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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. William Steig (illustrator). When it was first published in 1950 The Decline and Fall of Almost Everybody was on the New York Times best-seller list for four months. An hysterically funny (yet historically accurate) romp through world history by a great American humourist and raconteur. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Novelist and historian Alex Karmel traces the architectural and social development of Paris, from its Roman origins, its transformation under Henry IV and Haussmann, to the present renovation of old neighbourhoods. He concludes with a walking tour of the Marais, through Paris' rich history. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What would happen if every creature on land and sea were free to be as rotten as possible? If every day was a free-for-all; if plants grew barbed wire; if the ocean were poison? That's life on Rotten Island. For creatures that slither, creep, and crawl (not to mention kick, bite, scratch, and play nasty tricks on each other), Rotten Island is paradise. But then, on a typically rotten day, something truly awful happens. Something that could spoil Rotten Island forever. Out of a bed of gravel on the scorched earth, a mysterious, beautiful flower begins to grow. For creatures that slither, creep, and crawl (not to mention kick, bite, scratch, and play nasty tricks), Rotten Island is paradise. But then, on a typically rotten day, something truly awful happens. Something that could spoil Rotten Island forever. Out of a bed of gravel on the scorched earth, a mysterious, beautiful flower begins to grow. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Be at home in nature, all through the year, with the old-timey, folksy wisdom in this classic camping companion.First published in 1920, and never out-of-print, Daniel C. Beards The Book of Camp-Lore & Woodcraft is a guide from yesteryear for enjoying the great outdoors as its guest.Through the pages of this book, the author, a pioneer of the scouting movement, takes kids on a camping trip and instructs them in the art of building a fireplace and lighting a fire, designing a campsite, pitching a tent, cooking flapjacks, packing a trail horse, handling an axe, and much more.Daniel Carter Beard was an expert outdoorsman and founder of the scouting movement in America. His goal was to help kids to enjoy the out-of-doors as much as he did. In his books, filled with time-tested tips and knowledgable advice, Beard helped preserve invaluable folkways that instill self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of natureall while having a world of fun. This is truly a book for all agesincluding adults. A tract on camp-lore and woodcraft, which included instructions on how to build a good fire, cook venison, prepare for a camping trip, and use an axe and a saw. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Cunningham, Dennis (illustrator). First Edition. Lovely copy, signed by both author and illustrator, not inscribed to anyone. Gift quality. Signed by Author and Illustrat.

Cards. Condition: new. Azarian, Mary (illustrator). Cards. Stay in touch with country and city dwelling friends by writing them a note inside these rural-themed greeting cards by New England illustrator extraordinaire, Mary Azarian.A handwritten note, on good paper and contained in a classy envelope, says something about the sender and is more welcomed, absorbed, and remembered than an e-mail.Each box contains twelve cards and matching envelopes. The outside of each card features one of six farm scenes from Mary Azarians collection of prints, A Farmers Alphabet (each image is repeated twice). There are apples being picked from a tree, a dog asleep in a cozy armchair, kids jumping into a hay mound, neighbors chatting over a picket fence, long underwear worn in front of an old wood stove, and the scenic view of a farm amongst the hills.The inside of each card is blank and ready for your message.Mary Azarian created the prints for A Farmers Alphabet while a teacher in one of Vermonts last one-room schoolhouses. In the late 1970s, the state board of education commissioned her to create a rural alphabet, a series of bold red-and-black woodcut prints featuring the letters, A to Z, and depicting scenes from Vermont life. Published as a book by Godine, Smithsonian Magazine said, No matter where children live on a farm, in the suburbs or the city they will love this handsome book. The Boston Globe said, A beautiful gift; a treasure to own. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). Hardcover. A reminiscence of Christmas, from the viewpoint of a young boy, that has been a holiday favorite for decades. In rich, humorous, magical prose, poet Dylan Thomas recalls the church-going, the tree-trimming, the food, the carols and games of his childhood Christmases. And, of course, Mrs. Prothero and the firemen. It is one of Thomas' most popular works. Always on Christmas night there was music, he writes. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang "Cherry Ripe," and another uncle sang "Drake's Drum." It was very warm in the little house. Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine, sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death, and then another in which she said her heart was like a Bird's Nest; and then everybody laughed again; and then I went to bed. Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night. For this edition, Edward Ardizzone created the perfect accompaniment in 30 delightful watercolors and drawings. This is a timeless classic--a wonderful evocation of a gentle and seemingly endless Christmas made charming and endearing through language. Published in a format for reading aloud to young people, this is truly a book for all ages. A Welsh poet recalls the celebration of Christmas in Wales and the feelings it evoked in him as a child. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Discover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and Americas past and future, these essays are James Alan McPherson at his most prescient and invaluable.Born in segregated 1940s Georgia, McPherson graduated from Harvard Law School only to give up law and become a writer. In 1978, he became the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But all the while, McPherson was also writing and publishing nonfiction that stand beside contemporaries such as James Baldwin and Joan Didion, as this collection amply proves.These essays range from McPhersons profile of comedian Richard Pryor on the cusp of his stardom; a moving tribute to his mentor, Ralph Ellison; a near fatal battle with viral meningitis; and the story of how McPherson became a reluctant landlord to an elderly Black woman and her family.There are meditations on family as the author travels to Disneyland with his daughter, on the nuances of a neighborhood debate about naming a street after Malcolm X or Dr. Martin Luther King, and, throughout, those connections that make us most deeply humanincluding connections between writer and reader. McPherson writes of his early education, The structure of white supremacy had been so successful that even some of our parents and teachers had been conscripted into policing the natural curiosity of young people. We were actively discouraged from reading. We were encouraged to accept our lot. We were not told that books just might contain extremely important keys which would enable us to break out of the mental jails that have been constructed to contain us.The collections curator, Anthony Walton, writes, In his nonfiction, McPherson was often looking for a way beyond the morasses in which Americans find themselves mired. His work is a model of humanistic imagining, an attempt to perform a healing that would, if successful, be the greatest magic trick in American history: to get past race, to help create a singular American identity that was no longer marred by the existential tragedies of the nations first 400 years. He attempted this profound reimagining of America while simultaneously remaining completely immersed in African American history and culture. His achievement demonstrates that an abiding love for black folks and black life can rest alongside a mastery of The Kings English and a sincere desire to be received as an American citizen and participant in democracy. It is time for that imaginative work to be fully comprehended and for this simultaneously American and African American genius to assume a fully recognized place beside the other constitutive voices in our national literature.This is a collection for any reader seeking a better understanding of our world and a connection to a wise and wickedly funny writer who speaks with forceful relevance and clarity across the decades.On Becoming an American Writer is part of Godines Nonpareil series: celebrating the joy of discovery with books bound to be classics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Earnest, amusing, and contemplative.though Beattie is known for her fiction, her nonfiction has just as much to offer.Publishers WeeklyShimmering prose and critical acumen on display in an eclectic collection.Kirkus ReviewsAs deeply rewarding as her fiction, a selection of Ann Beatties essays, chosen and introduced by the author. From appreciations of writers, photographers, and other artists, to notes on the craft of writing itself, this is a wide-ranging, and always penetrating collection of writing never before published in book form.Ann Beattie, a master storyteller, has been delighting readers since the publication of her short stories in the 1970s and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter. But as her literary acclaim grew and she was hailed the voice of her generation, Ms. Beattie was also moonlighting as a nonfiction writer. As she writes in her introduction to this collection, Nonfiction always gave me a thrill, even if it provided only an illusion of freedom. Freedom and flexibilityfor me, those are the conditions under which imagination sparks.These penetrating essays are stories unto themselves, closely observed appreciations of life and art. The reader travels with Ms. Beattie to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to learn about the legacy of the painter, Grant Wood, and his iconic painting American Gothic; to the famed University of Virginia campus with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry; to Key West, Florida for New Years with writer and translator, Harry Mathews; to a roadside near Boston in a broken-down car with the wheelchair-bound writer Andre Dubus.There are explorations of novels, short stories, paintings, and photographs by artists ranging from Alice Munro to Elmore Leonard, from Sally Mann to John Loengard. Whatever the subject, Ms. Beattie brings penetrating insight into literature and art thats both familiar and unfamiliaras she writes, This, I think, is what artists want to do: find a way to lure the reader or viewer into an alternate realm, to overcome the audiences resistance to being taken away from their own lives and interests and priorities.Ann Beatties nonfiction (originally published in Life, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The American Scholar, among others) is a new way to enjoy one of the great writers of her generation. Readers will find much to love in this journey with a curious and fascinating mind.More to Say is part of Godines Nonpareil series: celebrating the joy of discovery with books bound to be classics. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Leslie Cabarga (illustrator). Paperback. Drawings hold clues to the solution of a series of crimes the reader is invited to solve. Drawings hold clues to the solution of a series of crimes the reader is invited to solve. Treats crooks are no pushovers, and their crimes are plenty devious. It takes a sharp mind and a key eye to keep track of all the clues and solve the puzzles. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It is a heartbreaking book, a gorgeous book.In Night Came with Many Stars, Van Booy finds the weakness, grace and beauty of common lives fully lived.NPR, Books We LoveNot to miss!USA TodayIn Kentucky, back in 1933, Carols daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Booys spellbinding novel spans decades as he tells the story of Carol and the people in her life. Incidents intersect and lives unexpectedly change course in this masterfully interwoven story of chance and choice that leads home again to a night blessed with light.What you give in this world, an old man tells his grandson, will be given back to you. Those words illuminate the actions within this unforgettable novel and its connected characters. A young man survives two nearly fatal accidents. A Black family saves an orphaned white boy. A pregnant teenager is rescued by the side of the road. A teenager with developmental disabilities is given his first job. Each incident grows in meaning and power over many decades as we see connections sometimes felt but not always apparent to the people themselves. Everything was moving, observes Samuel (Carols grandson) in the Kentucky woods. An invisible force that was everywhere, and made everything touch.Told by a master storyteller, Night Came with Many Stars is a rare novel that reveals how wondrous, mysterious, and magically connected life can bethe light Simon Van Booy creates illuminates our own lives. "In rural Kentucky, back in 1933, Carol's daddy lost his 13-year-old daughter in a game of cards. Award-winning author Simon Van Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Twelve stories of immigrants who navigate the ancestral past of India as they remake their livesand themselvesin North America. These are stories of fluid and broken identities, discarded languages and deities, and the attempt to create bonds with a new community against the ever-present fear of failure and betrayal.The narrative of immigration, Bharati Mukherjee once wrote, is the epic narrative of this millennium. Her stories and novels brilliantly add to that ongoing saga. In the story The Lady from Lucknow, a woman is pushed to the limit while wanting nothing more than to fit in. In Hindus, characters discover that breaking away from a culture has deep and unexpected costs. In A Father, the clash of cultures leads a man to an act of terrible violence. How could he tell these bright, mocking women, Mukherjee writes, that in the darkness, he sensed invisible presences: gods and snakes frolicked in the master bedroom, little white sparks of cosmic static crackled up the legs of his pajamas. Something was out there in the dark, something that could invent accidents and coincidences to remind mortals that even in Detroit they were no more than mortal.There is light in these stories as well. The collections closing story, Courtly Vision, brings to life the world within a Mughal miniature painting and describes a light charged with excitement to discover the immense intimacy of darkness. Readers will also discover that excitement, and the many gradations of darkness and light, throughout these pages from the mind of a master storyteller.Darkness is part of Godines Nonpareil series: celebrating the joy of discovery with books bound to be classics. Originally published: Markham, Ont., Canada; New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin, 1985. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A stirring memoir of a young, single woman's laborious struggle to save her familys New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression.The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young womans single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Discovered by the authors daughter after the authors death, it tells the story of Adele Kitty Robertson, young and energetic, but unprepared by her Radcliffe education for the rigors of apple farming in those bitter years of the early 1930s. Alone at the end of a country road, with only a Great Dane for company, plagued by debts, broken machinery, and killing frosts, Kitty revives the old orchard after years of neglect. Every day is a struggle, but every day she is also rewarded by the beauty of the world and the unexpected kindness of neighbors and hired workers.Animated by quiet courage and simple goodness, The Orchard is a deeply moving celebration of decency and beauty in the midst of grim prospects and crushing poverty.In addition to a foreword and epilogue by Betsy Robertson Cramer, the author's daughter, this Nonpareil edition includes a new afterword by award-winning author Jane Brox. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Illustrated with Drawings (illustrator). Eighteenth Printing. Paperback cover with blue background on two sides, red, black and blue print and multiple images from original book. Spine has white, red and blue print. Centennial Edition. Foreword by Noel Perrin. Contents are reprint of original 1890 book. 441 pages including index. Tight sound and unmarked. Would be graded higher but does have some spine creases. No dust jacket. Companion book to "The American Girls Handy Book", our #2823.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.Washington PostForty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport provides links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and presentand pretty much everything in between. Not only had Davenport seemingly read (and often translated from the original languages) everything ever written, he also had the ability, expressed with unalloyed enthusiasm, to draw connections between how cultural synapses make, define, and reflect our civilization.Davenport serves as the readers guide through history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. In these forty essays we find fresh thinking on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Melville, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Louis Zukovsky, and many others. Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and imagination, written with wit and startling erudition.This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An intimate, autobiographical poetry collection from legendary artist and activist, Joan Baez.Joan Baez shares poems for or about her contemporaries (such as Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, and Jimi Hendrix), reflections from her childhood, personal thoughts, and cherished memories of her family, including pieces about her younger sister, singer-songwriter Mimi Farina. Speaking to the people, places, and moments that have had the greatest impact on her art, this collection is an inspiring personal diary in the form of poetry.While Baez has been writing poetry for decades, shes never shared it publicly. Poems about her life, her family, about her passions for nature and art, have piled up in notebooks and on scraps of paper. Now, for the first time ever, her life is shared revealing pivotal life experiences that shaped an icon, offering a never-before-seen look into the reminiscences and musings of a great artist. Like a late-night chat with someone you love, this collection connects fans to the real heart of who Joan Baez is as a person, as a daughter and sister, and as an artist who has inspired millions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Learn how to argue from the masters. This book is a complete course on the art of argument, taught by the greatest practitioners of it: Churchill, Lincoln, and hundreds of others from the golden age of debate in England and America.The books concise chapters provide lessons in all aspects of give and takethe syllogism and the slippery slope, the argumentum ad hominem and reductio ad absurdum, the fallacy and the insult. Ward Farnsworth shows how the full range of such techniques can be used or repelled, and illustrates them with examples that are fascinating, instructive, and fun to read.The result is a browsable reference in which every page is a pleasure. It will leave you better able to win arguments and to defend yourself under fire. Its also an entertaining reminder that argument can be a source of beauty and delight. As Farnsworth says of the illustrations, they show talented advocates crossing analytical swords and exchanging abuse when those things were done with more talent and dignity than is common today. They made argument a spectator sport of lasting value and interest.Farnsworths Classical English Argument is the fourth book in a series about the ideas and methods embedded in the best speech and writing of an earlier time. Previous titles in the series are Farnsworths Classical English Rhetoric, Farnsworths Classical English Metaphor, and Farnsworths Classical English Style. Each book is a treasury of insight and an essential reference for all users of language. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The story of a man coming into his own by coming home.Since he was a boy, Bill Eville knew he wanted two things in life: to be a writer and a father. Being a ministers husband had not been on this list, having left the church as a teenager as soon as his parents stopped making him go each Sunday.In Washed Ashore, Evilles life changes when his wife Cathlin takes a job as the first female pastor of a 350-year-old church on Marthas Vineyard, the island that was once home to generations of his ancestors. With their two small children in tow, the couple begins a new life eight miles out at sea.Readers follow Evilles journey from stay-at-home-dad to newspaper editor as he discovers what it means to be a writer, a father, andafter his wifes devasting breast cancer diagnosiswhat it truly means to be a ministers husband. Washed Ashore, told in a series of linked essays, is poignant and funny, filled with faith, struggle, and light. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A book wonderful to read and startling to contemplate.both the history of science and the reinterpretation of myths have been enriched immensely.Washington PostA seminal work of scientific and philosophical exploration. Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data?Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view. This fascinating book throws into doubt assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two. A work of scientific and philosophical inquiry, in which, the authors track world myths to a common origin in early man's descriptions of cosmological activity, arguing that these remnants of ancient astronomy, suppressed by the Greeks and Romans and then forgotten, were really a form of pre-literate science. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is an insightful and enlightening look at the life and works of the internationally renowned English garden designer. Rosemary Verey was the last of the great English garden legends. Although she embraced gardening late in life, she quickly achieved international renown. She was the acknowledged apostle of the "English style," the "must have" adviser to the rich and famous - including Prince Charles and Elton John - and a wildly popular lecturer. She was a natural teacher who encouraged her fans to believe that they were fully capable of creating beautiful gardens while validating their quest for a native vernacular, She also re-introduced the English to their own gardening traditions. A demanding taskmaster and a relentless perfectionist, Rosemary Verey, in her life as in her work, was the very personification of the English garden style. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Must-ReadTown & CountryA deeply evocative and imaginative portrayal of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself.By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects dart, she was already well-known for scandalizing Bostons polite society. But when Isabella first arrived in Boston in 1861, she was twenty years old, newly married to a wealthy trader, and unsure of herself. Puzzled by the frosty reception she received from stuffy bluebloods, she strived to fit in. After two devastating tragedies and rejection from upper-society, Isabella discovered her spirit and cast off expectations.Freed by travel, Isabella explores the world of art, ideas, and letters, meeting such kindred spirits as Henry James and Oscar Wilde. From London and Paris to Egypt and Asia, she develops a keen eye for paintings and objects, and meets feminists ready to transform nineteenth century thinking in the twentieth century. Isabella becomes an eccentric trailblazer, painted by John Singer Sargent in a portrait of daring decolletage, and fond of such stunts as walking a pair of lions in the Boston Public Garden.The Lioness of Boston is a portrait of what society expected a womans life to be, shattered by a courageous soul who rebelled and was determined to live on her own terms. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Bestselling author of 1861: The Civil War Awakening (Knopf / Vintage). Finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in History. Book of the Year at the History Book Club. Listed among the best books of the year by the New York Times, The Atlantic, Kirkus Reviews, Slate, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Audiobook was the winner of an Audie award for best history title.Apart from John Allen Chau the young missionary adventurer who did not live to tell the tale Adam Goodheart is the only American known to have visited North Sentinel Island.Publication will coincide with the release of a National Geographic documentary, The Mission. It tells the story of North Sentinel Island and John Allen Chau's fatal visit there. Adam is interviewed in the film and has been asked by the filmmakers to take part in the documentary's promotion.North Sentinel has what might be called a worldwide fan base. Amidst a global culture of hyperconnectivity, the bow-and-arrow-wielding Sentinelese are portrayed as the lone holdouts. Especially since the death Chau in 2018, millions of people around the world have been fascinated with this remote tribe. A few statistics:* YouTube videos about North Sentinel Island have garnered a cumulative total of well over 100 million views.* Hundreds of posts about North Sentinel Island on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and Quora have drawn millions of views, comments, and likes. A recent Instagram post drew over 256,000 likes.* Interest has not stopped since John Chaus death. A post about Chau and the Sentinelese on Quora just two weeks ago has already garnered over 100,000 views.* The death of John Allen Chau drew intense press coverage in almost every major news outlet. For instance, the New York Times ran seven stories about the incident in just a week, including a front-page feature.Yet there has never been any book published about North Sentinel Island. The Last Island will be the first.Illustrated with 34 photos and maps. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A gardeners pandemic journal that combines memoir with an exploration of the natural world both inside and outside the garden.In March 2020, Margot Anne Kelley was watching seeds germinate in her greenhouse. At high risk from illness, the planning, planting, and tending to seedlings took on extra significance. She set out to make her pandemic garden thrive but also to better understand the very nature of seeds and viruses.As seeds became seedlings, became plants, became food, Kelley looks back over the last few millennia as successions of pandemics altered human beings and global culture. Seeds and viruses serve as springboards for wide-ranging reflections, such as their shared need for someone to transport them, the centrality of movement to being alive, and the domestication of plants as an act of becoming co-dependent. Pandemic viruses only occurred through humankinds settling down, taking up agriculture, and giving up a nomadic life. And yet its the garden that now provides a refuge and a source of life, inspiration, and hope. A Gardener at the End of the World explores questions of what we can preserveof history, genetic biodiversity, culture, languageand what we cannot. It is for any reader curious about the overlap of nature, science, and history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. One of the Years Best, Times Literary SupplementWhen a writer tracks down his literary hero, Graham Greene, who is living quietly on the shores of the Mediterranean, the author finds his new friend is every bit as complex as the fiction hes famous for.While living in southern France in 1972, Michael Mewshaw engineered a meeting with Graham Greene. Mewshaw was an ambitious young journalist and novelist, Greene was an internationally revered elder statesman of letters. The pair became fast friends and corresponded for the next twenty years. My Man in Antibes is an intimate portrait of what it was like to eat, drink, and gossip with one of the most reveredand complicatedauthors of the twentieth century.Growing up Catholic with literary aspirations, Mewshaw believed Greene was the author to emulate. Not only did Greene demonstrate how religious belief and church dogma could be subjects for fiction, he also wrote murder mysteries and political thrillers where his characters inner conflicts played out dramatically in exotic settings. Under Greenes sway, Mewshaw traveled through Mexico like the whiskey priest in Greenes The Power and the Glory and honeymooned at the Hotel Oloffson in Haiti, the setting of The Comedians.When Mewshaw tracked down Greene in Antibes, he found the author was far from a reclusive, close-mouthed figure: Greene garrulously recounted tales about the many women in his lifeand husbands of those womenas well as his extraordinary interviews with political figures such as Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh. Over the next two decades, Mewshaw and Greene ate meals together, discussed their travels, and talked about writers they knew in common, such as Anthony Burgess, Shirley Hazzard, and Gore Vidal.While young Mewshaw looked up to the world-weary Greene, their relationship was never simply that of mentor and mentee. My Man in Antibes bristles with misunderstandings, arguments, and one young writers desire to get to know a legendary older writer who, in many ways, actively sought to remain unknowable. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Farnsworth beautifully integrates his own observations with scores of quotations from Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Montaigne and others. This isnt just a book to readits a book to return to, a book that will provide perspective and consolation at times of heartbreak or calamity.The Washington PostSee more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater easehere are the greatest insights of the Stoics, in their own words. Presented in twelve lessons, Ward Farnsworth systematically presents the heart of Stoic philosophy accompanied by commentary that is clear and concise.A foundational idea to Stoicism is that we appear to go through life reacting directly to events. That appearance is an illusion. We react to our judgments and opinionsto our thoughts about things, not to things themselves. Stoics seek to become conscious of those judgments, to find the irrationality in them, and to choose them more carefully.In chapters including Emotion, Adversity, Virtue, and What Others Think, here is the most valuable wisdom about living a good life from ages pastnow made available for our time. "A philosophical user's manual"--Jacket. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and ethnic identity.This first collection by award-winning author John Yau, drawn from decades of work, includes essays about Black, Asian, Latinx, and Native American artists: sculptors Luis Jimenez and Ruth Asawa; second generation Abstract Expressionists such as the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter Matsumi Kanemitsu; the performance artists James Luna and Patty Chang; the photographers Laurel Nakadate and Teju Cole; and a generation of Asian American artists that has emerged during the last decade.While identity is at the fore in this collection, Yaus essays also propose the need for an expansive view of identity, as in the essay On Reconsidering Identity, which explores the writings of Lydia Cabrera and Edouard Glissant, and the possibilities of creolisation versus the reductiveness of Aime Cesaires Negritude.Please Wait by the Coat Room is for serious readers interested in the art and artists of color that many mainstream institutions and critics misrepresented or overlooked. It presents a view guided by the artists desire for autonomy and freedom in a culture that has deemed them undesirable or invisible. Please Wait by the Coat Room is for readers interested in the art and artists of color that many mainstream institutions and critics misrepresented or overlooked. It presents a view guided by the artists' desire for autonomy and freedom in a culture that has deemed them undesirable or invisible. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers.A writer, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, is a reader who is moved to emulation. New York Times bestselling novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus III took that idea and invited acclaimed authors to write about short stories that altered their view of life and their place in itshort stories that, ultimately, made them want to write something substantial themselves.Here is Richard Russo on Shirley Jacksons The Lottery, Joyce Carol Oates on John Updikes A&P, Tobias Wolff on Hawthornes Wakefield, Michael Cunningham on James Joyces The Dead. Readers will gain new insight into these masterfully written stories but also on the contributors own lives and work.The fifty contributors are T.C. Boyle, Russell Banks, Richard Bausch, Robert Boswell, Charles Baxter, Ann Beattie, Madison Smartt Bell, Ron Carlson, Lan Samantha Chang, Michael Cunningham, Junot Diaz, Anthony Doerr, Emma Donoghue, Stuart Dybek, Dagoberto Gilb, Julia Glass, Mary Gordon, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Haigh, Jane Hamilton, Ron Hansen, Paul Harding, Ann Hood, Pam Houston, Gish Jen, Charles Johnson, Phil Klay, Dennis Lehane, Lois Lowry, Colum McCann, Sue Miller, Rick Moody, Antonya Nelson, Bich Nguyen, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart ONan, Peter Orner, ZZ Packer, Ann Patchett, Edith Pearlman, Jayne Ann Phillips, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Anna Quindlen, Ron Rash, Richard Russo, Dani Shapiro, Mona Simpson, Jess Walter, Tobias Wolff, and Meg Wolitzer.Reaching Inside will remind you why you fell in love with reading. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A thinking persons guide to a better life. Ward Farnsworth explains what the Socratic method is, how it works, and why it matters more than ever in our time. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the method will change the way you think about lifes big questions. A wonderful book.Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex. About 2,500 years ago, Plato wrote a set of dialogues that depict Socrates in conversation. The way Socrates asks questions, and the reasons why, amount to a whole way of thinking. This is the Socratic methodone of humanitys great achievements. More than a technique, the method is an ethic of patience, inquiry, humility, and doubt. It is an aid to better thinking, and a remedy for bad habits of mind, whether in law, politics, the classroom, or tackling lifes big questions at the kitchen table. Drawing on hundreds of quotations, this book explains what the Socratic method is and how to use it. Chapters include Socratic Ethics, Ignorance, Testing Principles, and Socrates and the Stoics. Socratic philosophy is still startling after all these years because it is an approach to asking hard questions and chasing after them. It is a route to wisdom and a way of thinking about wisdom. With Farnsworth as your guide, the ideas of Socrates are easier to understand than ever and accessible to anyone.As Farnsworth achieved with The Practicing Stoic and the Farnsworths Classical English series, ideas of old are made new and vital again. This book is for those coming to philosophy the way Socrates didas the everyday activity of making sense out of life and how to live itand for anyone who wants to know what he said about doing that better. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.