Bombingham
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| Author | Andrew Martin |
| ISBN | 0374146128 |
A wry, supersmart, seriocomic first novel from a prodigious talent—a Sentimental Education for our time
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| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 1101947748 |
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| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
| Author | Daniel Mendelsohn |
| ISBN | 0385350597 |
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist this return to the classroom is his "one last...
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
| Author | Will Gompertz |
| ISBN | 0670920495 |
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, art history with a sense of humor
Every year, millions of museum and gallery visitors ponder the modern art on display and secretly ask themselves, "Is this art?" A former director at London's Tate Gallery and now the BBC arts editor, Will Gompertz...
| Author | Edith Hall |
| ISBN | 0393351165 |
The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But understanding...
What Is Ancient Philosophy?
| Author | Pierre Hadot |
| ISBN | 0674013735 |
A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy--and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names,...
