Yale University Press
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How I Became a Tree
$16.00 Add to cartAn exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Cree… [more below]
- Author: Roy, Sumana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268149
- Language: English
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That One Should Disdain Hardships: The Teachings of a Roman Stoic
$14.00 Add to cartPerennial wisdom from one of history’s most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers
“He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well–bravely, boldly, patiently–to what life threw at us. T- Author: Musonius Rufus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261543
- Language: English
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The Seven Measures of the World
$28.00 Read moreThe fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world
“Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are.”- Author: Martin, Piero
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266278
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
$35.00 Read moreThe long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 Chinese soci- Author: Huang, Yasheng
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266367
- Language: English
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California, a Slave State
$35.00 Add to cartThe untold history of slavery and resistance in California, from the Spanish missions, indentured Native American ranch hands, Indian boarding schools, Black miners, kidnapped Chinese prostitutes, and
- Author: Pfaelzer, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300211643
- Language: English
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Korea: A New History of South and North
$30.00 Read moreA 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0300259816
- Language: English
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On Wars
$40.00 Read moreA history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them
Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But wh- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266812
- Language: English
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Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
$35.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260776
- Language: English
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Murakami: Unfamiliar People–Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego
$45.00 Add to cartThis fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade
On- Author: Allen, Laura W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273185
- Language: English
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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
$24.00 Add to cartAn Economist Best History Book 2017
“History as it should be written.”–Barry Cunliffe, Guardian “Scott hits the nail squarely on the head by exposing the staggering price our ancestors paid for civil- Author: Scott, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 030024021X
- Language: English
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Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
$18.00 Add to cartAcclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274106
- Language: English
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The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
$22.00 Add to cartWhy and how America’s defense strategy must change in light of China’s power and ambition–A Wall Street Journal best book of 2021
“This is a realist’s book, laser-focused on China’s bid for mastery i- Author: Colby, Elbridge A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268025
- Language: English
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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy
“Stunning.”–Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital cont- Author: Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251831
- Language: English
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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
$20.00 Add to cartThe hidden costs of artificial intelligence–from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom
“This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly- Author: Crawford, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264631
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$15.00 Read moreThe international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich’s sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages
“All stories begin with ‘Once upon a time.’ And that’s just what this story is all about: wha- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 030014332X
- Language: English
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It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
$16.00 Read more“boyd’s new book is layered and smart . . . It’s Complicated will update your mind.”–Alissa Quart, New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating, well-researched and (mostly) reassuring look at how today- Author: Boyd, Danah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0300199007
- Language: English
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Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
$25.00 Read moreAn insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and work
Selected as one of the 10 best scienc- Author: Kaplan, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0300223579
- Language: English
