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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
$18.99 Add to cartMoving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections betw
- Author: Sattin, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074744
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Read more“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James I
- Author: Lipsky, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 132408605X
- Language: English
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
$19.99 Add to cartWith a rare blend of scientific insight and writing as graceful as the theories it so deftly explains, The Elegant Universe remains the unrivaled account of the modern search for the deepest laws of n
- Author: Greene, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066237
- Language: English
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
$32.50 Add to cartNo animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eu
- Author: Chaffetz, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1324051469
- Language: English
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Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone
$29.99 Add to cartOn February 24, 2022, the first day of Russia’s all-out attack on Ukraine, armored vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. Russian occupation of the plant, which wou
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 132407941X
- Language: English
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 132410581X
- Language: English
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The Seventh Floor
$29.99 Add to cartA Russian arrives in Singapore with a secret to sell. When the Russian is killed and Sam Joseph, the CIA officer dispatched for the meet, goes missing, operational chief Artemis Procter is made a scap
- Author: McCloskey, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086688
- Language: English
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Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the Fbi, and the War on Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartOver the course of his presidency, Donald Trump intimidated, silenced, and bent to his will Justice Department and FBI officials, from Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr to career public
- Author: Rohde, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881962
- Language: English
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The Mind’s Mirror: Risk and Reward in the Age of AI
$29.99 Add to cartImagine a technology capable of discovering new drugs in days instead of years, helping scientists map distant galaxies and decode the language of whales, and aiding the rest of us in mundane daily ta
- Author: Rus, Daniela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079320
- Language: English
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Polyvagal Prompts: Finding Connection and Joy Through Guided Explorations
$24.99 Add to cartPolyvagal Theory, developed by researcher and scientist Dr. Stephen Porges and popularized by therapist Deb Dana, has impacted countless lives. It has changed the way therapists work with their client
- Author: Dana, Deb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324030194
- Language: English
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The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond
$29.99 Add to cartAs she approached her fiftieth birthday, Debra Whitman, a globally recognized expert on aging, wanted to delve deeper into why so many Americans struggled to live well as they aged. And she began to w
- Author: Whitman, Debra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 039386765X
- Language: English
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Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America
$35.00 Add to cartOur era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a “tradwife” is gaining a
- Author: Davis, Rebecca L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496573
- Language: English
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How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense
$29.99 Add to cartThere are approximately 25,000 “city killer” asteroids in near-Earth orbit–and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction, and represent ou
- Author: Andrews, Robin George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324050195
- Language: English
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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
$12.00 Add to cartHarriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076151
- Language: English
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So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
$18.99 Read moreRenowned reggae historian Roger Steffens’s riveting oral history of Bob Marley’s life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants–many speaking publ
- Author: Steffens, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 393355926
- Language: English
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The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
$29.99 Add to cartIn this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski–hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly–tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and t
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075287
- Language: English
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
$19.99 Read moreSome 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild a
- Author: Goldfarb, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086319
- Language: English
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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
$12.00 Read moreWhen bioethicist and professor Ashley Shew became a self-described “hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn’s disease and tinnitus,” there was no returning to “normal.” Suddenly well-meaning p
- Author: Shew, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076259
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: A History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007184
- Language: English
