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Why the Germans? Why the Jews?
$22.99 Add to cartA provocative and insightful analysis that sheds new light on one of the most puzzling and historically unsettling conundrums
Why did the Holocaust happen in Germany, of all places? How did a country- Author: Aly, Götz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062640
- Language: English
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My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer’s
$19.00 Read moreNamed a best book of the year by The New Yorker A Smithsonian top ten science book of 2023 One of AARP magazine’s favorite books of 2023
“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of- Author: Jauhar, Sandeep
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321840
- Language: English
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The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution: A Reconsideration
$19.00 Add to cartOn January 20, 1942, in a grand villa on the shore of Berlin’s Lake Wannsee, a conference of Nazi officers produced a paper known as the Wannsee Protocol, which laid the groundwork for a final solutio
- Author: Roseman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312422342
- Language: English
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Robert Frost: A Life
$34.99 Add to cartThis fascinating reassessment of America’s most popular and famous poet reveals a more complex and enigmatic man than many readers might expect. Jay Parini spent over twenty years interviewing friends… [more below]
- Author: Parini, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805063412
- Language: English
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Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
$23.00 Add to cartJohn Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become w
- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427786
- Language: English
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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
$19.00 Add to cartAcclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America’s descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming our injustices, paralyses, and divides.
Democracy see- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1250849306
- Language: English
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At Home in the World
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author of Labor Day
When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard’s memoir broke a silence concern- Author: Maynard, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250046440
- Language: English
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a countr
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013720
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
$19.00 Add to cartWith a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier
A Salon Best Book of the Year In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool—a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. W- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250002486
- Language: English
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The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point’s Class of 1966
$27.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller about West Point’s Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson.
“A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical recon- Author: Atkinson, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 080509122X
- Language: English
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Listen to This
$27.00 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing- Author: Ross, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610688
- Language: English
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Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion’s World Series of Poker
$30.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 2000, Harper’s Magazine sent James McManus to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker, in particular the progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion
- Author: McManus, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312422520
- Language: English
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
$18.00 Add to cart“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef ‘s bookstore–the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failur
- Author: Wassef, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858860
- Language: English
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
$20.00 Add to cartAs an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Modern Thought, asks what we can learn from the Germans ab
- Author: Neiman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1250750113
- Language: English
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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
$18.00 Add to cartWhen Ellen Ullman’s memoir of her life as a software engineer was published in 1997, it was greeted as a revelatory meditation on the dawn of the digital era. Now, twenty-five years later, Close to th
- Author: Ullman, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250884128
- Language: English
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Eliot After ‘The Waste Land’
$26.00 Add to cartYoung Eliot: From St. Louis to “The Waste Land” was hailed as “exceptional” and “assiduous” (The New York Times). Robert Crawford’s meticulous, incisive scholarship continues in Eliot After “The Waste
- Author: Crawford, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872812
- Language: English
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Look Alive Out There: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a Most Anticipated Book of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly, Glamour, Buzzfeed, Elle, Cosmopolitan, The Millions, InStyle, Bustle, BookRiot, and Southern Living
Sloane Crosley returns to the form tha- Author: Crosley, Sloane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250310415
- Language: English
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Heart: A History
$19.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was so- Author: Jauhar, Sandeep
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234662
- Language: English
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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
$18.99 Read moreThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time
Named a Washington Post Book to Read – A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Pick – A Read- Author: King, Coretta Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1250159938
- Language: English
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A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life
$25.99 Add to cartIn this graceful, incisive book, writer-philosopher Andr? Comte-Sponville reexamines the classical virtues to help us understand “what we should do, who we should be, and how we should live.” In the p
- Author: Comte-Sponville, Andr?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0805045562
- Language: English
