Basic Books
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
$45.00 Add to cartA “breathtakingly magisterial” account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a w… [more below]- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0465066984
- Language: English
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Probably Approximately Correct: Nature’s Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a leading computer scientist, a unifying theory that will revolutionize our understanding of how life evolves and learns.
How does life prosper in a complex and erratic world? While we know that- Author: Valiant, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0465060722
- Language: English
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The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition
$31.65 Read moreFrom one of America’s most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness.
Modern medicine treats sick- Author: Kleinman, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1541647122
- Language: English
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Cannae: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, the definitive history of Rome’s most devastating defeat August 2, 216 BC was one of history’s bloodiest single days of fighting. On a narrow plain nea
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699254
- Language: English
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Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence–And a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America
Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. B… [more below]- Author: Abt, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645723
- Language: English
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries — from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dy… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541644506
- Language: English
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The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
$21.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s “searing” (Wall Street Journal) account of America’s internal slave trade–and its role in the making of America
Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of- Author: Rothman, Joshua D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 154161660X
- Language: English
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Viktor Frankl Recollections: An Autobiography
$13.99 Add to cartBorn in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these stir… [more below]
- Author: Frankl, Viktor E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 11 2000
- ISBN10: 0738203556
- Language: English
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Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment
$19.99 Add to cartWhat is the effect of long-term media violence on our national character? Do we want four-year-olds watching slasher films? Who should decide?While almost everyone has a strong opinion about the profu… [more below]
- Series: 1999 Printing
- Author: Bok, Sissela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0738201456
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East
By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097421
- Language: English
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Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant
$24.99 Add to cartIn this gripping literary detective story, Kathi Diamant brings to light the amazing woman who captured Kafka’s heart and kept his literary flame alive for decades. It was Dora Diamant, an independent… [more below]
- Author: Diamant, Kathi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: January 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0465015514
- Language: English
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Late-Talking Children
$17.99 Add to cartThe painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the “normal” time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the findings… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0465038352
- Language: English
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Algebra the Beautiful: An Ode to Math’s Least-Loved Subject
$32.00 Add to cartA mathematician reveals the hidden beauty, power, and–yes–fun of algebra
What comes to mind when you think about algebra? For many of us, it’s memories of dull or frustrating classes in high school.
- Author: Williams, G. Arnell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600681
- Language: English
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
$21.99 Add to cartA bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as “a rattling good tale” (Wall Street Journal) and “popular history at its best” (Washington Post)
The- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0465023290
- Language: English
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
$35.00 Add to cartAnalogy is the core of all thinking.
This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize — winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new wor- Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0465018475
- Language: English
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Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
$24.99 Add to cartIn 1974, at the height of the women’s movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrenched belief that Freud was the enemy. She argued that a rejection of psychoanalysi… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Juliet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0465046088
- Language: English
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about
$19.99 Add to cartIn recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urba… [more below]
- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644123
- Language: English
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Snoop: What Your Stuff Says about You
$18.99 Read moreDoes what’s on your desk reveal what’s on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist … [more below]
- Author: Gosling, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0465013821
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
$29.99 Add to cartThe Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has de… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0465003125
- Language: English
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The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
$58.33 Add to cart“An ingenious argument” (Kirkus) for a “novel thesis” (Publishers Weekly) that cells, not DNA, hold the key to understanding life’s past and present
What defines who we are? For decades
- Author: Martinez Arias, Alfonso
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603273
- Language: English
