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McNamara at War: A New History
$39.99 Add to cartRobert S. McNamara was widely considered to be one of the most brilliant men of his generation. He was an invaluable ally of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as U.S. secretary of defen
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324007168
- Language: English
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Super Natural: How Life Thrives in Impossible Places
$29.99 Add to cartFrom scorching deserts to frozen seabeds, from the highest peaks of the Himalaya to the hadal depths of the oceans, there are habitats on this Earth that appear hostile to life–yet where, nevertheles
- Author: Riley, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324079185
- Language: English
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The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
$32.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversia
- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393540839
- Language: English
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My Darling Boy
$29.99 Add to cartKnown for his bold voice and unforgettable characters, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son Cully collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Fl
- Author: DuFresne, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035730
- Language: English
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You Can’t Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon’s Fight for Free Speech
$37.99 Add to cartDecades before the impeachment of an American president for a similar offense, Angelo Herndon was charged under Georgia law with “attempting to incite insurrection”–a crime punishable by death. In 19
- Author: Snyder, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036540
- Language: English
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At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartAt the End of the World There Is a Pond is a book about aftermaths. Each poem comes in the wake of a deep rupture–the ruptures of mental illness and addiction, of migration and displacement, of viol
- Author: Duong, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086785
- Language: English
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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy
$35.99 Add to cartThe rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war, and its reputatio
- Author: Gilbert, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867080
- Language: English
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The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
$18.99 Add to cartWhat kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Bego?a G?mez Urzaiz became fixated on artist
- Author: Gómez Urzaiz, Begoña
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079479
- Language: English
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Alfie & Me: What Owls Know, What Humans Believe
$19.99 Add to cartWhen ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they’d rescued, she’d be a temporary presence. But Alfie’s feathers were n
- Author: Safina, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086483
- Language: English
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection
$27.99 Add to cart44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, P?draig ? Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, rev
- Author: Tuama, Pádraig Ó.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086165
- Language: English
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Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartWhen Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers’ eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains one
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086203
- Language: English
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Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartSince its improvised creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools pranks and endless int
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086246
- Language: English
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Elysian Kitchens: Recipes Inspired by the Traditions and Tastes of the World’s Sacred Spaces
$50.00 Add to cartMonasteries, temples, mosques, and synagogues have long been centers of culinary innovation. No mere relics of the past, they reflect our modern world and are as dynamic and fundamental to our society
- Author: Eddy, Jody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0393651738
- Language: English
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Cicada Summer
$16.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 2020, with a heat wave bearing down and a brood of periodical cicadas climbing into the trees, Husha mourns the recent death of her mother while quarantining with her ailing grandfath
- Author: McKeen, Erica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073810
- Language: English
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Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
$21.99 Add to cartSeven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, lique
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074604
- Language: English
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There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
$29.99 Add to cart“Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page,” Joy Williams writes in her introduction to this astonishing selection of Brad Watson’s publishe
- Author: Watson, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076429
- Language: English
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When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals about Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
$27.99 Add to cartIn 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world’s first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece o
- Author: Bierman, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324020679
- Language: English
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How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
$18.99 Read moreFrom facial recognition–capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents–to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves
- Author: Wiggins, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074582
- Language: English
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The Invention of the Darling: Poems
$26.99 Add to cart“The poet of rapture and tenderness” (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God.
- Author: Lee, Li-Young
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867196
- Language: English
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in
- Author: Kim, Sj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064765
- Language: English
