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The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain: 660-1649
$40.99 Add to cartThroughout the chronicle of Britain’s history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of kings, the security of trade, and the integrity of the realm. Without its navy, Britain would have… [more below]
- Author: Rodger, N. A. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319601
- Language: English
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Suicide in America (New and Expanded)
$24.99 Add to cartIn this new edition of his acclaimed work, Dr. Herbert Hendin casts new light on the problem of suicide, offering what he calls a “psychosocial perspective.” Demonstrating that treatment of seriously
- Author: Hendin, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: February 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0393313689
- Language: English
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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch,
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 393881164
- Language: English
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Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
$35.00 Add to cartSocrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant
- Author: Callard, Agnes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1631498460
- Language: English
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Take My Name But Say It Slow: Essays
$28.99 Add to cartThomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his mother called home. Seen another way, Nuocheng also
- Author: Dai, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324066377
- Language: English
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Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information,
- Author: Carr, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1324064617
- Language: English
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The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
$29.99 Add to cartWe often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global populat
- Author: Brands, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 132403694X
- Language: English
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Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
$29.99 Add to cartIn the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman’s Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad f
- Author: Edwards, Justene Hill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073853
- Language: English
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Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
$29.99 Add to cartLong before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to P
- Author: Dwork, Deb?rah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020342
- Language: English
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How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster
$18.99 Add to cartAcid rainstorms have transformed New York City into a toxic wasteland, cutting its remaining citizens off from one another. In one apartment building, an unlikely family of humans and ghosts survives.
- Author: Leung, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076186
- Language: English
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Alexandra Petri’s Us History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
$18.99 Read moreAs a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn’t learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat histor
- Author: Petri, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074760
- Language: English
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Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartAlbertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and t
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 132408622X
- Language: English
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days
$32.50 Add to cartGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a “universal genius” who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (indepen
- Author: Kempe, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093943
- Language: English
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From One Cell: A Journey Into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine
$17.99 Read moreEach of us began life as a single cell. From this humble origin, we embarked on a risky journey fraught with opportunities for disaster. Yet, amazingly, we reached our destination intact, emerging as
- Author: Stanger, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076046
- Language: English
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The Widow’s Crayon Box: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartAfter her husband’s death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems–joyful, furio
- Author: Peacock, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079436
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems
$27.99 Add to cartOpening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrati
- Author: Hahn, Kimiko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086068
- Language: English
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Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
$18.99 Add to cartSome of humanity’s mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale–and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural enginee
- Author: Agrawal, Roma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086386
- Language: English
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Meat Pies: An Emerging American Craft
$39.99 Add to cartWhen it comes to American cooking, no chef-writer duo is more revered than Chef Brian Polcyn and Michael Ruhlman. In their new cookbook, Meat Pies, they cover the fundamentals of meat, seafood, and ve
- Author: Polcyn, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0393541711
- Language: English
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Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods
$19.99 Add to cartApples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States’ “most endangered food.” The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at “critical” risk for extinction. Unique date palms, fou
- Author: Lohman, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086335
- Language: English
