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  • Arabia Felix

    The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767

    Series series NYRB Classics
    Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writing—with 33 drawings and maps.Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 6 men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • France in the World

    A New Global History

    Short essays offer a kaleidoscopic, “provocative history of France” and its place within the world—from its prehistoric frescoes and Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015 (New Yorker).“A major work, exhaustive, controversial and fresh—and entirely relevant to Anglophone readers”—that redefines how we write about national and world history (Guardian).Bringing together an impressive group of ... Read more

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  • Poor Richard's Women

    Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father

    Meet the overlooked women in history who loved, nurtured, and defended the famed American scientist and founding father.“ . . . highlights a side of Ben Franklin too often ignored by historians . . . and provides a necessary reminder that the women who came into his life are as deserving of our attention as Ben himself.” —Carol Berkin, author of Revolutionary MothersEveryone knows Benjamin ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Showman

    Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

    by Simon Shuster ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"Shuster crafts an intimate account of the Russian invasion, which vividly captures Zelensky’s transformation from a clean-cut funnyman into a war hero out of central casting." —New York Times Book Review; Editors' Choice Selection“The Showman surpasses all similar efforts to date and is set to be the standard by which all other works on Mr. Zelensky and U... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Surviving Katyn

    Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

    by Jane Rogoyska ...
    The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnessesWINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZECommitted in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi atrocity, their story ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Goshawk

    by T.H. White ...
    This account of one man’s tempestuous relationship with the hawk he trained is at once a comedy of errors, a classic of nature writing, and one of the best glimpses into the world of falconry.The predecessor to Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk, T. H. White’s nature writing classic, The Goshawk, asks the age-old question: what is it that binds human beings to other animals? White, the author of The ... Read more

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  • Perception

    How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

    A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain.Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver's Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Brazil: A Biography

    A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the presentFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown.In an extraordinary ... Read more

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  • The Juniper Tree

    A feminist reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a single mother and an enchanted friendship—from one of most bewitching British writers of the 20th century.“Comyns’s world is weird and wonderful . . . Tragic , comic and completely bonkers all in one, I’d go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius.” —The ObserverBella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is ... Read more

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  • God, War, and Providence

    The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England

    The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused to back down and accept English authority.A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New ... Read more

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  • The Pope of Physics

    Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

    One of Booklist's Top 10 Science Books of the Year: "A superb biography . . . A definite study of Fermi's life and work." — The Wall Street JournalA Bloomberg Best Book of the YearA Finalist for Physics World 's Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceNobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the world's greatest physicists, the most famous Italian s... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Vanquished

    Why the First World War Failed to End

    An epic, groundbreaking account of the ethnic and state violence that followed the end of World War I and shaped the course of the twentieth century.Winner of the Tomlinson Book PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2016In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was ... Read more

    $3.99 USD