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Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive
$23.99 Add to cartOur politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor (“Ode to Nap
- Author: Parker, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091630
- Language: English
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Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
$32.50 Add to cartEconomist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time: he’s often radically opposed to the political mainstream, and delights in upending what’s expected of a Black pu
- Author: Loury, Glenn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881342
- Language: English
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Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
$35.00 Add to cartBy early morning of June 30, 1860, a large crowd began to congregate in front of Oxford University’s brand-new Museum of Natural History. The occasion was the annual meeting of the British Association
- Author: Markel, Howard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324036745
- Language: English
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American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873
$39.99 Add to cartIn a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035285
- Language: English
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Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier
$35.00 Add to cartWe are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brou
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091770
- Language: English
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My Darling Boy
$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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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
$29.99 Add to cartThe Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.
Carl Elliott is a bioethici
- Author: Elliott, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1324065508
- Language: English
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Two Minds: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartDoes loss define us, or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Siskel wrestles with questions of identity and inheritance in precise, lucid poetry.
- Author: Siskel, Callie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073675
- Language: English
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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
