Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2009. First, thus. Pamphlet. 6 x 9, 277 pgs, index. The author traveled the world to meet the planet's longest-living people and learned nine powerful yet simple lessons that could put you on the path to longer life. More
New York: Norton, 1999. Reprint. Paperback. 6 x 9, 424 pgs, index, glossary, notes, bibliography. Tells the great sotry of how life on earth evolved. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Revised. Paperback. 6 x 9, 293 pgs, index, notes, section of b&w historical photos. Biography of the legendary horticulturist Luther Burbank (1849-1926). Captivating reading for both the garden lover and the botanical specialist. More
Cape Cod, MA: Allen D. Bragdon Publishers, 2001. First edition. Pamphlet. 6 x 7 1/2, 223 pgs, b&w illustrations. Three months to a better brain with 176 performance tips, fun puzzles to increase memory and math and language skills. More
New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1.2 x 8 1/2, 336 pgs. The founder of Commonweal discusses the problem of isolation and disconnection in American society and sets forth her vision of how life should be lived, drawing on her work as a psycho-oncologist and her own..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 2007. Pamphlet. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 273 pgs. A set of stories set inside the four wals of a hospital that end up telling us something unforgettable about the world outside. More
New York: Henry Holt, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 209 pgs. A gripping exploration of the nature of complexity in our lives and essential reading for anyone working to get things right. More
Traverse City, MI: Healthy Living Books, Inc., 2004. First printing. Pamphlet. 6 x 9, 353 pgs, references. How to create your own personalized nutritional supplement program. More
New York: Penguin Books, 1983. Mass Market Paperback. 4 x 7, 248 pgs. First published in 1925. "Mysterious letters are received by three Highland landowners declaring that on a given date a deer or salmon will be poached from their lands. They are all signed "John Macnab"." Great story! More
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 304 pgs, bibliography. A historical mystery set in present-day Cambridge, involving a series of murders as the seventeenth century seeps into the 21st. A great read! More
New York: Frederick Fell, Inc., 1947. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 312 pgs. Fictional stories by Thomas Mann, Ben Hecht, Langston Hughes, James Joyce, and many others. More
New York: Random House, 2001. Large Print Edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 256 pgs. Shines a searing spotlight on public figures from George W. Bush to Hillery Clinton to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Dan Rather and more. More
New York: Norton, 1985. Reprint. Pamphlet. 5 1/2 x 8, 320 pgs, index. Interesting ideas and intriguing information about how we detect lies. The author used history, fiction and laboratory studies to shed light on some of our strongest impulses and most deeply human behavior. Contains a significant amount of..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 240 pgs. A collection of eighteen essays, reports and reminiscences (all but one of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker as a "Letter from the East" or some other compass point). A first-rate collection of wise..... More
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 361 pgs. This powerful and gripping novel sweeps one along while providing rich and previously unknown history of San Francisco during the time of the disastrous San Francisco earthquake of 1906. More
New York: Doubleday, 2008. Pamphlet. 6 x 9, 286 pgs. The strange history of the 350-year-long debate between religion and science as seen through the oddly momentous journey of the skull and bones of the great French philosopher Rene Descartes. Slight damp wrinkling to pages near front of book... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 497 pgs, index, notes, b&w historical illustrations. The author's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the author of The Prince and a study of the roles of work and leisure in Western culture. More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1975. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 302 pgs, mapped endsheets, section of b&w photos. A detailed history of the legislation that settled the Natives' land claims, giving them some financial remuneration and some land, and that finally permitted construction of the controversial Trans-Alaska pipeland..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 9, 675 pgs, index, color photos throughout. An encyclopedia of North American birds. An ideal companion to Peterson field guides. Entries include color photos and maps. Covers 680 species that regularly populate North America and 230 that visit occasionally. More
New York: Random House, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 231 pgs, section of b&w historical photos. The story behind the ambushing and killing of the architect of Pearl Harbor. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
Ontario, Canada: Algrove Publishng, 2004. Paperback. 6 x 7 1/2, 144 pgs, b&w cartoons. More
New York: Tom Doherty, 1999. First, thus. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 304 pgs. The complete, colorful story of America's most memorable fighting force, the volunteer cavalry known as the Rough Riders. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. Later printing. Paperback. 5 x 8, 244 pgs. Cather's 1918 romantic novel of a pioneer woman. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1979. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 210 pgs, illus/color photos. Takes a modern day journey over the Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail, and others, comparing the history of each with the current reality. A fine Western heritage book with chapters by Wallace Stegner, Mark Simmons, Don..... More
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 322 pgs, index, bibliography, b&w photos. Rigorous evaluation of the oldest North American archeological sites and human remains offers well-reasoned hypotheses about the physical characteristcs, lives, and relationships of the First Americans. Signed by the author..... More