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For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
$19.99 Add to cartFor Blood and Money tells the little-known story of how an upstart biotechnology company created a one-in-a-million cancer drug, and how the core team–denied their share of the profits–went and did
- Author: Vardi, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074752
- Language: English
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Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
$13.95 Add to cartThe 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, cel
- Author: Fennelly, Beth Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356485
- Language: English
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
$18.95 Read moreAlmost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064552
- Language: English
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
$18.95 Add to cartWhy? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift an
- Author: Hayes, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 393355462
- Language: English
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Hawk Mountain
$17.95 Add to cartAn English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder.
- Author: Habib, Conner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064862
- Language: English
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Letters from an Astrophysicist
$19.95 Add to cartAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has attracted one of the world’s largest online followings with his fascinating, widely accessible insights into science and our universe. Now, Tyson invites us to g
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1324003316
- Language: English
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Disturbance
$16.95 Add to cartAs the sun sets on a feverishly hot July evening, a young woman spies on her teenage neighbor, transfixed by what looks like an occult ritual intended to banish an ex-boyfriend. Alone in a new town an
- Author: Clake, Jenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050772
- Language: English
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21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19
$35.00 Add to cartIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Po
- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020466
- Language: English
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
$16.95 Add to cartElizabeth Blackwell believed from an early age that she was destined for a mission beyond the scope of “ordinary” womanhood. Though the world at first recoiled at the notion of a woman studying medici
- Author: Nimura, Janice P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020202
- Language: English
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
$25.95 Add to cartFascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduce
- Author: Doughty, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0393249891
- Language: English
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The Shadow King
$17.95 Add to cartSet during Mussolini’s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II, casting light on the women soldiers who were left out of the historical reco
- Author: Mengiste, Maaza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358518
- Language: English
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Boutwell: Radical Republican and Champion of Democracy
$39.99 Add to cartDuring his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to “redeem America’s promise” of racial equality, economic equity, and the principled use of American power abroad. From 18
- Author: Boutwell, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324074264
- Language: English
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Girlfriend on Mars
$19.99 Add to cartAmber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She and twenty-three reality TV contestants from around the world–including attractive Israeli soldier
- Author: Willis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324087005
- Language: English
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The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain: 660-1649
$40.99 Add to cartThroughout the chronicle of Britain’s history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have… [more below]
- Author: Rodger, N. A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319601
- Language: English
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Suicide in America (New and Expanded)
$24.99 Add to cartIn this new edition of his acclaimed work, Dr. Herbert Hendin casts new light on the problem of suicide, offering what he calls a “psychosocial perspective.” Demonstrating that treatment of seriously
- Author: Hendin, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: February 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0393313689
- Language: English
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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch,
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 393881164
- Language: English
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Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
$35.00 Add to cartSocrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant
- Author: Callard, Agnes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1631498460
- Language: English
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Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays
$28.99 Add to cartThomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his mother called home. Seen another way, Nuocheng also
- Author: Dai, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324066377
- Language: English
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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information,
- Author: Carr, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064617
- Language: English
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The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
$29.99 Add to cartWe often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global populat
- Author: Brands, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 132403694X
- Language: English
