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Gift Idea
Through analysis of the Colombian Pacific's geography, peoples, and environment, Escobar questions the...
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The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care
New Trends Pub Incorporated |
March 16, 2013 |
336 pages
Offers a guide to child rearing and child nutrition that focuses on a nutrient dense diet from pregnancy through childhood and natural treatments for childhood illnesses.
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$19.95
The Five Stages of Collapse
New Society Pub |
July 2, 2013 |
240 pages
A user's guide to economic, political, social and cultural collapse.
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$22.95
Supply Shock
New Society Pub |
April 16, 2013 |
400 pages
The steady state revolution? navigating the end of economic growth.
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$29.95
Eat Up
New Society Pub |
April 16, 2013 |
288 pages
From roof to table ? urban food has reached new heights.
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$16.00
Moms Who Drink and Swear
New Amer Library |
April 2, 2013 |
256 pages
If you feel like your kids are killing you, you've come to the right place. Attention all potty-mouthed, cheap-wine-drinking mothers: Prepare to meet your match. Any bad thought you've had about your kids, Nicole Knepper has had worse. Much worse. It's not that she doesn't love her kids. It's that... More Info
$18.95
The Untethered Soul
New Harbinger Publications Incorporated |
May 21, 2013 |
181 pages
Who are you? When you start to explore this question, you find out how elusive it really is. Are you a physical body? A collection of experiences and memories? A partner to relationships? Each time you consider these aspects of yourself, you realize that there is much more to you than any of these... More Info
$16.95
Living Room Revolution
New Society Pub |
April 16, 2013 |
224 pages
Let's talk! Coming together to create a new culture of caring, and collaboration.
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$17.95
Financing Our Foodshed
New Society Pub |
February 12, 2013 |
288 pages
Bringing money home - real people and real stories from the Slow Money movement
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$16.00
The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
New Internationalist |
May 21, 2013 |
144 pages
Upper, middle, or lower? Which class are you? Hierarchies and rankings have been with us since the earliest times and, as Seabrook argues, they show no sign of disappearing yet. Those at the top would have too much to lose. This No-Nonsense Guidegives the full picture of how class analysis emerged... More Info
$13.00
Love Poems
New Directions |
January 1, 2008 |
90 pages
A lavishly designed, bilingual gift edition of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's romantic works is comprised of pieces mostly written on the island of Capri, where he found inspiration in its idyllic landscapes and his relationship with Matilde Urrutia. Original.
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ACT Made Simple
New Harbinger Publications Incorporated |
November 1, 2009 |
265 pages
Explains the six ACT processes--cognitive fusion, acceptance, contact with the present moment, observing the self, discovering individual values, committed action--and how to implement them.
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$25.00
The Left at War
New York Univ Pr |
July 1, 2011 |
352 pages
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush's belligerent response fractured the American leftpartly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier. In a masterful survey of the post-9/11 landscape, renowned scholar Michael Berube revisits and reinterprets the major... More Info
$24.95
Plowing With Pigs
New Society Pub |
March 5, 2013 |
272 pages
Off-the-wall solutions for real farmstead problems
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$21.50
Queer America
New Pr |
March 15, 2011 |
304 pages
Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century, Vicki L. Eaklor’s Queer America: A People’s GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-overlooked chapter in the American experience.
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$34.95
Sustainable Market Farming
New Society Pub |
February 5, 2013 |
400 pages
Growing for 100 ? the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower.
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Canadian literature at the crossroads of language and culture
Newest Pr |
May 21, 2013 |
412 pages
Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture is the first book to gather together essays by Barbara Godard, one of the leading and most prolific figures in the field of Canadian studies. Godard has long been one of the most influential readers of Canadian literature. Much of the... More Info
Mastering Complex Endgames
New In Chess,Csi |
January 16, 2013 |
240 pages
Young Daniel Naroditsky (1995) has picked the most instructive examples of endgames in which you have to use ideas and plans in order to outplay your opponent. This is not an encyclopaedia nor a manual on endings, which are usually helpful but boring, but a compendium of lively lessons and... More Info
Modern Chess Preparation
New In Chess,Csi |
October 16, 2012 |
272 pages
Opening, middlegame and endgame are the three universally recognized stages of a game of chess, but what about the art of preparation? Winning starts with planning before the game, teaches legendary chess trainer Vladimir Tukmakov in this enlightening and entertaining work on a neglected subject.... More Info
$24.95
The Thinking Beekeeper
New Society Pub |
January 1, 2013 |
288 pages
Give bees a chance ? the complete how-to and why-to for keeping bees in top-bar hives
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50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)
New Amer Library |
April 20, 2011 |
127 pages
Provides easy-to-follow instructions for activities like tightrope walking and throwing a spear to safely playing with both electricity and fire to illustrate the exciting ways that today's coddled children should explore the world around them. Original.
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
New Canadian Library |
May 1, 1989 |
200 pages
Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating,... More Info
Two Solitudes
New Canadian Library |
August 5, 2008 |
528 pages
First time in the New Canadian Library “Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec.
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The Poems of Octavio Paz
New Directions |
October 23, 2012 |
592 pages
In 1990, the Swedish Academy awarded Octavio Paz the Nobel Prize in Literature “for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.” Paz is “a writer for the entire world to celebrate” (Chicago Tribune), “the poet-archer who goes... More Info
$25.25
Circuits of Visibility
New York Univ Pr |
July 18, 2011 |
317 pages
circuits of visibility explores transnational media environments as a way to understand the gendered constructions and contradictions that support globalization, with special emphasis on global feminist perspectives. Exploring the ways in which gendered subjects are produced and defined in media... More Info
Lightning Rods
New Directions |
October 18, 2012 |
273 pages
From the acclaimed author of The Last Samurai, Lightning Rod's is "the most well-executed literary sex comedy" of our time.
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Time of Useful Consciousness
New Directions |
October 24, 2012 |
96 pages
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At ninety-three, he shows more power than most any... More Info
$24.00
Street kids
New York Univ Pr |
May 9, 2011 |
247 pages
Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and... More Info
The Return
New Directions |
September 20, 2012 |
200 pages
A stunning collection of short stories - mostly dealing with the sex trade - by the late Chilean master and author of The Savage Detectives. The Return contains thirteen unforgettable stories that seem to tell what Bolaño called “the secret story,” “the one we’ll never know.” Bent on... More Info
$34.00
Intersexuality and the Law
New York Univ Pr |
January 1, 2012 |
184 pages
The term "intersex" evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex condition, or DSD (disorder of sex development), are men or women whose sex chromosomes, gonads, or sex anatomy... More Info
$21.00
Fat Shame
New York Univ Pr |
May 2, 2011 |
219 pages
A look at how fatness became a cultural stigma in the United States.
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No University Is an Island
New York Univ Pr |
October 1, 2011 |
289 pages
Hebrew has survived as a continuously written literature for nearly 3,000 years. It is the oldest, and in some ways most successful, minority literature. While Hebrew is central to the social history of the Jews, its history also offers a panoramic window into the relationships of other minority... More Info
$23.00
Marxism and the French Left
New York Univ Pr |
May 1, 2011 |
338 pages
During the 1970s radical politics in France underwent major changes, with the rise of the Socialist Party, the decline of the Communists, and the loss of faith in Marxism. Together with the diminished significance of the industrial proletariat and the problems presented by the electoral success of... More Info
$21.00
Whitewashed
New York Univ Pr |
April 2, 2010 |
256 pages
Middle Easterners: Sometimes White, Sometimes Not- an article by John Tehranian The Middle Eastern question lies at the heart of the most pressing issues of our time: the war in Iraq and on terrorism, the growing tension between preservation of our national security and protection of our civil... More Info
The Bully Society
New York Univ Pr |
March 6, 2012 |
304 pages
István Meszáros's bold new study analyzes the historical choices facing us at the outset of the new millennium. Drawing on the theoretical arguments of his monumental and widely-acclaimed work, Beyond Capital, Mészáros shows that the economic boom of the 1990s was built not only on the... More Info
Empire at the Periphery
New York Univ Pr |
July 18, 2011 |
293 pages
What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocationsoffers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as "Lesser Los... More Info
$24.00
Socialism in Provence, 1871-1914
New York Univ Pr |
May 1, 2011 |
370 pages
Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industrial context for the rise of socialism, Socialism in Provence 1871-1914 offers instead a reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France among the peasantry. By focusing on a limited period and a particular region, Judt... More Info
$19.95
Farmageddon
New Society Pub |
January 1, 1999 |
231 pages
Food industry and biotech expert Brewster Kneen reveals how 'life-science' conglomerates are genetically engineering food plants for corporate profit with little concern for health or the effect on the environment.
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$34.95
Toward Sustainable Communities
New Society Pub |
July 17, 2012 |
384 pages
Helps citizens and their governments apply the concept of sustainable development in their communities. Original.
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Food Security for the Faint of Heart
New Society Pub |
September 1, 2008 |
192 pages
Simple techniques for securing your food supply in an insecure world.
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Occupy Money
New Society Pub |
October 30, 2012 |
109 pages
As a medium of exchange, money is one of the most ingenious inventions of mankind, as it facilitates the trade of goods and services and allows for specialization and the division of labor. However, compound interest and inflation have caused our monetary system to balloon to the point where... More Info
$16.95
The carbon charter
New Society Pub |
July 1, 2009 |
145 pages
An indispensable guide to charting your city's green future.
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$18.95
The Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings
New Society Pub |
November 27, 2012 |
288 pages
The most complete and up-to-date guide available to energy savings in the home
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The new village green
New Society Pub |
September 1, 2007 |
265 pages
The revolutionary ideas, values, and attitudes of the green chorus.
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$29.95
The Mediator's Handbook
New Society Pub |
November 13, 2012 |
208 pages
The classic resource for effective mediation - now fully updated and expanded
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Boat Green
New Society Pub |
February 1, 2008 |
224 pages
Why "green boating" saves money, increases fun, and helps the planet.
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Unlearn, Rewild
New Society Pub |
October 9, 2012 |
225 pages
Wild by nature - radical sustainability skills and ideas for a post-industrial future
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$19.95
The Intelligent Gardener
New Society Pub |
December 11, 2012 |
336 pages
Beyond organic-- a practical guide to nutrient-dense food.
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Share Or Die
New Society Pub |
June 5, 2012 |
224 pages
A collection of messages from the front lines of the new ?Lost Generation”
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Ecothrifty
New Society Pub |
October 16, 2012 |
208 pages
When eco met thrifty ? how saving money can help save the planet
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