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Terrestrial History
$29.99 Add to cartHannah is a fusion scientist working alone at a remote cottage off the coast of Scotland when she sees a figure making his way from the sea. It is a visitor from the future, a young man from a human s
- Author: Reed, Joe Mungo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324079371
- Language: English
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Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software
$29.99 Add to cartSoftware was supposed to radically improve society. Outdated mechanical systems would be easily replaced; programs like PowerPoint would make information flow more freely; social media platforms like
- Author: Campbell, Darryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324078952
- Language: English
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
$39.99 Add to cartPaul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention,
- Author: Prideaux, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020423
- Language: English
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The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin
$32.99 Add to cartMore than a century ago, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, dubbed the “Einstein of Sex,” grew famous (and infamous) for his liberating theory of sexual relativity. Today, he’s been largely forgotten.
Journalist D
- Author: Brook, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324007249
- Language: English
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I’ve Been Thinking
$21.99 Add to cartDaniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do we have free will? What is consciousness a
- Author: Dennett, Daniel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105062
- Language: English
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Did It Happen Here?: Perspectives on Fascism and America
$18.99 Add to cartSince the election of Donald Trump, politicians, historians, intellectuals, and media pundits have been faced with a startling and urgent question: Are we threatened by fascism? Some see striking conn
- Author: Steinmetz-Jenkins, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110597
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$12.00 Read moreLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105054
- Language: English
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The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
$35.00 Add to cartThe eighteenth century was a time of cultural friction: individuals began to assert greater independence and there was a new emphasis on social equality. In this surprising history, Lynn Hunt examines
- Author: Hunt, Lynn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324079037
- Language: English
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The Cook and the Gardener: Recipes and Writings from France
$35.00 Add to cartThe ancient link between the gardener and the cook is at the heart of this remarkably evocative cookbook, in which Amanda Hesser tells the story of a year she spent as a cook in a seventeenth-century
- Author: Hesser, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105410
- Language: English
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Smother: Poems
$25.99 Add to cartHow should we raise our children in, and for, a world that is burning? Rachel Richardson’s third collection, Smother, interrogates this impossible question. The poet, raising young daughters and griev
- Author: Richardson, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086106
- Language: English
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Professional Practice: A Guide to Turning Designs Into Buildings
$25.00 Read more- Who are the parties in architecture, engineering, and construction?
- How do you market architectural services (get the project)?
- What are the basic project delivery methods?
- What are the forms of owne
- Author: Segal, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393731804
- Language: English
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Dianaworld: An Obsession
$32.50 Add to cartOver the last forty years, the mythology of Princess Diana has turned the woman who was born Diana Spencer into a symbol for almost anything. From a harbinger of Brexit populism, an all-American consu
- Author: White, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 132402156X
- Language: English
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The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture
$29.99 Add to cartFor more than 150 years, the question of nature versus nurture has been one of the most contentious issues in the human sciences. On the one side are “blank-slaters,” who believe we are mainly shaped
- Author: Conley, Dalton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324092637
- Language: English
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The Story of Astrophysics in Five Revolutions
$23.99 Add to cartWhen Neil Armstrong first set foot in the lunar dust, the Earth held its breath. That one small step forever changed our view of what was possible, sparking a dramatic expansion of humankind’s cosmic
- Author: Vaudo, Ersilia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 132408927X
- Language: English
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Help Wanted
$17.99 Add to cartEvery day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, th
- Author: Waldman, Adelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105178
- Language: English
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Invitation to a Banquet: A History of Chinese Food
$21.99 Add to cartChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of
- Author: Dunlop, Fuchsia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105194
- Language: English
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The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion
$32.99 Add to cartBecause brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don’t recognize it while it’s happening–unless we know where to look. As Rebecca Lemov writes in The Instability
- Author: Lemov, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075260
- Language: English
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Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum
$29.99 Add to cartThe Louvre is the most famous museum in the world, attracting millions of visitors every year with its masterpieces. In Adventures in the Louvre, Elaine Sciolino immerses herself in this magical space
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021403
- Language: English
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Atavists: Stories
$27.99 Add to cartThe word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia M
- Author: Millet, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324074418
- Language: English
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The Book of Hours
$35.00 Add to cartLong hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke’s distinctive voice and vision–where clarity of diction meets unexpected image
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074965
- Language: English
