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Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
$27.99 Add to cartIn Stories Are Weapons, best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats–the essential tool kit for psychological warfare–have evolved from military
- Author: Newitz, Annalee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881512
- Language: English
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The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
$29.99 Add to cartThe Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation’s culture and history. Its watershed spans almost half the country, Mark Twain’s travel
- Author: Upholt, Boyce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867870
- Language: English
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The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets
$28.99 Add to cartFor over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the “secret of life.” But over the last several decades, a quiet revolution has taken place. In a series of breathtaki
- Author: Cech, Thomas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324050683
- Language: English
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Amrikan: 125 Recipes from the Indian American Diaspora
$35.00 Add to cartIn her eagerly anticipated debut cookbook, acclaimed food writer Khushbu Shah injects an electric and irresistible energy into the story of Indian food, with 125 recipes inspired by the cooking of the
- Author: Shah, Khushbu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324036257
- Language: English
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This Strange Eventful History
$29.99 Add to cartOver seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state–separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian ind
- Author: Messud, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 039363504X
- Language: English
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Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
$31.99 Add to cartEven before they were recognized as citizens of the United States, Black women understood that the fights for civil and human rights were inseparable. Over the course of two hundred years, they were a
- Author: Blain, Keisha N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0393882292
- Language: English
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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
$28.99 Add to cartThe body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available–sculpti
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050624
- Language: English
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Bipolar, Not So Much: Understanding Your Mood Swings and Depression
$34.99 Add to cartNow available in paperback with an updated preface.
Depression confuses the mind, strips away hope, and causes people to blame themselves for an illness they never asked for. This book presents a rev
- Author: Aiken, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 132408216X
- Language: English
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The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots
$17.99 Add to cartThere is a robotics revolution underway. A record 3.1 million robots are working in factories right now, doing everything from assembling computers to packing goods and monitoring air quality and perf
- Author: Rus, Daniela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105089
- Language: English
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Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays
$35.00 Add to cartEric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. The preeminent historian of the Civil War era, Foner’s keynote has been American
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110619
- Language: English
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With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
$32.99 Add to cartKnitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting–throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely “women’s work” and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience.
- Author: Nehrig, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 132407485X
- Language: English
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Living in the Present with John Prine
$27.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a 1977 Coupe DeVille with the great singer-songwriter John Prine, taking a Florida road trip that soon evolved into a deep friendship, full of jokes and
- Author: Piazza, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050853
- Language: English
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival
$31.99 Add to cartIn repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. I
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0393882276
- Language: English
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A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now
$31.99 Add to cartCollectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, and considered great public benefactors. But collectors have also been seen as dangerous obsessives who love objects to
- Author: Delbourgo, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0393541967
- Language: English
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When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Poems
$16.99 Add to cartIn this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays–Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Mo
- Author: Jordan, A. Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 132410516X
- Language: English
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Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
$31.99 Add to cart“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsul
- Author: Ansfield, Bench
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 132409351X
- Language: English
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The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
$19.99 Add to cartThe Mississippi River lies at the heart of America, an undeniable life force that is intertwined with the nation’s culture and history. Its watershed spans almost half the country, Mark Twain’s travel
- Author: Upholt, Boyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110473
- Language: English
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Alice in Wonderland: A Norton Critical Edition
$18.38 Add to cartThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The texts and original illustrations from the 1897 editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass as well as the 1878 edition of The
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Carroll, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324059605
- Language: English
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What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution
$29.99 Add to cartFood in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted, and upended by queer creatives. Beloved food writer John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channeling the twin forces of cr
- Author: Birdsall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324073799
- Language: English
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Doggerel: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartReginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms American life. In Doggerel, Betts examines this subject through a more prosaic–but equally rich–lens: dogs.
- Author: Betts, Reginald Dwayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324089253
- Language: English
