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Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology, takes readers on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way people think. Selected by the "New York Times B...

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Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition ...

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Gluck presents her 11th collection of poems that takes its name from Averno, a small crater lake in southern Italy regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.

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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution-from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality-and re...

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The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit?Animation is one of the hottest areas of filmmaking today--and the master animator who bridges the old generation and the new is Richard W...

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One of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry delivers his long-awaited first book, and shares all of his secrets for writing a compelling script.

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A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia T...

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A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn , Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control ...

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Two systems drive the way humans think and make choices: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman exposes the extraordina...

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicat...

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Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. When Dr. Ha Nguyen-a pioneering marine biologist with a very specific, cephalopod-f...

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"She was like a storm." -Leonard Cohen Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter , the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenchin...

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Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are a thrice-blessed couple -- handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, almost at once, Lucy be...

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Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Translation Mahmoud Darwish was that rare literary phenomenon: a poet both acclaimed by critics as one of the most important poets in the Arab world and beloved by his readers. His language--lyrical and ten...

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The award-winning, renowned Guardian columnist Oliver Burkeman offers a lively, entertaining philosophical guide to time and time management ...

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"As original as it is affecting . . . left me genuinely creeped out, unsettled, and shaken. An existentially frightening book." -Paul Tremblay, author of Survivor Song "Hold on, this isn't a ride, it's a slide, and it doesn't care w...

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A single-volume hardcover edition that brings together the three volumes of the Southern Reach Trilogy, which were originally published as paperback originals in February, May, and September 2014. Annihilation is the first volume in Jeff VanderMee...

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Yoga is reputed to improve our physical and mental health, and to help us become more productive at work, more caring in relationships, and more responsible contributors to society. If yoga does accomplish all that--and most practitioners will swe...

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A renowned political philosopher rethinks the role that markets and money should play in the society. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of the time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale?

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From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a notorious artist. When X-an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter-falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing...

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The follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel We Hunt the Flame! After the battle on Sharr that closed We Hunt the Flame, Zafira and Nasir return to a ghostly Sultan's Keep, low on resources and allies alike. The dark forest has fallen, bu...

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Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail!"...

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In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened . . .

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The final installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy

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A bold and entertaining account of the history, philosophy and technology of hacking-and why we all need to understand it. It is a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information age and yet we do not know how it works. In Fancy Bear Go...

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A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wron...

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In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William Ja...

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The follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel We Hunt the Flame! After the battle on Sharr that closed We Hunt the Flame , Zafira and Nasir return to a ghostly Sultan's Keep, low on resources and allies alike. The dark forest has fallen, b...

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The Strange Bird -from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer-expands and weaves deeply into the world of his "thorough marvel"* of a novel, Borne . The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory-she is pa...

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It's totally familiar but dreamlike at the same time," observes one American of Amsterdam's notorious Red Light District in the stunning new work from Adam Rapp. Escaping their lives in Manhattan, former college buddies Matt and Davis take of...

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