Basic Books
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The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
$21.99 Add to cartThis “landmark” (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century’… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619617
- Language: English
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Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
$40.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 29, 2019
- ISBN10: 0465093507
- Language: English
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Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
$30.00 Read moreAn astounding account of how gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we learn and interact, which “changes the way you think about yourself and the people around you.” (Ethan Kross, bestselling
- Author: Goldin-Meadow, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1541600800
- Language: English
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Bitch: On the Female of the Species
$30.00 Add to cartA fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom
Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces:
- Author: Cooke, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541674898
- Language: English
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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
$21.99 Add to cartA Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
“Correlation is not causation.”- Author: Pearl, Judea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541698967
- Language: English
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To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times)
When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Re- Author: Richardson, Heather Cox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600622
- Language: English
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A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West
Overlapping with and overshadowed- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619668
- Language: English
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The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
$32.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of The Case for Trump explains the decline and fall of the once cherished idea of American citizenship.
Human history is full of the stories of peasants, subjects- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 154164753X
- Language: English
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
$24.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the world’s most popular drug
Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews- Author: Pendergrast, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 09, 2019
- ISBN10: 1541699386
- Language: English
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Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
$32.00 Read moreThe definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat
From Boudicca’s rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surpris- Author: Percy, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619862
- Language: English
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
$17.99 Add to cartLearn about Einstein’s theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and “one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century” (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessons
It was Richard Fe… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 22 2011
- ISBN10: 0465025269
- Language: English
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State of Silence: The Espionage ACT and the Rise of America’s Secrecy Regime
$32.50 Read moreAn “essential guide” (Beverly Gage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of G-Man) to how the Espionage Act gave rise to a vast American security state that keeps citizens in the dark
In State of Silence,&#- Author: Lebovic, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 154162016X
- Language: English
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The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall
$30.00 Read moreWhat Shakespeare’s plays can teach us about modern-day politics
William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A. C- Author: Cohen, Eliot a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541644867
- Language: English
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Theoretical Minimum, a DIY introduction to the math and science of quantum mechanics.
First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has t- Series: Theoretical Minimum
- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 12, 2015
- ISBN10: 0465062903
- Language: English
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The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
$22.99 Add to cartIn this “important and comprehensive” guide to statistical thinking (New Yorker), discover how you can use data and mathematics to gain a better understanding of life’s biggest problems. The age of b… [more below]
- Author: Spiegelhalter, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675703
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
$22.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world’s leading economists: this “magisterial history” offers a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than eve
- Author: DeLong, J. Bradford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604245
- Language: English
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics Set
$250.00 Add to cartThe legendary introduction to physics from the subject’s greatest teacher
“The whole thing was basically an experiment,” Richard Feynman said late in his career, looking back on the origins of his le- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 1552
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0465023827
- Language: English
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The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
$32.50 Add to cart“A mind-bending jaunt … that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts” (Publishers Weekly)
“Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be phil- Author: Sigmund, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541602692
- Language: English
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Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
$35.00 Add to cartA definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian
Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over nearly four- Author: Sarris, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541601335
- Language: English
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Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
$35.00 Read moreThe definitive history of the idea of equality–and why we’re so ambivalent about it
Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nation- Author: McMahon, Darrin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0465093930
- Language: English
