Basic Books
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How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
$19.99 Add to cartA philosopher asks how ancient Stoicism can help us flourish today Whenever we worry about what to eat, how to love, or simply how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal i
- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08, 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644530
- Language: English
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Meditations: The Annotated Edition
$19.99 Add to cartThis definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome’s sixteenth emperor.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninu- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1541673867
- Language: English
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
$16.99 Add to cartLearn how to think like a physicist from a Nobel laureate and “one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century” (New York Review of Books) with these six classic and beloved lessons
It was Richard- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 22, 2011
- ISBN10: 0465025277
- Language: English
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The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation
$32.00 Read moreThe secret history of one of the largest–and least-known–rescue operations of World War II
Between 1940 and 1943, a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable–and unt- Author: Moorhouse, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619854
- Language: English
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
$19.99 Add to cartA “wonderfully smart and readable” (Washington Post) book that combines philosophical wisdom and scientific research, revealing surprising insights about how to live a meaningful life
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- Author: Haidt, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0465028020
- Language: English
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Meditations: The Annotated Edition
$32.00 Add to cartThis definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is an insightful look into the mind of Ancient Rome’s sixteenth emperor.
As featured on the Today Show
Marcus Aurelius Antoninu- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673859
- Language: English
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Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science
$32.50 Add to cartThe untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining “meticulous research and sensitive storytelling” (Janice P. Nimura, New York … [more below]
- Author: McNeur, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1541674170
- Language: English
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Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
$35.00 Add to cartA “magnificent” (Spectator) history of the epic rivalry between the ancient world’s two great superpowers
The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 154161996X
- Language: English
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
$24.99 Add to cartA “marvelous” (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675592
- Language: English
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Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, an “extraordinary” and “profound” (New York Times) manifesto for reimagining justice for survivors of sexual trauma
The #MeToo movement brought w- Author: Herman, Judith Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600541
- Language: English
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The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped Reading
$35.00 Add to cartA “magisterial” (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century–both as weapons and as agents for peace
We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath–- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604342
- Language: English
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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
$32.00 Read moreA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education–one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school
America has relied on- Author: Fitzpatrick, Cara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541646770
- Language: English
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Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
$24.99 Add to cartThe book that revolutionized our understanding of human intelligence.
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences has been hailed by educators for decades and applied in hundreds of schools wo- Author: Gardner, Howard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0465024335
- Language: English
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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence–From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
$22.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking work on trauma that remains a “classic for our generation” (Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score)
Trauma and Recovery is the foundational text on understandin- Author: Herman, Judith Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602951
- Language: English
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Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths
$30.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s most creative mathematicians offers a new way to look at math–focusing on questions, not answers
Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not re
- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601823
- Language: English
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Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age
$32.50 Add to cartFrom a “remarkably gifted historian” (New York Times), the definitive account of the golden age of Rome — an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness
The Pax Romana has long been shortha- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0465093531
- Language: English
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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest
$30.00 Add to cartA “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them
Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Mono- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601289
- Language: English
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The Design of Everyday Things
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s great designers shares his vision of “the fundamental principles of great and meaningful design”, that’s “even more relevant today than it was when first published” (Tim Brown, CEO,
- Author: Norman, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 05, 2013
- ISBN10: 0465050654
- Language: English
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Ten Birds That Changed the World
$30.00 Add to cartFrom “a captivating storyteller” (Wall Street Journal), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds.- Author: Moss, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604466
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Society
$26.99 Add to cartThe influence of intellectuals is not only greater than in previous eras but also takes a very different form from that envisioned by those like Machiavelli and others who have wanted to directly infl
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: March 06, 2012
- ISBN10: 0465025226
- Language: English
