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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition
$31.67 Add to cart“A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it … [more below]
- Author: Rauch, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 23 2014
- ISBN10: 022614593X
- Language: English
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Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life
$49.92 Add to cartA fresh look at electricity and its powerful role in life on Earth
When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices–- Author: Jorgensen, Timothy J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0691197830
- Language: English
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Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
$46.58 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Award
The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less tha
An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America’s heartland- Author: Bessire, Lucas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691212643
- Language: English
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The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
$49.92 Read moreHow the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people
Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, per- Author: Dickson, Bruce J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0691186642
- Language: English
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The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58 Add to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- Language: English
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What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
$36.67 Add to cartWas it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of … [more below]
- Author: Clottes, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 022626663X
- Language: English
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Stanley Kubrick: Interviews
$50.00 Add to cart“I might try to make something of an imperfect story with my efforts as a writer, but I would never attempt to film a story that I was not finally in love with.” From his first feature film, Fear and … [more below]
- Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)
- Author: Phillips, Gene D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 22 2010
- ISBN10: 1578062977
- Language: English
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$58.33 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.- Author: Connelly, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0691167125
- Language: English
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Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
$56.98 Add to cartWinner: Albert Castel Book Award
Winner: Tennessee History Book Award Winner: Emerging Civil War Book Award Winner: Douglas Southall Freeman History Award When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Smith, Timothy B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: October 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0700633162
- Language: English
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Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
$33.25 Add to cart“Worth a read for anyone who cares about making change happen.”–Barack Obama
A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the- Author: McGuinness, Tara Dawson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0691207755
- Language: English
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Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
$49.92 Add to cartA sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of “models and bottles” to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dolla- Author: Mears, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0691168652
- Language: English
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Machine Translation
$40.00 Read moreA concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.
The dream of a universal translatio
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Poibeau, Thierry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534215
- Language: English
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Cite Right, Third Edition: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles–Mla, Apa, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More
$30.00 Read moreCite Right is the perfect guide for anyone who needs to learn a new citation style or who needs an easy reference to Chicago, MLA, APA, AMA, and other styles. Each chapter serves as a quick guide that… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Lipson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 022643110X
- Language: English
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Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 50th Anniversary Edition
$46.67 Add to cartCrisis of the House Divided is the standard historiography of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Harry Jaffa provides the definitive analysis of the political principles that guided Lincoln from his reentry
- Author: Jaffa, Harry V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226391183
- Language: English
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Conversations with George Saunders
$50.00 Add to cartBesides being one of America’s most celebrated living authors, George Saunders (b. 1958) is also an excellent interview subject. In the fourteen interviews included in Conversations with George Saunde… [more below]
- Series: Literary Conversations
- Author: O’Connell, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: June 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1496840305
- Language: English
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How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others
$49.92 Add to cartThe hard work required to make God real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faith
How do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people–as if th- Author: Luhrmann, T. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0691164460
- Language: English
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Gladius: The World of the Roman Soldier
$55.00 Read moreGladius delivers a stunning ground-level recreation of what it was like to be a soldier in the fighting force that made the Roman Empire.
The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in
Empire.- Author: de la Bédoyère, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: December 04 2020
- ISBN10: 022675023X
- Language: English
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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
$38.25 Read moreFrom the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James
In 1895, William James, the fathe- Author: Kaag, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0691192162
- Language: English
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When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
$46.58 Add to cartThe little-known history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world
The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to Ch- Author: Williams, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0691201625
- Language: English
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Stonewall of the West: Patrick Cleburne and the Civil War
$63.32 Add to cartTo Jefferson Davis, he was the “Stonewall of the West”; to Robert E. Lee, he was “a meteor shining from a clouded sky”; and to Braxton Bragg, he was an officer “ever alive to a success.” He was Patric… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: April 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0700609342
- Language: English
