William S. Burroughs: A Life
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It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only...
Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
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Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist...
Jim Clark: Tribute to a Champion
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A new edition of the universally acclaimed out-of-print 1997 book is lightly edited & completely...
Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
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Tsenhor was born about 550 bce in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later,...
The Big Thing: How to Complete Your Creative Project Even If You're a Lazy, Self-Doubting Procrastinator Like Me
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A New York Times business journalist explains why it's important for people to pursue big creative...
The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
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One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed...
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
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Adventure writer Richard Grant takes on "the most American place on Earth" the enigmatic, beautiful,...
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
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Why was the discourse of family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market revolution of...
Ryan McGinley: Whistle for the Wind
John Kelsey, Chris Kraus, Ryan McGinley and Gus Van Sant
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In 2000, Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in an abandoned...
Interstate: Express Highway Politics, 1939-2009
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This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It...