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Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass
$30.00 Read more*A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection*
The first major biography of Peter Higgs, revealing how a short burst of work changed modern physicsOn July 4, 2012, the announcement came t
- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1541620801
- Language: English
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How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
$30.00 Read moreA leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answer
Epicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to … [more below]- Author: Wilson, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1541672631
- Language: English
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Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
$30.00 Read moreA New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive … [more below]- Author: Dartnell, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617908
- Language: English
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A Conspiracy of Decency: The Rescue of the Danish Jews During World War II
$19.99 Add to cartThe people of Denmark managed to save almost their country’s entire Jewish population from extinction in a spontaneous act of humanity — one of the most compelling stories of moral courage in the his… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Emmy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0813342783
- Language: English
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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And the World Closed Its Doors: The Story of One Family Abandoned to the Holocaust
$21.99 Add to cartIn this masterpiece of Holocaust literature, David Clay Large tells the wrenching story of Max Schohl, a German Jew who, in the midst of the Second World War, could not find a government that would al… [more below]
- Author: Large, David Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: July 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0465038093
- Language: English
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No Man’s Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain’s Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
$18.99 Add to cartThe “absorbing and powerful” (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war b… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672755
- Language: English
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The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World: Newly Revealed Secrets from the Mitrokhin Archive
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of docum… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0465003133
- Language: English
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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times)
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Re- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 23 2014
- ISBN10: 0465024319
- Language: English
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The Nature of Prejudice (25th Anniversary Edition)
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic psychological study of the roots of discrimination.
First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice remains the standard work on discrimination. With profound insight into the complexities… [more below]- Author: Allport, Gordon W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 22 1979
- ISBN10: 0201001799
- Language: English
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Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, “a damning portrait” (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals
Punishment Without Crime- Author: Natapoff, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603605
- Language: English
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Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy
$18.99 Add to cartThe many thousands of readers of the best-selling Love’s Executioner will welcome this paperback edition of an earlier work by Dr. Irvin Yalom, written with Ginny Elkin, a pseudonymous patient whom he… [more below]
- Author: Yalom, Irvin D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 02 1991
- ISBN10: 0465021182
- Language: English
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The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
$24.99 Read moreThe Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written, a stanchion in sinological and military history. It presents an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emp… [more below]
- Author: Sawyer, Ralph D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0465003044
- Language: English
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Who Got Einstein’s Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study
$21.99 Add to cartIt was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt G edel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director’s mansion. It i… [more below]
- Author: Regis, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0201122782
- Language: English
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This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
$28.00 Read moreAn acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living
You didn’t choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions–this delicate and difficult
- Author: Riggle, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675509
- Language: English
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The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
$28.00 Read moreThe author of How to Be a Stoic asks what might be philosophy’s ultimate question: can we learn to be better people?
Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to te
- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646975
- Language: English
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Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
$40.00 Add to cartFrom a preeminent authority on the Catholic Church and papal biographer, “an intimate understanding of John Paul II” (Weekly Standard)
In Lessons in Hope, George Weigel tells the story of his unique- Author: Weigel, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094295
- Language: English
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Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality
$30.00 Read moreInspired by the abundance of unique personalities available on dating websites, a renowned neuroscientist examines the science of what makes you, you.
David J. Linden has devoted his career to understa- Author: Linden, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 29, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541698886
- Language: English
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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force
$31.65 Add to cartSpeak softly and carry a big stick Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry bu… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Eliot A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1541617274
- Language: English
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Up in Arms: How Military Aid Stabilizes–And Destabilizes–Foreign Autocrats
$32.00 Read moreAn “extraordinary…must-read” (Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling coauthor of How Democracies Die) look at how support from foreign superpowers propped up–and pulled down–authoritarian reg… [more below]
- Author: Casey, Adam E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604016
- Language: English
