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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again, a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary people can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians
- Series: W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
- Author: Glaude, Eddie, Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0674303512
- Language: English
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By: Gottlieb, Dylan
Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York
$32.00HardcoverRead moreHow the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.
Yuppies- Author: Gottlieb, Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067424897X
- Language: English
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By: Satter, Beryl
Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods
$35.00HardcoverRead moreAn incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods–as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices.
In the- Author: Satter, Beryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067427847X
- Language: English
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By: Prell, Mark
What Are the Odds?: A Statistical Guide to Certainty in an Uncertain World
$32.95HardcoverAdd to cartFrom bar bets to Nobel Prizes, viral outbreaks to lottery wins, how statistics shapes our choices, reveals hidden truths, and guides us toward certainty in uncertain times.
We live in an uncertain wor- Author: Prell, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0674296362
- Language: English
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By: Luzzatto, Sergio
The First Fascist: The Sensational Life and Dark Legacy of the Marquis de Mor?s
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartA vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Mor?s, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary vi
- Author: Luzzatto, Sergio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0674297695
- Language: English
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By: Rorty, Richard
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartMust the sins of America’s past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation’s shame, has answered yes in both word and deed.
- Series: William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies #10
- Author: Rorty, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0674003128
- Language: English
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The Presidential Pardon: The Short Clause with a Long, Troubled History
$22.95HardcoverAdd to cartAstonishing, unconstrained, and often unsettling–the presidential pardon is one of the most powerful tools in American government, and this indispensable book is your guide to how it defines the pres
- Author: Prakash, Saikrishna Bangalore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0674303202
- Language: English
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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World
$29.95HardcoverRead moreA landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world.
The period from 1550 to- Author: Harpham, John Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0674278372
- Language: English
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By: Zadeh, Travis
Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cart“Like al-Qazwīnī himself, Travis Zadeh has written a deliciously baggy tome, full of delights and diversions in its tour of the cosmic horizons. This is a book to get lost in, whether one wa
- Author: Zadeh, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299337
- Language: English
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By: Joiner, Thomas
Why People Die by Suicide
$26.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a clini
- Author: Joiner, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0674025490
- Language: English
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Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning
$26.00PaperbackRead moreThis primer on legal reasoning is aimed at law students and upper-level undergraduates. But it is also an original exposition of basic legal concepts that scholars and lawyers will find stimulating. I
- Author: Schauer, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0674062485
- Language: English
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From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
$24.95PaperbackRead moreCo-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0674979826
- Language: English
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The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution
$32.95HardcoverAdd to cartTold through the lives of three remarkable artists devoted to the pursuit of liberty, an illuminating new history of the ideals that fired the American Revolution.
The war that we now call the America- Author: Anishanslin, Zara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0674290232
- Language: English
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Ten Indian Classics
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cart2,500 years of India’s dazzling literary tradition, translated from a wide range of classical languages, and introduced by an award-winning poet.
Romantic ghazals and devotional quatrains, medieval ba- Series: Murty Classical Library of India
- Author: India, Murty Classical Library of
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674297148
- Language: English
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By: Garcia, Matt
Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations
$27.95HardcoverRead moreThe poignant rise and fall of an idealistic immigrant who, as CEO of a major conglomerate, tried to change the way America did business before he himself was swallowed up by corporate corruption.
At 8- Author: Garcia, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0674980808
- Language: English
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By: Igo, Sarah E.
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
$30.33PaperbackAdd to cartA Washington Post Book of the Year
“A masterful study of privacy.”
Winner of the Merle Curti Award
Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
–Sue Halpern, New York Review- Author: Igo, Sarah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244796
- Language: English
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By: Nolan, Rachel
Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession.
In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a s- Author: Nolan, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 674270355
- Language: English
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A Calculated Restraint: What Allied Leaders Said about the Holocaust
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn eminent historian of the Holocaust examines why Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, though faced with mounting evidence of the Nazi extermination of Jews, were reluctant to speak out against the atro
- Author: Breitman, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674293649
- Language: English
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By: Bilston, Sarah
The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cartThe forgotten story of a decades-long international quest for a rare and coveted orchid, chronicling the botanists, plant hunters, and collectors who relentlessly pursued it at great human and environ
- Author: Bilston, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674272609
- Language: English
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By: Kaplan, Amy
Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cart“Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” –Ta-Nehisi Coates
An essential account of America’s most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays o- Author: Kaplan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0674301781
- Language: English














