Basic Books
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Locked in: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-And How to Achieve Real Reform
$32.00 Read moreA groundbreaking reassessment of the American prison system, challenging the widely accepted explanations for our exploding incarceration rates
In Locked In, John Pfaff argues that the factors most c- Author: Pfaff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096913
- Language: English
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1848: Year of Revolution
$22.99 Add to cartA “lively, panoramic” history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had ke- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020674
- Language: English
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
$19.99 Add to cartMany of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such … [more below]
- Author: Boyer, Pascal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0465006965
- Language: English
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Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow essential workers’ fight for better jobs during the pandemic revolutionized US labor politics
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and- Author: McCallum, Jamie K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541619919
- Language: English
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Freely Determined: What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us about How to Live
$45.92 Read moreA renowned psychologist argues that free will is not only real but essential to our well-being
It’s become fashionable to argue that free will is a fiction: that we humans are in the thrall of animal- Author: Sheldon, Kennon M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541620364
- Language: English
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The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux
$18.99 Read more“One of the most thoughtful voices from within academia” (Washington Post) argues the American university is stuck in the past–and shows how we can revolutionize it
We’re living in a period of great u
- Author: Davidson, Cathy N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601270
- Language: English
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King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
$19.99 Add to cartThe salmon that symbolize the Pacific Northwest’s natural splendor are now threatened with extinction across much of their ancestral range. In studying the natural and human forces that shape the rive… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: December 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0813342996
- Language: English
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Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So
$31.65 Add to cartIn 1884, Edwin A. Abbott published a brilliant novel about mathematics and philosophy that charmed and fascinated all of England. As both a witty satire of Victorian society and a means by which to ex… [more below]
- Series: Art of Mentoring (Paperback)
- Author: Stewart, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 073820675X
- Language: English
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The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
$31.65 Add to cartAn expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem,- Author: Avineri, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094791
- Language: English
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Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness
$19.99 Add to cartBetty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new… [more below]
- Author: Lifton, Betty Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 1995
- ISBN10: 0465036759
- Language: English
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Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics
$28.99 Add to cartThe story of Edward Teller is the story of the twentieth century. Born in Hungary in 1908, Teller witnessed the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism, two world wars, the McCarthy era, and the changing fac… [more below]
- Series: Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics
- Author: Teller, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0738207780
- Language: English
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Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
$19.99 Add to cartNumerous writers and composers have been captivated by the suggestiveness of Jesus’ Seven Last Words. But Richard John Neuhaus’s sustained exploration of these utterances is something altogether diffe… [more below]
- Author: Neuhaus, Richard John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0465049338
- Language: English
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The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace
$39.00 Add to cartA revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
The first hundred days of FDR’s presidency a- Author: Woolner, David B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0465048714
- Language: English
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
$32.00 Add to cartThe “fascinating . . . lively” story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times).
In Empress of the East, historian Les- Author: Peirce, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465032516
- Language: English
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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (20th Anniversary Edition)
$21.99 Add to cartWith a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism–and the culture it creates–harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating … [more below]
- Author: Bell, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0465014992
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away fo… [more below]
- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675673
- Language: English
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Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life
$27.00 Add to cartA teenage genius and his teacher take readers on a wild ride to the extremes of mathematics
Everyone has stared at the crumpled page of a math assignment and wondered, where on Earth will I ever use- Author: Darling, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644786
- Language: English
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Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
$32.00 Add to cartWhether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning — a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your voca… [more below]
- Author: Bergen, Benjamin K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028292
- Language: English
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartFor more than a century we’ve known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The ris… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: December 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0465022820
- Language: English
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Survival in the Killing Fields
$25.99 Add to cartNothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That’s who I am,” says Haing Ngor. And in his memoir, Survival in the Killing Fields, he… [more below]
- Author: Ngor, Haing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0786713151
- Language: English
