Basic Books
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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
$19.99 Add to cartWhy America’s sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it.
Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitiou- Author: Sax, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 0465040829
- Language: English
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
$19.99 Add to cart“An elegant and expansive history” (New York Times) of African American women’s pursuit of political power–and how it transformed America
In Vanguard, acclaimed historian Ma- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600258
- Language: English
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
$18.99 Add to cartA preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors become human?
Neander- Author: Pääbo, Svante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0465054951
- Language: English
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
$19.99 Add to cartRecommended by Bill Gates
A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own In the world’s top research labs and- Author: Domingos, Pedro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0465094279
- Language: English
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The Russian Revolution: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartA “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution
In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events whic- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675487
- Language: English
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Beyond Infinity: An Expedition to the Outer Limits of Mathematics
$19.99 Add to cartHow one powerful concept reveals the biggest (and smallest) mathematical truths
How big is the universe? How many numbers are there? And is infinity + 1 is the same as 1 + infinity? Such questions oc- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644131
- Language: English
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The Physics of Star Trek
$18.99 Add to cartHow does the Star Trek universe stack up against the real universe?
What warps when you’re traveling at warp speed? What is the difference between a wormhole and a black hole? Are time loops really p- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0465002048
- Language: English
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The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning psychologist draws on years of research to unveil “a simple but persuasive hypothesis for a new way to think about evil.” ―New York Times
How can we explain both cruelty and ki- Author: Baron-Cohen, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601483
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$35.00 Read moreThis major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673808
- Language: English
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Insane: America’s Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
$19.99 Add to cartAn urgent exposﾃ(c)f the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons
America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with ment- Author: Roth, Alisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646479
- Language: English
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The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
$19.99 Add to cartA “superb” and “ambitious” (New York Times) intellectual and political history of the last century of American conservatism
When most people think of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reaga- Author: Continetti, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600517
- Language: English
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Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police
$21.95 Add to cartIn this gripping narrative, John Koehler details the widespread activities of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security, or “Stasi.” The Stasi, which infiltrated every walk of East German life, suppr… [more below]
- Author: Koehler, John O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: August 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0813337445
- Language: English
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The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us
$29.00 Read moreA pioneering neuroscientist offers a new way of understanding how emotions drive behavior
Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bea- Author: Anderson, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541674634
- Language: English
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
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The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
$21.99 Add to cartWork with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.
From the stock market- Author: Page, Scott E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675711
- Language: English
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
$25.65 Read moreThe history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn’t been discovered . . . the development of San Francisco’s underworld in al… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 09 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254084
- Language: English
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
$21.99 Add to cartA Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber—Richard P. Feynman was all these … [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0465023711
- Language: English
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Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
$19.99 Add to cartIn Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather … [more below]
- Series: William Patrick Book
- Author: Norman, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 1994
- ISBN10: 0201626950
- Language: English
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The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
$19.99 Add to cartWith the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience of When Breath Becomes Air, a world-class oncologist examines the current state of cancer and its dev… [more below]
- Author: Raza, Azra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1541699513
- Language: English
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
$25.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0465012612
- Language: English
