Basic Books
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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War
$35.00 Add to cartIn this “extraordinary and brilliant book” (Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves), a prize-winning historian offers the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe
T- Author: Roper, Lyndal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 154164705X
- Language: English
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Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South
$32.00 Add to cartA “brilliantly researched and surprising” (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists’ long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore … [more below]
- Author: Schumaker, Kathryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605314
- Language: English
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The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartAn “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times-bestselling author of Memorial Drive) memoir of family, color, and being Black, white, and other in America, from “one of our country’s g… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Martha S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541601009
- Language: English
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Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times
$32.00 Add to cartA “beautiful, deep, thoughtful” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning–and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety
- Author: Heine, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541600819
- Language: English
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More Than Words: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI
$30.00 Add to cartA veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be replaced by AI
In the age of artificial intelligence, draft- Author: Warner, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541605500
- Language: English
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
$22.99 Add to cartAn essential new history of Central Europe that “deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past” (Wall Street Journal)
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606345
- Language: English
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
$19.99 Add to cartThe “superbly entertaining and well-researched” (Financial Times) history of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico–and faced bloody consequences.
In the- Author: Shawcross, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541674200
- Language: English
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
$32.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri- Author: Herring, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600940
- Language: English
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The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups
$19.99 Add to cart“Dr. Leonard Sax’s The Collapse of Parenting should be required reading for all parents.”―Dr. Nancy Kehoe, author of Wrestling with Our Inner Angels
In The Collapse of Parenting, internationall- Author: Sax, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604539
- Language: English
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How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog
$17.99 Add to cartThey say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But what about relativity?
Physics professor Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this i- Author: Orzel, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0465023312
- Language: English
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Black Dog of Fate
$19.99 Add to cart“His visions are burning — his poetry heartbreaking,” wrote Elie Wiesel of American poet Peter Balakian. Now, in elegant prose, the prize-winning poet who James Dickey called “an extraordinary talent… [more below]
- Author: Balakian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0465010199
- Language: English
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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle
$19.99 Add to cartAs seen on PBS’s American Spring Live, one of America’s great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathers
Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. They d- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028780
- Language: English
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The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
$32.00 Add to cartThe first biography–“a stunning achievement” (Kai Bird, American Prometheus)–of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose- Author: Barss, Patchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603664
- Language: English
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The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
$35.00 Add to cart“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606167
- Language: English
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Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
$32.00 Add to cartThe surprising history of old age in modern America, showing how we created unprecedented security for some and painful uncertainty for others
On farms and in factories, Americans once had little cho- Author: Chappel, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619528
- Language: English
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Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
$32.00 Add to cartThe full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resisted
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the w- Author: Finkel, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604679
- Language: English
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Treekeepers: The Race for a Forested Future
$30.00 Add to cartHow the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world’s forests
In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent “doing something good for the planet.” Ma- Author: Oakes, Lauren E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1541603346
- Language: English
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Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan
$30.00 Add to cartA heartfelt, humane, and even hilarious account of why rule-obsessed veganism fails and how a focus on flourishing can bring about an abundant future for all
In Hungry Beautiful Animals, philosopher- Author: Halteman, Matthew C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1541602056
- Language: English
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Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash
$32.00 Read moreA leading historian argues that Johnny Cash was the most important political artist of his time
Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level, bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, and for h
- Author: Foley, Michael Stewart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1541699572
- Language: English
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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
$19.99 Read more“It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject.” — Scientific American
In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a- Author: Smolin, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 465094546
- Language: English
