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  • Finding Florida

    The True History of the Sunshine State

    by T. D. Allman ...
    A National Book Award Nominee and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year.Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, “God’s waiting room,” and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today it’s home to nineteen million. The site of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In France Profound

    The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People

    by T.D. Allman ...
    From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in an ancient town in “Deep France,” from nearby prehistoric caves to medieval dynastic struggles to the colorful characters populating the area todayWhen T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Miami, Revised Edition

    City of the Future

    by T. D. Allman ...
    With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami's people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. In doing so he lays out a portrait of the profound changes overtaking American life everywhere. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition remains a classic guide to a city teeming with money, exotic cargo, illegal drugs, and immigrants from all corners of the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • History in the Making

    An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years

    by Kyle Ward ...
    The popular, "thought-provoking study" that explores how contemporary prejudices change the way each generation looks at the nation's past ( Library Journal).Historian Kyle Ward, the acclaimed co-author of History Lessons, offers another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we think about, write about, and teach our own history. Juxtaposing passages from US history textbooks of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dwelling Place

    A Plantation Epic

    Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "[A] beautifully conceived and penetrating book . . . one of the finest studies of American slavery ever written."— The New RepublicPublished some thirty years ago, Robert Manson Myers's Children of Pride: The True Story of Georgia and the Civil War won the National Book Award in history and went on to become a classic reference on America's slaveholding South. That ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nations Apart

    How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America

    by Colin Woodard ...
    **"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard’s] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." —Garry Kasparov"A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot button issues of contemporary America and the action we can take to bridge our cultural divisions and save the republic." —The Next Big Idea Club“A lucid exercise in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Who Owns This Sentence?

    A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

    **A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely." —Louis Menand, The New YorkerA fascinating and original history of an idea that now controls and monetizes almost everything we do.**Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs ... Read more

    $19.89 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

  • 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

    $13.99 USD

  • Eight Bears

    Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

    by Gloria Dickie ...
    **Shortlisted for the Banff Centre Mountain Book AwardsNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Economist, and Science News • A Scientific American Staff Favorite"Vivid and engrossing.…[A] celebration of beardom." —Richard Adams Carey, Wall Street JournalA global exploration of the eight remaining species of bears—and the dangers they face.**Bears have always held a central place in our ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • By Hands Now Known

    Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the Hillman Prize for Book JournalismFinalist for the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and the Chicago Public Library • One of NPR's "Books We Love" for 2022A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Living on Earth

    Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

    One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The 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 on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years ... Read more

    $12.99 USD