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Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
$19.99 Read moreIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. A
- Author: Sheffer, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357791
- Language: English
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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
$29.95 Read moreJust like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experi
- Author: Hartnell, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1324002166
- Language: English
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
$18.95 Add to cartHailed as the definitive book on Uber and Silicon Valley, Super Pumped is an epic story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and finan
- Author: Isaac, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358615
- Language: English
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A Man at Arms
$27.95 Read moreJerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter fr
- Author: Pressfield, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0393540979
- Language: English
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
$17.95 Read moreThe long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s b
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020199
- Language: English
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans
$18.95 Read moreSeashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.
In The Sound of the Sea, accla
- Author: Barnett, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022078
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
$17.95 Read moreThe most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, accla
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356264
- Language: English
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Disorder in the Court: Great Fractured Moments in Courtroom History
$14.95 Read moreSit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy.
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- Author: Sevilla, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319288
- Language: English
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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
$20.00 Read morePaul Preston is the world’s foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisc… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329879
- Language: English
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A History of Opera
$24.95 Read moreWhy has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their “effervescent, witty” (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of ope… [more below]
- Author: Abbate, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 08 2015
- ISBN10: 0393348954
- Language: English
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The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America’s Favorite Planet
$16.99 Read moreWhen the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History reclassified Pluto as an icy comet, the New York Times proclaimed on page one, “Pluto Not a Planet? Only in New York…. [more below]
- Author: Degrasse Tyson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0393350363
- Language: English
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Miss Jane
$15.95 Add to cartSince his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as
- Author: Watson, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354385
- Language: English
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An Ordinary Life: Poems
$26.95 Read moreIn this stirring volume, award-winning poet B. H. Fairchild seeks the ironic, haunting presence imbuing each ordinary life with beauty, power, and meaning. By turns polyphonic and deeply personal, the
- Author: Fairchild, B. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036850
- Language: English
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Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome
$17.95 Read moreStigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent “barbarians” who destroyed “civilization,” at least in the conventional story of Rome’s collapse. But a slight shift o
- Author: Boin, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 039386751X
- Language: English
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The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary
$21.99 Read moreHere in Robert Alter’s bold new translation are some of the most magnificent works in world literature. The astounding poetry in the Book of Job is restored to its powerful ancient meanings and rhythm… [more below]
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2011
- ISBN10: 393340538
- Language: English
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The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body
$17.95 Read moreWhat happens during a heart attack? Can someone really die of fright? What is death, anyway? How does electroshock treatment affect the brain? What is consciousness? The answers to these questions lie
- Author: Ashcroft, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2013
- ISBN10: 039334679X
- Language: English
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The Envious Siblings: And Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes
$20.00 Read moreInspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief, rhyming vignet
- Author: Blair, Landis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0393651622
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
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Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
$33.99 Add to cartThe half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling w
- Author: Masur, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021845
- Language: English
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Nobody: A Hymn to the Sea
$15.95 Read moreIn Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey–a
- Author: Oswald, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021780
- Language: English
