The Book Company: New Products - Essays

Away Games (Public Affairs Encounters in Maine and the World)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:39:05 +0000

In this memoir-in-short-stories, Nathaniel Bowditch writes about the characters, cultures, and conflicts he encountered in his wide-ranging public affairs career, including time with the Peace Corps and U.S.A.I.D.

In Away Games, Nathaniel Bowditch describes his "gigs" as a man..

Price: $22.95

More Fun, Please (Exploring the Strange Intersection of Identity and Pop Cuture)

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:19:35 +0000

A pop culture odyssey in search of answers to "Who am I?" and "What the heck am I doing here?"

More Fun, Please: Exploring the Strange Intersection of Identity and Pop Culture lovingly dissects the overt and underlying influences of popular culture on personal development an..

Price: $17.95

On Drugs

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 01:57:25 +0000

A reframing of simplistic good-or-bad, black-or-white narratives about drugs.

What is a drug? The answer seems so obvious that the question is hardly worth asking. We can all agree that cocaine is a drug, or methamphetamine, or cannabis. But what about sugar? Caffeine? T..

Price: $16.95

Grief Theory

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:00:12 +0000

From the acclaimed author of Where Things Touch comes a rigorous interrogation of grief as an intimate register of loss, and political transformation.

In Bahar Orang’s formally innovative collection, grief emerges as neither innocent nor private but as structured b..

Price: $20.00

A Life in Men (A Memoir)

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:29:46 +0000

Merritt Tierce, author of the “dangerous and breathtaking” (Roxane Gay) novel Love Me Back, returns with an explosive memoir about the turbulent relationships with men that have shaped her.

Merritt Tierce’s debut novel, Love Me Back, was acclaimed for its raw emotional ..

Price: $30.00

La jaula de la melancolía / The Cage of Melancholy (Spanish Edition)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:19:03 +0000

Este libro es una reflexión crítica sobre la cultura mexicana contemporánea.

Se han elegido los lugares comunes del carácter del mexicano: se trata de un manojo de estereotipos codificados por la intelectualidad, pero cuyas huellas se reproducen en la sociedad, provocando el espejis..

Price: $16.95

The Paradox of Choice Revised and Updated (Why More Is Less)

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:12:09 +0000

An incisive critique of how excessive choice is detrimental to our psychological and emotional well-being, now revised and expanded in a new edition for our modern online world

Over twenty years ago, THE PARADOX OF CHOICE debuted and changed the way we think about choice in the wor..

Price: $19.99

Contested Terms (Critical Keywords in Library and Information Studies)

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:57:13 +0000

A provocative and disruptive collection of keyword essays that rethink key terms in library and information studies from critical orientations.

Contested Terms offers a timely and critical examination of the core vocabulary shaping the field of Library and Information Studies ..

Price: $85.00

Sh*t Towns of New Zealand

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:56:43 +0000

A hilarious and irreverent guide to the towns and cities New Zealanders love to hate.

From Auckland to Rotorua, discover why New Zealand is a smorgasbord of crappy towns and shitty cities. This satirical guide dishes out the dirt on local culture, stereotypes, and the quirks..

Price: $24.99

You Can't Judge a Body by Its Cover (17 Women's Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption)

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:54:40 +0000

What if your hunger—that force that beckons you to the ice cream aisle, and guides your hands to take seconds when you didn’t even feel like having firsts—was the misunderstood sage of your body, rattling its cage inside the fortress of your soul? What if your resistance to dieting were actua..

Price: $18.95