Basic Books
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The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
$32.00 Add to cartA concise, definitive history of the precarious relationship among the US, China, and Taiwan
Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New Statesman * BBC History Magazine As tensions over Taiwan escalate,- Author: Khan, Sulmaan Wasif
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605047
- Language: English
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The Cybernetic Society: How Humans and Machines Will Shape the Future Together
$30.00 Add to cartWhy the major risk and opportunity of AI is that humans and computers have fused, giving AI the ability to shape the future of human affairs
Artificial intelligence is inescapable: at home, at work,- Author: Husain, Amir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605713
- Language: English
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Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
$21.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606353
- Language: English
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
$18.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a “brilliant” and “mesmerizing” (Popular Science) new way to look at math–focusing on questions, not answers
Winner of the Los Angeles Times B- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 154160671X
- Language: English
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Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
$32.00 Add to cartA revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster
In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a- Author: Scanlan, Padraic X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601548
- Language: English
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Latino USA: A Cartoon History
$22.99 Add to cartAn irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary
In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan S- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 154160556X
- Language: English
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No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
$22.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labo… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607023
- Language: English
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Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning natural-history writer opens the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks
We all live on nature’s doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601246
- Language: English
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege- Author: Albertus, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604814
- Language: English
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Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts
$35.00 Add to cart“Never has medical history been more entertaining” (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women’s bodies from classical Greece to the modern age
Breasts, c- Author: King, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606531
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Race
$28.00 Add to cartThomas Sowell’s incisive critique of the intellectuals’ destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the r- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0465058728
- Language: English
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The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life
$32.00 Add to cartHow rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind
In the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species’ past, something strange happen- Author: Dunn, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 154160573X
- Language: English
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Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
$21.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619951
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
$21.99 Add to cart“A tribute to a time when style — and maybe even life — felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers.” — Sadie Stein, Paris Review
As a glance down any street in- Author: Przybyszewski, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0465066860
- Language: English
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General Relativity: The Theoretical Minimum
$21.99 Add to cartThe latest volume in the New York Times-bestselling physics series explains Einstein’s masterpiece: the general theory of relativity
He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and sp- Series: Theoretical Minimum
- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601785
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
$18.99 Add to cartA compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt
In Reclaim- Author: Martel, J. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607244
- Language: English
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
$32.00 Add to cartThe thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb
Although Henri Becquerel didn’t know it at the time, he changed history in 1895- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605896
- Language: English
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The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
$30.00 Add to cartFrom Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a “clear, concise, and humane account” (Christina Hoff Sommers) of how racial preferences have done more harm t… [more below]
- Author: Riley, Jason L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604555
- Language: English
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Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara
$32.50 Add to cartAn expansive history of the Sahara from prehistory to the present that shows how Saharans have, over time, built complex and cosmopolitan lives despite scarcity, conquest, and the relentless challenge… [more below]
- Author: Scheele, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607112
- Language: English
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The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History
$30.00 Add to cartA critical history of the idea of design–and its utopian promise
Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It’s seen as- Author: Gram, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1541600630
- Language: English
