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May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases–And What We Can Do about It
$23.95 Add to cartAdam Grant’s “8 New Idea Books to Start Spring”
Next Big Idea Club’s Must-Read Books for May 2024
“A wonderful litany of the myriad ways in which we can be deceived, and deceive ourselves.”–The Guard- Author: Edmans, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0520405854
- Language: English
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The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
$27.95 Add to cartA poverty expert reveals how truly random the world is–including how economic inequality is experienced–and how we can learn to acknowledge chance and appreciate it.
It’s comforting to think that- Author: Rank, Mark Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0520390962
- Language: English
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Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup
$27.95 Add to cartSet against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.
In 1972 two idealistic young Americans- Author: Dinges, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0520413199
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartA persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements.
Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy, m- Author: Lawson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0520402294
- Language: English
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The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora Volume 8
$24.95 Add to cartThe first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe.
Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Vi- Series: Critical Refugee Studies
- Author: Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0520410351
- Language: English
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Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art
$65.00 Add to cart“A beautifully produced, authoritative volume.”–Kirkus Reviews
Explores Wayne Thiebaud’s career as a self-described “thief” who appropriated and reinterpreted old and new European and American artwo- Author: Burgard, Timothy Anglin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 520418328
- Language: English
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
$27.95 Add to cart“Extraordinarily relevant and meaningful.”–Elee Wood, New York Times
Los Angeles Times, An Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf Essential Book & Latinx Files 2022 Best Books
New York Times, Best Books about Calif- Author: Molina, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0520402324
- Language: English
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Your Brain on Altruism: The Power of Connection and Community During Times of Crisis
$24.95 Add to cartIn an era when “self-care” often revolves around consumption and profit, a health and science journalist emphasizes the genuine health advantages of a culture of caring.
Helping others can enhance ou- Author: Karlis, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0520397606
- Language: English
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Unforgivable: An Abusive Priest and the Church That Sent Him Abroad
$29.95 Add to cartThe first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.
Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops movin- Author: O’Neill, Kevin Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0520409116
- Language: English
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The Neck: A Natural and Cultural History
$26.95 Add to cartA 300-million-year tour of the prominent role of the neck in animal evolution and human culture.
Humans give a lot of attention to the neck. We decorate it with jewelry and ties, kiss it passionately- Author: Dunlap, Kent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0520393031
- Language: English
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Humans: A Monstrous History
$29.95 Add to cartA history of how humans have created monsters out of one another–from our deepest fears–and what these monsters tell us about humanity’s present and future.
Monsters are central to how we think abo- Author: Davies, Surekha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0520388097
- Language: English
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The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present
$29.95 Add to cartThis sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters.
World history began in the Persian Gulf. The anc- Author: Fromherz, Allen James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0520398556
- Language: English
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Cult of the Dead: A Brief History of Christianity
$37.43 Read moreA cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs.
Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyr- Author: Smith, Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 520345169
- Language: English
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Twelve Feminist Lessons of War
$18.95 Add to cartRenowned scholar-activist Cynthia Enloe lays out the lessons that women activists have drawn from their immediate experiences of war.
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War draws on firsthand experiences of w- Author: Enloe, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397673
- Language: English
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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
$24.93 Add to cartIn his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that… [more below]
- Author: Newton, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: February 05 2016
- ISBN10: 520290747
- Language: English
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Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
$31.18 Add to cartThis collection of more than one hundred tribal tales, culled from the oral tradition of the Indians of Washington and Oregon, presents the Indians’ own stories, told for generations around their fire… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Ella E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 520239261
- Language: English
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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
$29.95 Add to cartThe first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.
In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the cris- Author: Hansen, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0520384059
- Language: English
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
$29.95 Add to cartAn invaluable reassessment of what we think we know about the daily lives of women in medieval Europe.
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife charts the lives and times of four medieval women writers–Marie de Fra- Author: Howes, Hetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0520396588
- Language: English
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Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life
$27.95 Add to cartA new way of seeing Black history–the sweeping story of how American cities as we know them developed from the vision, aspirations, and actions of the Black poor.
Building the Black City shows how Af- Author: Trotter, Joe William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0520344413
- Language: English
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The Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present
$34.95 Add to cartJerome Rothenberg’s final anthology–an experiment in omnipoetics with Javier Taboada–reaches into the deepest origins of the Americas, north and south, to redefine America and its poetries
The Serpe- Author: Rothenberg, Jerome
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520303547
- Language: English
