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Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920
$40.00 Add to cartFrom “one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars” (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over sla
- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605195
- Language: English
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Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times
$32.00 Add to cartIn this “timely and critically important book” (Eddie S. Glaude Jr.), a former college president and bestselling author offers leadership lessons for today’s troubled campuses
Higher education is und- Author: Tatum, Beverly Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606612
- Language: English
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Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift
$30.00 Add to cartA preeminent Harvard professor and poetry expert explains the artistry–and the celebrity–of Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift has become a peerless superstar, ceaselessly productive and internationally bel- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 154160623X
- Language: English
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Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up
$32.00 Add to cartWhy the familiar equal sign isn’t just a marker of sameness but a gateway into math’s–and humanity’s–most profound questions
Math is famous for its equations: 1 + 1 = 2, a 2 + b 2 = c 2, or y = mx- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606558
- Language: English
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland
$21.99 Add to cartA 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 vo… [more below]
- Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604482
- 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 Add to cartAn “essential” (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 c… [more below]- Author: Lomborg, Bjorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606388
- Language: English
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The Power and the Glory: Life in the English Country House Before the Great War
$34.00 Add to cartA spirited history of the English country house in its golden age
For generations, the great palaces of Britain were home to living histories, noble families that had reigned for centuries. But by t- Author: Tinniswood, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 154160279X
- Language: English
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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think about Ptsd
$19.99 Add to cartWith “groundbreaking research on the psychology of resilience” (Adam Grant), a top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is in and fail to recognize how resilient p
- Author: Bonanno, George A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541674383
- Language: English
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The Associated Press Stylebook: 2024-2026
$24.99 Add to cartMaster the style guidelines of newswriting, editing and common usage with this indispensable guide perfect for professional writers and students everywhere
The style of the Associated Press is the g- Author: Associated Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 154160511X
- Language: English
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House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France
$35.00 Read more“A joy to read…one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years” (Dan Jones, Sunday Times), this is the definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that ma… [more below]
- Author: Firnhaber-Baker, Justine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 154160475X
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle ?poque
$35.00 Add to cartA top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle ?poque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacr?-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be … [more below]
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541647491
- Language: English
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
$36.00 Add to cartA top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today
The emergence of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ance- Author: Mithen, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605381
- Language: English
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The CIA: An Imperial History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “superb” (Kathryn Olmsted) new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of America’s covert global empire
As World War II end- Author: Wilford, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 154164591X
- Language: English
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The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America’s Most Famous Hispanic War Hero
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from “a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Puli… [more below]
- Author: Sturkey, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600266
- Language: English
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Accidental Astronomy: How Random Discoveries Shape the Science of Space
$30.00 Add to cartA “riveting real-life Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (The Telegraph), told “with an engaging voice, a diverting sense of humor, and a humble awe for the wonders of the universe” (Wall Street Journa… [more below]
- Author: Lintott, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605411
- Language: English
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Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
$30.00 Add to cart“Deeply personal and infinitely digestible, Then I Am Myself the World is a remarkable must-read for anyone interested in knowing their mind.”―Judson Brewer MD, PhD, New York Times-bestselling a… [more below]
- Author: Koch, Christof
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1541602803
- Language: English
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Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism
$35.00 Add to cart“The wisest, most eloquent history of the Communist Party USA that has ever been written” (Michael Kazin, author of What It Took to Win), revealing how party members contributed to struggles for justi… [more below]
- Author: Isserman, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1541620038
- Language: English
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The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt
$34.00 Add to cartThe definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt
One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. Bu- Author: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1541602927
- Language: English
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
$32.00 Add to cartA scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created the… [more below]
- Author: Smyth, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605640
- Language: English
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The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East
$33.00 Read moreAn award-winning scholar’s account of an ancient city’s descent into unprecedented communal violence–an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle E… [more below]
- Author: Rogan, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 154160427X
- Language: English
