Basic Books
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How to Listen to Jazz
$18.99 Add to cartA “radiantly accomplished” music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal)
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia prese- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093493
- Language: English
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
$21.99 Add to cartAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a “a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)
Ma- Author: Roberts, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675460
- Language: English
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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
$19.99 Add to cartA leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning — “unschooling” — is the best way to get kids to learn.
In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gra- Author: Gray, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0465084990
- Language: English
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America
$35.00 Read moreA celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey’s role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America
Hubert Humphrey was liberalism’s most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrific- Author: Traub, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619579
- Language: English
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Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
$32.00 Add to cartA historian of Rome “at the height of his powers” (Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire) narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through th… [more below]
- Author: Osgood, Josiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604253
- Language: English
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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “extraordinary and brilliant book” (Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves), a prize-winning historian offers the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe
T- Author: Roper, Lyndal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 154164705X
- Language: English
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Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South
$32.00 Add to cartA “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore … [more below]
- Author: Schumaker, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605314
- Language: English
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAn “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s g… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601009
- Language: English
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Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times
$32.00 Add to cartA “beautiful, deep, thoughtful” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning–and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety
- Author: Heine, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541600819
- Language: English
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More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI
$30.00 Add to cartA veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI
In the age of artificial intelligence, draft- Author: Warner, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605500
- Language: English
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
$22.99 Add to cartAn essential new history of Central Europe that “deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past” (Wall Street Journal)
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606345
- Language: English
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
$19.99 Add to cartThe “superbly entertaining and well-researched” (Financial Times) history of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico–and faced bloody consequences.
In the- Author: Shawcross, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541674200
- Language: English
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
$32.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri- Author: Herring, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600940
- Language: English
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The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
$19.99 Add to cart“Dr. Leonard Sax’s The Collapse of Parenting should be required reading for all parents.”―Dr. Nancy Kehoe, author of Wrestling with Our Inner Angels
In The Collapse of Parenting, internationall- Author: Sax, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604539
- Language: English
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How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog
$17.99 Add to cartThey say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity?
Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this i- Author: Orzel, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0465023312
- Language: English
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Black Dog of Fate
$19.99 Read more“His visions are burning — his poetry heartbreaking,” wrote Elie Wiesel of American poet Peter Balakian. Now, in elegant prose, the prize-winning poet who James Dickey called “an extraordinary talent… [more below]
- Author: Balakian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0465010199
- Language: English
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
$19.99 Add to cartAs seen on PBS’s American Spring Live, one of America’s great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathers
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They d- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028780
- Language: English
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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
$32.00 Add to cartThe first biography–“a stunning achievement” (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)–of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose- Author: Barss, Patchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603664
- Language: English
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The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
$35.00 Add to cart“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606167
- Language: English
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Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
$32.00 Add to cartThe surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others
On farms and in factories, Americans once had little cho- Author: Chappel, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619528
- Language: English
