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The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets
$18.99 Add to cartFor over half a century, DNA has dominated science and the popular imagination as the “secret of life.” But over the last several decades, a quiet revolution has taken place. In a series of breathtaki
- Author: Cech, Thomas R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110872
- Language: English
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
$19.99 Add to cartCopyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battle
- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105097
- Language: English
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
$19.99 Add to cartEuropeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid an
- Author: Bale, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324106980
- Language: English
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Tits Up: The Top Half of Women’s Liberation
$19.99 Add to cartAfter years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And ga
- Author: Thornton, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110414
- Language: English
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Girl, 1983
$29.99 Add to cart“By writing down what happened, by telling the story . . . I’m trying to bring them together into one body–the woman from 2021 and the girl from 1983. I don’t know if it can be done.”
Paris, a winte
- Author: Ullmann, Linn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324066350
- Language: English
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Phantom Orbit: A Thriller
$18.99 Add to cartDavid Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes
- Author: Ignatius, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110511
- Language: English
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This Here Is Love
$29.99 Add to cartAs the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America’s character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom.
Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, st
- Author: Perry, Princess Joy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105976
- Language: English
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The Stolen Child
$17.99 Add to cartFor decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he’d befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands–and disapp
- Author: Hood, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110392
- Language: English
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Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History
$31.99 Read moreThousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.
What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and
- Author: Al-Rashid, Moudhy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036427
- Language: English
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Frankenstein: A Norton Critical Edition
$19.86 Read more“Because I’m teaching an intro-level course in comparative literature, this edition was extremely helpful in showing the variety of critical approaches that they can take toward a single text. The art… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Shelley, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393644022
- Language: English
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
$21.99 Add to cartWhether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015)–underground actress, porn star, producer of adult
- Author: Kamensky, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105380
- Language: English
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Strata: Stories from Deep Time
$29.99 Add to cartThe epic stories of our planet’s 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata–ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this bril
- Author: Poppick, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1324021608
- Language: English
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Illiberal America: A History
$21.99 Add to cartA storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob vio
- Author: Hahn, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110503
- Language: English
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The Steppenwolf
$16.99 Add to cartThe quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller–better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious Hermine and becomes capt
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105992
- Language: English
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The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS
$31.99 Add to cartMichael Hardwick had no idea that when a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, he would become a face of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right
- Author: Padgett, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324035412
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance: The Genius of Early Photography and How It Transformed Art, Science, and History
$35.00 Add to cartToday it’s routine to take photos from an airplane window, use a camera underwater, or watch a movie or view an X-ray. But the photographic innovations more than a century ago that made such things po
- Author: Burgess, Anika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051108
- Language: English
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Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji
$19.99 Add to cartWe are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, K
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324075147
- Language: English
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
$27.99 Add to cartNearly forty years after the official end of the Vietnam War, Dear America allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in Vietnam. In this collection of mor… [more below]
- Author: Edelman, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323048
- Language: English
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The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000
- Author: Houston, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086351
- Language: English
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The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815?1945
$49.99 Add to cartAcross two acclaimed volumes, preeminent naval historian N. A. M. Rodger has traced the progress of naval warfare in Britain from the seventh century through to Trafalgar, combining decades of scholar
- Author: Rodger, N. A. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 393292223
- Language: English
