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Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation
$32.00 Add to cartHow we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it
What’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to alloca- Author: Volic, Ismar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 069124880X
- Language: English
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Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity
Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conque- Author: Roberts, Jennifer T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0691181470
- Language: English
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Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City
$29.95 Add to cartAn unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of- Author: Ocejo, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691211329
- Language: English
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A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden–filled with lessons for today
In this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world’s most influ- Author: Blinder, Alan S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691238405
- Language: English
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Dragonflies of North America
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to every dragonfly species found in North America
Dragonflies are large and beautiful insects, diverse in color and pattern. This premier field guide provides- Series: Princeton Field Guides #167
- Author: Lam, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0691232873
- Language: English
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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
$29.95 Add to cartHow animals conceive of death and dying–and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality
When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, he- Author: Mons?, Susana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0691260761
- Language: English
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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration
$35.00 Add to cartA lavishly illustrated, large-format reference book by two preeminent experts on North American shorebirds
More than half a century has passed since the publication of The Shorebirds of North America,- Author: Dunne, Pete
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0691220956
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$39.95 Read moreA gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR–and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia
Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpec- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 691117039
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Butterflies
$14.95 Add to cartA charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s butterflies
Packed with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly wr- Series: Little Book of Nature
- Author: Sourakov, Andrei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0691251746
- Language: English
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How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving on
$18.95 Add to cartA modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Remedies for Love–a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love
Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691220301
- Language: English
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One Step Sideways, Three Steps Forward: One Woman’s Path to Becoming a Biologist
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist
Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps–not the shortest or the straightest- Author: Grant, B. Rosemary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691260591
- Language: English
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Higher Admissions: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Standardized Testing
$22.95 Add to cartHow to make American higher education fairer
In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The wides- Series: Our Compelling Interests #7
- Author: Krislov, Marvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0691246769
- Language: English
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The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas
The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond- Series: America in the World #54
- Author: Doyle, Don H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0691256098
- Language: English
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Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
$19.95 Add to cartWhy people are not as gullible as we think
Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe–and argues that we’re pretty good at making these decisions. In this l- Author: Mercier, Hugo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0691208921
- Language: English
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Gulls of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East: An Identification Guide
$45.00 Read moreA comprehensive photographic guide to the gull species of the Western Palearctic
Gulls occupy a particularly important place in the world of birds. But because they are notoriously difficult to identi- Author: Adriaens, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0691222835
- Language: English
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Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
$58.33 Add to cartA riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world’s largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance
Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationa- Author: Jaffrelot, Christophe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0691206805
- Language: English
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Rome Is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty
$49.92 Add to cartDrawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome’s Great Fire–and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire
According to legend, the Roman emperor Nero set fire to his- Series: Turning Points in Ancient History #9
- Author: Barrett, Anthony a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0691172315
- Language: English
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Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
$17.95 Add to cartThe troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy
Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s ben- Author: Reich, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0691202273
- Language: English
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The Biodiversity Gardener: Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World
$29.95 Add to cartA personal account of–and guide to–unlocking the wildlife potential of gardens and other plots of land in lowland Britain
Over the past decade, wildlife author and photographer Paul Sterry has nurtu- Series: Wild Nature Press #34
- Author: Sterry, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 069124555X
- Language: English
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
$19.95 Read moreThe story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships–and how it influenced modern thought
David Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his l- Author: Rasmussen, Dennis C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192286
- Language: English
