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By: Ballou, Brendan
Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe “infuriating, illuminating, essential” (Kurt Anderson) expos? of private equity: what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the government helps, and how we stop it
Private equity s- Author: Ballou, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541702115
- Language: English
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By: Arbesman, Samuel
The Magic of Code: How Digital Language Created and Connects Our World–And Shapes Our Future
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartIn the tradition of classics such as The Lives of a Cell, a bold reframing of our relationship with technology that is more positive and human centered.
In the digital world, code is the essential pr- Author: Arbesman, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704487
- Language: English
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By: Borogan, Irina
Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartTwo of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists tell the story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s faded to be replaced by autocracy, fear, and betrayal
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- Author: Borogan, Irina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704452
- Language: English
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Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse Into Mercenary Chaos
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia.
In June 2023, the Wagner Group assembled an armed convoy that included tanks and rocket launchers and set out on what- Author: Rondeaux, Candace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1541703065
- Language: English
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By: Chow, Rosalind
The Doors You Can Open: A New Way to Network, Build Trust, and Use Your Influence to Create a More Inclusive Workplace
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cart“Chow revolutionizes our understanding of how careers advance” (Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Drive), taking readers on a transformative journey beyond the standard model o… [more below]
- Author: Chow, Rosalind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541702751
- Language: English
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In Blood, Flowers Bloom: A World War II Story of Valor and Forgiveness Across Generations
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn intergenerational story of war, forgiveness, and memory told through stolen and returned battlefield souvenirs.
How do we remember war? How do we forgive? In Blood, Flowers Bloom illuminates one- Author: Bresnahan, Samantha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1541702573
- Language: English
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The Creativity Choice: The Science of Making Decisions to Turn Ideas Into Action
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartBased on twenty years of research, a Yale scientist dispels the myth that creativity is a trait that you’re born with–instead, creativity is a decision that you make again and again
Anyone who has e- Author: Pringle, Zorana Ivcevic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704320
- Language: English
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By: Adams, Wes
Meaningful Work: How to Ignite Passion and Performance in Every Employee
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cart“A timely, clear, and actionable book” (Adam Grant) that makes the powerful case that meaning at work drives employee well-being, high performance, and even profit
We’re in the middle of the most sig- Author: Adams, Wes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704533
- Language: English
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By: LeBor, Adam
The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cart“The Last Days of Budapest is a masterpiece. Immaculately researched, it is packed with large-than-life characters and revelations about the unknown espionage history of the Second World War…. This … [more below]
- Author: LeBor, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1541700589
- Language: English
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By: Rice, Paul
Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers Are Changing the World
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom the founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, a critical account of the past, present and future of conscious capitalism–the change it has wrought in the world and the potential it still has to confron… [more below]
- Author: Rice, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704037
- Language: English
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The Ghost Lab: How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartA surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America.
In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to a copy center- Author: Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1541703979
- Language: English
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Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartHow a new class-based approach to college admissions can produce economic and racial diversity alike– and greater fairness.
For decades America’s colleges and universities have been working to incre- Author: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704231
- Language: English
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By: Rees, Laurence
The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom an award-winning historian comes a fresh analysis of the rise of Nazi extremism, how such thinking gained popularity, and why it is vital to fight burgeoning extremist movements today
How could- Author: Rees, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541702336
- Language: English
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By: Moloney, Ed
Voices from the Grave: Two Men’s War in Ireland
$25.99PaperbackAdd to cartA candid and brutal account of murder, abduction, and violence during the Troubles in Northern Ireland-from two men on opposite sides of the conflict.
After ‘the long war’ in Ireland came to an end,- Author: Moloney, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1586489321
- Language: English
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By: Williams, Susan
Spies in the Congo: America’s Atomic Mission in World War II
$41.00HardcoverAdd to cartIn the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb — and to make sure nobody saw… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1610396545
- Language: English
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Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartA tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behavior
The brain creates every feeling, emotion, a- Author: Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1541742745
- Language: English
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By: Nusbaum, Eric
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
$45.50HardcoverRead moreA story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.
Dodger Stadium is an American icon. But the story of how it came to be goes far beyond base… [more below]- Author: Nusbaum, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1541742214
- Language: English
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By: Lewis, Damien
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
$32.00HardcoverRead moreThe New Yorker, Best Books of 2022
Singer. Actress. Beauty. Spy. During WWII, Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous en
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Booklist, Best Books of 2022- Author: Lewis, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 154170066X
- Language: English
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By: Mendez, Jonna
In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the Cia, Unmasked
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War
Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contrac- Author: Mendez, Jonna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 154170312X
- Language: English
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The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself about Russia and Betrayed Ukraine
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartA bestselling national security expert delivers a chilling analysis of how Western indecision and apathy made possible the return of brutal Russian expansionism – with catastrophic consequences.
Afte- Author: Vindman, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1541705041
- Language: English


















