Basic Books
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Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
$21.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - An “important, deeply affecting–and regrettably relevant” (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedo… [more below]
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: 2-Jan-24
- ISBN10: 1541605128
- Language: English
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The Interpretation of Dreams
$16.99 Add to cartThe most complete edition of Sigmund Freud’s classic work on the psychology and significance of dreams.
What are the most common dreams and why do we have them? What does a dream about death mean? W- Author: Freud, Sigmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0465019773
- Language: English
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America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy
$35.00 Read moreThe remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today’s Black mecca
Atlanta is home to some of America’s most prominent Black po… [more below]- Author: Ogbar, Jeffrey O. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601998
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$22.99 Add to cartThe “engaging” and “ambitious” (Washington Post) history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
The history of the library is rich, varied, and
- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603729
- Language: English
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The Overlooked Americans: The Resilience of Our Rural Towns and What It Means for Our Country
$32.00 Read moreHow small-town America’s surprising success reshapes our understanding of the nation’s urban-rural divide, offering “the most balanced and broadest-ranging look at the topic” (Tyler Cowen, George Maso
- Author: Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 154164672X
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
$35.00 Read moreAn evocative portrait of a divided America at the dawn of the Cold War
Halfway through the twentieth century, the United States towered over the world in industrial might. After winning the 1948 elec- Author: Bunker, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675541
- Language: English
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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
$18.99 Add to cartA master teacher presents the ultimate introduction to classical mechanics for people who are serious about learning physics
“Beautifully clear explanations of famously ‘difficult’ things,” — Wall St- Series: Theoretical Minimum
- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 22-Apr-14
- ISBN10: 0465075681
- Language: English
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Homer and His Iliad
$32.50 Read moreA “compelling and impressive” (Sunday Times) reassessment of the Iliad, uncovering how the poem was written and why it remains enduringly powerful
The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem–heroic- Author: Fox, Robin Lane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600444
- Language: English
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American Anarchy: The Epic Struggle Between Immigrant Radicals and the Us Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
$35.00 Add to cartA “lively, fast-paced history” (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America’s anarchist movement and the government’s tireless efforts to destroy it
In the early twentieth ce- Author: Willrich, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1541697375
- Language: English
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The Allure of the Multiverse: Extra Dimensions, Other Worlds, and Parallel Universes
$30.00 Add to cart“A rich and rewarding history of one of the most astounding ideas in physics and astronomy” (Marcia Bartusiak) – that the universe we know isn’t the only one
Our books, our movies–our imagin- Author: Halpern, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 154160217X
- Language: English
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Economic Facts and Fallacies
$19.99 Add to cartThomas Sowell “both surprises and overturns received wisdom” in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist)
Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most po- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 22, 2011
- ISBN10: 0465022030
- Language: English
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Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do about It
$32.00 Add to cartFrom two New York Times-bestselling psychologists, “an engaging master class in how to foil purveyors of false promises” (Philip E. Tetlock, author of Superforecasting)
From phishing scams to Ponzi s- Author: Simons, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1541602234
- Language: English
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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
$19.99 Add to cartAn awesome, globe-spanning, and New York Times bestselling journey through the beauty and power of mathematics
What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence?- Author: Frenkel, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09, 2014
- ISBN10: 0465064957
- Language: English
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The Republic of Plato
$36.40 Add to cartThe definitive translation of Plato’s Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy
Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato’s Republic that has yet been publi- Author: Bloom, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0465094082
- Language: English
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Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
$45.00 Add to cartThe bestselling citizen’s guide to economics
Basic Economics is a citizen’s guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equatio- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 31, 2014
- ISBN10: 0465060730
- Language: English
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Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
$35.00 Add to cart“The best modern account” (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during- Author: Chrastil, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604091
- Language: English
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How Migration Really Works: The Facts about the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
$35.00 Add to cartAn authoritative guide to global migration that corrects decades of misunderstanding and misguided policy, “defying orthodoxy on all sides of the debate” (Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity TrapR
- Author: de Haas, Hein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604318
- Language: English
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Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past
$21.99 Add to cartIn this “incisive” (Vanity Fair) and “authoritative” (New York Times) instant New York Times bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the most pernicious myths about our n
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604660
- Language: English
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race
$21.99 Add to cartThe classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America.
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and L- Author: Tatum, Beverly Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05, 2017
- ISBN10: 0465060684
- Language: English
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Bitch: On the Female of the Species
$21.99 Add to cartA “playful, enlightening,” and “effervescent exposé” (Scientific American) on the queens of the animal kingdom
Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders o- Author: Cooke, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 154167491X
- Language: English
