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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
TIMOTHY SNYDER · Tim Duggan Books
Format: Paperback
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#1 New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy... |
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Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs
Willie Nelson · William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs, along with a dynamic assortment of never-before-seen photos and ephemera.From his earliest work in the 1950s to today,... |
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We Will Rest!: The Art of Escape (Rest Is Resistance, 2)
Tricia Hersey · Little, Brown Spark
Format: Hardcover
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A beautifully illustrated "modern sacred object" of a book - inspired by vintage hymnals, prayer books, and abolitionist pamphlets - helping readers escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems, by the New York Times bestselling author of Rest Is Resistance Give the gift... |
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Hope: The Autobiography
Pope Francis · Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope have moved him to make this precious legacy available now. Hope is the first autobiography in history ever to be published by a Pope. Written... |
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Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed... |
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson · Graywolf Press
Format: Hardcover
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So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does... |
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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
Peter Godfrey-Smith · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.. If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed... |
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How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense
Robin George Andrews · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping account of the "city-killer" asteroids that could threaten Earth and the race to build a planetary defense system.There are approximately 25,000 "city killer" asteroids in near-Earth orbit - and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they... |
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Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Parts
Helen King · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Never has medical history been more entertaining" (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern age. Breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women... |
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Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
MATT TAIBBI · Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone - plus two original essays - Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western... |
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Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman
Stephen Bruno · Harper
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of books like Waiter Rant, and all those who have always wondered how the other half lives, comes this heartfelt, laugh-out-loud memoir from a New York City doorman with astute ears and a penchant for storytellingAs an academically gifted Latino kid growing up in the Bronx, Stephen... |
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American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond
Jeremy Dauber · Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a highly entertaining book that examines the American obsession with horror - and what it tells us about ourselves. In American Scary, noted cultural historian and Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber takes the reader to the startling... |
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