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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
$39.99 Add to cartAs recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire.” I
- Author: Dalrymple, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123788
- Language: English
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The Cradle of Citizenship: How Schools Can Help Save Our Democracy
$32.99 Add to cartAmerica’s Founders placed great confidence in schools, which they believed would teach young people to understand our political system and to engage in reasoned political debate as adults. Yet today,
- Author: Traub, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324079517
- Language: English
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Carthage: A New History
$39.99 Add to cartFor six hundred years, the city of Carthage dominated the western Mediterranean. Founded in the ninth century BCE as a small colonial outpost, by the third, it had grown into the area’s largest, riche
- Author: MacDonald, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123273
- Language: English
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The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
$19.99 Add to cartWe embraced the mediated life–from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse–because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp t
- Author: Rosen, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116773
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
$19.99 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111275
- Language: English
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Evelyn in Transit
$29.99 Add to cartRadically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She’s easily bored, unsuited to life at school, asks odd questions
- Author: Guterson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324111054
- Language: English
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartPopulist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk–the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most r
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105828
- Language: English
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Moby-Dick (the Norton Library)
$23.25 Read morePart of the Norton Library series
The Norton Library edition of Moby-Dick features the text of the first U.S. edition. An introduction by Jeffrey Insko celebrates the novel as a love letter to langu
- Series: Norton Library (Paperback)
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0393870790
- Language: English
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The Book of Women’s Friendship
$35.00 Add to cartAs Marilynne Robinson writes in her 1980 novel, Housekeeping, “Having a sister or friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house.” Bringing together work by more than 100 writers, The Book of Wome
- Author: Cooke, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111135
- Language: English
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From Ear to Ear: A Pianist’s Love Affair with Song
$29.99 Add to cartWhile other kids were enjoying the head-bashing pleasures of tackle football, a freshly bar mitzvahed Steven Blier was inhaling operas and getting his first taste of accompanying professional singers.
- Author: Blier, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324005483
- Language: English
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Cord Swell: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartHow can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and the living? In her debut volume, brittny ray crowell sifts through decades of obituaries, journals, and
- Author: Crowell, Brittny Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111151
- Language: English
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The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
$23.99 Add to cartWriting in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was “incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the comb
- Author: Lloyd, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116811
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems
$25.99 Add to cartThe early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life’s meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of… [more below]
- Author: Kunitz, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393322947
- Language: English
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The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood
$29.99 Add to cartThe story begins with the abandonment of the newborn Agata Smeralda on February 5, 1445, in Florence’s Hospital of the Innocents, the first–but certainly not the last–child to be left at its doors.
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065788
- Language: English
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Hindsight: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartHindsight arises from a tormented time in our country’s history. Some poems contemplate the shocks of the COVID-19 assault. Others consider our nation, which is torn to pieces politically. The poems
- Author: Warren, Rosanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116951
- Language: English
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The Sun Also Rises: A Norton Critical Edition
$26.63 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
The text of Ernest Hemingway’s best-known novel.
Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Michael Thurston.
A rich selection of background and contextual mater… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: January 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0393656004
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: A Norton Critical Edition
$25.50 Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1925 first American edition text of the novel.
- A full introduction, a note on the text, and explanatory annotations by David J. Alworth.
- An unusually rich
- Series: Norton Critical Editions #0
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393656594
- Language: English
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Medea
$8.14 Add to cartAbout Sheila Murnaghan’s translation
“A terrific new translation–Murnaghan’s Medea is both terrifying and sympathetic, an emotionally complex portrayal that leaves the reader no simple answers.”
–K
- Series: Norton Library (Paperback) #0
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0393870847
- Language: English
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The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
$18.99 Add to cartImagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.
In this propulsive and eminently read
- Author: Brettschneider, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110880
- Language: English
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Inventing Human Rights: A History
$16.95 Add to cartHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and i… [more below]
- Author: Hunt, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331997
- Language: English
