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Einstein’s Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics
$30.00 Add to cartThe revelatory story of an intellectual giant who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination against women in science.
Emmy Noether is one- Author: Phillips, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541702956
- Language: English
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The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life
$30.00 Read moreAward-winning Fortune 500 brand consultant and behavioral expert Leslie Zane shatters conventional marketing wisdom, showing readers how to tap into the hidden brain where instinct prevails, creating … [more below]
- Author: Zane, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703855
- Language: English
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Telltale Hearts: A Public Health Doctor, His Patients, and the Power of Story
$32.00 Add to cartIn this illuminating work, a doctor and public health advocate reveals what his patients have taught him about patience and healing.
For over three decades, Dr. Dean-David Schillinger has served in on
- Author: Schillinger, Dean-David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1541704207
- Language: English
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The Hope Circuit: A Psychologist’s Journey from Helplessness to Optimism
$30.00 Add to cartOne of the most influential living psychologists looks at the history of his life and discipline, and paints a much brighter future for everyone.
When Martin E. P. Seligman first encountered psycholo- Author: Seligman, Martin E. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1610398734
- Language: English
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Blood Brotherhoods
$56.00 Add to cartMAFIA. CAMORRA. ‘NDRANGHETA.
The Sicilian mafia, known as Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy’s only dangerous criminal fraternity. The country hosts two other major mafias: the camorra from Naples;- Author: Dickie, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1610394275
- Language: English
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The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
$26.99 Add to cartCan economics be passionate? Can it center on people and what really matters to them day-in and day-out. And help us understand their hidden motives for why they do what they do in everyday life?
Uri- Author: Gneezy, Uri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1610393112
- Language: English
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Front Burner: Al Qaeda’s Attack on the USS Cole
$24.99 Add to cartOn October 12, 2000, eleven months before the 9/11 attacks, the USS Cole docked in the port of Aden in Yemen for a routine fueling stop. At 1118, on a hot, sunny morning, the 8,400-ton destroyer was r… [more below]
- Author: Lippold, Kirk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1610392345
- Language: English
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Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations
$22.99 Add to cart“Never give in!” Winston Churchill is famous for admonishing: “This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never.” What most people don’t know is that when he said this he w… [more below]
- Author: Langworth, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1586489577
- Language: English
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Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance
$21.99 Add to cartThe year 1945 was a chaotic one, both for the world, of course, and for Winston Churchill. Communism was on the march and the people of Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Poland all found themselves i… [more below]
- Author: White, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1610392434
- Language: English
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The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartFernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room,… [more below]
- Author: Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 158648429X
- Language: English
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Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
$30.00 Read moreA thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 154175087X
- Language: English
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Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945
$19.99 Add to cartLisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to… [more below]
- Author: Lochery, Neill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391888
- Language: English
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Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results
$18.99 Add to cart“This book is among the very best I have seen in an emerging genre of donor-education literature.”-Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Author: Tierney, Thomas J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391462
- Language: English
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The Future of Power
$19.99 Add to cartThe Future of Power examines what it means to be forceful and effective in a world in which the traditional ideas of state power have been upended by technology, and rogue actors. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., … [more below]
- Author: Nye, Joseph S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390695
- Language: English
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Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
$21.99 Add to cartSome presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together th… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488694
- Language: English
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The Good News about Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever and What to Do about It
$16.99 Add to cartThe current model of parental discipline is as outdated as a rotary phone.
Why don’t our kids do what we want them to do? Parents often take the blame for misbehavior, but this obscures a broader tre- Author: Lewis, Katherine Reynolds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 154177406X
- Language: English
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
$45.50 Read moreIf you can’t trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn’t the age of distrust — far from it.
In- Author: Botsman, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1541773675
- Language: English
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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
$17.99 Add to cartThe science behind the traits and quirks that drive creative geniuses to make spectacular breakthroughs
What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world — those creative geniuses- Author: Schilling, Melissa A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724534
- Language: English
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We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s
$39.00 Add to cartA brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear for the safety of children.
During the- Author: Beck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1610392876
- Language: English
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The Holocaust: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartn June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda’s life was spared and her mother … [more below]
- Author: Rees, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1541730070
- Language: English
