Belknap Press
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Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
$24.95 Add to cart“The scholarship of this book is breathtaking…No one interested in the history of Europe, and of the Germans in particular, can afford not to read this stupendous book.” –Simon Heffer, The Telegrap
- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299310
- Language: English
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A Summer with Pascal
$22.95 Add to cartFrom an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to- Author: Compagnon, Antoine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295412
- Language: English
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Selected Stories
$29.95 Add 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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Zhou Enlai: A Life
$39.95 Add 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0674659589
- Language: English
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
$37.95 Add to cartA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of languag- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0674296087
- Language: English
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The Learning Household: How to Help Your Child Get More Out of School
$26.95 Add to cartAn expert guide to raising creative, passionate learners, from the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do.
Children are eager learners. As anyone who has taken a car trip with a toddl- Author: Bain, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248163
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$21.95 Add to cart“An extraordinary achievement.” –David Edgerton, Literary Review
“A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299086
- Language: English
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To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
$26.95 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive poli
- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0674298179
- Language: English
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Arithmetic
$22.00 Read more“Inspiring and informative…deserves to be widely read.”
“This fun book offers a philosophical take on number systems and revels in the beauty of math.”
—Wall Street Journal
—Science News Because we- Author: Lockhart, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 15 2019
- ISBN10: 067423751X
- Language: English
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Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness
$29.95 Add to cartA cutting-edge neuroscientist and a leading clinical psychologist look to religious, mystical, and mind-altering experience to challenge scientific orthodoxies concerning consciousness.
We are nothing- Author: Miskovic, Vladimir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0674271866
- Language: English
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Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
$29.95 Add to cartA leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine–and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since
- Author: Haslam, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299078
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France
$26.95 Add to cartA pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner.
In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged a- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299884
- Language: English
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What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea
$29.95 Add to cart“A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra.” —The Guardian
A leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, w- Author: Dabhoiwala, Fara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674987314
- Language: English
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Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
$29.95 Add to cartThe story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government’s responsibilities.
National security may- Author: Preston, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674737385
- Language: English
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The Mending of Broken Bones: A Modern Guide to Classical Algebra
$29.95 Add to cartA joyful and intimate celebration of the beauty and creativity of algebra from one of the foremost math educators of our time.
For many of us, algebra conjures up memories of dull classes spent wonder- Author: Lockhart, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 067429632X
- Language: English
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The Color of North: The Molecular Language of Proteins and the Future of Life
$27.95 Add to cartAn awe-inspiring journey into the world of proteins–how they shape life, and their remarkable potential to heal our bodies and our planet.
Each fall, a robin begins the long trek north from Gibraltar- Author: Rizk, Shahir S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 674292588
- Language: English
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Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century–an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce
- Author: Leader, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248392
- Language: English
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A Fractured Liberation: Korea Under Us Occupation
$29.95 Add to cartA poignant return to Korea’s forgotten “Asian Spring”–a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation.
When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsu- Author: Chang, Kornel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0674258436
- Language: English
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Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t
$21.95 Add to cart“This book has the potential to change CEO mindsets, human resource practices, manager behavior, and employee well-being–if only enough people grab it and heed its powerful messages.” –Rosabeth Moss
- Author: Dobbin, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0674297237
- Language: English
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Super Gay Poems: Lgbtqia+ Poetry After Stonewall
$29.95 Add to cartA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more.
- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0674273117
- Language: English
