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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than...

A "gripping and poignant" (Wall Street Journal) account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico The Underground Railroad to the North...

Author: Leonard Susskind, Art FriedmanPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: May 07, 2019Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1541674065ISBN-13: 9781541674066

An astronomer "who writes like a poet" (Wall Street Journal) gives a sweeping, "beautifully written" (Nature) inquiry into how the night sky has shaped human history For as long as humans have...

A "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning--and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Scopes Trial and the battle over evolution and creation in America's schools In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the...

A "brilliantly researched and surprising" (Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University) history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the century-long fight to restore...

Prison scandals, terrorism, corporate fraud, election rigging -- most likely you have heard something of the sort in the last ten minutes. But what is truth and what is part of the great "washout" of...

From "a captivating storyteller" (Wall Street Journal), the natural history of humankind told through our long relationship with birds For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds...

Embodying the entire system of Robert Henri's teaching, The Art Spirit contains much valuable advice, critical comment, and inspiration to every student of the arts.Author: Robert HenriPublisher:...

Thart Ofar - 9780813319513Author: Sunzi, Tzu SunPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Feb 11, 1994Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 081331951XISBN-13:...

A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in hand The...

Growth unleashes benefits beyond the economic. It revitalizes organizations and invigorates the people in them, creating energy, a sense of purpose, and the glow of being on a winning team. Like the...

The long history of one of physics' most enticing ideas: that the universe we know isn't the only one Our books, our movies--our imaginations--are obsessed with extra dimensions, alternate timelines,...

The Anarchist In The Library: How The Clash Between Freedom And Control Is Hacking The Real World And Crashing The SystemAuthor: Siva VaidhyanathanPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: May 01,...

How rhetoric--the art of persuasion--can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for...

How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of...

The "important and comprehensive" (New Yorker) guide to statistical thinking The age of big data has made statistical literacy more important than ever. In The Art of Statistics, David Spiegelhalter...

Master the style guidelines of news writing, editing, and common usage with this indispensable guide perfect for students and professional writers everywhere. The style of The Associated Press is the...

The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, a Mexican American Green Beret from a working-class family with deep roots in Texas, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history...

The Baptizing of America: Politics, Piety, and the Coming Theocracy exposes the systematic campaign by Christian fundamentalists to co-opt and take over every "room" of American society from the...

The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered . . . the development of San Francisco's underworld in...

The Believer relates the disturbing and provocative story of a Jewish skinhead from Brooklyn. Screenwriter Henry Bean (Internal Affairs, Deep Cover) was inspired by an actual case to write an...

A global history of the world's best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book authored by God for humanity. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible...

A must-read for anyone interested in military might--and how it can help us maintain the edge we need in this treacherous age. --Walter Russell Mead, Wall Street Journal In The Big Stick, Eliot A...

Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts, investigative journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of...

A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same...

How the study of causality revolutionized science and the world Cause and effect: it's at the center of scientific inquiry, and yet for decades scientists had no way of answering simple questions,...

The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them Books tell all kinds of stories--romances, tragedies, comedies--but if we learn to read the signs correctly,...

Author: Bruce D. PerryPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: August 29, 2017Number of Pages: 448 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0465094457ISBN-13: 9780465094455