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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 Rains Wallace

Described as "a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers" by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention in this new book to another distinctive corner of California—its desert, the driest and hottest environment in North America. Drawing from his frequent forays to Death Valley, Red Rock Canyon, Kelso Dunes, and other locales, Wallace illuminates the desert’s intriguing flora and fauna as he explores a contr...

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David Foster Wallace

A celebrated collection of David Foster Wallace’s witty and deeply observant essays exploring everything from lobster festivals and politics to the nature of human suffering, from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest**.****"brilliantly entertaining...**Consider the Lobster **proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" —**Cleveland Plain Dealer

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David Foster Wallace

In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World,' which reveals a woman's agonized consideration ...

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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 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

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

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 Wallace

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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

In this hilarious essay, originally published in the collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again**, David Foster Wallace chronicles his seven days in the Caribbean aboard the m.v. Zenith.**Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. He showcase his writing prowess as he shares his experiences partaking in supposed...

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David Foster Wallace

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The Last Interview Series

An expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the authorA unique selection of the best interviews given by David Foster Wallace, including the last he gave before his suicide in 2008. Complete with an introduction by Foster Wallace's friend and NY Times journalist, David Streitfeld. And including a new, never-before-published interview between Streitfeld and Wallace.

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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...