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Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining
Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by Eliot Wigginton
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 17, 1972
Price: $19.95
In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log cabin building, hog dressing... Read more >
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Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future
Written by Karen Elliott House
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $28.95
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter who has spent the last thirty years writing about Saudi Arabia—as diplomatic correspondent, foreign editor, and then publisher of The Wall Street Journal—an important and timely book that explores all facets of life in this shrouded Kingdom: its tribal past, its complicated present, its precarious future.
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The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Written by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: January 15, 2002
Price: $19.95
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political... Read more >
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
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A conversation about America
Written by Tom Brokaw
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $17.00
Who we are, where we’ve been, and where we need to go now, to recapture the American dream
Now with a new Foreword by the author
“The best presentation of the challenges facing the country—and the possible solutions—I've ever seen.”—P. J. O’Rourke
Tom Brokaw, known and beloved for... Read more >
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A Memoir in Books
Written by Azar Nafisi
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a... Read more >
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Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $28.95
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women...
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Written by Simone de Beauvoir
Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier
Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $17.95
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality and otherness. This long-awaited new edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English...
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A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan
Written by Malcolm MacPherson
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: July 25, 2006
Price: $7.99
Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is stranded, alone, surrounded by fanatical al Qaeda fighters. For the man’s fellow Navy SEALs, and for waiting teams of Army Rangers, there was only one rule now: leave no one behind. In this gripping you-are-there... Read more >
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Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Written by Shereen El Feki
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $14.99
If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men and women...
