17 books in Social Science - Essays
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Meadowlark Economics
Collected Essays on Ecology, Community, and Spirituality
Written by James Eggert
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $15.95
Alarmed by the disappearance of meadowlarks from the fields near his home, James Eggert embarked on a close study of the economic and ecological factors behind the loss. His inquiry led him to conclude that the meadowlark’s survival is a metaphor for ours—that our future is intimately linked to the same... Read more >
Collected Essays on Ecology, Community, and Spirituality
Written by James Eggert
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Price: $15.95
Alarmed by the disappearance of meadowlarks from the fields near his home, James Eggert embarked on a close study of the economic and ecological factors behind the loss. His inquiry led him to conclude that the meadowlark’s survival is a metaphor for ours—that our future is intimately linked to the same... Read more >
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The American Idea
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $17.95
“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $17.95
“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >
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AIDS Sutra
Untold Stories from India
Foreword by Amartya Sen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $13.95
In this groundbreaking anthology, sixteen renowned writers tell the hidden story of the AIDS crisis, illuminating the complex nature of one of the major problems facing the developing world.
India is home to almost 3 million HIV cases, but AIDS is still stigmatized and shrouded in denial. Discrimination against HIV-affected individuals... Read more >
Untold Stories from India
Foreword by Amartya Sen
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $13.95
In this groundbreaking anthology, sixteen renowned writers tell the hidden story of the AIDS crisis, illuminating the complex nature of one of the major problems facing the developing world.
India is home to almost 3 million HIV cases, but AIDS is still stigmatized and shrouded in denial. Discrimination against HIV-affected individuals... Read more >
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The American Idea
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $17.95
“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $17.95
“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as... Read more >
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eBook.
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The Time of My Life
Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of The Prom
Written by Rob Spillman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $13.95
Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of The Prom
Written by Rob Spillman
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $13.95
Remember the ill-fitting tuxes, regrettable dresses, wilting corsages, cheap beer, and rented limos that marked the biggest, most-anticipated celebration of the school year? Remember when the whole world hung in the balance of just one night? Well, lots of your favorite writers do too, and they share the good, the bad...
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The Time of My Life
Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of The Prom
Written by Rob Spillman
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $13.95
Remember the ill-fitting tuxes, regrettable dresses, wilting corsages, cheap beer, and rented limos that marked the biggest, most-anticipated celebration of the school year? Remember when the whole world hung in the balance of just one night? Well, lots of your favorite writers do too, and they share the good, the bad... Read more >
Writers on the Heartbreak, Hormones, and Debauchery of The Prom
Written by Rob Spillman
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $13.95
Remember the ill-fitting tuxes, regrettable dresses, wilting corsages, cheap beer, and rented limos that marked the biggest, most-anticipated celebration of the school year? Remember when the whole world hung in the balance of just one night? Well, lots of your favorite writers do too, and they share the good, the bad... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Life Happens
And Other Unavoidable Truths
Written by Connie Schultz
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $13.95
From the 2005 Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist Connie Schultz comes fresh, clever, insightful commentary on life today: love, politics, social issues, family, and much, much more. In the tradition of Anna Quindlen, Molly Ivins, and Erma Bombeck, but with a distinctive voice and sensibility all her own, Connie Schultz comes out of... Read more >
And Other Unavoidable Truths
Written by Connie Schultz
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $13.95
From the 2005 Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist Connie Schultz comes fresh, clever, insightful commentary on life today: love, politics, social issues, family, and much, much more. In the tradition of Anna Quindlen, Molly Ivins, and Erma Bombeck, but with a distinctive voice and sensibility all her own, Connie Schultz comes out of... Read more >
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Creationists
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Read by E.L. Doctorow
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $29.95
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with... Read more >
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Read by E.L. Doctorow
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $29.95
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with... Read more >
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Creationists
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Read by E.L. Doctorow
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $15.00
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with... Read more >
Written by E.L. Doctorow
Read by E.L. Doctorow
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 19, 2006
Price: $15.00
E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Here now are his rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms, from the literary to the comic to the cosmic. As he wrestles with... Read more >
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Don't Get Too Comfortable
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Written by David Rakoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $12.95
David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to... Read more >
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Written by David Rakoff
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2006
Price: $12.95
David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to... Read more >
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Don't Get Too Comfortable
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Written by David Rakoff
Read by David Rakoff
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $16.95
The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty... Read more >
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Written by David Rakoff
Read by David Rakoff
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $16.95
The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty... Read more >
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Don't Get Too Comfortable
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Written by David Rakoff
Read by David Rakoff
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $8.48
The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty... Read more >
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Written by David Rakoff
Read by David Rakoff
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $8.48
The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty... Read more >
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Don't Get Too Comfortable
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Written by David Rakoff
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $12.95
The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty... Read more >
The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Written by David Rakoff
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $12.95
The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
David Rakoff’s collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of our funniest, most insightful writers. In Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Rakoff journeys into the land of plenty... Read more >
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Looking Back
Written by Russell Baker
Format: Trade Paperback, 212 pages
On Sale: February 29, 2004
Price: $12.95
From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearst's Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture. Now, in these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, he... Read more >
Written by Russell Baker
Format: Trade Paperback, 212 pages
On Sale: February 29, 2004
Price: $12.95
From his youthful days as a delivery boy for William Randolph Hearst's Baltimore newspapers through his many years as a journalist and commentator, Russell Baker has been a keen observer of American politics and culture. Now, in these eleven essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, he... Read more >
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King of the Ferret Leggers
And Other True Stories
Written by Donald Katz
Read by Donald Katz and Joe Morton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $12.50
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And Other True Stories
Written by Donald Katz
Read by Donald Katz and Joe Morton
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $12.50
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Logrolling
Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $2.46
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Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $2.46
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The Voyeur
Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $2.95
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Written by Donald Katz
Read by Joe Morton
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: May 22, 2001
Price: $2.95
Read more >
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