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Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life
$29.99 Add to cartHello, and welcome to Planet Money! Millions of listeners trust the world’s leading economics podcast to explain the mysterious inner workings of the global economy and the forces that affect nearly e
- Author: Mayyasi, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1324078774
- Language: English
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The Cry for Myth
$24.99 Add to cartIt happens almost daily in a therapist’s office. A patient, recalling a person, an event, an emotion, quite unexpectedly supplies a link from a life in the present to one of the durable myths of our c
- Author: May, Rollo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: June 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0393331776
- Language: English
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The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
$33.99 Add to cartToday, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism–it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the w
- Author: Jackson, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106875
- Language: English
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Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123419
- Language: English
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Son of Nobody
$29.99 Add to cartThe Psoad is an Ancient Greek epic in free verse that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight with the Greeks at Troy. This commoner’s story was lost to time
- Author: Martel, Yann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 132411813X
- Language: English
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See One, Do One, Teach One: The Art of Becoming a Doctor: A Graphic Memoir
$31.99 Add to cartNow a celebrated cartoonist and practicing physician, in 2004 Grace Farris began med school with visions of ER and Scrubs. Across cadaver labs, operating rooms, and lecture halls, she embarked on the
- Author: Farris, Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324079010
- Language: English
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Heart of American Darkness: A Story of Murder and Revolution on the Early Frontier
$21.99 Add to cartWe are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brou
- Author: Parkinson, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123400
- Language: English
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A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
$38.99 Add to cartIt is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 Union and Confederate troops who were captured and imp
- Author: Brundage, W. Fitzhugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0393541096
- Language: English
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The Silent Period
$21.99 Add to cartCristina Martino is twenty-eight and adrift. Underemployed at a university library in Turin, Italy, she still lives at home with her parents, in the shadow of her successful, married elder sister, Ele
- Author: Manfredi, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106093
- Language: English
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Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025
$33.99 Add to cartOnly Native Americans have held the political identity of being citizens of nations within a nation. After the American Revolution, they had to decide whether gaining United States citizenship would h
- Author: Rosier, Paul C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105879
- Language: English
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Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare
$31.99 Add to cartIn 2017, a small crew gathered in a windowless Pentagon room to put AI at the heart of how America makes war. Led by a Marine Corps colonel haunted by the deaths of US troops and prospect of AI-enhanc
- Author: Manson, Katrina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123311
- Language: English
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The Why Is Everything: A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Kyle Shanahan became the NFL’s youngest offensive coordinator in 2008, he had one prevailing rule: Tell me the why. If a colleague couldn’t justify his position by providing the unassailable reas
- Author: Silver, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 132411682X
- Language: English
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Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America
$32.99 Add to cartIn 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear–bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and given button eyes with a sad, longing expression–in the back room of their Brooklyn candy
- Author: Kimmel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105283
- Language: English
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The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History
$24.00 Add to cartWhy has the racial wealth gap between the median white households and median Black households remained stagnant over the past century, never narrowing below six to one? Leading expert on race and fina
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0393881822
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
$35.99 Add to cartOver the last few decades, and especially in the last ten years, our understanding of slavery has been transformed by the work of many talented scholars. We have learned a great deal about the actions
- Author: Rood, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1631498371
- Language: English
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Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
$31.99 Add to cartMore than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth’s surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea l
- Author: Tracey, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089024
- Language: English
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Black Evidence: A History and a Warning
$31.99 Add to cartFrom Reconstruction to Redemption, from the enactment of landmark civil rights legislation to the execution of the Southern strategy, from 2020’s multiracial protests to the swift elimination of polic
- Author: Smith, Candis Watts
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036273
- Language: English
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City
$31.99 Add to cartNurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was onc
- Author: Brown, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105836
- Language: English
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Transit: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartWe are all human and nonhuman on the move. The poems in Transit emerge from just such a walk through the world. In keenly observed verse, David Baker carries us across physical and emotional geographi
- Author: Baker, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1324117478
- Language: English
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Midwinter Break
$15.95 Add to cartWith Midwinter Break, a moving portrait of retired couple Gerry and Stella Gilmore’s marriage in crisis, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. T
- Author: MacLaverty, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 039335623X
- Language: English
