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Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
$39.99 Add to cartWe know Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, equally central to his character and leadership: Lincoln was a master of par
- Author: Pinsker, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0393240789
- Language: English
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Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the Fbi, and the War on Democracy
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116781
- Language: English
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Time’s Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature
$28.99 Add to cartOf the codified laws of nature, famously, only one inscribes a direction to time: the dreaded second law of thermodynamics, which declares that the disorder of a closed system tends to increase as tim
- Author: Hazen, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105488
- Language: English
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The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs
$22.99 Add to cartWhat can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubl
- Author: Fennelly, Beth Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117400
- Language: English
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Kent State: An American Tragedy
$19.99 Add to cartOn May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taun
- Author: Vandemark, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116854
- Language: English
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Every Exit Brings You Home
$31.99 Add to cartAs a financial crisis looms, Jamal “Jack” Shaban is trying to save the residents of his Chicago condo from bankruptcy. But who is Jack, really?
Is he Midwestern, born and bred? Egyptian? Straight or ga
- Author: Murr, Naeem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117907
- Language: English
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Oedipus Tyrannos: A Norton Critical Edition
$14.61 Read moreEmily Wilson’s superb translation of Sophocles’ best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator’s note, and explanatory footnotes.
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- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393655148
- Language: English
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When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals about Earth’s Tumultuous History and Perilous Future
$18.99 Add to cartIn 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world’s first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece o
- Author: Bierman, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110309
- Language: English
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Volga Blues: A Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$31.99 Add to cartSince the invasion of Ukraine and ban on foreign reporters, Russia seems to have sunk into an even deeper shadow than in the darkest times of the Soviet Union. Only by presenting himself as an histori
- Author: Mian, Marzio G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324111038
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
$34.99 Add to cartInterweaving personal and historical narratives and making use of contemporary sources, Graham Robb’s lively exploration of Britain through the ages peels back the layers of this island nation and sho
- Author: Robb, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324074949
- Language: English
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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever Engli
- Author: Pinkham, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036680
- Language: English
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University: A Reckoning
$26.99 Add to cartThe American university–one of the most successful institutions in human history–is facing an unprecedented assault from the president of the United States. Experts on authoritarianism have drawn co
- Author: Bollinger, Lee C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324124318
- Language: English
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Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life
$28.99 Add to cartEveryone wants to live a full and healthy life–and every day brings a tidal wave of attention-grabbing misinformation, faddish ideas from “wellness” influencers, and bizarre advice from news outlets
- Author: Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117532
- Language: English
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
$39.99 Add to cartAs recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire.” I
- Author: Dalrymple, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123788
- Language: English
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The Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy
$32.99 Add to cartAmerica’s Founders placed great confidence in schools, which they believed would teach young people to understand our political system and to engage in reasoned political debate as adults. Yet today,
- Author: Traub, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324079517
- Language: English
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Carthage: A New History
$39.99 Add to cartFor six hundred years, the city of Carthage dominated the western Mediterranean. Founded in the ninth century BCE as a small colonial outpost, by the third, it had grown into the area’s largest, riche
- Author: MacDonald, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123273
- Language: English
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The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
$19.99 Add to cartWe embraced the mediated life–from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse–because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp t
- Author: Rosen, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116773
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111275
- Language: English
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Evelyn in Transit
$29.99 Add to cartRadically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She’s easily bored, unsuited to life at school, asks odd questions
- Author: Guterson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324111054
- Language: English
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartPopulist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk–the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most r
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105828
- Language: English
