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12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Farm Administration files compiled during the Great...

A tumultuous stock market, a media obsessed with celebrity and scandal, a time new technologies were rocking society: the 1920s bear more than a little semblance to today, and 1927 is a snapshot of...

A Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches. In his latest and...

The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it...

A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and...

Describes the odyssey of an Alaskan adventurer by canoe down the Yukon River to Circle City, Alaska, chronicling his expedition into the history of the region, his encounters with the colorful...

The first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West Overlapping with and overshadowed...

An arresting vision of this relentless natural world (New York Times) by a leading ecologist, who urges us to heed nature's iron laws Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which...

Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal...

A gripping read on the nature of human, machine, and extraterrestrial intelligence --Financial Times For all of neuroscience's advances, the field has made little progress on its biggest question:...

The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such...

A top astronomer reveals why his field depends on luck If you learn about the scientific method, you learn that first we hypothesize about something we've experienced, and then we look for more of it...

How many people do you need in a room before there'll be a birthday in common? Why is 70 weird, and what can we do about it? How can 56 people eat 1 pizza? In 100 bite-size chapters of no more than...

From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's Fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The Tortoise and the...

A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" (Smithsonian) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History...

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts...

This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to build a more inclusive society." (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an...

The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca   Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A "lively, fast-paced history" (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America's anarchist movement and the government's tireless...

A top conservative scholar reveals the Constitution's remarkable power to repair our broken civic culture, rescue our malfunctioning politics, and unify a fractious America Common ground is hard to...

A "fun" and "unexpected" (The Economist) global tour of the world's greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in...

A "sweeping, delightfully readable" (Wall Street Journal) new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria...

Author: Thor HansonPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Jul 31, 2012Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0465028780ISBN-13: 9780465028788

Author: Irvin D. YalomPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: May 28, 2019Number of Pages: 352 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1541698991ISBN-13: 9781541698994

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany (New Republic) In 1990, a country...

Birds of Prey: Boeing vs. Airbus: A Battle for the SkiesAuthor: Matthew LynnPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Apr 14, 1998Number of Pages: 256 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

The first book to bring to life the influential friendship between Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali In 1962, no one believed that the obnoxious Cassius Clay would ever become the heavyweight champion of...

A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.--Financial Times Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands,...

Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in...