Basic Books
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African Europeans: An Untold History
$19.99 Add to cartA dazzling history of Africans in Europe, “masterfully” (Smithsonian) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History Convent- Author: Otele, Olivette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619927
- Language: English
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False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
$19.99 Read moreAn “important” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by the “skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good
Hurricanes batter our- Author: Lomborg, Bjorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541647475
- Language: English
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Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change
$18.99 Add to cart*A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick
A beloved natural historian explores how climate change is driving evolution
*Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Book AwardsIn Hurricane Lizards
- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 1, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541672399
- Language: English
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Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland
$19.99 Read moreA physician’s “provocative” (Boston Globe) and “timely” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences — even for the white voters t
- Author: Metzl, Jonathan M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12, 2020
- ISBN10: 1541644972
- Language: English
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Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II
$25.99 Add to cart“A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War” (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historian
We remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and
- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 154167278X
- Language: English
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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Flow and one of the pioneers of the scientific study of happiness, an indispensable guide to living your best life.
What makes a good life? Is it money? An important jo- Series: Masterminds (Paperback)
- Author: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 6, 1998
- ISBN10: 0465024114
- Language: English
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Where We Meet the World: The Story of the Senses
$30.00 Read moreThe thrilling story of how our senses evolved and how they shape our encounters with the world
Our senses are what make life worth living. They allow us to appreciate a sip of an ice-cold drink, the
- Author: Ward, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600851
- Language: English
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
$32.00 Read moreAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change
Many believe the child welfare system protects ch- Author: Roberts, Dorothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675444
- Language: English
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
$35.00 Add to cartA one-volume introduction to over three decades of the wide-ranging writings of one of America’s most respected and cited authors
These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a perio- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 04, 2011
- ISBN10: 0465022502
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$35.00 Read morePerfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
Famed across the known world, jealously- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600770
- Language: English
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The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
$30.00 Add to cartHow rhetoric–the art of persuasion–can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony
The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for ov- Author: Reames, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 19, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603974
- Language: English
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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
$22.99 Read moreA “brilliant feat of resurrection” (Tom Holland, author of Dominion), offering a stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia
The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled- Author: Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604237
- Language: English
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The Greeks: A Global History
$22.99 Add to cartA “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sp- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603648
- Language: English
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Discrimination and Disparities
$30.00 Add to cartAn enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell’s brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparities
Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations h… [more below]- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645634
- Language: English
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The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
$18.99 Add to cartA Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened at the very beginning of the universe, and how we know, in this popular science classic.
Our universe has been growing for nearly 14 billion year- Author: Weinberg, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 18, 1993
- ISBN10: 0465024378
- Language: English
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora- Author: Farmer, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0465097847
- Language: English
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Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives–And How We Break Free
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive book on how systemic racism in America really works, revealing the vast and often hidden network of interconnected policies, practices, and beliefs that combine to devastate Black lives… [more below]
- Author: Rose, Tricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 5, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541602714
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
$35.00 Read moreAn instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, but left us unsatisfie… [more below]
- Author: DeLong, J. Bradford
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 465019595
- Language: English
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Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
$18.99 Add to cartWhy attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered design
Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don … [more below]- Author: Norman, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0465051367
- Language: English
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Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions
$30.00 Read moreFINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023
The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine’s Confessions
While many know of Saint Augustine and his Confessions, few are aware of how his life- Author: Cooper, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541646010
- Language: English
