Basic Books
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
$17.99 Add to cartLearn about Einstein’s theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and “one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century” (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessons
It was Richard Fe… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0465025269
- Language: English
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State of Silence: The Espionage ACT and the Rise of America’s Secrecy Regime
$32.50 Read moreAn “essential guide” (Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man) to how the Espionage Act gave rise to a vast American security state that keeps citizens in the dark
In State of Silence,&#- Author: Lebovic, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 154162016X
- Language: English
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The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall
$30.00 Read moreWhat Shakespeare’s plays can teach us about modern-day politics
William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. C- Author: Cohen, Eliot a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541644867
- Language: English
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum mechanics.
First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has t- Series: Theoretical Minimum
- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12, 2015
- ISBN10: 0465062903
- Language: English
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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
$22.99 Add to cartIn this “important and comprehensive” guide to statistical thinking (New Yorker), discover how you can use data and mathematics to gain a better understanding of life’s biggest problems. The age of b… [more below]
- Author: Spiegelhalter, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675703
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
$22.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists: this “magisterial history” offers a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than eve
- Author: DeLong, J. Bradford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604245
- Language: English
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics Set
$250.00 Add to cartThe legendary introduction to physics from the subject’s greatest teacher
“The whole thing was basically an experiment,” Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his le- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1552
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0465023827
- Language: English
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The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
$32.50 Add to cart“A mind-bending jaunt … that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts” (Publishers Weekly)
“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be phil- Author: Sigmund, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541602692
- Language: English
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Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
$35.00 Add to cartA definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian
Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over nearly four- Author: Sarris, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601335
- Language: English
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Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
$35.00 Read moreThe definitive history of the idea of equality–and why we’re so ambivalent about it
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nation- Author: McMahon, Darrin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0465093930
- Language: English
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The Vision of the Annointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
$19.99 Add to cartOne of America’s pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalism
In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28, 1996
- ISBN10: 046508995X
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$24.99 Add to cartA “panoramic and thought-provoking” (The Guardian) history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West
The Ottoman Empire has long been d- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541673794
- Language: English
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Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
$30.00 Add to cart“A fascinating cultural history” (People) of how Japan adopted and ultimately revived traditional American fashion
A strange thing has happened over the last two decades: the world has come to belie- Author: Marx, W. David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604334
- Language: English
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
$18.99 Add to cartThis collection from scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner highlights the achievements of a man whose career reshaped the world’s understanding of quantum electrodynamics.
The Pleasure of Finding Thi… [more below]- Series: Helix Books
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 06, 2005
- ISBN10: 0465023959
- Language: English
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Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
$18.99 Add to cartAn “engrossing and important book” (Wall Street Journal) that brings to life the fateful friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obno- Author: Roberts, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01, 2016
- ISBN10: 0465093221
- Language: English
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history f
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600061
- Language: English
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country” (Wall Street Journal).
As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle wi- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 25, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675649
- Language: English
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
$21.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling account of one of history’s most brutal–and forgotten–massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China’s capital city on the eve of World War II, “piecing together th
- Author: Chang, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 10, 2012
- ISBN10: 0465068367
- Language: English
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia
$34.82 Add to cartThe foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)
First published in response to John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice- Author: Nozick, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0465051006
- Language: English
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
$22.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking history demonstrating that America’s economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people
Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians- Author: Baptist, Edward E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 25, 2016
- ISBN10: 0465049664
- Language: English
