Basic Books
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Vietnam: A New History
$24.99 Add to cart“The best one-volume history of modern Vietnam in English” (Wall Street Journal)
In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of em- Author: Goscha, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603656
- Language: English
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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
$40.00 Add to cartA history of the American Constitution’s formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate ar… [more below]- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0465096352
- Language: English
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
$19.99 Read moreAn “eloquent” (Economist) history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley
Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism h- Author: Magnuson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601572
- Language: English
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
$21.99 Add to cartAn updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through “cures” that only deepened their suffering and impaired their h… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1541618068
- Language: English
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The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
$50.67 Read moreA “fascinating [and] provocative” argument by a particle physicist–marshalling a “heady mix of history, philosophy and cutting-edge theory” (Wall Street Journal)–for monism, the ancient idea about t
- Author: P?s, Heinrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674855
- Language: English
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “provocative” book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field’s modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.
Whether pondering black holes or pr… [more below]- Author: Hossenfelder, Sabine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646762
- Language: English
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We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel
$35.00 Read moreA bestselling historian uncovers the surprising roots of America’s long alliance with Israel and its troubling consequences
Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement tha- Author: Alterman, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 046509631X
- Language: English
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
$22.99 Add to cartFrom former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America’s repeated failure to stop genocides aroun… [more below]
- Author: Power, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: December 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0465061516
- Language: English
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Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric from the Iron Age to the Information Age
$19.99 Add to cart“An entertaining history of great oratory” (New Yorker) and a primer to rhetoric’s key techniques
Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it’s not just for politicians: it’s all around us,- Author: Leith, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603737
- Language: English
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
$19.99 Add to cartAward-winning food writer Bee Wilson’s secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies – from the fork to the microwave and beyond – have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat.
Since preh- Author: Wilson, Bee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0465056970
- Language: English
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The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
$19.99 Add to cartHow both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world
In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logi- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1541672496
- Language: English
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
$40.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Vikings — from arts and culture to politics and cosmology — by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise
The Viking Age — from 750 to 1050 — saw an unpre… [more below]- Author: Price, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0465096980
- Language: English
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Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
$35.00 Add to cartThe secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley
In 1719, a ship named La Mutine (the mutinous woman), sailed from the Fr
- Author: Dejean, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600584
- Language: English
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$21.99 Add to cart“A feat of both scholarship and storytelling” (Wall Street Journal)–the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries.
In The Habsburgs,… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541644514
- Language: English
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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
$19.99 Add to cart“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine’s brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.”–Financial Times
Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands,
- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603486
- Language: English
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The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century
$27.00 Read moreOne of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third Reconstruction
In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historia- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600746
- Language: English
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Music: A Subversive History
$22.99 Add to cart“A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched” (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions.
Histories of music overwhelmingly su- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1541644379
- Language: English
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Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Five Stories of Psychotherapy
$19.99 Add to cartThe classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers likeDeborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and … [more below]
- Author: Luepnitz, Deborah Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0465042872
- Language: English
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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
$18.99 Add to cart“An arresting vision of this relentless natural world” (New York Times) by a leading ecologist, who urges us to heed nature’s iron laws
Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which
- Author: Dunn, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1541603125
- Language: English
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A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a colony from fearsome wilderness. A mere month later, facing quickly dim… [more below]
- Author: Horn, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024904
- Language: English
