earth--often overnight. Mathematical corporations--the organizations that will master the future--will outcompete high-flying rivals by merging the best of human ingenuity with machine intelligence. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are… Leer más

Michael O'Mara, 2020. Paperback. New. A clean, crisp well preserved 2020 Michael O'Mara softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities--one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to 24 characters who lived and worked there. In each hour of the day we meet a new character--from a senator to a slave girl, a gladiator to an astrologer, watchmen to washerwomen--and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives.

Casemate, 2019. Hardcover. New. New casewrapped hardcover. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes maps, diagrams, and B&W photographs. 160 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The success of the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944 depended on thousands of troops carrying out their mission and the seamless coordination of the amphibious landings with paratrooper and glider assaults. The troops not only had to be trained up ready for their own roles, but to work alongside other troops, often coordinating activities and communicating with other troops while in unfamiliar terrain and under fire. This pocket manual brings together excerpts from Allied manuals used in the preparation for D-Day, including amphibious landings and managing beachheads, pathfinder, paractrooper and glider pilot training, and infantry and armored fighting in the bocage countryside.

Scribner Publishing, 2019. Hardcover. Used-Like New. New tightly bound hardcover in a new dust jacket. 8vo. (6 x 1 x 9 inches) Publishers overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Includes bibliography and an index. 304 pp Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Satisfaction guaranteed! From a Vice magazine columnist whose beat is "the future," here is entertaining speculation featuring both authoritative research and a bit of mischief: a look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as the day nuclear war occurs, the day the global internet goes down, the day we run out of effective antibiotics, and the day immortality is achieved. If you live on planet Earth you're probably scared of the future. How could you not be? Some of the world's most stable democracies are looking pretty shaky. Technology is invading personal relationships and taking over jobs. Relations among the three superpowers--the US, China, and Russia--are growing more complicated and dangerous.… Leer más

Grand Central Publishing, 2011. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches) 448 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. "I had an unusually large-sized head, though this was not uncommon for a baby in the Midwest. The craniums in our part of the country were designed to leave a little extra room for the brain to grow in case one day we found ourselves exposed to something we didn't understand, like a foreign language, or a salad." Michael Moore-Oscar-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, the nation's unofficial provocateur laureate-is back, this time taking on an entirely new role, that of his own meta-Forrest Gump. Breaking the autobiographical mode, he presents twenty-four far-ranging, irreverent, and stranger-than-fiction vignettes from his own early life. One moment he's an eleven-year-old boy lost in the Senate and found by Bobby Kennedy; and in the next, he's inside the Bitburg… Leer más

Triumph Books, 2016. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2016 Triumph Books softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Interspersing exciting history and fun quizzes, this trivia book ranges from basic questions to challenges that will teach even the most die-hard fans a thing or two about Cubs baseball. The facts presented are grouped into categories that include positions, the early years, and championship teams. Entertaining and educational, the book is ideal for both solitary instruction and group game play.

Milkweed Editions, 2019. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in glossy printed wraps. 8vo. (‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes and photos. 328 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love. With every passing day, and every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that climate change is neither imagined nor distant--and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. In… Leer más

Triumph Books, 2018. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2018 Triumph Books softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Most fans of The Simpsons can distinguish Lenny from Carl without checking their hands. But only real fans recall the Eastern European equivalent of The Itchy & Scratchy Show, know the name of Barney Gumble's submission to the Springfield Film Festival, and have road tripped to the World's Fair in Knoxville. 100 Things The Simpsons Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true fans, whether you read at a Ralph Wiggum or Lisa Simpson level. Allie Goertz and Julia Prescott have collected every essential piece of Simpsons knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and rank them all from 1 to 100 in this entertaining book, which was just discarded from the shelves of The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop.

Black Lawrence Press, 2022. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2022 Black Lawerence Press softcover In a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A finalist for the Fall 2019 Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition, the Cupboard Pamphlet's 2020 Annual Contest, and the 2021 Newfound Prose Prize. Inspired by Virgie Townsend's own experiences growing up in an independent fundamental Baptist church, the seven stories in BECAUSE WE WERE CHRISTIAN GIRLS examine religious and gender oppression through an unforgettable cast of Christian fundamentalist girls. In the titular story, Townsend writes, "All Christian girls know what happens when they disobey, even if it's by accident. We end up pregnant, kicked out of our churches, and used as examples in sermons about what happens to disobedient Christian girls. Eventually we go to hell, where we fall for eternity in a dark,… Leer más

Arcturus, 2020. Paperback. New softcover in matte printed wraps. 12mo. (5.08 x 0.35 x 7.72 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 112 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-sacrifice sweetens character. Through a series of letters sent home while serving as a volunteer nurse for the Union Army, Louisa May Alcott created a raw and honest story of battlefield medicine during the American Civil War. Featuring a series of compassionate portraits of the soldiers she encountered, Hospital Sketches both recounted the desperate struggles of hospital life during wartime and gave a personal narrative of women's growing role in medicine and the military. The letters brought Alcott immediate recognition and began an astonishingly successful literary career that culminated in the publication of Little Women.

W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. Paperback. Used-very good. A clean crisp well preserved 2016 W.W. Norton & Company hardcover in a fine tight binding. There is a crease along the back of the cover from top to bottom but does not obscure text. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. A great reading copy. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Jews have long embraced their identity as "the people of the book." But outside of the Bible, much of the Jewish literary tradition remains little known to nonspecialist readers. The People and the Books shows how central questions and themes of our history and culture are reflected in the Jewish literary canon: the nature of God, the right way to understand the Bible, the relationship of the Jews to their Promised Land, and the challenges of living as a minority in Diaspora. Adam Kirsch explores eighteen classic texts, including the biblical books of Deuteronomy and Esther, the philosophy of Maimonides, the autobiography of the medieval… Leer más

St. Martin's Press, 2020. Hardcover. Used Like New. Used Like New hardcover in a New dust jacket. Publisher's overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.38 x 1.28 x 9.57 inches) 368 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Award-winning author Michael Walsh celebrates the masculine attributes of heroism that forged American civilization and Western culture by exploring historical battles in which soldiers chose death over dishonor in Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost. In our contemporary era, men are increasingly denied their heritage as warriors. A survival instinct that's part of the human condition, the drive to wage war is natural. Without war, the United States would not exist. The technology that has eased manual labor, extended lifespans, and become an integral part of our lives and culture has often evolved from wartime scientific advancements. War is necessary to defend the social and political… Leer más

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches) Includes an index and glossary. 336 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision-what to do with such knowledge-Gessen explored the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. Blood Matters is a much-needed field guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic information is shaping the… Leer más

Knopf, 2019. Hardcover. New/New. A clean crisp well preserved 2019 Knopf hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic… Leer más