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Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
$16.95 Add to cartIn this startling study of human emotion, Dacher Keltner investigates an unanswered question of human evolution: If humans are hardwired to lead lives that are “nasty, brutish, and short,” why have we… [more below]
- Author: Keltner, Dacher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337138
- Language: English
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The Bears Ears: A Human History of America’s Most Endangered Wilderness
$18.95 Add to cartThe Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by the Trump administration in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 132403596X
- Language: English
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Making Shapely Fiction
$16.95 Add to cartHere is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page–whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see … [more below]
- Author: Stern, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 17 2000
- ISBN10: 039332124X
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Masses
$15.95 Read moreSocial upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jos Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega’s vision of Wes… [more below]
- Author: Ortega Y. Gasset, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 17 1994
- ISBN10: 0393310957
- Language: English
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Oak: The Frame of Civilization
$17.99 Add to cartProfessional arborist and award-winning nature writer William Bryant Logan deftly relates the delightful history of the reciprocal relationship between humans and oak trees since time immemorial. For
- Author: Logan, William Bryant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327787
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$18.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021950
- Language: English
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Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You
$18.95 Read moreUber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when they launched. Today they are industry leaders. What’s the secret to their success?
These cutting-edge businesse
- Author: Parker, Geoffrey G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354350
- Language: English
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
$16.95 Add to cartIn May 1830, the United States launched an unprecedented campaign to expel 80,000 Native Americans from their eastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River. In a firestorm of fraud an
- Author: Saunt, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0393541568
- Language: English
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
$21.99 Add to cartOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest popul
- Author: Van Reybrouck, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110449
- Language: English
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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor tha
- Author: King, Michelle T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110481
- Language: English
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Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic
$29.99 Add to cartOne of Rome’s most powerful women, Clodia has been maligned over two thousand years as a promiscuous, husband-murdering harlot–thanks to her starring role in one of Cicero’s most famous speeches in t
- Author: Boin, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035676
- Language: English
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Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
$31.99 Add to cartFor close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang–“a gifted observer of contemporary China” (Ross Douthat)–has been living through the country’s astonishing, messy progress. China’s towering bridge
- Author: Wang, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1324106034
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
$29.99 Add to cartBest-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulou
- Author: Pears, Iain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324073772
- Language: English
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine
$19.99 Add to cartMusic is one of humanity’s oldest medicines. From the Far East to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and the pre-colonial Americas, many cultures have developed their own rich traditions for using s
- Author: Levitin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110589
- Language: English
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Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
$18.99 Add to cartIn Stories Are Weapons, best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats–the essential tool kit for psychological warfare–have evolved from military
- Author: Newitz, Annalee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110465
- Language: English
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Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong about Gender Equality?and Why Men Still Win at Work
$29.99 Add to cartWork remains much as it always has: men occupy the vast majority of leadership roles and are overrepresented in positions from engineer to plumber. We see many jobs as “male” or “female,” with women d
- Author: Fine, Cordelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064749
- Language: English
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The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered Harold and Thelma Swain, two pillars of the area’s Black community. The killer vanished into the night. For fifteen years,
- Author: Sharpe, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020717
- Language: English
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Sabzi: Vibrant Vegetarian Recipes
$35.00 Add to cartLifting its name from the Persian word for “herbs,” Sabzi is a collection of more than 80 accessible, plant-forward recipes that celebrate the best of Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and South Asian fl
- Author: Khan, Yasmin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064668
- Language: English
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Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
$29.99 Add to cartEvery eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant’s-worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt our poles, poison our bodies, and drive our global inequality. And
- Author: McKibben, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1324106239
- Language: English
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Literary Studies: A Norton Guide
$21.96 Read moreLiterary Studies provides students with an accessible overview of everything they need to know to succeed in their English courses–literary terms, historical periods, theoretical approaches, and more… [more below]
- Author: Habib, M. A. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 039393795X
- Language: English
