Basic Books
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Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
$21.99 Add to cartAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, “an expansive and generous history” of East Germany (New Republic)
In 1990, a country disappeared- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606361
- Language: English
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Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty
$32.00 Add to cartAn award-winning mathematician shows how we prove what’s true, and what to do when we can’t
How do we establish what we believe? And how can we be certain that what we believe is true? And how do we- Author: Kucharski, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606698
- Language: English
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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It
$24.99 Add to cartThe fizzy, “marvelously entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) story of the world’s favorite beverage
For God, Country & Coca-Cola is the definitive history of the great American soft drink and the c- Author: Pendergrast, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606019
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$22.99 Add to cartFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, an “exceptionally rich narrative” (Wall Street Journal) of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606051
- Language: English
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Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
$34.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement–the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” and … [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Peniel E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1541675894
- Language: English
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More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
$32.00 Add to cartThis “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions–with escaping death, building AI tyrants, and creating limitless g… [more below]
- Author: Becker, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619595
- 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
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606337
- Language: English
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Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today
$35.00 Add to cartAn incisive and illuminating history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life
In rec- Author: Spillman, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541602099
- Language: English
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Aesop’s Fables: A New Translation
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like “The Tortoise and the H- Author: Aesop
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604849
- Language: English
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The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down
$28.00 Add to cartStorytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it
Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But
- Author: Gottschall, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1541645960
- Language: English
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Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
$21.99 Add to cartThe third volume in the bestselling physics series cracks open Einstein’s special relativity and field theory
Physicist Leonard Susskind and data engineer Art Friedman are back. This time, they intro- Series: Theoretical Minimum
- Author: Susskind, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1541674065
- Language: English
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The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
$19.99 Add to cart*A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick*
An “ambitious work” (Washington Post) tracing the links between autism and ingenuityIs the ability to invent things unique to humans? In T
- Author: Baron-Cohen, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1541647157
- Language: English
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Don’t Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems
$18.99 Add to cart“At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry
In Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603613
- Language: English
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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West
$22.99 Add to cart“Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope” (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the Califor… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1541672542
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
$21.99 Add to cartA “drop-dead shocker” (Washington Post Book World) that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most ch… [more below]
- Author: Buss, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097766
- Language: English
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How to Listen to Jazz
$18.99 Add to cartA “radiantly accomplished” music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz (Wall Street Journal)
In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia prese- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0465093493
- Language: English
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
$21.99 Add to cartAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a “a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)
Ma- Author: Roberts, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675460
- Language: English
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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
$19.99 Add to cartA leading expert in childhood development makes the case for why self-directed learning — “unschooling” — is the best way to get kids to learn.
In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gra- Author: Gray, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0465084990
- Language: English
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True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America
$35.00 Read moreA celebrated historian recounts Hubert Humphrey’s role as a liberal hero of twentieth-century America
Hubert Humphrey was liberalism’s most dedicated defender, and its most public and tragic sacrific- Author: Traub, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619579
- Language: English
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Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome
$32.00 Add to cartA historian of Rome “at the height of his powers” (Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire) narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through th… [more below]
- Author: Osgood, Josiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604253
- Language: English
