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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
$19.99 Read moreFrom preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus–how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.
Without calculu- Author: Strogatz, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0358299284
- Language: English
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The Back to Basics Handbook: A Guide to Buying and Working Land, Raising Livestock, Enjoying Your Harvest, Household Skills and Crafts, and More
$24.99 Add to cartAnyone who wants to learn basic living skills–the kind employed by our forefathers–need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Dye your own wool, raise chickens, weave a rug,
- Series: Handbook
- Author: Gehring, Abigail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 25, 2011
- ISBN10: 1616082615
- Language: English
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My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives
$21.99 Add to cart“Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definit
- Author: Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 006313540X
- Language: English
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Moodswing: Dr. Fieve on Depression: The Eminent Psychiatrist Who Pioneered the Use of Lithium in America Reveals a Revolutionary
$7.99 Read moreFifteen years ago, this groundbreaking book provided new hope for those whose lives were devastated by moodswings and depression. Now, in this newly revised and updated edition, Dr. Ronald R. Fieve, t… [more below]
- Author: Fieve, Ronald
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 08 1989
- ISBN10: 0553279831
- Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
$18.99 Add to cart“A balanced, readable portrait. A refreshing perspective.” —New York Times Book Review
With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, bestselling author Christopher Hitchens gives us an artful portra
- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0060837063
- Language: English
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
$17.99 Add to cartPart of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher–history’s most famous theorist of “warfare, terror, murder, and b… [more below]
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0061768928
- Language: English
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George Washington: The Founding Father
$17.99 Add to cartBy far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and pr
- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0060753676
- Language: English
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Conversations on Consciousness: What the Best Minds Think about the Brain, Free Will, and What It Means to Be Human
$20.99 Add to cartIn Conversations on Consciousness, Susan Blackmore interviews some of the great minds of our time, a who’s who of eminent thinkers, all of whom have devoted much of their lives to understanding the co… [more below]
- Author: Blackmore, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 08 2007
- ISBN10: 0195179595
- Language: English
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The Story of Philosophy
$18.00 Read morePulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrat… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0486848558
- Language: English
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A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men and Women Who Reinvented American Medicine
$29.95 Read moreA prismatic examination of the evolution of medicine, from a trade to a science, through the exemplary lives of ten men and women.
Johns Hopkins University, one of the preeminent medical schools in th- Author: Hruban, Ralph H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361472
- Language: English
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Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood
$32.00 Add to cartAn intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist.
Poets and scientists, saints and naturalists, stalk through these pages. Neighboring cock rob- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0374617376
- Language: English
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Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero
$16.99 Add to cart“Michael Korda has delivered a jewel of a
short life of Ulysses S. Grant, a general deadly on the battlefield and
unprepossessing off it. As a biographer Korda is Grant-like himself:
unambiguous, decisi- Series: Eminent Lives
- Author: Korda, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060755210
- Language: English
