Basic Books
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
$22.95 Add to cartOut of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.
- Author: Kelly, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0201483408
- Language: English
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The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation
$18.99 Add to cartIn the no-nonsense, authoritative tradition of the best-selling AP Stylebook, the top editors at the AP have written the definitive guide to punctuation.
More people write for the Associated Press t- Author: Cappon, Rene J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0738207853
- Language: English
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Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration
$19.99 Read more“A fascinating account of human experience at its best.” — Mih? Cs?-zentmih?i, author of Flow
Creativity has long been thought to be an individual gift, best pursued alone; schools, organizations, a- Author: Sawyer, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0465096638
- Language: English
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The Partnership Charter: How to Start Out Right with Your New Business Partnership (or Fix the One You’re In)
$18.99 Add to cartIn The Partnership Charter, psychologist and business mediation expert David Gage offers a comprehensive guide to the art of establishing and maintaining a business partnership. The centerpiece of his… [more below]
- Author: Gage, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0738208981
- Language: English
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Relationship Marketing: Successful Strategies for the Age of the Customer
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling The Regis Touch, a simple process for building the crucial relationships that help a company dominate–and own–the market in the Age of the Customer.
- Author: McKenna, Regis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 19 2006
- ISBN10: 0201622408
- Language: English
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The Spinoza Problem
$19.99 Add to cartA haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism’s chief architects, and his obsession with one of history’s most influential Jewish thinkers
In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and- Author: Yalom, Irvin D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0465061850
- Language: English
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
$21.99 Add to cartMore relevant than ever, this seminal collection of essays encourages us to believe in the power of ordinary citizens to change the world
In today’s turbulent world it’s hard not to feel like we’re g- Author: Loeb, Paul Rogat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0465031730
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Creative Class
$21.99 Add to cartWorld-renowned urbanist Richard Florida’s bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century — now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Cre… [more below]- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617746
- Language: English
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
$35.00 Read moreHow the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these relig- Author: Morton, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541616308
- Language: English
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
$35.00 Read moreThe definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear cha- Author: Schwartz, David N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0465072925
- Language: English
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics
$40.00 Add to cartIn Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion … [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 046509676X
- Language: English
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The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
$17.99 Add to cartA “razor-sharp” introduction to this political and economic ideology makes a galvanizing argument for modern socialism (Naomi Klein) — and explains how its core tenets could effect positive change in… [more below]
- Author: Sunkara, Bhaskar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1541647106
- Language: English
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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a New York Times bestselling historian, the “truly revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) story of how the alphabet ordered our world
A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601165
- Language: English
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
$39.57 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
With a new preface by the author
In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial … [more below]- Author: Lifton, Robert Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093396
- Language: English
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Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage (Revised)
$21.99 Add to cartIn business today, all advantage is temporary. In order to survive-let alone thrive-companies must be able to anticipate and adapt to change, or face rapid, brutal extinction. In Clockspeed, Charles F… [more below]
- Author: Fine, Charles H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0738201537
- Language: English
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Lying about Hitler
$19.99 Add to cartIn ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of histo… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0465021530
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Life
$45.00 Read moreThe definitive biography of Napoleon — hailed as “magnificent” by The Economist.
“What a novel my life has been!” Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by- Author: Zamoyski, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0465055931
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$35.00 Read moreFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply&#- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617940
- Language: English
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Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
$19.99 Add to cartAn “exemplary” (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II
For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war began
- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602617
- Language: English
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The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
$17.99 Add to cartMany appreciate Richard P. Feynman’s contributions to twentieth-century physics, but few realize how engaged he was with the world around him — how deeply and thoughtfully he considered the religious… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: April 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0465023940
- Language: English
