Basic Books
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How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Be Civil Without the State
$30.00 Add to cartAn expert on the writing of constitutions argues that the path to a thriving society begins with forgetting about them: “Not James Madison but Bob Dylan or Annie Lennox should be our guide” (Mark Tush… [more below]
- Author: Skach, C. L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605535
- Language: English
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The Longevity Imperative: How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives
$32.00 Read more“A manifesto to guide the longevity revolution” (David Sinclair) for individuals, institutions, and society to adapt to the reality of living longer lives
Thanks to increases in life expectancy, we c- Author: Scott, Andrew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604504
- Language: English
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Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
$18.99 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” (New York Times) argument for reimagining justice for survivors of sexual trauma
The #MeToo movement brought wo- Author: Herman, Judith Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 154160055X
- Language: English
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The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic
$19.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller: An acclaimed legal scholar’s “important” (New York Times) and “fascinating” (Economist) exposé of how the Supreme Court uses unsigned and unexplained orders to c
- Author: Vladeck, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605187
- Language: English
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Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos
$32.50 Add to cartA leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions–about the universe’s origins, destiny, and fundamental nature–and how it contends … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604369
- Language: English
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Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest for Cosmic Life
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times-bestselling astrophysicist and a Nobel laureate take us on “a mesmerizing exploration” (Jennifer Doudna) to discover how and where the universe breathed itself into life
For a long- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 154160296X
- Language: English
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The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic
$29.00 Add to cartA bold defense of the internet, arguing attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguided —“essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the internet” (Taylor Lorenz, author of Extrem… [more below]
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604121
- Language: English
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The Vietnam War: A Military History
$40.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam
The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests- Author: Wawro, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606086
- Language: English
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American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation–And Could Again
$32.00 Add to cart“The most important voice in the political culture” (Ben Shapiro) reveals the Constitution’s remarkable power to repair our broken civic culture, rescue our malfunctioning politics, and unify a fracti… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Yuval
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0465040748
- Language: English
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To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541601963
- Language: English
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The Bible: A Global History
$35.00 Add to cartA global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book
For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. F- Author: Gordon, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619730
- Language: English
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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
$18.99 Add to cartA “lively, wide-ranging” (TheTimes, UK)cultural history of the goddess of love
Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the ancient Gree- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606043
- Language: English
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Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil
Ou- Author: Jähner, Harald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606205
- Language: English
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Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
$22.99 Add to cartA “sweeping, delightfully readable” (Wall Street Journal) new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires
At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stret- Author: Frahm, Eckart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605152
- Language: English
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
$22.99 Add to cartFrom “a captivating storyteller” (Wall Street Journal), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds.- Author: Moss, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606329
- Language: English
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The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play
$32.00 Add to cartThe “deep and impactful” story of the American stadium (Howard Bryant, author of Full Dissidence)–from the first wooden ballparks to today’s glass and steel mega-arenas–revealing how it has made, an… [more below]
- Author: Guridy, Frank Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1541601459
- Language: English
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Escape from Shadow Physics: The Quest to End the Dark Ages of Quantum Theory
$35.00 Add to cartAn expert researcher argues for a revolutionary new understanding of quantum mechanics
The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual cau- Author: Kay, Adam Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1541675789
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$30.00 Read moreAn award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys–and challenges–of the genre
In Don’t Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduc… [more below]- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0465094503
- Language: English
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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
$24.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight — and keep fighting — for a lost cause in World War II
In The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary … [more below]- Author: Stargardt, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094899
- Language: English
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Girls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed–And What Parents Can Do
$19.99 Add to cartA parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls’ psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self.
In Girls on the Edge, psychologis- Author: Sax, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541617800
- Language: English
