Basic Books
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
$24.99 Read moreThe explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, “the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unlocked.” (Kirkus)
Will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy assassin- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0465031803
- Language: English
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The Living City: Why Cities Don’t Need to Be Green to Be Great
$30.00 Add to cartA sociologist explores why “green cities” won’t fix everything–and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is
Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if som- Author: Fitzgerald, Des
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674502
- Language: English
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The Art Spirit
$19.99 Add to cartA classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art
“Art when really understood is the province of every human being.” So begins The Art Spirit, the collected- Author: Henri, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0465002633
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
$22.99 Add to cartThis definitive history of American xenophobia is “essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiraci… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1541672615
- Language: English
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The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World
$30.00 Read more“Quite possibly the best popular science book I’ve ever read” (Popular Science) shows how the tools that enabled us to overcome the uncertainty of the weather will enable us to find new answers to mod
- Author: Palmer, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1541619714
- Language: English
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Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution
$18.99 Add to cartAlthough Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution laid the foundations of modern biology, it did not tell the whole story. Most remarkably, The Origin of Species said very little about, of all things, the… [more below]
- Author: Margulis, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 08 1999
- ISBN10: 0465072720
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A World History
$26.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the world
We tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 154167409X
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Contrarian
$16.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement
In Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class- Series: Art of Mentoring (Paperback)
- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 141
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0465030335
- Language: English
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A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world
The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas
- Author: Popkin, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1541620178
- Language: English
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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean
$32.00 Add to cartA theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey–found in “no other book” (Science)–to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: “If you want to know what’… [more below]
- Author: Strassler, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 154160329X
- Language: English
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Why Orwell Matters
$17.99 Add to cart“Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century.” –Boston Globe
In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 211
- Publish Date: September 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0465030505
- Language: English
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Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done about It
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “important and alarming” (New York Times) book, see why so many American students are falling behind in their reading skills while others around the world excel.
The way we teach reading is n- Author: Seidenberg, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1541617150
- Language: English
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Vietnam: A New History
$24.99 Add to cart“The best one-volume history of modern Vietnam in English” (Wall Street Journal)
In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations of em- Author: Goscha, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603656
- Language: English
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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
$40.00 Add to cartA history of the American Constitution’s formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar
When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate ar… [more below]- Author: Amar, Akhil Reed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0465096352
- Language: English
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For Profit: A History of Corporations
$19.99 Read moreAn “eloquent” (Economist) history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley
Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism h- Author: Magnuson, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601572
- Language: English
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
$21.99 Add to cartAn updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through “cures” that only deepened their suffering and impaired their h… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1541618068
- Language: English
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The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics
$50.67 Read moreA “fascinating [and] provocative” argument by a particle physicist–marshalling a “heady mix of history, philosophy and cutting-edge theory” (Wall Street Journal)–for monism, the ancient idea about t
- Author: P?s, Heinrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674855
- Language: English
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Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “provocative” book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field’s modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.
Whether pondering black holes or pr… [more below]- Author: Hossenfelder, Sabine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646762
- Language: English
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We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel
$35.00 Read moreA bestselling historian uncovers the surprising roots of America’s long alliance with Israel and its troubling consequences
Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement tha- Author: Alterman, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 046509631X
- Language: English
