Basic Books
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Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do about It
$30.00 Add to cartKeeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions–which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher’s biggest problems.
Why is it so- Author: Lang, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1541699807
- Language: English
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The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
$16.99 Read moreMary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this “surefire summer winner” (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world
Humans have gone to t- Author: Cooke, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1541674081
- Language: English
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
$19.99 Add to cartAs seen on PBS’s American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom.
“The genius of Hanson’s fascinati- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097405
- Language: English
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The United States Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Survival Manual: Everything You Need to Know to Protect Yourself and Your Family from
$18.99 Add to cartIn this comprehensive guide, military experts teach you how to survive an attack on American soil, from North Korean missiles to weaponized smallpox
North Korean nukes. Emerging epidemic and pandemic- Author: Couch, Dick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2003
- ISBN10: 046500797X
- Language: English
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South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
$18.99 Add to cartA “gripping and poignant” (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico
The Underground Railroad to the North promise- Author: Baumgartner, Alice L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541617762
- Language: English
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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
$32.00 Add to cart“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.” —P.J. O’Rourke
Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challen
- Author: McHangama, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600495
- Language: English
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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
$19.99 Add to cartWhy America’s sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it.
Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitiou- Author: Sax, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0465040829
- Language: English
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
$18.99 Add to cart“An elegant and expansive history” (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power–and how it transformed America
In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Ma- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600258
- Language: English
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
$18.99 Add to cartA preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors become human?
Neander- Author: Pääbo, Svante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0465054951
- Language: English
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
$19.99 Add to cartRecommended by Bill Gates
A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own In the world’s top research labs and- Author: Domingos, Pedro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0465094279
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartA “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution
In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events whic- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675487
- Language: English
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Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
$19.99 Read moreHow one powerful concept reveals the biggest (and smallest) mathematical truths
How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions oc- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644131
- Language: English
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The Physics of Star Trek
$18.99 Add to cartHow does the Star Trek universe stack up against the real universe?
What warps when you’re traveling at warp speed? What is the difference between a wormhole and a black hole? Are time loops really p- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0465002048
- Language: English
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The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning psychologist draws on years of research to unveil “a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil.” ―New York Times
How can we explain both cruelty and ki- Author: Baron-Cohen, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601483
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$35.00 Read moreThis major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673808
- Language: English
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Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
$19.99 Add to cartAn urgent exposﾃ(c)f the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with ment- Author: Roth, Alisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646479
- Language: English
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
$19.99 Add to cartA “superb” and “ambitious” (New York Times) intellectual and political history of the last century of American conservatism
When most people think of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reaga- Author: Continetti, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600517
- Language: English
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Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
$21.95 Add to cartIn this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, or “Stasi.” The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppr… [more below]
- Author: Koehler, John O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: August 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0813337445
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us
$29.00 Read moreA pioneering neuroscientist offers a new way of understanding how emotions drive behavior
Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bea- Author: Anderson, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541674634
- Language: English
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
