21st Century
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A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
$17.00 Add to cart“Arguably the greatest living travel writer” (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as he is the first to admit, the country remains an enigma even to it… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1101973471
- Language: English
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Seaforth World Naval Review 2024
$70.00 Read moreFor more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world’s navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional survey
- Author: Waters, Conrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1682474844
- Language: English
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
$35.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built … [more below]
- Author: Keefe, Patrick Radden
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 13, 2021
- ISBN10: 0385545681
- Language: English
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A Short History of the United States
$18.99 Add to cart“In 2008, Americans face war, terrorism, recession and the rising economies of China and India. Yet the author avers there is still reason to hope for good leadership. Astute assessments of an evolvin
- Author: Remini, Robert V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 1, 2009
- ISBN10: 0060831456
- Language: English
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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 B- Author: Gessen, Masha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 2, 2018
- ISBN10: 1594634548
- Language: English
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Sweet Potato or Pumpkin Pie: Conversations with My White Friends about Race
$25.00 Add to cartSweet Potato or Pumpkin Pie: Conversations with My White Friends About Race, Dr. William T. Lewis, talks with his White friends about perhaps one of the hardest conversation topics in America, racism.
- Author: Lewis, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 31, 2022
- ISBN10: 1953555217
- Language: English
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Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“This is history at its most immediate and moving…A marvelous and memorable book.” –Jon Meacham “Remarkable…A priceless civic gift…On page after page, a reader- Author: Graff, Garrett M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1501182218
- Language: English
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White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds
$23.95 Add to cartWhite Fear has shaped our democracy and society from the beginning–and today, it’s more intense and visible than ever. To neutralize it, we must first understand it.
For two centuries, the deep-seate- Author: Martin, Roland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 163774028X
- Language: English
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Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
$32.00 Add to cartA provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case f… [more below]
- Author: Breyer, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668021536
- Language: English
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F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II
$40.00 Read moreThe inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it.
The F-35 has changed allied combat warfare. But by the time it’s completed, it wil- Author: Burbage, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1510777571
- Language: English
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The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the Future of the Democratic Party
$29.99 Add to cartEven before the cataclysmic 2016 election, the Democratic Party had long been at war with itself–yet Joe Biden’s narrow victory in 2020 bridged the divide. Facing the dire threat of a second Trump ad
- Author: Walker, Hunter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1324020385
- Language: English
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The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age
$18.00 Read moreHow can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?
A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called “Moneyball for politics,” journalist Sasha- Author: Issenberg, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 12, 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987053621
- Language: English
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet
$28.00 Read moreA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for December 2023
As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is “real” and what is digitally fabricated gr
- Author: Scheirer, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 5, 2023
- ISBN10: 1503632881
- Language: English
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Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
$32.00 Add to cartHow a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a par- Author: Dallek, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: 21-Mar-23
- ISBN10: 1541673565
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
$21.99 Add to cartThe most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half century before crashing against the forces of Trumpism on the right and a new progressivism on the l… [more below]
- Author: Gerstle, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0197676316
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn
$19.95 Add to cart“A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the author’s hands, ‘Amazing Grace’ lands firmly on the right side of history.”―TLS
Journey through the history of “Amaz- Author: Walvin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: 31-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 0520391829
- Language: English
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – PULITZER PRIZE WINNER – A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the grow
- Author: Wright, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: 1-Sep-07
- ISBN10: 1400030846
- Language: English
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Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
$28.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those who died that others might live When Chief Joe Pfeifer led his firefighter- Author: Pfeifer, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0593330250
- Language: English
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
$21.99 Add to cartUpdated to include a new chapter about the influence of social media and the Internet–the 20th anniversary edition of Bowling Alone remains a seminal work of social analysis, and its examination of w… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: 13-Oct-20
- ISBN10: 1982130849
- Language: English
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The Right Kind of White: A Memoir
$27.99 Read moreA revelatory memoir that earnestly reckons with whiteness.
As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a “good white person.” T- Author: Bucks, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 198219720X
- Language: English
