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<<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>     sort list by title | author Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic David Quammen A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. Radical Chapters Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution Michael Doyle Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler's Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the Bay Area... The Voice Is All The Lonely Victory of Jack kerouac Joyce Johnson A groundbreaking portrait of Kerouac as a young artist—from the award-winning author of Minor Characters. In The Voice is All, Joyce Johnson, author of the classic memoir, Door Wide Open, about her relationship with Jack Kerouac, brilliantly peels away.. Joseph Anton A Memoir Salman Rushdie On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called... 'Pataphysics A Useless Guide Andrew Hugill Drawing on more than twenty-five years' research, Hugill maps the 'pataphysical presence (partly conscious and acknowledged but largely unconscious and unacknowledged) in literature, theater, music, the visual arts, and the culture at large, and even... The Slumbering Masses Sleep Medicine and Modern American Life Americans spend billions of dollars every year on drugs, therapy, and other remedies trying to get a good night's sleep. Anxieties about not getting enough sleep and the impact of sleeplessness on productivity, health, and happiness pervade medical... Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace D. T. Max The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his... Mortality Christopher Hitchens Mortality is the exemplary story of one man's refusal to cower in the face of the unknown, as well as a searching look at the human predicament. Crisp and vivid, veined throughout with penetrating intelligence, Hitchens's testament is a courageous... Fire in the Ashes Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America Jonathan Kozol In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years, Jonathan Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace, and to the children he has vividly... Winter Journal Paul Auster Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations—both pleasurable and painful. Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, in which he wrote... The Way the World Works Essays Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker, who "writes like no one else in America" (Newsweek), here assembles his best short pieces from the last fifteen years. The Way the World Works, Baker's second nonfiction collection, ranges over the map of life to examine what troubles... What Light Can Do Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World Robert Hass Renowned for his magisterial verse, Robert Hass is also a brilliant essayist. the New York Times hailed him as a writer who "is so intelligent that to read his poetry or prose, or to hear him speak, gives one an almost visceral pleasure." Now, with... Smoke Signals A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational, and Scientific Martin A. Lee The bestselling coauthor of Acid Dreams tells the great American pot story— a panoramic, character-driven saga that examines the medical, recreational, scientific, and economic dimensions of the world's most controversial plant. Some Remarks Essays and Other Writing Neal Stephenson Stephenson ponders a wealth of subjects, from movies and politics to David Foster Wallace and the Midwestern American College Town; video games to classics-based sci-fi; how geekdom has become cool and how science fiction has become mainstream... <<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>>