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Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities
$28.00 Add to cartA social psychologist reveals how to nudge local cultures toward positive structural change by moving people from individual action to collective action
How can ordinary people fight for social justi- Author: Dasgupta, Nilanjana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300270224
- Language: English
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Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
$35.00 Add to cartHistorian Sarah E. Bond retells the traditional story of Ancient Rome, revealing how groups of ancient workers unified, connected, and protested as they helped build an empire
From plebeians refusing- Author: Bond, Sarah E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300273142
- Language: English
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Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy
$35.00 Add to cartThe enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South
Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it- Author: Black, Derek W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272820
- Language: English
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Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
$22.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinar- Author: Fry, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279310
- Language: English
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The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
$25.00 Add to cartHow the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge
This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race fo- Author: Krepinevich, Andrew F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280092
- Language: English
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Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
$40.00 Add to cartExploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day–from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White
This timely book surveys the varied ways in which B- Author: Lovelle Jenkins, Earnestine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300260903
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$25.00 Add to cartA special edition of the international bestseller that is “sumptuously illustrated. . . . Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but it’s even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with… [more below]
- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0300197187
- Language: English
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
$30.00 Add to cartA revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary
“Trenchant. . . . An essential look at the diarist’s legacy.”–Publishers Weekly In this innovat- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Franklin, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 300248121
- Language: English
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Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping new history of London during the Blackout–revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets o- Author: Bell, Amy Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 300270054
- Language: English
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Amy Sherald: American Sublime
$45.00 Read moreAmy Sherald’s work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects
Bringing together nearly all of her artwork to date, this lavishly illu- Author: Roberts, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279388
- Language: English
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong
$35.00 Add to cartA radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business–what it is for and how it works
“A characteristically acerbic analysis of the archetypal organisational unit of capitalism.”–Andrew Hil- Author: Kay, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 030028019X
- Language: English
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Born of Fire and Rain: Journey Into a Pacific Coastal Forest
$30.00 Add to cartGo beyond the scenery of the Pacific temperate rainforest to witness how complex ecosystems survive in a world of upheavals
If you live on a rapidly changing planet, you’d be wise to learn how it wor- Author: Herring, M. L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275420
- Language: English
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Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
$20.00 Add to cartThe Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis
“[A] daring new book.”–Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post “A fascinating and combative intellectual history.”–Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the m- Author: Moyn, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280122
- Language: English
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Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
$26.00 Add to cartThe untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history
In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European inte- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Mittelmeier, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 300259301
- Language: English
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Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
$18.00 Read moreExperience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy
“[Robertson] thoughtfully and readably capture[s] the essenc- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280149
- Language: English
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The Story of Nature: A Human History
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of humanity’s evolving relationship with the natural world from pre-history to the present day
Nature has long been the source of human curiosity and wonderment, and the inspiration for som- Author: Mynott, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300245653
- Language: English
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Love’s Braided Dance: Hope in a Time of Crisis
$26.00 Add to cartA moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles
In this series of meditations, Norman Wirzba recasts hope not as something people have, like a vaccine to- Author: Wirzba, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272650
- Language: English
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Korea: A New History of South and North
$18.00 Add to cartA major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day
“Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and ba- Author: Cha, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278705
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
$38.00 Add to cartThe first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
“Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple paths,- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267088
- Language: English
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They Flew: A History of the Impossible
$24.00 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
“Historically rich and superbly written.”–David J. Davis, Wall Street Journa- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280076
- Language: English
