Basic Books
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The Republic of Plato
$36.40 Add to cartThe definitive translation of Plato’s Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy
Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato’s Republic that has yet been publi- Author: Bloom, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0465094082
- Language: English
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Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
$45.00 Add to cartThe bestselling citizen’s guide to economics
Basic Economics is a citizen’s guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equatio- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 31, 2014
- ISBN10: 0465060730
- Language: English
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Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
$35.00 Add to cart“The best modern account” (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during- Author: Chrastil, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604091
- Language: English
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How Migration Really Works: The Facts about the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
$35.00 Add to cartAn authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, “defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate” (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity TrapR
- Author: de Haas, Hein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604318
- Language: English
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Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “incisive” (Vanity Fair) and “authoritative” (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our n
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604660
- Language: English
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race
$21.99 Add to cartThe classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and L- Author: Tatum, Beverly Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 0465060684
- Language: English
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Bitch: On the Female of the Species
$21.99 Add to cartA “playful, enlightening,” and “effervescent exposé” (Scientific American) on the queens of the animal kingdom
Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders o- Author: Cooke, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 154167491X
- Language: English
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How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
$19.99 Add to cartA philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal i
- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08, 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644530
- Language: English
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
$16.99 Add to cartThis “rare and compelling” (New York Magazine) bestseller examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an individual’s management of repressed anger and pain.
Why are many of the most- Author: Miller, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 22, 2008
- ISBN10: 0465016901
- Language: English
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Meditations: The Annotated Edition
$19.99 Add to cartThis definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome’s sixteenth emperor.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninu- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541673867
- Language: English
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
$16.99 Add to cartLearn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and “one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century” (New York Review of Books) with these six classic and beloved lessons
It was Richard- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 22, 2011
- ISBN10: 0465025277
- Language: English
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The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation
$32.00 Read moreThe secret history of one of the largest–and least-known–rescue operations of World War II
Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable–and unt- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619854
- Language: English
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
$19.99 Add to cartA “wonderfully smart and readable” (Washington Post) book that combines philosophical wisdom and scientific research, revealing surprising insights about how to live a meaningful life
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- Author: Haidt, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0465028020
- Language: English
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
$19.99 Add to cartThe New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes–long the target of an extermination policy–spread to every corner of the United States
Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writi- Author: Flores, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093728
- Language: English
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
$36.00 Read moreAn essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empi- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619781
- Language: English
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Meditations: The Annotated Edition
$32.00 Add to cartThis definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome’s sixteenth emperor.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninu- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673859
- Language: English
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Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
$32.50 Add to cartThe untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining “meticulous research and sensitive storytelling” (Janice P. Nimura, New York … [more below]
- Author: McNeur, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674170
- Language: English
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Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
$35.00 Add to cartA “magnificent” (Spectator) history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers
The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 154161996X
- Language: English
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
$24.99 Add to cartA “marvelous” (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675592
- Language: English
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Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” (New York Times) manifesto for reimagining justice for survivors of sexual trauma
The #MeToo movement brought w- Author: Herman, Judith Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600541
- Language: English
