Basic Books
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
$18.99 Add to cartOnly in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: that the world endured… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1541618599
- Language: English
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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
$19.99 Add to cart“A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science.” —New York Times Book Review
An Editor’s Choice, New York Times Book Review
Longlisted for PEN/E.- Author: Becker, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1541698975
- Language: English
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
$21.99 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America’s schools
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the settin- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646037
- Language: English
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Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
$22.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more t- Author: Finkel, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0465023975
- Language: English
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
$21.99 Add to cartHome to the notorious “Blue Book,” which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans’s infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 27 2003
- ISBN10: 1560254947
- Language: English
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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
$40.00 Read moreA stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia
The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of- Author: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600347
- Language: English
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Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
$18.99 Add to cartA distinguished religious leader’s ”brilliant, urgent” (The Washington Post) case for reconstructing a shared framework of values.
With liberal democracy embattled, our public- Author: Sacks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675339
- Language: English
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
$24.99 Read moreThe explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, “the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unlocked.” (Kirkus)
Will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy assassin- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0465031803
- Language: English
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The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great
$30.00 Add to cartA sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything–and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is
Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if som- Author: Fitzgerald, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674502
- Language: English
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The Art Spirit
$19.99 Add to cartA classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art
“Art when really understood is the province of every human being.” So begins The Art Spirit, the collected- Author: Henri, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0465002633
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
$21.99 Add to cartThis definitive history of American xenophobia is “essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiraci… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672615
- Language: English
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The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
$30.00 Read more“Quite possibly the best popular science book I’ve ever read” (Popular Science) shows how the tools that enabled us to overcome the uncertainty of the weather will enable us to find new answers to mod
- Author: Palmer, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1541619714
- Language: English
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Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
$18.99 Add to cartAlthough Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the… [more below]
- Author: Margulis, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 1999
- ISBN10: 0465072720
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A World History
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 154167409X
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
$16.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class- Series: Art of Mentoring (Paperback)
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0465030335
- Language: English
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world
The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas
- Author: Popkin, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1541620178
- Language: English
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
$32.00 Add to cartA theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey–found in “no other book” (Science)–to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: “If you want to know what’… [more below]
- Author: Strassler, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 154160329X
- Language: English
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Why Orwell Matters
$17.99 Add to cart“Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century.” –Boston Globe
In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 211
- Publish Date: September 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0465030505
- Language: English
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Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done about It
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “important and alarming” (New York Times) book, see why so many American students are falling behind in their reading skills while others around the world excel.
The way we teach reading is n- Author: Seidenberg, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1541617150
- Language: English
