Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: February 25, 1997 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-77639-0 (0-679-77639-7)
Winner of the Lannan Award for Nonfiction
David Abram's award-winning work of natural philosophy is already transforming debates at the forefront of environmental studies, psychology, anthropology, literary theory, and philosophy. Praised for "combining poetic passion with intellectual rigor and daring," (Lannan Award citation), The Spell of the Sensuous explores the earthly, ecological dimensions...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: August 8, 2000 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-77135-7 (0-679-77135-2)
With A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman let her free-ranging intellect loose on the natural world. Now in Deep Play she tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the abitlity to play.
"Deep play" is that more intensified form of play that...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 10, 1991 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-73566-3 (0-679-73566-6)
Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations with an iceberg in Antarctica and a professional nose in New York, along with dissertations on kisses and tattoos, sadistic cuisine and the music played by the planet Earth.
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: June 25, 2002 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-449-00658-0 (0-449-00658-1)
When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result. Having worked with homeless prostitutes in Times Square, Albert was intimate with human...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 15, 2000 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-49841-8 (0-385-49841-1)
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Natalie Angier's text is a detailed exploration of female anatomy. By showing how culture based assumptions have influenced research in evolutionary psychology and have consequently lead to dubious conclusions about "female nature," she deals a body blow to Darwinian-based gender stereotypes. Her ability to choose just the right word...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 696 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: July 22, 2008 Price: $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-394-75156-6 (0-394-75156-6)
This remarkable book—the fruit of almost two decades of study—traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages Publisher: Steerforth On Sale: December 18, 2007 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-58642-131-1 (1-58642-131-X)
The rich, recorded history of Sicily reaches back for more than three thousand years. Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans, Hohenstaufens, Spaniards, Bourbons, the Savoy Kingdom of Italy and the modern era have all held sway, and left lasting influences on the island’s culture and architecture. And yet no contemporary...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 25, 1997 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-73726-1 (0-679-73726-X)
In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 1, 1990 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-07305-9 (0-385-07305-4)
This absorbing examination of the sociological roots of religious belief expands on Berger's theories of knowledge. With illustrations drawn from a variety of primitive, ancient, and contemporary religions, Berger argues that religion is a "sacred canopy" that every society builds to give its world meaning.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 13, 2001 Price: $13.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-70673-8 (0-375-70673-9)
It is a situation we all fear and none of us can imagine: a life-threatening diagnosis. But what if the person receiving the diagnosis—young, physically fit, poised for a bright future—is himself a doctor?
At thirty-one David Biro has just completed his residency and joined his father’s successful dermatology practice. Struck with...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau On Sale: August 4, 2009 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52018-8 (0-385-52018-2)
Winner of the 2009 Asian American Literary Award For Nonfiction, given by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2008 One of the Washington Post’s best books of 2008 A Seattle Times best nonfiction book of 2008 One of the Christian...Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Broadway Business On Sale: August 17, 1998 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-49257-7 (0-385-49257-X)
Once upon a time we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the leather. In many parts of the world, that information is still readily available...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 18, 2001 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72775-7 (0-375-72775-2)
As recalled in Honky, Dalton Conley’s childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side makes Dalton’s childhood unique.
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: June 12, 2001 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72662-0 (0-375-72662-4)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Ted Conover, the intrepid author of Coyotes, about the world of illegal Mexican immigrants, spent a year as a prison guard at Sing Sing. Newjack, his account of that experience, is a milestone in American journalism: a book that casts...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: September 11, 2001 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-72786-3 (0-375-72786-8)
In Ted Conover’s first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but about which we are all curious.
Hoboes fascinated Conover, but he had only encountered them in literature and folksongs. So, he...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 9, 2007 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-7887-5 (1-4000-7887-3)
The Cave Paintersis a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gergory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 1, 1996 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-48399-5 (0-385-48399-6)
History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such as doorways, gravestones, musical instruments, and even shards of pottery fill in the cracks between large historical events and depict the intricacies of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: March 28, 1995 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-2530-2 (0-8129-2530-0)
Where the Girls Are is a tour through the confusing and contradictory images of women in American pop culture. Douglas looks back at the television programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reports of the past four decades to reveal the decidedly mixed messages conveyed to girls and women coming of...
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Format: Hardcover, 240 pages Publisher: Trumpeter On Sale: June 12, 2007 Price: $21.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-432-7 (1-59030-432-2)
Religious language, Gary Eberle notes, can be the linguistic equivalent of nitroglycerine. A little three-letter word like God, for example, is so complex, so intertwined with various identities, so ultimately undefinable, that using it can be like throwing a hand grenade, regardless of one's intentions. Others have noted the linguistic problem...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 18, 1987 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-18499-1 (0-385-18499-9)
This provocative book reveals how the real sexual revolution was initiated by women -- not men -- and how it transformed both our behavior and our understanding of what sex means in our lives.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 7, 2003 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-75852-5 (0-679-75852-6)
For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the treacherous beauty of a world that is defined by ice. In This Cold Heaven she combines the story of her travels with history and cultural anthropology to reveal a Greenland that few of...
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Format: Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: January 12, 1959 Price: $10.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-70157-8 (0-394-70157-7)
"Dr. Eiseley has written a work of true science which must surely take its place also as great literature."--London Times Literary Supplement
In an unusual blend of scientific knowledge and imaginative vision, Eiseley, anthropologist and naturalist, tells the story of man. He reveals life's endless mysteries in his own experiences, departing from...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: November 12, 1980 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-394-73954-0 (0-394-73954-X)
Edited and with an afterword by Colin Gordon. In this set of essays and interviews, Foucault interprets his writings on such themes as sexuality, politics, and punishment, stressing the contribution of each to the magnificent--and terrifying--portrait of society that he is compiling. As Foucault shows, what he has always been describing is the...
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