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The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life (Hardcover)

By Johan Eklöf, Elizabeth DeNoma (Translated by)

$20.80

ISBN: 9781668000892

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Published: Scribner - February 14th, 2023

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We’ve all understood light pollution - light from homes, businesses, street lamps, etc. particularly in urban areas - prevents us from seeing what our ancestors routinely saw of the night sky. Eklof shows us the effects of light pollution are infinitely more significant as light is so highly disruptive to the life cycles of countless species critical to the health of planetary ecosystems.

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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War (Paperback)

By Howard W. French

$19.95

ISBN: 9781324092407

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Published: Liveright - October 25th, 2022

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French restores the centrality of Africa to what is often seen as the modern economic and political ascendancy of Europe. Incredibly rich in detail provided by recent scholarship and informed by French’s own contemporary reporting from the region, Born in Blackness helps to forever change how we view the last 700 years of the Trans-Atlantic world.

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Rosamond Purcell: Nature Stands Aside (Hardcover)

By Gordon Wilkins, Mark Dion, Christoph Irmscher, Errol Morris, Belinda Rathbone

$65.00

ISBN: 9780847872282

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Published: Rizzoli Electa - September 13th, 2022

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This monograph by notable local artist Rosamond Purcell serves as the catalogue of a spectacular career retrospective exhibition currently taking up the entire 2nd floor of the Addison Gallery in Andover until Dec. 31st. With several insightful essays as well as an interview with the artist, this book stunningly displays the evolution of this remarkable American artist.

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One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World (Hardcover)

By Michael Frank, Maira Kalman (Illustrator)

$28.00

ISBN: 9781982167226

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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 6th, 2022

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Over the course of six years Frank, with much kindness and patience, elicits from Stella Levi her profoundly moving story of the Juderia of Rhodes, a community of Jews who lived on the island for hundreds of years and were brutally deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz in 1943. Frank’s loving portrait of Levi is luminescent.

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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders (Paperback)

By Dennis C. Rasmussen

$18.95

ISBN: 9780691241418

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Published: Princeton University Press - November 8th, 2022

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It will come as a surprise to many, as it did to me, almost all the Founding Fathers, save Madison, were so disillusioned by what had become of the experiment of the republic they helped create they did not expect it to survive much longer past their lifetimes. Rasmussen explains why.

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Orwell's Roses (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Solnit

$28.00

ISBN: 9780593083369

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Published: Viking - October 19th, 2021

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That Orwell was a gardener may come as a surprise to many. Even more so the idea, as Solnit so clearly and elegantly shows, his close observation of the natural world and the beauty he found there was central to his humanistic vision and was reflected in all he wrote.

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Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher (Hardcover)

By David R. Godine

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ISBN: 9781567926767

Published: David R. Godine Publisher - December 14th, 2021

One of the distinct pleasures of working in the book business over the many years of my career has been those times I spent perusing the catalogs of David R. Godine and sometimes meeting in a sales call with the man himself. A pleasure because Godine’s offerings were always out of the ordinary and the catalogs themselves were as carefully produced as you knew the books would be. I own many and have sold most of the books described in this celebration. It is a delight to read the backstory of the publishing of not only my favorites but also those I have yet to read and no doubt now will want to.

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The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Hardcover)

By Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.

$30.00

ISBN: 9781631498985

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Published: Liveright - September 21st, 2021

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Ellis, in his new one-volume history skillfully manages the large cast of characters and the diplomatic, political and military aspects to tell a compelling story of the American revolution. Informed by a consensus of current scholarship it is both elegantly written and entertaining.

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The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)

By Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post

$30.00

ISBN: 9781982159009

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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 31st, 2021

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The Pentagon Papers is the obvious inspiration for Whitlock’s title. At first, I was suspect as the length of the book seemed to indicate it was not as encompassing an examination of U.S. involvement in its longest war as it’s model. The Afghanistan Papers, however, brings to light decades of interviews with the actual boots on the ground through the military’s own “Lessons Learned” project. What is compelling clear is that the U.S. took almost nothing from the lessons of our involvement in Vietnam. Once again, year after year, the top brass and our politicians lied about the progress being made in yet another unwinnable war without a clear strategy in a country we never made the effort to understand. Read this book to find out why what is happening in Afghanistan today is not in the least surprising and long ago foreseen.

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Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is (Hardcover)

By Gretel Ehrlich

$26.95
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ISBN: 9780307911797

Published: Pantheon - January 5th, 2021

 

Very much a bookend to her first book, the 1985 memoir Solace of Open Spaces set in Wyoming where she came to make her home, Ehrlich’s new work is much darker for she’s witness to the calamitous effects of climate change on the distant places and people she’s come to love over the past decades, from Greenland to Japan to Africa. In the end it’s a book not without hope as it is also a story of resilience , renewal, and once again, love.

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