Category: Staff Picks Non-Fiction

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century: Stories

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Del Rey : October 2001

Seller ID: 84711

ISBN-13: 9780345439901

Explore fascinating, often chilling "what if" accounts of the world that could have existed--and still might yet . . . Science fiction's most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you'll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including: - "The Lucky Strike" When the Lucky Strike is chosen over the Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson's gripping tale. - "Bring the Jubilee" Ward Moore's novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at...
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The Heart of France

By: Allon, Janet,Magazine, Victoria

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Sterling : December 2001

Seller ID: 83953

ISBN-13: 9780688174385

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Building on the success of The Heart of England, The Heart of France offers an insider's view of the best of this beautiful country. This intimate guide serves up sophisticated boutiques, comfortable inns, and delectable restaurants. Not a traditional travel guide, this book is as beautiful to look at as it is informative -- like a photo album from a French friend revealing her favorite out-of-the-way spots.Visit the Hotel Printania, in Brittany, where guests are greeted by a staff wearing traditional Breton dress and guest rooms are furnished with local antiques. Tour the grounds of Roserie d...
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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

By: Bergstrom, Carl T.,West, Jevin D.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Random House : August 2020

Seller ID: 85901

ISBN-13: 9780525509189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Bullshit isn't what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data. "A modern classic . . . a straight-talking survival guide to the mean streets of a dying democracy and a global pandemic."--Wired Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it's increasingly difficult to know what's true. Our media environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. We are fairly well equipped to spot the sort of old-school bullsh...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

By: Boo, Katherine

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Random House : February 2012

Seller ID: 77041

ISBN-13: 9781400067558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE "Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care."--People "A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece."--Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times - The Washington Post - O: The Oprah Magazine - USA Today - New York - The Miami Herald - San Fr...
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The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

By: Broom, Sarah M.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Grove Press : August 2019

Seller ID: 73198

ISBN-13: 9780802125088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Named one of the "10 Best Books of 2019" by the New York Times Book Review, Seattle Times, Chicago Public Library, the Chicago Tribune, and Slate Named a Best Book of 2019 by the Washington Post, NPR's Book Concierge, NPR's Fresh Air, the Guardian, BookPage, New York Public Library, and Shelf Awareness Named a Best Memoir of the Decade by LitHub A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of ...
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

By: Christakis MD PhD, Nicholas A.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark : March 2019

Seller ID: 80380

ISBN-13: 9780316230032

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, The New York Times), Blueprint shows why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity.For too long, scientists have focused on the dark side of our biological heritage: our capacity for aggression, cruelty, prejudice, and self-interest. But natural selection has given us a suite of beneficial social features, including our capacity for love, friendship, cooperation, and learning. Beneath all of our in...
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Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World

By: Clinton, Bill

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Knopf : September 2007

Seller ID: 90735

ISBN-13: 9780307266743

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations--and by individuals--to solve problems and save lives both "down the street and around the world." Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, "regardless of income, available time, age, and skills," can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams. Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernm...
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By: Continetti, Matthew

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Basic Books : April 2022

Seller ID: 88147

ISBN-13: 9781541600508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Women in the Material World

By: D'Aluisio, Faith,Menzel, Peter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Sierra Club Books : August 1996

Seller ID: 86019

ISBN-13: 9780871563989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A companion to the best-selling "Material World: A Global Family Portrait, " this unique book is a multicultural odyssey in words and 350 stunning images that illuminates the hopes, dreams, joys, and sorrows of women the world over. A testament to the imdomitable power of the human spirit, "Women in the Material World "portrays the startling differences and striking similarities in women's lives at the start of the twenty-first century.

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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years

By: Delany, Sarah,Delany, Annie Elizabeth,Hearth, Amy Hill

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Kodansha USA : September 1993

Seller ID: 95871

ISBN-13: 9781568360102

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"When you get real old, honey," says Bessie Delany, "you lay it all on the table. There's an old saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth." In Having Our Say Bessie, age 101, and her sister Sadie, age 103, do just that-and then some. Filled with humorous and poignant anecdotes, this inspiring dual memoir offers a rare glimpse of the birth of black freedom- and the rise of the black middle class-in America. It is a chronicle of remarkable achievement. Sadie and Bessie Delany recall growing up with eight other siblings in turn-of-the-century North Carolina: their father was born...
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Churches

By: Dupre, Judith,Botta, Mario

Price: $9.00

Publisher: HarperCollins : October 2001

Seller ID: 93052

ISBN-13: 9780060194383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Humble or grand, wood or marble, churches have given physical shape to humanity's highest spiritual and artistic aspirations over the past twenty centuries. These structures not only stand as monuments to God, they also offer revealing testimony to humanity's immense potential and constant effort to understand, express, and honor the Divine.Churches is a work of art that reflects the grandeur of its subject matter. In this compelling book, Judith DuprE, bestselling author of Skyscrapers and Bridges, presents an architectural tour of fifty-nine of the world's most enduring Christian churches, f...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By: Gladwell, Malcolm

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : January 2005

Seller ID: 67468

ISBN-13: 9780316172325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The landmark book that has revolutionized the way we understand leadership and decision making -- from #1 bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell. In his breakthrough bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within.Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some p...
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times (Global Icons Series)

By: Goodall, Jane,Abrams, Douglas,Hudson, Gail

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Celadon Books : October 2021

Seller ID: 90030

ISBN-13: 9781250784094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval--it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed. In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas Abrams, the internationally bestselling co-author of The Book of Joy, explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. In The Book of Hope, Jane focuses o...
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By: Isaacson, Walter

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : October 2014

Seller ID: 70565

ISBN-13: 9781476708690

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson's revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programm...
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

By: Kristof, Nicholas D.,WuDunn, Sheryl

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Knopf : January 2020

Seller ID: 80308

ISBN-13: 9780525655084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

New York Times Best Seller A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion.--Tara Westover, author of Educated The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep in...
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This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism

By: Lemon, Don

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company : March 2021

Seller ID: 72672

ISBN-13: 9780316257572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this 'vital book for these times' (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can we end racism in America in our lifetimes? The host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon is more popular than ever. As America's only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America's systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep ...
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One Nation: America Remembers September 11,2001

By: Life

Price: $6.00

Publisher: The Easton Press

Seller ID: 52093

ISBN: 281DES1001744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

By: List, John A.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Currency : February 2022

Seller ID: 87695

ISBN-13: 9780593239483

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take off? One of today's leading behavioral economists says it comes down to a single question: Can the idea scale? All great ideas have one thing in common: They are not guaranteed to succeed.Be it a medical breakthrough, a policy initiative, a product innovation or a social movement, translating an idea into widespread impact depends on one thing only: whether it can be replicated at scale.Scale has become a favored buzzword in the startup world. But scale isn't just about accumulating more users or capturing more market share. It's about w...
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One Hundred Saints: Their Lives and Likenesses Drawn from Butler's Lives of the Saints and Great Works of Western Art

By: Press, Bulfinch

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Bulfinch : March 1994

Seller ID: 91959

ISBN-13: 9780821220092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In street and city names, churches and other, more personal, associations, the saints are with us. Also included are saints whose lives and work provide fascinating, at times horrifying, glimpses into their lives and deaths and into the traditions and beliefs that have grown because of them.
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

By: Rosling, Hans,Rönnlund, Anna Rosling,Rosling, Ola

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Flatiron Books : April 2018

Seller ID: 71276

ISBN-13: 9781250107817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most important books I've ever read--an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." - Bill Gates "Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly." --Melinda Gates Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent b...
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Martha Stewart Weddings: Ideas and Inspiration

By: Weddings, Editors Of Martha Stewart

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Clarkson Potter : December 2015

Seller ID: 76051

ISBN-13: 9780307954657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With rich photography, expert voice, and taste-making style, Martha Stewart Weddings--a brand-new volume, the first in nearly two decades--is at once a guide to and inspiration for planning a wedding. Since the debut of Martha Stewart Weddings in 1995, it has been the premier resource for couples looking to plan and personalize their big day. To coincide with the brand's 20th anniversary, the magazine's team of experts has compiled a comprehensive guide to their distinctive way of creating a customized celebration. It's packed with the original ideas, real-wedding photographs, and tried-and-t...
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Oink: My Life with Mini-Pigs

By: Whyman, Matt

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : September 2011

Seller ID: 85423

ISBN-13: 9781451618280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

By: Winchester, Simon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : May 2019

Seller ID: 87015

ISBN-13: 9780062652560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools--machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods...
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What Would Maisie Do?: Inspiration from the Pages of Maisie Dobbs

By: Winspear, Jacqueline

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : March 2019

Seller ID: 93109

ISBN-13: 9780062859341

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A one-of-a-kind illustrated companion to the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series, which invites readers into the beloved heroine's world--and shares her wisdom and inspiration.Through fourteen books, the Maisie Dobbs series has had a resounding impact on fans. Readers have shared with author Jacqueline Winspear how Maisie's stories have resonated with them or helped them through difficult times. Fans have been inspired by the heroine's resilience and endurance, repurposing her strength in their own lives in a way perhaps best embodied by the phrase "What Would Maisie Do?" Anchored by thirty of Ma...
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Category: Staff Picks Non-Fiction