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ART AND SOUND Song and Self A Singer s Reflections on Music Performance Ian Bostridge University of Chicago Press 22 00 A Little History of Music Robert Philip Yale University Press 26 00 Artists Lives Michael Peppiatt Thames Hudson 39 95 Redaction Reginald Dwayne Betts Titus Kaphar W W Norton Company 100 00 STAFF FAVORITE Throughout their award winning careers visual artist and filmmaker Titus Kaphar and poet memoirist and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts have shed light on the violences of incarceration and the underexplored contradictions of American history In Redaction they unite their different mediums to expose the ways the legal system exploits and erases the poor and incarcerated from public consciousness First exhibited at MoMA PS1 the fifty Redaction prints layer Kaphar s etched portraits of incarcerated individuals with Betts s poetry which uses the legal strategy of redaction to craft verse out of legal documents The result is an astonishing powerful exploration of history incarceration and race in America Rediscovering Black Portraiture Peter Brathwaite Getty Publications 40 00 Christian Marclay Christian Marclay JRP Editions Centre Pompidou 50 00 Shop anytime at semcoop com Ralph Ellison Photographer Ralph Ellison Steidl Gordon Parks Foundation 60 00 8
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Jack Whitten: The GreekAlphabet PaintingsJack Whitten (Dia Art Foundation)$65.00
BBC Radiophonic Workshop -
A Retrospective
William L. Weir (Bloomsbury Academic)
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Madvillain’s Madvillainy
Will Hagle (Bloomsbury Academic)
$14.95Easily Slip into Another World:A Life in MusicHenry Threadgill & Brent HayesEdwards (Knopf)$32.50
Whole World in an Uproar:
Music, Rebellion and
Repression 1955-1972
Aaron Leonard (Repeater)
$16.95Bob Dylan: RetrospectrumShai Baitel, ed. (SKIRA)$40.00Where Is AfricaEmanuel Admassu & Anita N. Bateman, eds. (CARA)$35.00In 2017, curator and art historian Anita N. Bateman and architect and pro-fessor Emanuel Admassu initiated research on the traditional positioningand mispositioning of the arts across the African continent. Where Is Africa has been an extended set of exchanges with contemporary artists, curators, designers and academics who are actively engaged in repre-senting the continent—both within and outside its geographic boundaries.By examining artist collectives, new currents in art history and the rise ofcontemporary art festivals in and about Africa from the past 10 years, theproject unpacks the imperialist foundations of cultural institutions and theiranthropological fascination with African objects, people and places.
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Shop anytime at semcoop.com11Monsters: A Fan’s DilemmaClaire Dederer (Knopf)$28.00
The Call of the Tribe
Mario Vargas Llosa; John King,
trans. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
$28.00
The Curse of the Marquis de Sade
Joel Warner (Crown Publishing)
$28.99
Desegregating Comics
Qiana Whitted, ed. (Rutgers University
Press)
$34.95Afnities: On Art and FascinationBrian Dillon (New York Review Books)$18.95In this uninching, deeply personal book that expands on her instantly viralParis Review essay, “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?”Claire Dederer asks: Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Nai-paul, Miles Davis, or Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deservespecial dispensation? Is male monstrosity the same as female monstrosi-ty? Does art have a mandate to depict the darker elements of the psyche?And what happens if the artist stares too long into the abyss?In Afnities, Brian Dillon explores images and artists he is drawn to and analyzes the attraction. What does it mean to claim afnity with a picture?What do feelings of afnity imply about the experience of art and of theworld? Afnities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is notexactly taste, desire, or solidarity, but has aspects of all three. Approach-ing this subject via discrete examples, Dillon examines works by artists,as well as scientic or vernacular images of sea creatures and migraineauras. Written as a series of linked essays, Afnities completes a trilogy,with Essayism and Suppose a Sentence, about the intimate and abstractpleasures of reading and looking.STAFFFAVORITESTAFFFAVORITE
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Mel Brooks: Disobedient JewJeremy Dauber (Yale UniversityPress)$26.00
Still Pictures: On Photography
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Janet Malcolm (Farrar, Straus and
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Winnie and Nelson: Portrait
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Jonny Steinberg (Knopf)
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Happily: A Personal History—
With Fairy Tales
Sabrinah Orah Mark (Random
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$27.00
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A
Sister’s Search for Justice
Cristina Rivera Garza (Hogarth Press)
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Love Is an Ex-Country
Randa Jarrar (Catapult)
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B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship
Lost & Found
Christie Tate (Avid Reader Press)
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White Out: The Secret Life of
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Michael W. Clune (McNally Editions)
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Jeff Benedict (Avid Reader Press)
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A Hard Road to Glory, Volume
1 (1619-1918)
Arthur Ashe Jr. (Amistad)
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Driving the Green Book: A
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History of Black Resistance
Alvin Hall (HarperOne)
$29.99
Isaac Murphy: The Rise and
Fall of a Black Jockey
Katherine C. Mooney (Yale University
Press)
$25.00
Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life
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R. J. M. Blackett (Yale University
Press)
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Deadpan: The Aesthetics of
Black Inexpression
Tina Post (New York University
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$30.00
Afrofuturism: A History of
Black Futures
Nat’l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture
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$29.95Black Archives: A PhotographicCelebration of Black Life
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Nine Black Robes: Inside the
Supreme Court’s Drive to the
Right & Its Historic Consequences
Joan Biskupic (William Morrow)
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Justice by Means of Democracy
Danielle Allen (University of Chicago
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We Need to Build: Field Notes
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Eboo Patel (Beacon Press)
$18.95Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real LibertaliaDavid Graeber (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)$27.00
The Multiracial Promise
Gordon K. Mantler (University of North
Carolina Press)
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Brothers in the Beloved
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Marc Andrus (Parallax Press)
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Paved Paradise: How Parking
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Henry Grabar (Penguin Press)
$30.00Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizingrisk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of thismythology is a rich history of pirate societies—vibrant, imaginative experi-ments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges ofthe European empire. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, Graeber’s nal posthumous book, is the outgrowth of this early research and the culmination of ideasthat he developed in his classic, bestselling works Debtand The Dawn of Everything (written with the archaeologistDavid Wengrow).STAFFFAVORITE
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Invention and Innovation: A
Brief History of Hype & Failure
Vaclav Smil (The MIT Press)
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Ignorance: A Global History
Peter Burke (Yale University Press)
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Saving Time: Discovering a
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Jenny Odell (Random House)
$28.99With Freedom in Our Ears:Histories of Jewish AnarchismAnna Elena Torres (ed.) & Kenyon Zimmer (ed.) (University of Illinois Press)$30.00
The Search: Finding Meaningful
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Bruce Feiler (Penguin Press)
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The Creative Act: A Way of
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Rick Rubin (Penguin Press)
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Edible Economics: A Hungry
Economist Explains the World
Ha-Joon Chang (PublicAffairs)
$28.00Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thoughtand action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essaysthat recovers many aspects of this erased tradition. Contributors bring to lightthe presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories ofradical labor, women’s studies, political theory, multilingual literature, andethnic studies. With Freedom in Our Ears brings together more than a dozenscholars and translators to write the rst collaborative history of international,multilingual, and transdisciplinary Jewish anarchism.LOCALAUTHOR
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On Grief
Jennifer Senior (Atlantic Editions)
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The Sex Lives of African
Women
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
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$18.00W. E. B. Du Bois Souls of BlackFolk: A Graphic InterpretationW. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Peart-Smith(Rutgers University Press)$19.95What Have You Left Behind?Bushra Al-Maqtari;Sawad Hussain, trans. (Fitzcarraldo Editions)$17.95Bookstores are important. So are booksellers. And they—and the ideasand communities they serve—need protection. Preparing the ground fora more expansive book on the topic, Caine offers 50 ideas for protectingthis idiosyncratic business niche and, by extension, the neighborhoods thatbookstores anchor. Some of the ideas are straightforward: buy books atbookstores, talk them up on social media, and write glowing online reviews.Others ask you to think bigger: support your local bookstore’s neighboringbusinesses, support your local library, and lobby your elected ofcials topass legislation that ensures livable wages and makes it easier to run smallbusinesses. Especially now, with freedom of speech under attack from theright, it’s time for us to protect books and those who sell them.In 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document thesuffering of civilians in the Yemeni Civil War, which has killed over 350,000people according to the UN. Purposefully alternating between accountsfrom the victims of the Houthi militia and those of the Saudi-led coalition,al-Maqtari highlights the disillusionment and anguish felt by those trappedin a war outside of their own making. As difcult to read as it is to putdown, this unvarnished chronicle of the conict serves as a vital reminderof the scale of the human tragedy behind the headlines, and offers a sear-ing condemnation of the international community’s complicity in the war’scontinuation.STAFFFAVORITE
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ESSAYS JOURNALS FRAGMENTS STAFF FAVORITE Ordinary Notes Christina Sharpe Farrar Straus and Giroux 35 00 Book Title Author Publisher 00 00 Voyager Constellations of Memory Nona Fern ndez Natasha Wimmer trans Graywolf Press 15 00 True Stories Sophie Calle Actes Sud 22 00 STAFF FAVORITE First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since True Stories returns for the seventh time with eight new stories Calle s projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life but this book part visual memoir part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings is as close as she has come to producing an autobiography albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary as is characteristic of her work The tales never longer than a page are by turns lighthearted humorous serious dramatic or cruel Each is accompanied by an image each offers a fragment of life By turns serious hilarious dramatic or cruel these real life tales represent a form of work in progress recounting fragments of her life Quietly Hostile Essays Samantha Irby Vintage 17 00 Letters to a Writer of Color Deepa Anappara Taymour Soomro eds Random House 17 00 Shop anytime at semcoop com I Could Not Believe It The 1979 Diaries of Sean DeLear Sean DeLear Semiotext e 16 95
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The Private Lives of Trees
Alejandro Zambra; Megan McDowell,
trans. (Penguin Books)
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Black Empire
George S. Schuyler; Brooks E. Hefner
ed. (Penguin Classics)
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Right by My Side
David Haynes (Penguin Classics)
$16.00
The Unfortunates
J K Chukwu (Harper)
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The Only Daughter
A.B. Yehoshua; Stuart Schoffman,
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Island City
Laura Adamczyk (FSG Originals)
$17.00The World and All That It HoldsAleksandar Hemon (MCD)$28.00Biography of XCatherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus andGiroux)$28.00Cursed BreadSophie Mackintosh(Doubleday Books)$27.00LOCALAUTHORLOCALAUTHOR
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Your Driver Is Waiting
Priya Guns (Doubleday Books)
$26.00
The Dog of the North
Elizabeth McKenzie (Penguin Press)
$28.00
Happy Place
Emily Henry (Berkley Books)
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The Guest Lecture
Martin Riker (Black Cat)
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Fulgentius
César Aira; Chris Andrews, trans.
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Charles Portis:
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Charles Portis (Library of America)
$45.00Simple GimplIsaac Bashevis Singer (RestlessBooks)$22.00
The East Indian
Brinda Charry (Scribner Book
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I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai (Viking)
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Stories of Books and Libraries
Jane Holloway, ed. (Everyman’s
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Greek Lessons
Han Kang (Hogarth Press)
$26.00La TerceraGina Apostol (Soho Press)$27.00
Rombo
Esther Kinsky; Caroline Schmidt,
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Magda Szabó; Len Rix trans.(
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Nocturnal Apparitions
Bruno Schulz (Pushkin Collection)
$18.00In her rst novel since Insurrecto, Gina Apostol assembles a vision of Philip-pine history from the 19th century to present day in the fragmented story ofthe Delgados, a family surviving across generations of colonization, catastro-phe, and war. Rosario Delgado, a Filipina novelist in New York City, learns ofher mother’s death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home, she puts offher return by embarking on an investigation into her family’s history and hermother’s supposed inheritance, a place called La Tercera, which may or maynot exist. La Tercera is Gina Apostol’s most ambitious, personal, and encom-passing novel—a story about the impossibility of capturing the truth of thepast, and the terrible cost to a family, or a country, that fails to try.STAFFFAVORITESTAFFFAVORITELOCALAUTHOR
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The Wounded Storyteller
E. T. A. Hoffmann; Jack Zipes, trans.
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The Foxglove King
Hannah Whitten (Orbit)
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The Faithless: Book 2
C.L. Clark (Orbit)
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In the Lives of PuppetsTJ Klune (Tor Books)$28.99
Bitter Medicine
Mia Tsai (Tachyon Publications)
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Maroons
adrienne maree brown (AK Press)
$18.00 Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 M. E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi (Common Notions)$18.00The Thick and the LeanChana Porter (Gallery/Saga Press)$28.99In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live threerobots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadisticnurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. VictorLawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The dayVic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of ashared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. WhenHap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, thefamily is no longer hidden and safe. Along the way to save Gio, amid conict-ed feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Canhe accept love with strings attached?In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one clos-er to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter,ambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regu-late every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give upher secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Astartling fable of the entwined perils of capitalism, body politics, and the stig-mas women face for appetites of every kind, Chana Porter’s profound newnovel explores the reclamation of pleasure as a revolutionary act.STAFFFAVORITESTAFFFAVORITESTAFFFAVORITE
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Shop anytime at semcoop.com31Side Notes from the Archivist: PoemsAnastacia-Reneé (Amistad)$16.99
Enheduana: The Complete
Poems of the World’s First
Author
Sophus Helle (Yale University Press)
$30.00DragonsDevin Johnston(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)$26.00suddenly weEvie Shockley(Wesleyan University Press)$15.95
Uterotopia: Poems
Rachel Galvin (Persea Books)
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Promises of Gold
José Olivarez; David Ruano, trans.
(Henry Holt & Co.)
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A House Called Tomorrow:
Fifty Years of Poetry
Michael Wiegers, ed. (Copper
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$25.00Side Notes from the Archivist is a preservation of Black culture viewed through a feminist lens. The Archivist leads readers through poems that epitomizeyouthful renditions of a Black girl coming of age in Philadelphia’s pre-funk’80s; episodic adventures of “the Black Girl” whose life is depicted through thewhite gaze; and selections of verse evincing affection for self and testimony tothe magnicence within Black femme culture at-large. From internet “Fame” tothe toxicity of the white gaze, Side Notes from the Archivist cements Anasta-cia-Reneé role as a leading light in the womanist movement—an artist whosework is in conversation with advocates of Black culture and thought such asAudre Lorde, Amiri Baraka, and Nikki Giovanni.LOCALAUTHORLOCALAUTHOR
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Womb: The Inside Story of
Where We All Began
Leah Hazard (Ecco)
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What’s Gotten Into You
Dan Levitt (Harper)
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Worlds Without End:
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Chris Impey (MIT Press)
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The Liars of Nature and the
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Lixing Sun (Princeton University
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The Possibility of Life
Jamie Green (Hanover Square
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The Magick of Physics
Felix Flicker (Simon & Schuster)
$28.99Reading is perhaps the essential practice of modern civilization. For centu-ries, it has been seen as key to both personal fulllment and social progress,and millions today depend on it to participate fully in our society. Yet, at itsheart, reading is a surprisingly elusive practice. This book tells for the rsttime the story of how American scientists and others have sought to under-stand reading, and, by understanding it, to improve how people do it. Thisbook explains both how the science of reading shaped our age and why, withso-called reading wars still plaguing schools across the nation, it remainsbitterly contested.LOCALAUTHORThe Science of Reading: Information, Media, andMind in Modern AmericaAdrian Johns (University of Chicago Press)$32.50
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Sentience: The Invention of ConsciousnessNicholas Humphrey (The MIT Press)$27.95
Emotional: How Feelings
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Leonard Mlodinow (Vintage)
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Anaximander: And the Birth of
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Carlo Rovelli (Riverhead Books)
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Period: The Real Story of
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Kate Clancy (Princeton University Press)
$27.95Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform UsSusan Magsamen, Ivy Ross (Random House)$30.00We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of self.They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings: present, existent,and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this way? Do other animals? Willfuture machines? Weaving together intellectual adventure and cutting-edgescience, Nicholas Humphrey describes in Sentience his quest for answers:from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his pioneering work on socialintelligence to breakthroughs in the philosophy of mind.Many of us think of the arts as entertainment—a luxury of some kind. In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross show how activities from painting and dancing to expressive writing, architecture, and more areessential to our lives. Your Brain on Art is a portal into this new understanding about how the arts and aesthetics can help us transform traditional medicine,build healthier communities, and mend an aching planet. Featuring conver-sations with artists such as David Byrne, Renée Fleming, and evolutionarybiologist E. O. Wilson, Your Brain On Art is an authoritative guide neuroaes-thetics.
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A Kidnapped West: The
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Milan Kundera; Linda Asher, trans.
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All the Knowledge in the
World: The Extraordinary
History of the Encyclopedia
Simon Gareld (William Morrow)
$29.99Making Mexican Chicago:From Postwar Settlement toThe Age of GentricationMike Amezcua (University of ChicagoPress)$25.00The Rediscovery of America:Native Peoples and theUnmaking of U.S. HistoryNed Blackhawk (Yale UniversityPress)$35.00The Once and Future Sex:Going Medieval on Women’sRoles in SocietyEleanor Janega(W. W. Norton & Company)$30.00Twice as Hard: The Stories ofBlack Women Who Fought toBecome Physicians, from theCivil War to the 21st CenturyJasmine Brown (Beacon Press)$24.95
Homelands: A Personal
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Timothy Garton Ash
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The Wounded World: W. E. B.
Du Bois & the First World War
Chad L. Williams
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The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle
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David Chrisinger (Penguin Press)
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Rome as a Guide to the Good Life:
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Maimonides: Faith in Reason
Alberto Manguel (Yale University
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Journeys to Heaven and Hell
Bart D. Ehrman (Yale University
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$23.00The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness ofExistence and the Poetry of Our LivesJennifer Michael Hecht (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)$30.00When Bad Thinking Happensto Good PeopleSteven Nadler & Lawrence Shapiro(Princeton University Press)$18.95
Talking Cure: An Essay on the
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Paula Marantz Cohen (Princeton
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A Philosopher Looks at the
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Zena Hitz (Cambridge University
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$12.99The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection through poetry. In twenty chapters built from years ofquestions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and meaning-ful life, Jennifer Michael Hecht offers ways to mine and adapt the useful aspectsof tradition and to replace what no longer feels true. Through cultures and po-etic wisdom from around the world—Sappho, Rumi, Shakespeare, Issa, Tago-re, Frost, Szymborska, Angelou, and others—she blends literary criticism withspiritual guidance rooted in the everyday. Linking our needs to particular poems,she helps us better understand those needs, our very being, and poetry itself.
Scott Samuelson (University of Chicago Press)
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DaodejingLaozi; Brook Ziporyn, trans. (Liveright)$28.00
The Sickness Unto Death
Søren Kierkegaard; Bruce H
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Dancing in the Darkness:
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in Turbulent Times
Otis Moss III (Simon & Schuster)
$25.00The Beauty of the HebrewLetter: From Sacred Scrolls toGraftiIzzy Pludwinski(Brandeis University Press)$50.00Nietzsche in ItalyGuy De Pourtales; Will Stone, trans. (Pushkin Press)$16.95Grounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed bycareful study of recent archeological discoveries of alternate versions of thetext, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent explicators of Eastern religions inEnglish, brings us a revelatory new translation—and a radical reinterpreta-tion—of the central text of Taoist thought. Ziporyn offers an alternative to theoverly comforting tone of so many translations, revealing instead the electri-fying strangeness and explosively unsettling philosophical implications of thisfamously ambiguous work. In Ziporyn’s hands, this is no mere “wisdom book”of anodyne afrmations or mildly diverting brain-teasers—this pathbreakingDaodejing will forever change how the text is read and understood in the West.For fteen years, after his rst visit to the country in1876, Nietzsche was re-peatedly and irresistibly drawn back to Italy’s climate and lifestyle. It was therethat he composed his most famous works, including Thus Spake Zarathustra and Ecce Homo. This classic biography follows the troubled philosopher from Rome, to Florence, via Venice, Sorrento, Genoa, Sicily and nally to the trag-ic denouement in Turin, the city in which Nietzsche found a nal measure ofcontentment before his irretrievable collapse. Endlessly fascinating and high-ly readable, Nietzsche in Italy will enthral anyone interested in Nietzsche’srelationship with the country that enriched his soul more than any other.
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ENVIRONMENTAL TOPOGRAPHIES STAFF FAVORITE Design for a Better World Meaningful Sustainable Humanity Centered Don Norman The MIT Press 29 95 The Climate Book Greta Thunberg Penguin Press 30 00 Island Zombie Roni Horn Princeton University Press 29 95 The Devil s Element Phosphorus and a STAFF World out of Balance FAVORITE Dan Egan W W Norton Company 30 00 Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth firebombs rat poison nerve gas But it s also the key component of one of the most vital fertilizer which has sustained life for billions of people In this major work of explanatory science and environmental journalism Pulitzer Prize finalist Dan Egan investigates the past present and future of what has been called the oil of our time With The Devil s Element Egan has written an essential and eye opening account that urges us to pay attention to one of the most perilous but little known environmental issues of our time Syntax of the River The Pattern Which Connects Barry Lopez with Julia Martin Trinity University Press 19 95 28 The Darkness Manifesto On Light Pollution Night Ecology and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life Johan Ekl f Elizabeth DeNoma trans Scribner 26 00 Shop anytime at semcoop com The Kitchen Garden Sowing Growing and Cooking for the Garden Enthusiast Lucy Mora Thames Hudson 29 95 41
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Free Radicals
Lila Riesen (Nancy Paulsen Books)
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The Davenports
Krystal Marquis (Dial Books)
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$19.99Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Grow-ing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers havelearned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick toa schedule and keep their heads down. But when they hear a classmate introuble in the woods, instinct takes over and they intervene, breaking up a ghtand beating their high school’s star soccer player to a pulp. This act of violencethreatens the brothers’ dreams for the future and their beliefs about who theyare.Told in alternating points of view using vignettes and poems, debut authorAri Tison crafts an emotional, slow-burning drama about brotherhood, abuse,recovery, and doing the right thing.STAFFFAVORITE
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When You Wish Upon A Lantern
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Talia Hibbert (Joy Revolution)
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Jumata Emill (Delacorte Press)
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Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt & Co.
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Mark Oshiro (Tor Teen)
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Stars and Smoke
Marie Lu (Roaring Brook Press)
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$19.99A comforting and useful resource for anyone who’s struggling emotionally andlooking for help―from the nation’s leading community-based nonprot that ad-dresses the needs of those living with mental illness It can be extremely hard togure out what’s going on in our own heads when we are suffering—when wefeel alone and unworthy and can’t stop our self-critical inner voice. And it’s evenmore difcult to know where to go for answers. This book is a perfect rst step.Here you’ll nd clear, honest, reassuring information about all the most commonmental illnesses and what you can do to nd help and to practice self-care.LOCALAUTHOR
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Where You See Yourself
Claire Forrest (Scholastic Press)
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I Kick and I Fly
Ruchira Gupta (Scholastic Press)
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Kat Cho (Disney Hyperion)
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$11.99GiftenLeyla Suzan (Pushkin Children’sBooks)Ages 13+$13.95There Goes the NeighborhoodJade Adia (Disney-Hyperion)Ages 12+$18.99The gang is fake, but the fear is real. Rhea’s neighborhood is fading away-themom-and-pop shops of her childhood forced out to make space for an artisanalkombucha brewery here, a hot yoga studio there. And everywhere, the feelingthat this place is no longer meant for her. Because while their little corner ofSouth L.A. isn’t perfect, to Rhea and her two best friends, it’s something evenmore important-it’s home. And it’s worth protecting. But as more white peopleock to their latest edgy, urban paradise for its cheap rent and sparkling newWhole Foods, more of Rhea’s friends and family are pushed out. Until Rhea de-cides it’s time to push back. All Rhea wanted to do was protect her community.Her friends. No one was supposed to get hurt. No one was supposed to die.STAFFFAVORITESTAFFFAVORITE
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