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Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism
$22.00 Read moreHow do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their supery
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Harrington, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064943
- Language: English
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On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice
$24.99 Add to cartSince Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7, the term “settler colonialism” has become central to public debate in the United States. A concept new to most Americans, but already established and inf
- Author: Kirsch, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324105348
- Language: English
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Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
$29.99 Add to cartIn the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed t
- Author: Green, Nile
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324002417
- Language: English
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
$32.50 Read moreMusic is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using s
- Author: Levitin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324036184
- Language: English
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Still Life
$28.99 Add to cartEverything in Edith’s life is approaching disaster. Her writing career is stagnant. Her love life is a mess. Her ex, Tessa, is marrying a man. Her teeth are rotting in her skull. And her best friend,
- Author: Burke, Katherine Packert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076364
- Language: English
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No Bones
$15.95 Read moreNo Bones is a book about feelings, family, sex, and Ireland–but don’t tell Amelia that. She’s the one growing up in the mad family, in the mad society, who doesn’t want to know what’s going on. But
- Author: Burns, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 039332303X
- Language: English
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To Do: 41 Tools to Start, Stick With, and Finish Things
$17.99 Add to cart– Want to stop procrastinating? Ask yourself four easy questions to help you reframe your mindset.
– Overwhelmed by competing priorities? Use kanban to visualize your tasks, structure them, and complet
- Author: Krogerus, Mikael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 132407535X
- Language: English
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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
$28.99 Add to cartZoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant r
- Author: Bronin, Sara C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881660
- Language: English
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Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartHave you ever wondered what it would be like to travel the universe? How would Saturn’s rings look from a spaceship sailing just above them? If you were falling into a black hole, what’s the last thin
- Author: Plait, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 132407471X
- Language: English
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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
$19.99 Add to cartSoaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, a
- Author: Falk, Seb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868400
- Language: English
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Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years
$18.99 Read moreTwenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing clothing created from spun fibers. In Women’s Work, archaeologist-linguist Elizabeth Wayland Barber “weaves the strands of mythology and litera
- Author: Barber, Elizabeth Wayland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 132407602X
- Language: English
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A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
$32.50 Read moreThe Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035757
- Language: English
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Fruiting Bodies: Stories
$17.99 Add to cartIn stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters–mostly queer, mostly women–on the precipice of change.
- Author: Harlan, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1324089016
- Language: English
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Into the Amazon: The Life of C?ndido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
$19.99 Read moreC?ndido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked hi
- Author: Rohter, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076208
- Language: English
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The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution
$32.50 Add to cartWhen Kyle Shanahan became the NFL’s youngest offensive coordinator in 2008, he had one prevailing rule: Tell me the why. If a colleague couldn’t justify his position by providing the unassailable reas
- Author: Silver, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093609
- Language: English
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Playground
$29.99 Add to cartFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Be
- Author: Powers, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086033
- Language: English
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Sturge Town: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartThe site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes’s family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the jo
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076313
- Language: English
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Thinning Blood: An Indigenous Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
$15.99 Add to cartLeah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the storie
- Author: Myers, Leah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076275
- Language: English
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The Wren, the Wren
$17.99 Add to cartNell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her moth
- Author: Enright, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076038
- Language: English
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She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street
$29.99 Add to cartFirst came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens–the “smart cookies” who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned
- Author: Bren, Paulina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1324035153
- Language: English
