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Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
$17.00 Read more“Should be required reading for all policy makers.” –Warren Buffett
From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a m- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0143134485
- Language: English
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The American Senator
$11.95 Add to cartArabella Trefoil, the beautiful anti-heroine of this novel, inspired Trollope to write of her, “I wished to express the depth of my scorn for women who run down husbands.” Arabella’s determination to … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Trollope, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537631
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Add to cartRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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Pereira Maintains
$14.95 Read moreDr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose an… [more below]
- Author: Tabucchi, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0811226174
- Language: English
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Avatar: The Last Airbender and Philosophy: Wisdom from Aang to Zuko
$21.95 Read moreWould our world be a better place if some of us were benders?
Can Katara repair the world through care?
Is Toph a disability pride icon?
What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good?
Can we tell
- Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture
- Author: de Cruz, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1119809800
- Language: English
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Those Who Would Be King: The People’s Prince
$29.95 Read moreThis powerful novel–full of tantalizing twists and turns, powerful heroes and heinous villains–is set in the fictional, impoverished African country of Maleziland and explores the corruption of powe… [more below]
- Author: Ludwig, Brent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886450637
- Language: English
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Chums
$16.95 Read moreTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022. Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere o… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1788167392
- Language: English
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The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life
$29.95 Read moreUsing the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformation
The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross’s attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, pra- Author: Ross, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768312
- Language: English
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
$20.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography, mesmerizing and “richly textured ” (Chicago Tribune), that inspired the acclaimed documentary, Letters from Baghdad. – With a new Afterword – “Desert Queen…plucks Gertrude … [more below]
- Author: Wallach, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400096197
- Language: English
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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
$20.00 Read more#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, from the rise of autocracy unleashed by Trump to the January 6 insurrection, and a warning that those… [more below]
- Author: Schiff, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0593231538
- Language: English
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Balkan Wars (1912-13)
$27.00 Add to cartOn-the-spot analysis of national and social conflicts in the Balkans, written 80 years ago, sheds light on the conflicts shaking these countries today.
- Author: Trotsky, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 714
- Publish Date: January 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0873489071
- Language: English
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What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense
$17.99 Add to cartUntil very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus a… [more below]
- Author: Gergis, Sherif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 164177147X
- Language: English
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Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank
$25.99 Read moreEric Orner, the acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country’s most popular and longest-running gay comic strips, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, presents his debut graphic novel–a da
- Author: Orner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1250191580
- Language: English
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Falling Hour
$17.95 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
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All talk, no action: The Mezza
- Author: Morrison, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1552454460
- Language: English
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Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison–Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Eff
$17.99 Add to cartThe Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. “544 Days” is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24.
The dramatic memoir of the journalist who was held host
- Author: Rezaian, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0062691589
- Language: English
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Looking at Lincoln
$9.99 Read moreFans of Who Was? and Jean Fritz will love this introduction to our sixteenth President by beloved author and illustrator Maira Kalman.
Who was Lincoln really? This little girl wants to find out. She- Author: Kalman, Maira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0147517982
- Language: English
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Mayor Corning: Albany Icon, Albany Enigma
$36.95 Read morePaul Grondahl is a reporter at the Albany Times Union and the author of four books, including the acclaimed political biography, I Rose like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt. Hi… [more below]
- Author: Grondahl, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 626
- Publish Date: September 07 2007
- ISBN10: 0791472949
- Language: English
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The Panacea Project
$24.95 Read moreA timely exploration of bodily autonomy set in a classic medical thriller
Calla Hammond has always been a loner–a product of the foster system and avoided by others because of a skin condition- Author: Johnson, Catherine Devore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798886450156
- Language: English
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Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke
$19.95 Read moreRight now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or “harmless” office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right and the bigotry of the old elites. The
- Author: Ozkirimli, Umut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1509550925
- Language: English
