21st Century
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The Shortest History of AI: The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It
$16.95 Read moreSince Alan Turing first posed the question “Can machines think?” artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Walsh, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030891
- Language: English
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Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
$32.00 Add to cartA revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and technological forces that have come to dominate contemporary culture–from music and fashion to art, f… [more below]
- Author: Marx, W. David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593833996
- Language: English
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No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States
$19.99 Add to cartThe Constitution has become a threat to American democracy. Due to its inherent flaws–its treatment of race, dependence on a tainted Electoral College, a glaringly unrepresentative Senate, and the ou
- Author: Chemerinsky, Erwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096888
- Language: English
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Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays
$18.95 Add to cart“Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.”–John Vaillant,… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402836
- Language: English
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White Poverty: How Exposing Myths about Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the most pernicious and persistent myths in the United States is the association of Black skin with poverty. Though there are forty million more poor white people than Black people, most Americ
- Author: Barber, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096756
- Language: English
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The Look
$50.00 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including never-before-seen images, The Look is a stunning journey through Michelle Obama’s style evolution, in her own words for the first time… [more below]
- Author: Obama, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593800702
- Language: English
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A Short History of the Gaza Strip
$29.99 Add to cartSince October 2023, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military onslaughts in modern history on the Gaza Strip, in response to the Hamas-led attacks of October 7. But Gaza had long been in
- Author: Irfan, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 132410595X
- Language: English
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Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025
$28.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed economist’s observations on four years of events that have shaped the world
In this new volume drawn from his columns for the French newspaper Le Monde, renowned economist Thomas Piketty- Author: Piketty, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0300282753
- Language: English
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Love Wins
$18.99 Add to cartThe fascinating and very moving story of the lovers, lawyers, judges and activists behind the groundbreaking Supreme Court case that led to one of the most important, national civil rights victories i
- Author: Cenziper, Debbie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0062456105
- Language: English
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WITH A NEW PREFACE – From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organ… [more below]
- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0593471202
- Language: English
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To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower
$32.99 Add to cartFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author and Fox News Channel’s Chief Political Anchor, a captivating biography of Teddy Roosevelt, whose bold leadership thrust America onto the world stage and chang
- Series: Papers of George Washington: Presidential #3
- Author: Baier, Bret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063360756
- Language: English
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Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination
$35.00 Add to cartA deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, M- Author: Ball, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300258046
- Language: English
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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
$19.00 Add to cartSelected as one of the best books of 2002 by The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Sun-Times
Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewies- Author: Langewiesche, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0865476756
- Language: English
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Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
$17.95 Add to cartTOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes’s and Chris Abani’s introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations t
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142559
- Language: English
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Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights
$32.00 Add to cartA provocative firsthand account of how Chief Justice John Roberts posed as a fair-minded jurist in order to impose the reactionary agenda of billionaire elites committed to reversing Americans’ freedo… [more below]
- Author: Graves, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030679
- Language: English
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America-The Last Best Hope (One-Volume Edition): Explore the Discovery of the New World, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, the Great
$29.99 Add to cartA single-volume edition of William J. Bennett’s bestselling series, thoroughly revised and updated.
“The role of history is to inform, inspire, and sometimes provoke us, which is why Bill Bennett’s won
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1400212901
- Language: English
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Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
$19.00 Add to cartThe rollicking saga of reality television, a “sweeping” (The Washington Post) cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yor… [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0525509011
- Language: English
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What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation
$28.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning journalist, a reflective, smart, and deeply reported look at the millennial generation that draws on the experiences of five diverse individuals and explores where we go from her… [more below]
- Author: Wells, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1419770810
- Language: English
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Wagner Group – Private Military Company: Volume 1: Establishment, Purpose, Profile and Historic Relevance 2013-2023
$29.95 Read more“Western media made sure that Wagner was well-known and this book pieces together disparate bits of information into one place.” -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society
In the early 2010s the Wagner Grou… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Besenyo, Janos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1804516090
- Language: English
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The Last American Road Trip: A Memoir
$29.99 Add to cartUSA Today bestseller
“Kendzior is an absolutely terrific writer.” –Sebastian Junger The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sig
American Booksellers Association bestseller- Author: Kendzior, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250879884
- Language: English
