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The Only Grant-Writing Book You’ll Ever Need
$27.99 Add to cartFrom top experts in the field, the definitive guide to grant-writing
Written by two expert authors who have won secured millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, The Only Grant-Writing- Author: Karsh, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 05, 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617819
- Language: English
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Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
$19.99 Add to cartExperience “one of the best adventure books ever written” (Wall Street Journal) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 attempt to reach the
- Author: Lansing, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 28, 2015
- ISBN10: 0465062881
- Language: English
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The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
$19.99 Add to cartThe epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American
- Author: Eisenberg, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 1541618645
- Language: English
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The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible … [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1541673522
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$16.99 Add to cartThe definitive translation of Sun-tzu’s timeless classic of military strategy, Art of War
Sun-tzu’s Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written. This treatise has be- Series: History & Warfare (Paperback)
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 11, 1994
- ISBN10: 081331951X
- Language: English
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
$24.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between forma- Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 824
- Publish Date: February 05, 1999
- ISBN10: 0465026567
- Language: English
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1942: When World War II Engulfed the Globe
$35.00 Add to cartA penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale
By the end of the Second World War, more than se- Author: Fritzsche, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1541603214
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius
$19.99 Add to cartAn exquisite abridged edition of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations by a renowned translator
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome–and by far the most powerful man in the world. His… [more below]- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606760
- Language: English
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
$16.99 Add to cartThis “rare and compelling” (New York Magazine) bestseller examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an individual’s management of repressed anger and pain.
Why are many of the most- Author: Miller, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 22, 2008
- ISBN10: 0465016901
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook — What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, an
$21.99 Add to cartIn this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children–and outlines the
- Author: Perry, Bruce D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 29, 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094457
- Language: English
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Social Justice Fallacies
$30.00 Add to cartIn this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths that underpin the social justice movement
The quest for social justice is a powerful crusade of our ti- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603923
- Language: English
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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, “The Dying Citizen is essential reading for any American who cares about the fate of our nation” (Mark R. Levin)
Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects,
- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 11, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541647556
- Language: English
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Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
$22.99 Add to cartA “thrilling” (Wall Street Journal) history of the Vikings by a pre-eminent scholar
The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, ex
- Author: Price, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601114
- Language: English
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The Case for Trump
$18.99 Read moreThis New York Times bestselling Trump biography from a major American intellectual explains how a renegade businessman became one of the most successful — and necessary — presidents of all time.
In- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541673557
- Language: English
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The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartA spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane
More than fifty years ago, John Coltr- Author: Alexander, Stephon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093574
- Language: English
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On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction
$32.00 Add to cartFrom split-gill mushrooms to duck-billed platypuses, the spectacular science of sexual reproduction and creation of biodiversity on Earth.
“Smart, thoughtful, and witty, this book will make you rethi- Author: Sun, Lixing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1541609174
- Language: English
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The Associated Press Stylebook: 2026-2028
$29.99 Read moreMaster the style guidelines of news writing, editing and common usage with this indispensable guide, perfect for professional writers and students everywhere.
The style of the Associated Press is the- Author: Associated Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608615
- Language: English
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Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
$35.00 Read moreFrom the prize-winning author of The Ottomans, a myth-busting history of Muslim-Jewish relations, tracing fourteen centuries of cooperation and conflict.
“A revelatory picture of both coexistence and- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606590
- Language: English
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Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper
$34.00 Read moreA sweeping history of America’s first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world’s first information superpower.
“Takes us beyond the f- Author: Wright, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606795
- Language: English
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
$21.99 Read moreUpdated for the unfolding AI disruption, this prescient classic shows how automation is changing the economy, undermining work, and reshaping our lives
A New York Times bestseller and winner of the F- Author: Ford, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608860
- Language: English
