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Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense fight with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence. But today's conflict is only the latest in a long history of battles over...

An acclaimed natural history writer follows the trail of the remarkable hummingbird all over the world. Hummingbirds are a glittering, sparkling collective of over three hundred wildly variable...

One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights that has come from...

A "monumental, sweeping" (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and...

A feat of both scholarship and storytelling (Wall Street Journal)--the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic...

The bestselling author of The Righteous Mind draws on philosophical wisdom and scientific research to show how the meaningful life is closer than you think The Happiness Hypothesis is a book about...

What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics William Shakespeare understood power: what it is, how it works, how it is gained, and how it is lost. In The Hollow Crown, Eliot A...

It's a story that has never been told -- until now. Imagine being sealed into a closed environment for two years -- cut off from the outside world with only seven other people -- enduring...

Author: Arthur KleinmanPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Oct 13, 2020Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1541647122ISBN-13: 9781541647121

A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024 A Financial Times Best Book of 2024 A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024 A "beautifully composed and...

The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive TextAuthor: Sigmund FreudPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: February 23, 2010Number of Pages: 688 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and...

This book is an essential exploration into the history of a legendary group of Crusaders, which are prominently featured in Dan Brown's recent best seller, The Da Vinci Code. The Knights Templar rose...

A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today The invention of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors...

The "superbly entertaining and well-researched" (Financial Times) history of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico--and faced bloody consequences. In the...

"Elegantly written and magisterially researched" (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the...

The epic tale of the five owners who shepherded the NFL through its tumultuous early decades and built the most popular sport in America The National Football League is a towering, distinctly...

An award-winning historian's "searing" (Wall Street Journal) account of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories...

Amiri Baraka - dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer - is one of the preeminent African-American literary figures of our time. The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader provides the most...

The groundbreaking history of how climate change transformed Europe and the world, from a renowned archaeologist -- updated with a new preface on the latest climate research The Little Ice Age tells...

A sociologist explores why "green cities" won't fix everything--and urges us to celebrate urban life as it is Everywhere you look, cities are getting greener. The general assumption is clear: if...

From a leading expert on longevity, a guide to how individuals and society can seize the advantages of living longer lives and avoid the pitfalls of an aging society Thanks to increases in life...

The road that leads from the Mobius strip -- a common-sense-defying continuous loop with only one side and one edge, made famous by the illustrations of M.C. Escher -- goes to some of the strangest...

A New York Times Bestseller "Arthur Benjamin . . . joyfully shows you how to make nature's numbers dance." -Bill Nye The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful...

An adventure story and a love story set in the heart of the Amazonian jungleAuthor: Robert WhitakerPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: March 01, 2016Number of Pages: 368 pagesLanguage:...

Algorithms increasingly run our lives. They find books, movies, jobs, and dates for us, manage our investments, and discover new drugs. More and more, these algorithms work by learning from the...

There are two kinds of math: the hard kind and the easy kind. The easy kind, practiced by ants, shrimp, Welsh corgis -- and us -- is innate. What innate calculating skills do we humans have? Leaving...

An essential new history of Central Europe that "deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past" (Wall Street Journal) Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a...

The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles Of Our TimeAuthor: Keith DevlinPublisher: Basic BooksPublication Date: Oct 16, 2003Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage:...

With its subtle light illuminating the night sky, the Moon has always been an object of fascination, from its phoenixlike cycle of birth and death to its association with the female body and...