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By: Brown, Vincent
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
$21.00PaperbackRead moreWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Winner of the Elsa Goveia Book Prize
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations
Winner of the- Author: Brown, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674260295
- Language: English
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By: Chabal, Emile
The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.
Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth cen- Author: Chabal, Emile
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 0674737768
- Language: English
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By: Else, Jon
Frenchman Flat: The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartThe story of a single nuclear bomb’s deep origins, brief life during the Cold War, and lasting environmental and political legacies–as a fresh path to consider the entire sweep of the American nuclea
- Author: Else, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0674300351
- Language: English
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By: Stern, Philip J.
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartA Spectator Book of the Year
“Brilliant, ambitious, and often surprising. A remarkable contribution to the current global debate about empire.” –William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy: The East In- Author: Stern, Philip J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299299
- Language: English
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By: Lockhart, Paul
Measurement
$25.00PaperbackRead morePaul Lockhart’s Mathematician’s Lament outlined how we introduce math to students in the wrong way. Measurement explains how math should be done. With plain English and pictures, Lockhart makes comple
- Author: Lockhart, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0674284380
- Language: English
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By: Chen, Jian
Zhou Enlai: A Life
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
The definitive biography of Zhou Enlai, the first premier and preeminent diplomat of the People’s Republic of China, who protected his country against the exces- Author: Chen, Jian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0674303490
- Language: English
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By: Taylor, Charles
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity
$27.95PaperbackAdd to cart“We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human.” –John Cottingham, The Tablet
In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles T- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 067430358X
- Language: English
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Mapmatics: A Mathematician’s Guide to Navigating the World
$23.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn “original” (Nature) and “expansive journey through time and place” (Guardian) that uncovers the surprising connections between math and maps–and the myriad ways they’ve shaped our world and us.
Wh- Author: Rowińska, Paulina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0674304926
- Language: English
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By: Bradstreet, Anne
The Works of Anne Bradstreet
$24.00PaperbackAdd to cartAnne Bradstreet was one of our earliest feminists and the first true poet in the American colonies. This collection of her extant poetry and prose, scrupulously edited by Jeannine Hensley, has long be… [more below]
- Series: John Harvard Library #121
- Author: Bradstreet, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0674050274
- Language: English
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By: Kafka, Franz
Selected Stories
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartA Spectator Best Book of the Year
“It’s an extremely handsome, well-designed book, and you couldn’t ask for a better introduction to Kafka…If you’ve never read Kafka before or if you already love hi- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0674737989
- Language: German
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By: Scull, Andrew
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
$18.95PaperbackRead moreA Telegraph Book of the Year
“An indisputable masterpiece…comprehensive, fascinating, and persuasive.”
A Washington Post Notable Work
A Times Book of the Year
A Hughes Award Finalist
—Wall Street Journ- Author: Scull, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 067429551X
- Language: English
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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, this dramatic new account of the dawn of modern East Asia places Korea at the center of a transformed world order wrought by imperial greed
- Author: Jager, Sheila Miyoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0674303482
- Language: English
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By: Arno, Anna
Paul Celan: A Life
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartA luminous, groundbreaking biography of one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, best known for the poem “Deathfugue.”
Paul Celan (1920-1970) was recognized as the greatest- Author: Arno, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0674298632
- Language: English
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By: Hood, Leroy
The Age of Scientific Wellness: Why the Future of Medicine Is Personalized, Predictive, Data-Rich, and in Your Hands
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cart“If you want to understand how the latest advances in genomics and AI can completely transform your health, and to translate this promise into practical tools that you can apply today, read this book!
- Author: Hood, Leroy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299159
- Language: English
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By: Susskind, Daniel
Growth: A History and a Reckoning
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartOne of Barack Obama’s 10 Favorite Books of the Year
A vivid account of the past, present, and future
One of the New Yorker‘s Best Books of the Year
Finalist for the Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Susskind, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0674303571
- Language: English
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By: Cobbs, Elizabeth
Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyonc?
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cart“A gripping panoramic history that pairs ingenious excavation with enlightening explanation to relight the fire of feminist political identity at the very moment when we need it most.”―Tiya Mile
- Author: Cobbs, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299094
- Language: English
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The Four Realms of Existence: A New Theory of Being Human
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartA Seminary Co-op Notable Book
“A big picture perspective on the mind, decision-making, and consciousness…Provocative and stimulating.” —Philosophical Psychology “LeDoux’s aim is to provide a new th- Author: LeDoux, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0674301552
- Language: English
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By: Brontë, Emily
The Annotated Wuthering Heights
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartEmily Bront?’s Wuthering Heights has been called the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time. At its center are Catherine and Heathcliff, and the self-contained world of Wutheri
- Author: Brontë, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0674724690
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartA decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United S
- Author: Dierksheide, Christa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0674278321
- Language: English
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Captive Minds: A Study of Manipulation
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartFrom philosophers Avishai Margalit and Assaf Sharon, an erudite yet approachable inquiry into political manipulation and the grave threat it poses to human freedom today.
Manipulation is as old as his- Author: Margalit, Avishai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0674303105
- Language: English

















