Basic Books
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away fo… [more below]
- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675673
- Language: English
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Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life
$27.00 Add to cartA teenage genius and his teacher take readers on a wild ride to the extremes of mathematics
Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use- Author: Darling, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644786
- Language: English
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Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
$32.00 Add to cartWhether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning — a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your voca… [more below]
- Author: Bergen, Benjamin K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028292
- Language: English
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartFor more than a century we’ve known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The ris… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: December 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0465022820
- Language: English
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Survival in the Killing Fields
$25.99 Add to cartNothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That’s who I am,” says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he… [more below]
- Author: Ngor, Haing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0786713151
- Language: English
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Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
$18.99 Add to cartWhen Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather t… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0465037224
- Language: English
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An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare
$25.99 Add to cartThe characteristic act of men at war is not dying, but killing. Politicians and military historians may gloss over human slaughter, emphasizing the defense of national honor, but for men in active ser… [more below]
- Author: Bourke, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0465007384
- Language: English
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Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past a Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartLike the renowned classics Praying for Sheetrock and North Toward Home, Ever Is a Long Time captures the spirit and feel of a small Southern town divided by racism and violence in the midst of the Civ… [more below]
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 03 2005
- ISBN10: 0465021050
- Language: English
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Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West
$24.99 Add to cartOleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. … [more below]
- Author: Kalugin, Oleg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0465014453
- Language: English
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Blind Watchers of the Sky
$21.99 Add to cartIn this immensely readable book, noted cosmologist Rocky Kolb reveals the very human struggles of astronomy superstars seeking cosmic truths while lost in the clouds of confusion. Punctuated by the au… [more below]
- Series: Helix Book
- Author: Kolb, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2006
- ISBN10: 020115496X
- Language: English
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Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
$30.00 Read moreIn the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species
“A wondrou- Author: Vince, Gaia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21, 2020
- ISBN10: 0465094902
- Language: English
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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
$25.99 Add to cartReaders of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial… [more below]
- Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 09 2005
- ISBN10: 0465024750
- Language: English
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Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm
$21.99 Add to cartInfinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm–brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein, and enemy of the House Committee on Un-American Act… [more below]
- Author: Peat, F. David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0201328208
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$32.00 Read moreA “chilling” and “expertly” written history of the 1939 September Campaign and the onset of World War II (Times of London).
For Americans, World War II began in December of 1941, with the bombing of Pe- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0465095380
- Language: English
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Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
$47.50 Read moreA prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond
Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Part- Author: Rodden, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1541644271
- Language: English
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First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
$21.99 Add to cartWe are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a “portion” is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn … [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Bee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0465094120
- Language: English
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Is Data Human?: Or, the Metaphysics of Star Trek
$19.99 Add to cartProfessor Richard Hanley faced the dilemma plaguing so many philosophy professors today–how to entice students into the classroom. Based upon his own successful course, Is Data Human presents a thoro… [more below]
- Author: Hanley, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0465045480
- Language: English
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The Day the Voices Stopped: A Schizophrenic’s Journey from Madness to Hope
$18.99 Add to cartFor thirty-two years Ken Steele lived with the devastating symptoms of schizophrenia, tortured by inner voices commanding him to kill himself, ravaged by the delusions of paranoia, barely surviving on
- Author: Steele, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 09, 2002
- ISBN10: 0465082270
- Language: English
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The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
$19.99 Add to cartA noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today’s social justice struggles
Speaking to his supporters- Author: Marsh, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0465044166
- Language: English
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America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation
$15.99 Add to cartIn 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as the pill. Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed … [more below]
- Author: May, Elaine Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024599
- Language: English
