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David Foster Wallace

The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart**.**“To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other.” ...

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David A. Wallace

Redefines military logistics as a decisive, combat-focused element shaping victory in modern multi-domain warfare.Sustain the Fight transforms military logistics from administrative support into strategic warfare. This combat-focused manual shatters the dangerous illusion that logistics officers are “support personnel” operating safely in rear areas, revealing instead their proper role as lethality enablers whose decisions determine victory or defeat in mo...

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David Wallace-Wells

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times ...

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David Wallace

THE DRUG ADDICTION RECOVERY GUIDEYou’re about to discover what causes drug addiction, and the best methods for overcoming it.This book covers the root causes of drug addiction, how to seek professional help, how to create a support group and how to avoid relapse.Drug addiction takes many lives around the world each year, and wrecks those of families and friends effected by the addict. Addiction can be complicated, but with the right help it can be b...

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David Foster Wallace

The remarkable debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality. First published in 1987, now available in a brand-new paperback edition.**“Daring, hilarious ... a zany picaresque adventure of contemporary America run amok.” —**New York TimesAt the center of The Broom of the System is the bewitching—and also bewildered—heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsma...

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David Foster Wallace

A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA hilarious, fearless, and original story about IRS employees confronting boredom, bureaucracy, and the strange difficulty of paying attention in everyday life, from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest**.****"breathtakingly brilliant" —**New York TimesThe agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly ...

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Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - notably quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry, and thermal physics - and their strange, even bizarre conceptual implications. A deeper understanding of these theories helps both physics, through pointing the way to new theories and new applications, and philosophy, through seeing how our worldview has to change in the light of wh...

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David Foster Wallace

A collection of seven witty and incisive essays that examine the absurdities of 1990’s American culture, consumerism, and entertainment through the uniquely funny, philosophical, and relentlessly observant perspective of David Foster Wallace, bestselling author of Infinite Jest**.**In this exuberantly praised book —a collection of seven essays on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David...

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David Foster Wallace

Fifteen never-before-collected essays by "one of America's most daring and talented writers" all published in book form for the first time ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; Terminator 2 and The Best of the Pros...

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David Foster Wallace

Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here — with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely.This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work — essays like his famous cruise-ship piece, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," excerpts from his novels The Broom of the Sys...

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David Foster Wallace

The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Pale King and Infinite Jest weighs in on a philosophical controversy in this fascinating early work.In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but al...

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David Foster Wallace

From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster**: a collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer at the peak of his powers.**A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. On Tennis p...