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Updated 5/27/20

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World Cover Image

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World (Hardcover)

By Patrik Svensson
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062968814
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Published: Ecco - May 26th, 2020
Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration Cover Image

Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration (Hardcover)

By Keith Ferrazzi, Noel Weyrich
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525575665
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Published: Currency - May 26th, 2020
Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation Cover Image

Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation (Hardcover)

By Alex Wiltshire, John Short (Photographer)
$29.95
ISBN: 9780262044011
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Published: MIT Press - May 12th, 2020
Cryptography: The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters Cover Image

Cryptography: The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters (Hardcover)

By Keith Martin
$27.95
ISBN: 9781324004295
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 19th, 2020
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America Cover Image

The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America (Hardcover)

By Anthony P. Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, Jeff Strohl
$27.99
ISBN: 9781620974865
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Published: New Press - May 26th, 2020
How We Change: (And Ten Reasons Why We Don't) Cover Image

How We Change: (And Ten Reasons Why We Don't) (Hardcover)

By Ross Ellenhorn
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062961112
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Published: Harper Wave - May 19th, 2020
Galaxies: Inside the Universe's Star Cities Cover Image

Galaxies: Inside the Universe's Star Cities (Hardcover)

By David J. Eicher
$30.00
ISBN: 9780525574316
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Published: Clarkson Potter - May 26th, 2020
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace Cover Image

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace (Hardcover)

By Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis
$28.00
ISBN: 9780300244175
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Published: Yale University Press - May 19th, 2020
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom Cover Image

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom (Hardcover)

By Matt Ridley
$29.99
ISBN: 9780062916594
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Published: Harper - May 19th, 2020
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Cover Image

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (Hardcover)

By Zachary D. Carter
$35.00
ISBN: 9780525509035
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Published: Random House - May 19th, 2020
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration Cover Image

In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration (Hardcover)

By Shane O'Mara
$25.95
ISBN: 9780393652086
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 12th, 2020
From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way Cover Image

From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way (Hardcover)

By Michael Bond
$29.95
ISBN: 9780674244573
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Published: Belknap Press - May 12th, 2020
Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy Cover Image

Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy (Hardcover)

By Forrest Stuart
$27.95
ISBN: 9780691194431
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Published: Princeton University Press - May 12th, 2020
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Cover Image

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)

By Merlin Sheldrake
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525510314
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Published: Random House - May 12th, 2020
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World Cover Image

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (Hardcover)

By Tyson Yunkaporta
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062975645
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Published: HarperOne - May 12th, 2020
Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs Cover Image

Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs (Hardcover)

By Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
$30.00
ISBN: 9780593083390
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Published: Viking - May 12th, 2020
Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It Cover Image

Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It (Hardcover)

By Brian Dumaine
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982113636
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Published: Scribner - May 12th, 2020
The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation Cover Image

The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation (Hardcover)

By Fabio Toscano, Arturo Sangalli (Translator)
$24.95
ISBN: 9780691183671
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Published: Princeton University Press - May 19th, 2020
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think Cover Image

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Ackerman
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735223011
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Published: Penguin Press - May 5th, 2020
Galileo: And the Science Deniers Cover Image

Galileo: And the Science Deniers (Hardcover)

By Mario Livio
$28.00
ISBN: 9781501194733
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Published: Simon & Schuster - May 5th, 2020
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World Cover Image

Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World (Hardcover)

By Jacqueline Novogratz
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250222879
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 5th, 2020
Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World under the Sea Cover Image

Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts & Pieces of the World under the Sea (Paperback)

By Julia Rothman, John Niekrasz (With)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781635861600
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Published: Storey Publishing, LLC - April 28th, 2020
The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way Cover Image

The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its Way (Hardcover)

By David Lindley
$27.95
ISBN: 9780385543859
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Published: Doubleday - March 17th, 2020
What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color Cover Image

What Is Color?: 50 Questions and Answers on the Science of Color (Hardcover)

By Arielle Eckstut, Joann Eckstut
$24.99
ISBN: 9781419734519
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Published: Harry N. Abrams - April 28th, 2020
Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley—Making AI Serve Us All Cover Image

Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley—Making AI Serve Us All (Hardcover)

By Kevin Scott, Greg Shaw, J. D. Vance (Foreword by)
$29.99
ISBN: 9780062879875
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Published: Harper Business - April 7th, 2020
The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth Cover Image

The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth (Hardcover)

By David Sax
$28.00
ISBN: 9781541736009
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Published: PublicAffairs - April 21st, 2020
This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home Cover Image

This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home (Hardcover)

By Lauren Sandler
$27.00
ISBN: 9780399589959
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Published: Random House - April 28th, 2020
This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- and Me Cover Image

This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World -- and Me (Hardcover)

By Marisa Meltzer
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316414005
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - April 14th, 2020
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram Cover Image

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (Hardcover)

By Sarah Frier
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982126803
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Published: Simon & Schuster - April 14th, 2020
The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave Cover Image

The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave (Hardcover)

By Robbie Kellman Baxter
$28.00
ISBN: 9781260458701
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Published: McGraw-Hill Education - March 30th, 2020
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business Cover Image

The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business (Hardcover)

By Nelson D. Schwartz
$28.95
ISBN: 9780385543088
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Published: Doubleday - March 3rd, 2020
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen Cover Image

Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen (Hardcover)

By Dan Heath
$30.00
ISBN: 9781982134723
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - March 3rd, 2020
Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life Cover Image

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life (Hardcover)

By Marie Kondo, Scott Sonenshein
$24.00
ISBN: 9780316423328
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Published: Little, Brown Spark - April 7th, 2020
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace Cover Image

Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace (Hardcover)

By Carl Safina
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250173331
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - April 14th, 2020
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides) Cover Image

What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why (Sibley Guides) (Hardcover)

By David Allen Sibley
$35.00
ISBN: 9780307957894
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Published: Knopf - April 14th, 2020
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back Cover Image

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back (Hardcover)

By Mark O'Connell
$27.95
ISBN: 9780385543002
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Published: Doubleday - April 14th, 2020
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us Cover Image

Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us (Hardcover)

By George Zaidan
$27.00
ISBN: 9781524744274
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Published: Dutton - April 14th, 2020