Awards search:National Book Critics Circle Award

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Paperback, 1980
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Sacred Geometry and Architecture, Earth Mysteries and Archaeo-Astronomy, Mathematics, Philosophy
Collection
Don

The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman
Hardcover, 2007
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Ecology and Natural History, Extinction, Mayan Civilization, Environmental Crisis, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

Orientalism

by Edward W. Said
Paperback, 1979
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Orientalism and Egyptomania, Egypt, Ancient Mediterranean and Fertile Crescent
Collection
Whealton

The Gnostic Gospels

by Elaine Pagels
Paperback, 1979
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Gnosticism and Non-Canonical Texts, God, Jesus Christ, Heresy, Nag Hammadi, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

The gnostic Gospels

by Elaine H. Pagels
Paper Book, 1979
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Nag Hammadi Library, Gnosticism and Non-Canonical Texts, Gospels, Christianity
Collection
Don

The gnostic gospels

by Elaine H. Pagels
Paper Book, 1979
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Gnosticism and Non-Canonical Texts, Gospels, Christianity
Collection
Gus

The Gnostic Gospels

by Elaine Pagels
Paperback, 1979
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Gnosticism and Non-Canonical Texts, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

The gnostic gospels

by Elaine H. Pagels
Paper Book, 1979
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Gnosticism and Non-Canonical Texts, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

The gnostic gospels

by Elaine H. Pagels
Paper Book, 1979
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Gnosticism and Non-Canonical Texts, Nag Hammadi Library, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard
Paperback, 2016
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Graeco-Roman World, Roman History, Roman Empire, Romulus, Remus, Bibliography, Julius Caesar
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Gifts

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

by Jacques Barzun
Paperback, 2001
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History, Western Civilization
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Gifts

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

by Carl Sagan
Paperback, 1977
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Human Genetic History, Human Evolution, Brain, Bibliography
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Gifts

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

by S. C. Gwynne
Paperback, 2011
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North America, Comanches, Quanah Parker, Native Americans, Captivity, American West, Texas, Bibliography
Collection
Gifts

The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

by Bruno Bettelheim
Hardcover, 1976
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Folklore, Fairy Tales, Bibliography, Oedipal Conflict, Brothers Grimm, Psychoanalysis, Animal Folklore, Children
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Gifts

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

by Daniel C. Dennett
Paperback, 2007
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Studies of Religion, Origin of Religion, God, Evolution, Atheism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Religion, Science and Religion
Collection
Gifts

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

by Susan Faludi
Paperback, 2006
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Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Antifeminism, Fashion, Beauty, Media, Politics, Reproductive Rights, Working Women, Popular Psychology
Collection
Anna

How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

by Sherwin B. Nuland
Hardcover, 1994
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Death and Dying, Aging, Suicide
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Gifts

Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief

by Lawrence Wright
Paper Book, 2013
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New Religious Movements, Scientology
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Gifts

This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust
Paper Book, 2008
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Death and Dying, Folklore, Funerary Rituals, American Civil War, Sanitary Commissions
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Don

Cadillac desert : the American West and its disappearing water

by Marc Reisner
Paper Book, 1993
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Environmentalism, Politics, Water Politics
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Gus

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology

by Lawrence Weschler
Paperback, 1996
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Libraries, Museums, Curios, Cabinets of Curiosities, Cabinets of Wonders, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Wunderkammer, Tradescants, Ashmole, Mutter Museum
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Gifts

A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes

by Adam Rutherford
Paper Book, 2017
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Human Genetic History, Genomes, Human Genetics, Inbreeding, Race, Genetic Diseases, Cro Magnons, Denisovans, Neanderthals, Australopithecus, Homo — 12 more, British Genetic Map, Iceland, Black Death, Richard III, Jack the Ripper, Francis Galton, Eugenics, Eons, Introns, Pseudogenes, Microsatellites, Human History
Collection
Anna

Breaking the Maya Code

by Michael D. Coe
Hardcover, 1992
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Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Glyphs, Decipherment, ZZZ
Collection
Greg

Breaking the Maya code

by Michael D. Coe
Paper Book, 2012
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Mayan Language, Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Central America, South America, Decipherment, Language, Glyphs
Collection
Don

Breaking the Maya code

by Michael D. Coe
Paper Book, 1999
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Maya, Mexico and Central America, Indigenous Peoples, Glyphs, Decipherment, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

The Hindus : an alternative history

by Wendy Doniger
Paper Book, 2009
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Hinduism, History, Mahabharata, Ghandhi, Buddhism, Jainism, Society, Culture, Pre-History, Indian Religions, Rig Veda — 9 more, Upanishads, Ramayana, Gods, Goddesses, Caste, Brahmanism, Sacrifice, Krishna, Shiva
Collection
Gus

The Hindus: An Alternative History

by Wendy Doniger
Paperback, 2010
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Hinduism, History, Mahabharata, Ghandhi, Buddhism, Jainism, Society, Culture, Pre-History, Indian Religions, Rig Veda — 10 more, Upanishads, Ramayana, Gods, Goddesses, Caste, Brahmanism, Sacrifice, Krishna, Shiva, ZZZ
Collection
Gifts

The queen's throat: opera, homosexuality, and the mystery of desire

by Wayne Koestenbaum
Paper Book, 1993
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LGBTQ+ Studies, Opera
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Gifts

Stranger magic : charmed states and The Arabian nights

by Marina Warner
Paper Book, 2012
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Arabian Nights, Islam, Djinn, Folklore, Art, Magic
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Don

Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic

by Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe
Hardcover, 1982
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Ritual Magic and Alchemy, Ritual Magic, Alchemy, Magic, Theory, Mysticism, History of Magic, Social Theory of Magic, Social Action, Symbolism, Symbols — 6 more, Religion, Self-Defense, Institutions, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychoanalysis
Collection
Don

Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic

by Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe
Paperback, 1983
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History of Magic, Ritual Magic, Alchemy, Magic, Social Theory of Magic, Social Action, Symbolism, Symbols, Religion, Self-Defense, Institutions — 3 more, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychoanalysis
Collection
Anna
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