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Paperback. Condizione: Good. NOW WITH A NEW EPILOGUE ON THE 2021 SEASON AND TOM BRADY?S BRIEF RETIREMENT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SPORTS ILLUSTRATED ? NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR National Sports Media Association ? Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews ? Best Nonfiction of the Year ?Seth Wickersham has managed to do the impossible: he has pulled off the definitive document of the Belichick/Brady dynasty.? ?Bill Simmons, The Ringer The explosive, long-awaited account of the making of the greatest dynasty in football history?from the acclaimed ESPN reporter who has been there from the very beginning.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Trust, Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how trust will be essential in order to face the unique challenges of the decades ahead.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. In the most audacious literary debut to come out of the Steel City since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, we meet Peter Morrison, twenty-nine and comfortably adrift in a state of not-quite-adulthood, less concerned about the general direction of his life than with his suspicion that all his closest relationships are the products of inertia. He and his girlfriend float along in the same general direction, while his parents are acting funny, though his rich, hypochondriac grandmother is still good for admission to the better parties. He spends his days clocking into Global Solutions (a firm whose purpose remains unnervingly ambiguous) and his weekends listening to the half-imagined rants of his childhood best friend, Johnny. An addict and conspiracy theorist, Johnny believes Pittsburgh is a "nexus of intense magical convergence" and is playing host to a cabal of dubious politicians, evil corporate schemes, ancient occult rites, and otherwise inexplicable phenomena, such as the fact that people really do keep seeing UFOs hovering over the city. Against this strange background, Peter meets Mark and Helen, a slightly older couple, new to town, whose wealth and glamour never fully conceal the suggestion of something sinister, and with whom he becomes quickly infatuated. Mark is a corporate lawyer in the process of negotiating a buyout of Global Solutions, and initiates Peter into the real, mundane (maybe) conspiracies of corporations and careers, while Helen?a beautiful and once prominent artist?is both the echo and the promise of the sort of woman Peter always imagined, or was always told he ought to find for himself. As Peter climbs the corporate ladder, Johnny is pulled into the orbit of a mysterious local author, Winston Pringle, whose lunatic book of conspiracies seems to be coming true. As Johnny falls farther down the rabbit hole, the surreal begins to seep into the mundane, and the settled rhythm of Peter's routine is disrupted by a series of close encounters of third, fourth, and fifth kinds. By the time Peter sets out to save his friend from Pringle's evil machinations (and pharmacological interventions), his familiar life threatens to transform into that most terrifying possibility: a surprise. In The Bend of the World Philip K. Dick meets Michael Chabon, and Jacob Bacharach creates an appropriately hilarious, bizarre, and keenly observed portrait of life on the edge of thirty in the adolescent years of twenty-first-century America.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A world-renowned classicist presents a thrilling revisionist biography of the Bibles most controversial figure.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. For fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes this landmark novel about autism, memory, and, ultimately, redemption.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. For fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes this landmark novel about autism, memory, and, ultimately, redemption.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The unknown story of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, and the thousands of Americans who were exiledhidden away with their shameful disease.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Bryan Sykes, one of the world s leading geneticists and best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, sets his sights on America, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. Sykes embarks on a road trip DNA testing kit in tow interviewing genealogists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans, tracing America s history along a double helix that stretches from the last Ice Age to the present day. What emerges is an unprecedented look into America s genetic mosaic that challenges the very notion of how we perceive race and what it means to be an American.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Bryan Sykes, one of the world s leading geneticists and best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, sets his sights on America, one of the most genetically variegated countries in the world. Sykes embarks on a road trip DNA testing kit in tow interviewing genealogists, anthropologists, and everyday Americans, tracing America s history along a double helix that stretches from the last Ice Age to the present day. What emerges is an unprecedented look into America s genetic mosaic that challenges the very notion of how we perceive race and what it means to be an American.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A ground-breaking historical work that explicates Thomas Jeffersons vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery and race.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The one hundred and fifty-six poems here, arranged in twelve sections and introduced by E. E. Cummings's biographer, Richard S. Kennedy, include his most popular poems, spanning his earliest creations, his vivacious linguistic acrobatics, up to his last valedictory sonnets. Also featured are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919and put American aviation on the map.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A doctor's revelatory account of pregnancy and the complexity of reproductive life-and everything we lose when we don't speak honestly about women's health.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919and put American aviation on the map.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Three decades after the publication of Forrest Gump, Winston Groom returns to fiction with a sweeping epic.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens's Career of the Medicine Man. The second section concentrates on the theoretical and contains Benjamin Lee Whorf's American Indian Model of the Universe and chapters on Indian metaphysics, among other things. In addition to an introductory essay on the Indian's stance towards reality, the editors have contributed chapters entitled The Clown's Way and An American Indian View of Death.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. This collection of writings is from authors who are either Indians who have tried to make themselves heard, or whites who have tried to hear Indians. The first part of the book emphasizes the practical and includes Isaac Tens's Career of the Medicine Man. The second section concentrates on the theoretical and contains Benjamin Lee Whorf's American Indian Model of the Universe and chapters on Indian metaphysics, among other things. In addition to an introductory essay on the Indian's stance towards reality, the editors have contributed chapters entitled The Clown's Way and An American Indian View of Death.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A soul-stirring debut, Boys of Alabama tells the bewitching (Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine) tale of sixteen-year-old Maxs first year in America.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A soul-stirring debut, Boys of Alabama tells the bewitching (Michelle Hart, O, The Oprah Magazine) tale of sixteen-year-old Maxs first year in America.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative. Although they do not represent a majority of Americans?and will not for the foreseeable future?today?s Republican senators possess the power to block most legislation. Once known as ?the world?s greatest deliberative body,? the Senate has become one of the greatest threats to our democracy. How did this happen? In Kill Switch, Senate insider Adam Jentleson contends that far from reflecting the Framers? vision, the Senate has been transformed over the decades by a tenacious minority of white conservatives. From John Calhoun in the mid-1800s to Mitch McConnell in the 2010s, their primary weapon has been the filibuster, or the requirement that most legislation secure the support of a supermajority of senators. Yet, as Jentleson reveals, the filibuster was not a feature of the original Senate and, in allowing a determined minority to gridlock the federal government, runs utterly counter to the Framers? intent. For much of its history, the filibuster was used primarily to prevent civil rights legislation from becoming law. But more recently, Republicans have refined it into a tool for imposing their will on all issues, wielding it to thwart an increasingly progressive American majority represented by Barack Obama?s agenda and appointees. Under Donald Trump, McConnell merged the filibuster with rigid leadership structures initially forged by Lyndon Johnson, in the process surrendering the Senate?s independence and centrality, as infamously shown by its acquiescence in Trump?s impeachment trial. The result is a failed institution and a crippled democracy. Taking us into the Capitol Hill backrooms where the institution?s decline is most evident, Jentleson shows that many of the greatest challenges of our era?partisan polarization, dark money, a media culture built on manufactured outrage?converge within the Senate. Even as he charts the larger forces that have shaped the institution where he served, Jentleson offers incisive portraits of the powerful senators who laid the foundation for the modern Senate, from Calhoun to McConnell to LBJ?s mentor, Richard Russell, to the unapologetic racist Jesse Helms. An essential, revelatory investigation, Kill Switch ultimately makes clear that unless we immediately and drastically reform the Senate?s rules and practices?starting with reforming the filibuster?we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America. …

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the United States Senate, an institution controlled by people who are almost exclusively white, overwhelmingly male, and disproportionately conservative. Although they do not represent a majority of Americans?and will not for the foreseeable future?today?s Republican senators possess the power to block most legislation. Once known as ?the world?s greatest deliberative body,? the Senate has become one of the greatest threats to our democracy. How did this happen? In Kill Switch, Senate insider Adam Jentleson contends that far from reflecting the Framers? vision, the Senate has been transformed over the decades by a tenacious minority of white conservatives. From John Calhoun in the mid-1800s to Mitch McConnell in the 2010s, their primary weapon has been the filibuster, or the requirement that most legislation secure the support of a supermajority of senators. Yet, as Jentleson reveals, the filibuster was not a feature of the original Senate and, in allowing a determined minority to gridlock the federal government, runs utterly counter to the Framers? intent. For much of its history, the filibuster was used primarily to prevent civil rights legislation from becoming law. But more recently, Republicans have refined it into a tool for imposing their will on all issues, wielding it to thwart an increasingly progressive American majority represented by Barack Obama?s agenda and appointees. Under Donald Trump, McConnell merged the filibuster with rigid leadership structures initially forged by Lyndon Johnson, in the process surrendering the Senate?s independence and centrality, as infamously shown by its acquiescence in Trump?s impeachment trial. The result is a failed institution and a crippled democracy. Taking us into the Capitol Hill backrooms where the institution?s decline is most evident, Jentleson shows that many of the greatest challenges of our era?partisan polarization, dark money, a media culture built on manufactured outrage?converge within the Senate. Even as he charts the larger forces that have shaped the institution where he served, Jentleson offers incisive portraits of the powerful senators who laid the foundation for the modern Senate, from Calhoun to McConnell to LBJ?s mentor, Richard Russell, to the unapologetic racist Jesse Helms. An essential, revelatory investigation, Kill Switch ultimately makes clear that unless we immediately and drastically reform the Senate?s rules and practices?starting with reforming the filibuster?we face the prospect of permanent minority rule in America. …

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Along with Pound, Eliot, and Joyce, Edward Estlin Cummings is one of the leading American poets who revolutionized literary expression in the twentieth century. He was also a Cubist painter, a champion of the little man, a brilliant conversationalist, a romantic idealist, a famous irrational curmudgeon, and husband to three of the most beautiful women of his time. This critical biography merges these various selves into one fascinating life story, many chapters of which could be mistaken for a great romantic novel. In following Cummings's development as a poet, it also includes a large number of previously unpublished poems and drawings.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The Knowledge Machine is the most stunningly illuminating book of the last several decades regarding the all-important scientific enterprise. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex A paradigm-shifting work, The Knowledge Machine revolutionizes our understanding of the origins and structure of science.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Combining epic history with rich family stories, Michael Korda chronicles the outbreak of the Second World War and the great events that led to Dunkirk.