Basic Books
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Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less
$19.99 Add to cartAn updated edition for the classic book on escaping the drudgery of overwork and finding excellence and happiness–by doing less
Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the importan- Author: Pang, Alex Soojung-Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604830
- Language: English
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
$19.99 Read moreOne of the world’s most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen in this “whimsical…rigorous and insightful” (New York Times) book
What is math? How exactly does it w- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097677
- Language: English
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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
$35.00 Add to cartA Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019
One of America’s top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care
Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. Th… [more below]- Author: Topol, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1541644638
- Language: English
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
$19.99 Add to cartAs seen on PBS’s American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers presents a natural and cultural history of bees: the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go ro… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 154169953X
- Language: English
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The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players
$21.99 Add to cartMove over, Moneyball — this New York Times bestseller examines major league baseball’s next cutting-edge revolution: the high-tech quest to build better players.
As bestselling authors Ben Lindbergh a… [more below]- Author: Lindbergh, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1541698924
- Language: English
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Race and Culture: A World View
$31.65 Add to cartEncompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minori… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 16 1995
- ISBN10: 0465067972
- Language: English
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The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
$0.00 Read moreIn this New York Times bestseller, one of America’s premier physicians offers a must-read account of the new challenges facing parents today and a program for how we can better prepare our children to
- Author: Sax, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09, 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094287
- Language: English
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A PhD Is Not Enough!: A Guide to Survival in Science
$18.99 Read moreEverything you ever need to know about making it as a scientist. Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent p… [more below]
- Author: Feibelman, Peter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0465022227
- Language: English
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
$21.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Onli- Author: Turkle, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093655
- Language: English
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The Age of Revolutions: And the Generations Who Made It
$35.00 Add to cartA panoramic, “persuasive and inspiring” (New Yorker) new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress an… [more below]
- Author: Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603192
- Language: English
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Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey
$32.00 Read moreA new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers
The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived m- Author: Berger, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675363
- Language: English
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Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays
$35.00 Read moreThese wide-ranging essays — on many individual political, economic, cultural and legal issues — have as a recurring, underlying theme the decline of the values and institutions that have sustained a… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0465022510
- Language: English
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Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
$32.00 Read moreA bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s
Ronald Reagan has long been lionized for building a conservative coalition sustained- Author: Hemmer, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646886
- Language: English
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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
$22.99 Add to cartIn this definitive biography of father and son, an eminent historian “brings to life the full drama of ancient history” (Wall Street Journal)
Alexander the Great’s conquests staggered the world. He led
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602625
- Language: English
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
$18.99 Add to cartOnly in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing suspicion: that the world endured… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1541618599
- Language: English
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What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
$21.99 Add to cart“A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science.” —New York Times Book Review
An Editor’s Choice, New York Times Book Review
Longlisted for PEN/E.- Author: Becker, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1541698975
- Language: English
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
$21.99 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America’s schools
In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the settin- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646037
- Language: English
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Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire
$22.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more t- Author: Finkel, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0465023975
- Language: English
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
$21.99 Add to cartHome to the notorious “Blue Book,” which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans’s infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous… [more below]
- Author: Asbury, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 27 2003
- ISBN10: 1560254947
- Language: English
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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
$40.00 Read moreA stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia
The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of- Author: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600347
- Language: English
