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The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
$18.00 Add to cart“Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the at
- Author: Vigna, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1250304172
- Language: English
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Why the West Rules–For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, r- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611692
- Language: English
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Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
$25.99 Add to cartAn excellent book by a genius,” said Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., of this now classic exploration of the 1960s from the founder of new journalism.
“This is a book that will be a sharp pleasure to reread years f
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429126
- Language: English
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Cannabis: A History
$30.99 Add to cartTo some it’s the classic “gateway drug,” to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from pain. Some fear it is dangerous and addictive, while others feel it should be decriminalized. W
- Author: Booth, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312424949
- Language: English
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Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
$25.99 Add to cartLife on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine–a first offense–under New York’s Rockefeller drug laws. The book opens on
- Author: Gonnerman, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424574
- Language: English
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Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
$25.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening exploration of blood, the life giving substance with the power of taboo, the value of diamonds and the promise of breakthrough science.
Blood carries life, yet the sight of it makes peo- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1250230683
- Language: English
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If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cart**WINNER of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the 2018 Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish literature**
**2018 Natan Book Award Finalist**
**Finalist for the 2017 National Jew- Author: Kurshan, Ilana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215773
- Language: English
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Courage of Truth
$26.99 Add to cartThe Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered in a series of lectures from 1970 to 1984 at the Coll?e de France.
Here, Foucault continues the theme of the previous year’s- Series: Lectures at the College de France #11
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250009103
- Language: English
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Lynching at Port Jervis
$18.00 Add to cartAn account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.
On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black ma- Author: Dray, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867134
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment in America
$21.99 Add to cartA FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
When Crime and Punishment in America was first published in 1998, the national incarceration rate had doubled in just over a decade, and yet the United States remaine- Author: Currie, Elliott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024218
- Language: English
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Crisis of Zionism
$23.99 Add to cartA deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel.–President Bill Clinton
A probing, courageous, and timely book… Beinart offers a forceful exposition of American apprehensions about Israe- Author: Beinart, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1250026733
- Language: English
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A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
$25.00 Add to cartA Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America’s history vividly to life.
What happened in North America betwe- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0312428324
- Language: English
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
$22.00 Add to cartA passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harro
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312424302
- Language: English
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Arbitrary Stupid Goal
$18.00 Add to cartIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, lo
- Author: Shopsin, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 125018391X
- Language: English
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The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’s Carr P. Collins Award
A New York Times Bestseller
One of Book Riot Best Book of the Year
In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized th- Author: Hollandsworth, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118492
- Language: English
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
$19.99 Add to cartEye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization
On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; eac- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058295
- Language: English
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence
$19.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
In the spirit of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot and Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage keeps circlin- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10, 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429460
- Language: English
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The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
$26.99 Add to cartAn insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation’s father
The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington’s mother, based on archival sources- Author: Saxton, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1250619513
- Language: English
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster
$21.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life
She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the g- Author: Carter, Stephen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1250230667
- Language: English
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Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
$19.00 Add to cart“A fascinating study in the better angels of our nature.”–George Packer, The New Yorker
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice History has produced many specimens of the banality of evil, but w- Author: Press, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1250024080
- Language: English
