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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
$22.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1541674103
- Language: English
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Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics
$24.99 Add to cartCombined into one volume for the first time, the updated and clarified Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics provides comprehensive, hands-on practice in all the most important areas of physic… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0465060714
- Language: English
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Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling writer and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom puts himself on the couch in a “candid, insightful” (Abraham Verghese) memoir Irvin D. Yalom has made a career of investigating the lives o… [more below]
- Author: Yalom, Irvin D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1541698991
- Language: English
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What We Owe the Future
$32.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
“This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better.- Author: Macaskill, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1541618629
- Language: English
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
$22.99 Add to cartThe award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the cl- Author: Chauncey, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699211
- Language: English
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Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
$18.99 Add to cartA “gifted and tireless mathematical communicator” (Financial Times) shows why math is the ultimate timesaver–and how everyone can make their lives easier with a few simple shortcuts.
Success isn’t- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604407
- Language: English
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
$32.00 Add to cartA history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley
From legacy manufacturers to emerging tech giants, corporations wield significant power over our lives,- Author: Magnuson, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 8, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601564
- Language: English
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African Europeans: An Untold History
$19.99 Add to cartA dazzling history of Africans in Europe, “masterfully” (Smithsonian) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Convent- Author: Otele, Olivette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619927
- Language: English
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False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
$19.99 Read moreAn “important” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by the “skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good
Hurricanes batter our- Author: Lomborg, Bjorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541647475
- Language: English
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Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
$18.99 Add to cart*A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick
A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book AwardsIn Hurricane Lizards
- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 1, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541672399
- Language: English
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland
$19.99 Read moreA physician’s “provocative” (Boston Globe) and “timely” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences — even for the white voters t
- Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541644972
- Language: English
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Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II
$25.99 Add to cart“A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War” (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historian
We remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and
- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 154167278X
- Language: English
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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Flow and one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness, an indispensable guide to living your best life.
What makes a good life? Is it money? An important jo- Series: Masterminds (Paperback)
- Author: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 6, 1998
- ISBN10: 0465024114
- Language: English
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Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
$30.00 Read moreThe thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world
Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the
- Author: Ward, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600851
- Language: English
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
$32.00 Read moreAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change
Many believe the child welfare system protects ch- Author: Roberts, Dorothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675444
- Language: English
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
$35.00 Add to cartA one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America’s most respected and cited authors
These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a perio- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 04, 2011
- ISBN10: 0465022502
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$35.00 Read morePerfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
Famed across the known world, jealously- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600770
- Language: English
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The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
$30.00 Add to cartHow rhetoric–the art of persuasion–can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony
The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for ov- Author: Reames, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603974
- Language: English
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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
$22.99 Read moreA “brilliant feat of resurrection” (Tom Holland, author of Dominion), offering a stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia
The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled- Author: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604237
- Language: English
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The Greeks: A Global History
$22.99 Add to cartA “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sp- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603648
- Language: English
