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Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
$40.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan
“[A] definitive new 20th-century thematic history- Author: Chatterji, Joya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300272685
- Language: English
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The Enigma of the Owl: An Illustrated Natural History
$40.00 Add to cartA rare invitation into the mysterious lives of owls around the world, with spectacularly revealing photographs and fascinating details
“This book is sure to delight any nature lover.”–Wall Street Jou- Author: Unwin, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0300222734
- Language: English
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The World of the Crusades
$24.00 Read moreA lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, b- Author: Tyerman, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274211
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Long Island Sound: Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife
$30.00 Read moreA lavishly illustrated and long-overdue guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its coastlines, a region beloved by millions of people
Long Island Sound consists of a diverse c- Author: Lynch, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0300220359
- Language: English
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Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court–And How We Can Fix It
$30.00 Add to cartHow to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies
The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely critic- Author: Tang, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300264038
- Language: English
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What the Greeks Did for Us
$30.00 Read moreAn enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like- Author: Spawforth, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 030025802X
- Language: English
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For Now
$10.95 Add to cartIn this third Why I Write volume, Eileen Myles addresses the social, political, and aesthetic conditions that shape their work
“A sharply etched, unvarnished self-portrait.”–Kirkus Reviews “[Myles] h- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Myles, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261411
- Language: English
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Nudge
$28.00 Read moreAn updated and refreshed edition of the groundbreaking book that shows how people can be nudged toward decisions that will improve their lives
“If you’ve read Nudge and think you fully grasp the conce- Author: Thaler, Richard H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0300262280
- Language: English
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Water for All: Global Solutions for a Changing Climate
$30.00 Read moreA fresh look at the world’s water crises, and the existing and emerging solutions that can be used to solve them
- Author: Sedlak, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0300256930
- Language: English
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Not in My Backyard: How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs
$35.00 Read moreHow a woman-led citizens’ group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unchecked economic development
This social history of- Author: Balogh, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253788
- Language: English
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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the ethicist the New Yorker calls “the most influential living philosopher,” a new way of thinking about living ethically
“Singer’s argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0300219865
- Language: English
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Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
$18.00 Add to cartA newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid’s best-sellin- Author: Reid, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0300224656
- Language: English
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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
$26.00 Read moreAn intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist
“Concise and compelling.”–Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal Amos Oz (1939-2018) was o- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Alter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250177
- Language: English
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The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After the Americans Left
$26.00 Read moreThe first account of the new Taliban–showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors
A Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Book of 2023 Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the- Author: Abbas, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267886
- Language: English
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The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On Liberal as an Adjective
$30.00 Read moreA testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era
“Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky shoals. In his preface, he writes that t- Author: Walzer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267231
- Language: English
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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
$75.00 Add to cartA dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America
In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making- Author: Molesworth, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0300211910
- Language: English
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The Orphanage
$18.00 Add to cartA devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine
Chosen as one of “Six Books to Read for Context on Ukraine” by the New York Times Selected by Publishers W- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Zhadan, Serhiy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0300243014
- Language: English
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
$23.95 Read moreNamed 2006 Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com
“An authoritative and exciting portrait not only of Caesar but of the complex society in which he lived.”–Steven Coates, New York Times Book Review “The- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0300126891
- Language: English
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Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper
$45.00 Add to cartA revelatory exploration of Mark Rothko’s paintings on paper that transforms our understanding of a preeminent twentieth-century artist
“[A] superb catalogue.”–Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts- Author: Greenhalgh, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266472
- Language: English
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Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Rom… [more below]
- Author: Goldsworthy, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0300216661
- Language: English
