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Author: Jeremy PopkinPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Oct 26, 2021Number of Pages: 640 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1541620178ISBN-13: 9781541620179

In September 1914, a month after the outbreak of the First World War, two British doctors, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson, set out for Paris. There, they built a makeshift hospital in...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - A "sensitive, immersive, and exhaustive" portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston, from "a gifted practitioner of...

We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally...

Founded in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was initially perceived as a movement of polygamous, radical zealots; now in parts of the U.S. it has become synonymous with the...

*A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick* An "ambitious work" (Washington Post) tracing the links between autism and ingenuity Is the ability to invent things unique to humans? In The Pattern Seekers,...

Franklin D. Roosevelt famously called December 7, 1941, ?a date which will live in infamy.? History would prove him correct; the events of that day?when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor?ended the...

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a loving husband and father, an enthusiastic teacher, a surprisingly accomplished bongo player, and a genius of the highest caliber---Richard P. Feynman was all these...

A "brilliant feat of resurrection" (Tom Holland, author of Dominion), offering a stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings...

From a New York Times bestselling historian, the "truly revelatory" (Wall Street Journal) story of how the alphabet ordered our world A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of...

An "exemplary" (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II For Americans, World War II began in December 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor; but for Europe, the war...

Author: Leslie ValiantPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Nov 14, 2014Number of Pages: 207 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0465060722ISBN-13: 9780465060726

In 1959, the doctor who supervised NASA's astronaut selection concluded that women might fare better in space than men. His testing of 25 top female pilots for reactions to isolation, centrifuge, and...

From a prize-winning Harvard legal scholar, "a damning portrait" (New York Review of Books) of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as criminals Punishment Without Crime...

Author: Leonard Susskind, Art FriedmanPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: May 12, 2015Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0465062903ISBN-13: 9780465062904

Rain Of Iron And Ice: The Very Real Threat Of Comet And Asteroid Bombardment (Helix Books)Author: John S. LewisPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Apr 25, 1997Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage:...

Beneath the wholesome image of Archer Daniels Midland lie some of the dirtiest practices in American business: price-fixing, bribery, and cover-ups. Unfolding like a legal thriller, Rats in the Grain...

Born in 1905 in the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, Viktor Frankl was a witness to the great political, philosophical, and scientific upheavals of the twentieth century. In these...

The definitive history of the Communist Party USA, revealing how its members contributed to struggles for justice and equality in America even as they championed a brutal, totalitarian state, the...

Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using...

An updated edition for the classic book on escaping the drudgery of overwork and finding excellence and happiness--by doing less Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important...

Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work LessAuthor: Alex Soojung-Kim PangPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Jun 12, 2018Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A...

Saving the Jews is a rigorously researched narrative and interpretive history of how FDR and his administration dealt with the Nazi persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust, 1933-1945. It disputes...

Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of PsychotherapyAuthor: Deborah LuepnitzPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: February 24, 2003Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage:...

A groundbreaking and challenging examination of the social, cognitive, neurological, and biological roots of psychopathy, cruelty, and evil Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism,...

Between the middle of January and the end of March 1912 five men died in the attempt to return from the South Pole to their base on the edge of Antarctica. Their leader, the last to die and the man...

Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with...

It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among students and professors of physics. From 1961 to 1963, Feynman delivered a series of...

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein??º??s Relativity, Symmetry, And Space-TimeAuthor: Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew SandsPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Mar 22, 2011Number of...