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Whet Moser Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen
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since we're having discourse about how college should be a gladiatorial war of controversial ideas again, what i will say is the paper that i think i learned the most from writing was about landscape architecture in "mansfield park," everyone's least favorite jane austen novel

Paperback, 2017

$11.00Member price:$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement, Thomas Geoghegan

Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement

Thomas Geoghegan
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@thefarmerjones @TrentonHassles only one thing can save us (more think pieces about masks)

Paperback, 2016

$17.95Member price:$17.05 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen
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since we're having discourse about how college should be a gladiatorial war of controversial ideas again, what i will say is the paper that i think i learned the most from writing was about landscape architecture in "mansfield park," everyone's least favorite jane austen novel

Out of stock

Book Cover for: Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black America (10th Anniversary Edition), Beryl Satter

Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black America (10th Anniversary Edition)

Beryl Satter
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my gravestone is going to read "read 'liquidated' by karen ho (and 'family properties' by beryl satter if you live in chicago)"

Paperback, 2021

$24.00Member price:$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, Eric Cervini

The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

Eric Cervini
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finished “the deviant’s war” by eric cervini last night. one of the best histories i’ve read in awhile (pre-stonewall gay rights, mostly the fight for government employment) https://t.co/YYhvrKUPWt

Paperback, 2021

$23.00Member price:$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen
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since we're having discourse about how college should be a gladiatorial war of controversial ideas again, what i will say is the paper that i think i learned the most from writing was about landscape architecture in "mansfield park," everyone's least favorite jane austen novel

Out of stock

Book Cover for: Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, Jefferson Cowie

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson Cowie
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@mimismartypants jefferson cowie wrote a whole book kind of about this called “stayin’ alive” about how so much pop culture then was like that (like the bee gee’s song it’s named after)

Paperback, 2012

$28.00Member price:$26.60 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen
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my big gift to my mom was the complete* harvard belknap annotated jane austen, they are amazing. like ideal annotations *northanger abbey hasn’t arrived yet

Paperback, 2017

$5.40Member price:$2.70 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style, W. David Marx

Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style

W. David Marx
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@johnedugan if it doesn't come up in the podcast (and it probably does; it's on my list but haven't gotten to it yet), "ametora" by w. david marx is *fantastic*

Hardcover, 2023

$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Snowy Day, Ezra Jack Keats

The Snowy Day

Ezra Jack Keats
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TIL that "the snowy day" is the most checked-out book in the history of the NYPL https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/arts/music/snowy-day-ezra-jack-keats-opera.html don't sleep on EJK's version of john henry

Board Book, 1996

$8.99Member price:$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book