Simon & Schuster
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
$19.99 Add to cart“An important, disturbing, and gripping history” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1476763267
- Language: English
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Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War
$17.00 Add to cartIn “a clear-eyed and shrewd examination…of how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism” (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever alter… [more below]
- Author: Danner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1476747776
- Language: English
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Barons of the Sea: And Their Race to Build the World’s Fastest Clipper Ship
$20.99 Add to cart“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathan… [more below]
- Author: Ujifusa, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1476745986
- Language: English
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Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity
$19.99 Add to cartEmily Matchar offers a smart, measured investigation into the cultural, social, and economic implications of a return to domesticity in this fascinating book “chock-full of historical context, strong … [more below]
- Series: Night Glow Board Books
- Author: Matchar, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1451665458
- Language: English
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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
$19.00 Add to cartPart road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist “shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why” (New York Post).Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five cont… [more below]
- Author: McGraw, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1451665423
- Language: English
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
$19.99 Add to cart“A first-rate survey of the world of mathematics…Great reading for the intellectually curious,” (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of Here’s Looking at Euclid–a dazzling new book that tur… [more below]
- Author: Bellos, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1451640110
- Language: English
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press
$42.99 Add to cart“Lincoln believed that ‘with public sentiment nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.’ Harold Holzer makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Lincoln’s leadership by showing
- Author: Holzer, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: September 29, 2015
- ISBN10: 1439192723
- Language: English
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The Way of Baseball: Finding Stillness at 95 MPH
$18.99 Add to cartTwo-time All Star Shawn Green shows how the surprising lessons the game has taught him transcend baseball and compose a life well lived.
Shawn Green’s career statistics can be found on the backs of ba- Author: Green, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1439191204
- Language: English
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Beatles vs. Stones
$19.99 Add to cartA lively examination of the most legendary (and least understood) rivalry in the annals of rock ‘n’ roll: “Beatles vs. Stones is one of the best rock biographies I have seen this year…If you thought… [more below]
- Author: McMillian, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 143915970X
- Language: English
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The Irregulars
$20.00 Add to cartFollowing her extraordinary, bestselling, and much-acclaimed accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, here is a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intri… [more below]
- Author: Conant, Jennet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 08 2009
- ISBN10: 0743294599
- Language: English
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At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman
$18.99 Add to cartBrilliant, witty, perceptive essays about fly-fishing, the natural world, and life in general by the acknowledged master of fishing writers.
Proving that fishing is not just a part-time pursuit, At th- Series: John Gierach’s Fly-Fishing Library
- Author: Gierach, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0743229932
- Language: English
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Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
$18.99 Add to cartPatrick McManus offers wry observations about small-town life and curmudgeonly insists on bigger and bigger fish stories in this hilarious collection from one of the greatest contemporary humorists.
P- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 1998
- ISBN10: 068484799X
- Language: English
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war–and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises–from Tru… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1982107308
- Language: English
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Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
$29.99 Add to cartFrom beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.
Mo Rocca has always lo- Author: Rocca, Mo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1501197622
- Language: English
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The Monarchy of Fear
$18.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend our divided country.For decades Martha C. Nu… [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1501172514
- Language: English
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El Mapa del Cielo: Cómo La Ciencia, La Religión Y La Gente Común Están Demostrando El Más Allá
$16.99 Read moreEl autor de La prueba del cielo, el bestseller #1 del New York Times, recurre a los sabios de tiempos pasados, a los cient?ficos modernos y a historias de gente com?n para mostrar que el cielo es real… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Eben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1501100483
- Language: Spanish
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The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home
$18.00 Add to cartThis extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II is “liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it’s all true” (The New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Freeman, Sally Mott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1501104160
- Language: English
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
$17.99 Add to cartPraised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his dea… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476771553
- Language: English
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The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassination
$20.00 Add to cartIn this story of the most famous assassination in history, “the last bloody day of the [Roman] Republic has never been painted so brilliantly” (The Wall Street Journal).
Julius Caesar was stabbed to d- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1451668813
- Language: English
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Eating Wildly
$17.99 Add to cartIn this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City, Ava Chin finds sustenance…and so much more.Urban foraging is the new frontier of foraging for foods, and it’s all ab… [more below]
- Author: Chin, Ava
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1451656203
- Language: English
