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Latino USA: A Cartoon History
$22.99 Add to cartAn irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary
In Latino USA, Latin American and Latino scholar Ilan S- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 154160556X
- Language: English
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No Right to an Honest Living (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
$22.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A “sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive” portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from “a gifted practitioner of labo… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Jacqueline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607023
- Language: English
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Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning natural-history writer opens the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks
We all live on nature’s doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601246
- Language: English
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege- Author: Albertus, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604814
- Language: English
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Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts
$35.00 Add to cart“Never has medical history been more entertaining” (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women’s bodies from classical Greece to the modern age
Breasts, c- Author: King, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606531
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Race
$28.00 Add to cartThomas Sowell’s incisive critique of the intellectuals’ destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the r- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0465058728
- Language: English
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The Call of the Honeyguide: What Science Tells Us about How to Live Well with the Rest of Life
$32.00 Add to cartHow rethinking our relationships with other species can help us reimagine the future of humankind
In the woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, sometime deep in our species’ past, something strange happen- Author: Dunn, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 154160573X
- Language: English
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Rome and Persia: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry
$21.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619951
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
$21.99 Add to cart“A tribute to a time when style — and maybe even life — felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers.” — Sadie Stein, Paris Review
As a glance down any street in- Author: Przybyszewski, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0465066860
- Language: English
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General Relativity: The Theoretical Minimum
$21.99 Add to cartThe latest volume in the New York Times-bestselling physics series explains Einstein’s masterpiece: the general theory of relativity
He taught us classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and sp- Series: Theoretical Minimum
- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601785
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
$18.99 Add to cartA compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt
In Reclaim- Author: Martel, J. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607244
- Language: English
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Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age
$32.00 Add to cartThe thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb
Although Henri Becquerel didn’t know it at the time, he changed history in 1895- Author: Close, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605896
- Language: English
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The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed
$30.00 Add to cartFrom Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a “clear, concise, and humane account” (Christina Hoff Sommers) of how racial preferences have done more harm t… [more below]
- Author: Riley, Jason L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604555
- Language: English
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Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara
$32.50 Add to cartAn expansive history of the Sahara from prehistory to the present that shows how Saharans have, over time, built complex and cosmopolitan lives despite scarcity, conquest, and the relentless challenge… [more below]
- Author: Scheele, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607112
- Language: English
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The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History
$30.00 Add to cartA critical history of the idea of design–and its utopian promise
Design has penetrated every dimension of contemporary society, from classrooms to statehouses to corporate boardrooms. It’s seen as- Author: Gram, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1541600630
- Language: English
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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
$21.99 Add to cart“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.”–P. J. O’Rourke
Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a chall
- Author: McHangama, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1541620348
- Language: English
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The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
$30.00 Add to cartA brilliant new voice in science writing–“witty, whip-smart, truly one of our best” (Mary Roach)–shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science
Why would anyone research how elephants p- Author: York, Carly Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605217
- Language: English
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Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II
$35.00 Add to cartA powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers
In popular memory, the Second World War was a- Author: Chamberlin, Paul Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619269
- Language: English
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I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein
$30.00 Add to cartA “beautifully written” (David Fideler) spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his personal philosophy — “a must-read for anyon… [more below]
- Author: Fox, Kieran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1541603575
- Language: English
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The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
$32.50 Add to cartThe epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, offering a “timely” (Odd Arne Westad, coauthor of The Great Transformation) argument that the decline of the West may be a good thing fo… [more below]
- Author: Acharya, Amitav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604148
- Language: English
