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Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
$17.95 Read moreOn March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown–but when cor
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0393358151
- Language: English
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Guide to Musical Analysis
$36.99 Add to cartThe text is divided into two parts: part One deals with the most important analytical methods current in the English-speaking world, treating each in turn. They are presented method by method because
- Author: Cook, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0393962555
- Language: English
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds
$16.95 Add to cartOver the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Even as it guides us across town, GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipat
- Author: Milner, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354369
- Language: English
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Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
$15.95 Add to cartThe Butter-Up and Undercut. The Certain Uncertainty. The Straight-Up Fabrication. Dave Levitan dismantles all of these deceptive arguments, and many more, in this probing and hilarious examination of
- Author: Levitan, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 039335332X
- Language: English
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Law and Disorder: Absurdly Funny Moments from the Courts
$14.95 Add to cartCharles M. Sevilla finds comic gems in court transcripts–and now brings readers a delightful, all-new collection. Starting with a chapter on the defendants (one of whom, when asked his marital status
- Author: Sevilla, Charles M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0393349535
- Language: English
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
$22.99 Read moreOver a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun… [more below]
- Author: Dennett, Daniel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0393348784
- Language: English
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Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines
$17.95 Add to cartThe near meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil spill, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that nothing has more im… [more below]
- Author: Muller, Richard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345106
- Language: English
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Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes
$16.95 Add to cartThe burgeoning new science of epigenetics offers a cornucopia of insights–some comforting, some frightening. For example, the male fetus may be especially vulnerable to certain common chemicals in ou… [more below]
- Author: Francis, Richard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 04 2012
- ISBN10: 039334228X
- Language: English
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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
$22.99 Add to cartIn an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, one of our most celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalists awakens us to the world at dawn. Diane Ackerman draws from sour
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338754
- Language: English
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Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
$28.99 Add to cartRelying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, G
- Author: Silver, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334902
- Language: English
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No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality
$25.99 Add to cartWhy do people–even identical twins reared in the same home–differ so much in personality? Armed with an inquiring mind and insights from evolutionary psychology, Judith Rich Harris sets out to solve
- Author: Harris, Judith Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329712
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Human Race
$27.99 Add to cartWhy has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role o… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326454
- Language: English
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
$49.99 Add to cartHailed as “a remarkable achievement” (Boston Globe) and as “a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking…a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book” (Los Angele
- Series: Norton History of Science #0
- Author: Porter, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 872
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319806
- Language: English
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Beethoven: The Music and the Life
$24.95 Add to cartThis brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven’s musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cul… [more below]
- Author: Lockwood, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326381
- Language: English
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The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems, 1987-1992
$15.99 Add to cartThis collection, 39 poems written between 1987 and 1992, is the final volume by “a major American poet whose concerns are international, and whose words have left their mark on many lives,” in the wor… [more below]
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0393311708
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882
$14.95 Read moreCharles Darwin’s Autobiography was first published in 1887, five years after his death. It was a bowdlerized edition: Darwin’s family, attempting to protect his posthumous reputation, had deleted all … [more below]
- Author: Darwin, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0393310698
- Language: English
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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
$34.99 Add to cartCan we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of … [more below]
- Author: Lasch, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0393307956
- Language: English
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
$18.95 Add to cartThe “settling” of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a histor… [more below]
- Author: Limerick, Patricia Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393304973
- Language: English
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Part of My Soul Went with Him
$19.99 Add to cartWinnie Mandela, one of South Africa’s most visible and articulate apartheid foes, spent many years as a “banned” person in her own country. She lived under virtual house arrest and was forbidden to ad… [more below]
- Author: Mandela, Winnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0393302903
- Language: English
