PublicAffairs
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Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
$21.99 Add to cartSome presidents have been larger than life but none of them have been larger than death. Brian Lamb has visited the gravesites of every American president, living and dead, in order to put together th… [more below]
- Author: Lamb, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1586488694
- Language: English
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The Good News about Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever and What to Do about It
$16.99 Add to cartThe current model of parental discipline is as outdated as a rotary phone.
Why don’t our kids do what we want them to do? Parents often take the blame for misbehavior, but this obscures a broader tre- Author: Lewis, Katherine Reynolds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 154177406X
- Language: English
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Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart
$45.50 Read moreIf you can’t trust those in charge, who can you trust? From government to business, banks to media, trust in institutions is at an all-time low. But this isn’t the age of distrust — far from it.
In- Author: Botsman, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1541773675
- Language: English
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Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World
$17.99 Add to cartThe science behind the traits and quirks that drive creative geniuses to make spectacular breakthroughs
What really distinguishes the people who literally change the world — those creative geniuses- Author: Schilling, Melissa A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724534
- Language: English
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We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s
$39.00 Add to cartA brilliant, disturbing portrait of the dawn of the culture wars, when America started to tear itself apart with doubts, wild allegations, and an unfounded fear for the safety of children.
During the- Author: Beck, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 1610392876
- Language: English
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The Holocaust: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartn June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda’s life was spared and her mother … [more below]
- Author: Rees, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1541730070
- Language: English
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Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
$50.67 Add to cartFour Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant.
The search for justice for this one man’s death–his body found in broad daylight,- Author: Hemming, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703189
- Language: English
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We Are as Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
$30.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the 1970s, waves of hopeful idealists abandoned the city and headed for the country, convinced that a better life awaited. They were full of dreams, mostly lacking in practical skills, … [more below]
- Author: Daloz, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1610392256
- Language: English
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The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
$21.99 Add to cartIn this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia’s most feared power bro… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 1610390709
- Language: English
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The Victory Machine: The Making and Unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty
$17.99 Add to cartHow money, guts, and greed built the Warriors dynasty — and then took it apart
The Golden State Warriors dominated the NBA for the better part of a decade. Since the arrival of owner Joe Lacob, they w… [more below]- Author: Strauss, Ethan Sherwood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1541736222
- Language: English
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When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle
$36.00 Add to cartThe inside story of the clash of two of Wall Street’s biggest, richest, toughest, most aggressive players — Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman — and Herbalife, the company caught in the middle
With their b- Author: Wapner, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1610398270
- Language: English
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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In the very near future, “smart” technologies and “big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and ever- Author: Morozov, Evgeny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393708
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartIn the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That is a well-known period in history, when titans like Andrew… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Charles R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393570
- Language: English
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What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11
$16.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the Netflix film ‘Worth, ‘ starring Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan: the true story of the man put in charge of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and a testament to th… [more below]
- Author: Feinberg, Kenneth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 1586484516
- Language: English
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American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
$17.99 Add to cartA comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic — devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
The opioid epidemic has been described as “one of the greatest mistakes of moder- Author: McGreal, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1541742753
- Language: English
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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
$19.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?
Western exceptionalism–the idea that E- Author: Bueno de Mesquita, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541774396
- Language: English
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The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America’s Game
$19.99 Add to cartChris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life’s savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor wou… [more below]
- Author: Achorn, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393775
- Language: English
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Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
$18.99 Add to cartBy the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have inte… [more below]
- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393198
- Language: English
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.
Muhammad Yu- Author: Yunus, Muhammad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 16 2003
- ISBN10: 1586481983
- Language: English
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All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
$21.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a real House of Cards(Lev Lurie).
All th- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1568588178
- Language: English
