Basic Books
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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
$35.00 Add to cartA “magisterial” (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century–both as weapons and as agents for peace
We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath–- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604342
- Language: English
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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
$32.00 Read moreA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education–one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school
America has relied on- Author: Fitzpatrick, Cara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541646770
- Language: English
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
$24.99 Add to cartThe book that revolutionized our understanding of human intelligence.
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences has been hailed by educators for decades and applied in hundreds of schools wo- Author: Gardner, Howard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024335
- Language: English
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence–From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
$21.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)
Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understandin- Author: Herman, Judith Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602951
- Language: English
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
$30.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math–focusing on questions, not answers
Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not re
- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601823
- Language: English
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Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age
$32.50 Add to cartFrom a “remarkably gifted historian” (New York Times), the definitive account of the golden age of Rome — an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness
The Pax Romana has long been shortha- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0465093531
- Language: English
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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest
$30.00 Add to cartA “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them
Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Mono- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601289
- Language: English
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The Design of Everyday Things
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s great designers shares his vision of “the fundamental principles of great and meaningful design”, that’s “even more relevant today than it was when first published” (Tim Brown, CEO,
- Author: Norman, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 0465050654
- Language: English
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
$30.00 Add to cartFrom “a captivating storyteller” (Wall Street Journal), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds.- Author: Moss, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604466
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Society
$26.99 Add to cartThe influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly infl
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: March 06, 2012
- ISBN10: 0465025226
- Language: English
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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
$21.99 Add to cartThis “landmark” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century’… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619617
- Language: English
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
$40.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 29, 2019
- ISBN10: 0465093507
- Language: English
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Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
$30.00 Read moreAn astounding account of how gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we learn and interact, which “changes the way you think about yourself and the people around you.” (Ethan Kross, bestselling
- Author: Goldin-Meadow, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600800
- Language: English
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Bitch: On the Female of the Species
$30.00 Add to cartA fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom
Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces:
- Author: Cooke, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541674898
- Language: English
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
$21.99 Add to cartA Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
“Correlation is not causation.”- Author: Pearl, Judea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541698967
- Language: English
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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times)
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Re- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600622
- Language: English
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A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West
Overlapping with and overshadowed- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619668
- Language: English
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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
$32.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.
Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 154164753X
- Language: English
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
$24.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the world’s most popular drug
Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews- Author: Pendergrast, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699386
- Language: English
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Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
$32.00 Read moreThe definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat
From Boudicca’s rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surpris- Author: Percy, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619862
- Language: English
