The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
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A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time.
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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To Hold Up the Sky
From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem, To Hold Up the Sky is a breathtaking collection of imaginative science fiction.
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer
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Hocus Pocus
Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He's a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that's neither…
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire
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Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate … -
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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, Big Rich) recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark se…
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The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes
Smart people are not only just as prone to making mistakes as everyone else, they may be even more susceptible to them. This is the "intelligence trap," the subject of David Robson’s fascinating and p…
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Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
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A Beautiful Mind
Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an un…
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