Basic Books
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The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience
$50.67 Read moreAn “elegant”, “engrossing” (Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal) examination of what we think we know about the brain and why — despite technological advances — the workings of our most essential orga… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646851
- Language: English
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You’ve Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
$30.00 Read moreHow games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation–and what we can do about it
Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues,- Author: Hon, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600177
- Language: English
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The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
$17.99 Read moreThe story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler’- Author: Halpern, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1541672984
- Language: English
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You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation
$28.00 Read moreOne of America’s top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine–with powerful lessons for today
Every medical decision–whether to have chemotherapy, an X-ray, or surgery–is a risk, no matte- Author: Offit, Paul A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1541620399
- Language: English
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A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
$21.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today
Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Frida- Author: Axworthy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 24 2016
- ISBN10: 0465098762
- Language: English
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African Europeans: An Untold History
$30.00 Read moreA dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent
One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian
Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are o… [more below]
- Author: Otele, Olivette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619676
- Language: English
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Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior
$32.00 Read moreTwo MIT economists show how game theory–the ultimate theory of rationality–explains irrational behavior
We like to think of ourselves as rational. This idea
- Author: Yoeli, Erez
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1541619471
- Language: English
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The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent–And Reinvent–Our Identities
$30.00 Read moreA New York Times-bestselling author reveals how the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, are critical to our lives
We all know we tell stories about ourselves. But as psychiatrist and neuroscie
- Author: Berns, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602293
- Language: English
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Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
$35.00 Read moreAn intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War
Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abol- Author: Egerton, Douglas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465096646
- Language: English
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Girls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed–And What Parents Can Do
$19.99 Add to cartA parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls’ psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self.
In Girls on the Edge, psychologis- Author: Sax, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541617800
- Language: English
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The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
$30.00 Read moreForget the language instinct–this is the story of how we make up language as we go
Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity–and one that remains poorly understood.- Author: Christiansen, Morten H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1541674987
- Language: English
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The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain
$30.00 Read moreA doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective
In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexaminati- Author: Warraich, Haider
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675304
- Language: English
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Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
$32.00 Add to cartThe compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation’s cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight
Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities.- Author: Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541697243
- Language: English
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Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do about It
$30.00 Read moreWhy mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits
Whether we are worried about the spread of COVID-19 or making a corporate budget, we depend o
- Author: Thompson, Erica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600983
- Language: English
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Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
$28.00 Read more*A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick
A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution In Hurricane Lizards
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book Awards- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672429
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Chef
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the reinvention of French food through the fine dining revolution in America, Daniel Boulud has been a witness to and a creator of today’s food culture. A modern improviser with a classical found… [more below]
- Author: Boulud, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093426
- Language: English
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X + Y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
$28.00 Read moreShortlisted for the 2021 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award for Science
A brilliant mathematician examines the complexity of
One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020
One of the Most Fascinating Books WIRED Read in 2020- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646509
- Language: English
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused
- Author: Connolly, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0465093957
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Mathematician
$18.99 Add to cartThe first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a Young Mathematician tells readers what Ian Stewart wishes he had known when he was a student and youn… [more below]
- Series: Art of Mentoring (Paperback)
- Author: Stewart, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0465082327
- Language: English
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The Case for Trump
$19.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller and “a brilliant and bracing analysis” (Mark R. Levin) of Donald Trump, his presidency, and his vision of America’s future–now updated for 2024
In The Case for Trump, awa- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606434
- Language: English
