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The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
$19.99 Read moreAt every moment, within our bodies and all around us, trillions of microscopic combatants are waging a war that shapes our health and life on Earth. Countless times per second, viruses known as phages
- Author: Ireland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086432
- Language: English
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Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion
$24.00 Add to cartWherever there’s a rule, there is someone with the power to apply or ignore it–or add to it, in the interest of justice. From enforcing chores to issuing life sentences, decision-makers deliver flawe
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lam, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051248
- Language: English
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The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck
$32.99 Add to cartHow dangerous is our diet? How much of sports falls into the realm of luck? When authorities categorize a given event as “highly likely”–how likely is that, really? Whether we’re trying to decide if
- Author: Spiegelhalter, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324106115
- Language: English
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Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartVidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses, he leaps a
- Author: Ravinthiran, Vidyan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021322
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789
$24.99 Add to cartWhen a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the Fren
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086424
- Language: English
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Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling
$19.99 Add to cartDiscussions in the West around diversity in the arts often focus on the identities of characters and creators. Speculative fiction author and writing instructor Henry Lien makes the pathbreaking argum
- Author: Lien, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 132407910X
- Language: English
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Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
$21.99 Add to cartBy 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In A
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086378
- Language: English
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What’s Real about Race?: Untangling Science, Genetics, and Society
$24.00 Add to cartBiologically, race does not exist. Scientists have proven that human DNA is 99.9 percent identical. But we know that racism and its structural impacts shape our health, opportunities, and lives in pro
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Bliss, Rina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021764
- Language: English
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Beta Vulgaris
$18.99 Add to cartElise and her boyfriend, Tom, set off for Minnesota, hoping the paycheck from the sugar beet harvest will cover the rent on their Brooklyn apartment. Amidst the grueling work and familiar anxieties ab
- Author: Sarsfield, Margie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324078731
- Language: English
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The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
$24.00 Add to cartToday, human exceptionalism is the norm. Despite occasional nods to animal welfare, we prioritize humanity, often neglecting the welfare of a vast number of beings. As a result, we use hundreds of bil
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Sebo, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064803
- Language: English
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The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
$31.99 Add to cartNvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: its chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia
- Author: Kim, Tae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086718
- Language: English
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Woodswoman II
$16.95 Add to cartAnne LaBastille found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake. But as the years passed, the outside world intruded in various ways: curious fans, after reading her
- Author: Labastille, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320596
- Language: English
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Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders – The Golden Age – The Breakdown
$45.00 Add to cartRenowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and the dangers posed by communist regimes. He now presents, for the first time in one paperback vo… [more below]
- Author: Kolakowski, Leszek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: January 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0393329437
- Language: English
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Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
$16.95 Read moreIn this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short,” why have we… [more below]
- Author: Keltner, Dacher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337138
- Language: English
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The Bears Ears: A Human History of America’s Most Endangered Wilderness
$18.95 Read moreThe Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 132403596X
- Language: English
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Making Shapely Fiction
$16.95 Add to cartHere is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page–whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see … [more below]
- Author: Stern, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 17 2000
- ISBN10: 039332124X
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Masses
$15.95 Add to cartSocial upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jos Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega’s vision of Wes… [more below]
- Author: Ortega Y. Gasset, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 17 1994
- ISBN10: 0393310957
- Language: English
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Oak: The Frame of Civilization
$17.99 Add to cartProfessional arborist and award-winning nature writer William Bryant Logan deftly relates the delightful history of the reciprocal relationship between humans and oak trees since time immemorial. For
- Author: Logan, William Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327787
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$18.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021950
- Language: English
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Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You
$18.95 Read moreUber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when they launched. Today they are industry leaders. What’s the secret to their success?
These cutting-edge businesse
- Author: Parker, Geoffrey G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354350
- Language: English
