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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia By Elizabeth Gilbert Penguin (Non-Classics) Paperback (352 pages) List Price: $16.00* Lowest New Price: $7.55* Lowest Used Price: $6.98* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9780143118428 Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product Description: This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead, what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India, and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali. By turns rapturous and rueful, this wise and funny author (whom Booklist calls "Anne Lamott’s hip, yoga- practicing, footloose younger sister") is poised to garner yet more adoring fans.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Vintage) By Christopher McDougall Vintage Released: 2011-01-04 Paperback (304 pages) List Price: $15.00* Lowest New Price: $10.12* Not yet published* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?   Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians of have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner, Chris McDougall sets out to discover their secrets. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pits America’s best ultra-runners against the tribe. McDougall’s incredible story will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.

Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain General Books LLC Paperback (262 pages) List Price: $34.14* Lowest New Price: $11.98* Lowest Used Price: $23.77* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Mississippi River; Mississippi River Valley; Pilots and pilotage; Mississippi river; Mississippi valley;

Kitchen Confidential By Anthony Bourdain Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audio Cassette List Price: $18.60* Lowest New Price: $78.62* Lowest Used Price: $78.63* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he first experiences the real delights of being a chef); from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny. This unforgettable book will change the way you view restaurants for ever.

Barcelona Insight Guide (Insight Guides) By No Author APA Publications Pte Ltd Paperback (350 pages) Lowest Used Price: $8.33* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This updated edition of a guidebook on Barcelona shows how the city developed into the main centre of Catalonia. It includes up-to-date, easy-to-decipher maps. There are also tips on travel, excursions, accommodation and restaurants.

Into the Wild By Jon Krakauer Pan Books Paperback (224 pages) List Price: $16.50* Lowest New Price: $7.00* Lowest Used Price: $1.30* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Using the true story of a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude and contact with nature.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal By Eric Schlosser Random House Audio Released: 2002-01-08 Audio Cassette List Price: $29.95* Lowest New Price: $10.99* Lowest Used Price: $3.56* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Six Cassettes, 9 hrs. Read by Rick Adamson FAST FOOD NATION - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette! Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelling the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from the California subdivisions where the business was born to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths - from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, even real estate. He also uncovers the fast food chains' efforts to reel in the youngest, most susceptible consumers even while they hone their institutionalized exploitation of teenagers and minorities. Schlosser then turns a critical eye toward the hot topic of globalization - a phenomenon launched by fast food.

A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition By Bill Bryson Broadway Released: 2010-10-05 Paperback (624 pages) List Price: $28.00* Lowest New Price: $18.48* Not yet published* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, beloved author Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as his territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Now, in this handsome new edition, Bill Bryson’s words are supplemented by full-color artwork that explains in visual terms the concepts and wonder of science, at the same time giving face to the major players in the world of scientific study. Eloquently and entertainingly described, as well as richly illustrated, science has never been more involving or entertaining. From the Hardcover edition.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS By Immanuel Kant Norman Publishing Kindle Edition List Price: $1.99* *(As of 19:04 Pacific 2 Sep 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: PREFACE Ancient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics, ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the nature of the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is to add the principle on which it is based, so that we may both satisfy ourselves of its completeness, and also be able to determine correctly the necessary subdivisions. All rational knowledge is either material or formal: the former considers some object, the latter is concerned only with the form of the understanding and of the reason itself, and with the universal laws of thought in general without distinction of its objects. Formal philosophy is called logic. Material philosophy, however, has to do with determinate objects and the laws to which they are subject, is again twofold; for these laws are either laws of nature or of freedom. The science of the former is physics, that of the latter, ethics; they are also called natural philosophy and moral philosophy respectively. Logic cannot have any empirical part; that is, a part in which the universal and necessary laws of thought should rest on grounds taken from experience; otherwise it would not be logic, i.e., a canon for the understanding or the reason, valid for all thought, and capable of demonstration. Natural and moral philosophy, on the contrary, can each have their empirical part, since the former has to determine the laws of nature as an object of experience; the latter the laws of the human will, so far as it is affected by nature: the former, however, being laws according to which everything does happen; the latter, laws according to which everything ought to happen. Ethics, however, must also consider the conditions under which what ought to happen frequently does not.