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Cruel Optimism – $475

A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism...

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Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2 – $1,095

  Since Hans Ulrich Obrist–museum director, curator, writer, cultural instigator and professional conversationalist–released his bestselling first volume of interviews back in 2004, one wonders if...

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Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art – $945

  Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art documents the growing presence of Buddhist perspectives in contemporary culture. This shift began in the nineteenth century and is now pervasive in many aspects of...

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Collected Fictions – $285

  Gordon Lish, as fiction editor at Esquire magazine (where he earned the nickname “Captain Fiction”) and then at the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, shaped the work of many of the country’s foremost...

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Moment of Freedom: The Heiligenberg Manuscript – $395

  The first novel in the acclaimed “History of Bestiality” trilogy. Living high in the Alps in a German principality, our narrator tells us he’s dutifully fulfilling his obligations as a Servant of...

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Dance 2wice – $325

Dance 2wice is a collection of unique photographic essays dedicated to contemporary dance, distilled from the pages of the celebrated interdisciplinary arts journal 2wice. The images explore the...

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The President in Her Towers – $295

THE PRESIDENT IN HER TOWERS is a deft, daft satire of bureaucracy, paranoia, professional envy, megalomania, the madness of specialization and the absence of transparency as they infect the university...

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Pow! – $415

  In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice’s tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama—in...

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Let It Be Morning – $245

In his debut, Dancing Arabs, Sayed Kashua established himself as one of the most daring voices of the Middle East. In his searing new novel, a young Arab journalist returns to his hometown — an Arab...

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The Friday Gospels – $295

It’s Friday in the Leeke household, but this is no ordinary Friday: the Leekes are Lancastrian Mormons and tonight they will be welcoming back their son Gary from his two-year mission in Utah. His...

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In Times of Fading Light: A Novel – $350

  An enthrallingly expansive family saga set against the backdrop of the collapse of East German communism, from a major new international voice. In Times of Fading Light begins in September 2001 as...

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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle – $275

We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating...

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The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays – $245

  Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works—books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation—The Fun Stuff confirms Wood’s preeminence, not...

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Estelle Hanania – Dondoro – $525

Dondoro is a photographic work born from the collaboration between Estelle Hanania and the famous Japanese puppet master Hoichi Okamoto.  Enigmatic creator who lived alone in the Japanese countryside...

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Work, Sex, and Power: The Forces that Shaped Our History – $575

The forces that shape our history are always contentious, yet our fascination with what drives the actions of the human race is inexhaustible. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond proposed one set...

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Museum Ideas: 487 pages of groundbreaking ideas – $1,195

Benefit from the creative ideas and valuable experience of 100 leading museum innovators based in 16 countries across 6 continents. This substantial and authoritative new 487 page volume brings...

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