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Not in My Backyard: How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs
$35.00 Read moreHow a woman-led citizens’ group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unchecked economic development
This social history of- Author: Balogh, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253788
- Language: English
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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the ethicist the New Yorker calls “the most influential living philosopher,” a new way of thinking about living ethically
“Singer’s argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0300219865
- Language: English
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Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
$18.00 Add to cartA newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid’s best-sellin- Author: Reid, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0300224656
- Language: English
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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
$26.00 Read moreAn intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist
“Concise and compelling.”–Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939-2018) was o- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250177
- Language: English
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The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After the Americans Left
$26.00 Read moreThe first account of the new Taliban–showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors
A Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Book of 2023 Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the- Author: Abbas, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267886
- Language: English
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The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On Liberal as an Adjective
$30.00 Read moreA testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era
“Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky shoals. In his preface, he writes that t- Author: Walzer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267231
- Language: English
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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
$75.00 Add to cartA dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America
In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making- Author: Molesworth, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0300211910
- Language: English
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The Orphanage
$18.00 Add to cartA devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine
Chosen as one of “Six Books to Read for Context on Ukraine” by the New York Times Selected by Publishers W- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Zhadan, Serhiy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0300243014
- Language: English
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
$23.95 Add to cartNamed 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com
“An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived.”–Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review “The- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0300126891
- Language: English
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Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
$45.00 Add to cartA revelatory exploration of Mark Rothko’s paintings on paper that transforms our understanding of a preeminent twentieth-century artist
“[A] superb catalogue.”–Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts- Author: Greenhalgh, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266472
- Language: English
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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Rom… [more below]
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0300216661
- Language: English
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The Soviet Sixties
$35.00 Read moreThe story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union
Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the “sixties” era in the Soviet Union was ju- Author: Hornsby, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250525
- Language: English
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Hamlet
$8.95 Add to cartThe Annotated Shakespeare series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
“If any work deserves a student’s closest attention, it is Hamlet. Burton- Series: Annotated Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2003
- ISBN10: 0300101058
- Language: English
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Why Liberalism Failed
$20.00 Add to cartHas liberalism failed because it has succeeded?
“Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore- Series: Politics and Culture
- Author: Deneen, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0300240023
- Language: English
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Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial
$45.00 Add to cartThe second book in a three-volume series on Black American artists, featuring work from the 1950s to the 1970s that responded to the cultural, political, and social concerns of the era
- Author: Bernier, Celeste-Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300273460
- Language: English
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Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
$37.50 Read moreA sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II
“When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling.”–Ian W. To- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0300219172
- Language: English
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Barefoot Doctor
$18.00 Add to cartA profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelists
- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Can Xue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274033
- Language: English
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Simulacra: Volume 111
$20.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize
A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young Am- Series: Yale Younger Poets #111
- Author: Matthews, Airea D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 030022396X
- Language: English
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
$24.00 Read moreThe first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 “Valuable . . . offers many le- Author: Mulder, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0300270488
- Language: English
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Ramesses the Great: Egypt’s King of Kings
$26.00 Read moreThe life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson
“The author succeeds in bring- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256655
- Language: English
