Basic Books
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Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History
$34.00 Add to cartA search for the meaning of one of nature’s greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform?
“How many creatures walking on this earth / Have their first being in another form?” the Roman poet O- Author: Harman, Oren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607600
- Language: English
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Crick: A Mind in Motion
$36.00 Add to cartA “thrilling biography of one of the 20th century’s greatest minds” (David Eagleman): Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and audacious genius
What are th- Author: Cobb, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541602889
- Language: English
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The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History
$32.00 Read moreAn eye-opening history of taxation showing that battles over taxes have always really been battles over democracy itself
Americans have always fought over the meaning of freedom and equality. What is- Author: Williamson, Vanessa S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606116
- Language: English
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Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West
$35.00 Add to cartThe forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West
The Native American leader Wakara (ca. 1815-1855) was- Author: Mueller, Max Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541602595
- Language: English
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The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics
$32.00 Add to cartA “fascinating romp” (Johnjoe McFadden) and stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse ins… [more below]
- Author: Bardi, Jason Socrates
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605004
- Language: English
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Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
$34.00 Add to cartA celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress
For centuries, the developed Western world has exploit- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541675754
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Cooperation
$18.99 Add to cart“For anyone involved in settling disputes” (Richard Dawkins), a famed political scientist offers a classic argument for how to achieve a more cooperative world
We assume that, in a world ruled by na- Author: Axelrod, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606841
- Language: English
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The Giant Leap: Why Space Is the Next Frontier in the Evolution of Life
$32.00 Add to cartA leading astrobiologist argues that space travel is an evolutionary event at least as important as life’s first journey from sea to land
The story of life has always been one of great transitions,- Author: Scharf, Caleb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604172
- Language: English
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Portals to a New Reality: Five Pathways to the Future of Physics
$32.00 Add to cartAn Oxford physicist “seeks to shatter complacency” (David Deutsch) in modern physics and show why five revolutionary experiments in quantum physics promise to open the gates separating us from a true … [more below]
- Author: Vedral, Vlatko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604784
- Language: English
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The Whispers of Rock: The Stories That Stone Tells about Our World and Our Lives
$30.00 Add to cartA geologist’s “poetic and heartfelt” (Robert Macfarlane) revelation of how our planet’s seemingly inert bones pulse with unexpected vitality
If you listen, can you hear the stones speak? The question- Author: Khatwa, Anjana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604644
- Language: English
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The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation
$22.99 Add to cartNewly updated for the paperback edition, this instant bestseller explains how and why some societies chose to destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1541673514
- Language: English
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Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
$35.00 Add to cartFrom a top scholar of World War II, the definitive history of Germany’s U-boat campaign that challenged British naval supremacy and brought international trade to its knees
Winston Churchill once rem- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604725
- Language: English
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Bloody Crowns: A New History of the Hundred Years War
$40.00 Add to cartA “riveting” new telling of the Hundred Years war that “brilliantly revises centuries of history” (Bernard Cornwell, New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Kingdom), revealing how the lines dra… [more below]
- Author: Livingston, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607708
- Language: English
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Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity
$32.00 Add to cart“A stunning book … a thrilling read” (Peter Frankopan) that reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts
When Shakespeare has t- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605691
- Language: English
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The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines
$32.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening journey into the inner workings of human and artificial minds
When we are trying to solve a problem, what happens? We find ourselves weighing arguments, or relying on intuition, then- Author: Suri, Gaurav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605268
- Language: English
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Mastery: Why Deeper Learning Is Essential in an Age of Distraction
$30.00 Add to cart“If you’ve ever wondered why our education system feels stuck in the past, this book delivers both a powerful critique and a bold vision for the future.” –Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times-bestsellin… [more below]
- Author: Wagner, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601920
- Language: English
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Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right
$30.00 Add to cartIn this “forcefully persuasive book” (Joyce Carol Oates), the president of Princeton reveals how colleges are getting free speech on campuses right and how they can do better to nurture civil discours… [more below]
- Author: Eisgruber, Christopher L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607457
- Language: English
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One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
$22.99 Add to cartThe provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era
We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One N- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097413
- Language: English
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The Romans: A 2,000-Year History
$40.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century
When we think of “ancient Romans” toda- Author: Watts, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619811
- Language: English
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Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses
$30.00 Add to cartFrom snake-oil salesmen to crypto grifters, the “fascinating” (Fareed Zakaria) story of charlatans–and why we fall for them
For centuries charlatans have been bamboozling victims. But today, charlat- Author: Naim, Moises
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606515
- Language: English
