Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • The Picnic

    A Rush for Freedom and the Collapse of Communism

    by Matthew Longo ...
    **Winner of the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political WritingA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and Slate"A terrific work of history." —Dan Kois, Slate"A vivid, fast-paced narrative." —Andrew Meier, New York Times Book ReviewThe gripping story of a collective passion for freedom that shook the world.**In August 1989, a group of Hungarian ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Invisible Hand

    Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Human Hand Function

    How the “invisible hand” of the nervous system makes the human hand such an evolutionary success.The hand has a central role in both human evolution and cultural development—in our descent and in our ascent. It is, Immanuel Kant said, “the visible part of the brain.” It is the invisible that concerns Matthew Longo in The Invisible Hand, a wide-ranging, deftly written account of the neural and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Politics of Borders

    Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11

    by Matthew Longo ...
    Series series Problems of International Politics
    Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Picnic

    A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain

    by Matthew Longo ...
    Narrated by Tom Parks ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    In August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic—it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities could be revoked at any moment. On wisps of rumor, thousands of East German "vacationers" packed Hungarian campgrounds, awaiting ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Bodily Awareness

    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Bodily awareness is one of the most interesting and enigmatic forms of experience. Our earliest and most pervasive form of conscious experience, it also arguably remains the most private. Bodily awareness has also long played a central role in the study of the mind and self-consciousness, and is fundamental to much current philosophical and psychological research.The Routledge Handbook of Bodily ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Heroes of Avalon - Book Two: The King's Redemption

    The battle for Avalon was won, but the war for their solar system was just beginning. No one really remembered what exactly happened when the earth split. To most, it was a vague memory or dream. But, to Benji and Moira, it was still a nightmare. They were the only ones who remembered every detail. Now, a strange mystery has fallen on their shoulders, one which sends them all over the world ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Life on a Little-Known Planet

    Dispatches from a Changing World

    A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural worldA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Human Use of Human Beings

    Cybernetics and Society

    For the 75th anniversary, a new edition of The Human Use of Human Beings—the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many contemporary dilemmas surrounding AI technology. With a new introduction by Brian Christian, author of the bestselling Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem.In 1950, mathematician-philosopher Norbert ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Wandering Mind

    What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

    by Jamie Kreiner ...
    A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge—and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later.The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasize about escaping our screens. We dream of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blank Space

    A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

    by W. David Marx ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A People Best Book of November 2025 · An NPR Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2025A revealing exploration of a quarter century of cultural stagnation, examining the commercial and technological forces that have come to dominate contemporary culture—from music and fashion to art, film, TV, and beyond* ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940–1945

    The Second Volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous defeat.In The Hitler Years: Disaster 1940-1945, Frank McDonough completes his brilliant two-volume history of Germany under Hitler's Third Reich.At the beginning of 1940, Germany was at the pinnacle of its power. By May 1945, Hitler was dead and Germany had suffered a ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Good Arguments

    How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard

    by Bo Seo ...
    **“The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter—and everyone around you wiser.” —Adam GrantTwo-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion**When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD