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By: Andrea Dworkin

ISBN: 9780465017522
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2006
Publisher: Basic Books
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The book that Andrea Dworkin's best known for-in which she provoked the argument that ultimately split apart the feminist movement-is being reissued for the young women and men of the twenty-first century


(Paperback)

By: Richard Brookhiser

ISBN: 9780465063802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
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"Brookhiser is a remarkable biographer-there are no wasted words in this slim volume, but plenty of fascinating insights into the patriot who 'glimpsed our world before it existed.'"-Five Brilliant Biographies of 2011, NPR.org


(Hardback)

By: Jay Cost

ISBN: 9781541699557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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An intellectual biography of James Madison, arguing that he invented American politics as we know it


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By: John B. Boles

ISBN: 9780465094684
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970


(Hardback)

By: Richard Brookhiser

ISBN: 9780465096220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Basic Books
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The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's longest-serving Chief Justice, who made the Supreme Court a force to be reckoned with in the new nation


(Paperback)

By: Susan Okin

ISBN: 9780465037032
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1991
Publisher: Basic Books
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In the first feminist critique of modern political theory, Okin shows how the failure to apply theories of justice to the family not only undermines our most cherished democratic values but has led to a major crisis over gender-related issues.


(Paperback)

By: Thomas Sowell

ISBN: 9780465037384
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1996
Publisher: Basic Books
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"With a new preface by the author, this updated reissue of Sowell's classic study describes in concrete detail how knowledge is shared and disseminated throughout modern society. Sowell discusses how r"


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By: Robert Harms

ISBN: 9780465028634
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Basic Books
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A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa


(Paperback)

By: Lalo Alcaraz

ISBN: 9781541605565
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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An irreverent and kaleidoscopic cartoon history of Latino life, culture, and politics, now revised and updated for its twenty-fifth anniversary


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By: Douglas Hofstadter

ISBN: 9780465086450
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1998
Publisher: Basic Books
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This text presents a translation of a short poem by 16th-century French poet Clement Marot.


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By: Emma Laskin

ISBN: 9780465027736
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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In Leading Minds , Gardner and his research associate at Harvard Project Zero, Emma Laskin, apply a cognitive lens to leadership, drawing on Gardner's ground-breaking work on intelligence and creativity to offer fascinating revelations about the minds of leaders and those who follow them. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Essig

ISBN: 9780465052745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2015
Publisher: Basic Books
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A globe-trotting history of the domestic pig, showing how this humble and oft-maligned beast has helped humans to survive and thrive from the Neolithic Period to the present day.


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By: George Weigel

ISBN: 9780465094295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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From distinguished Catholic scholar George Weigel, a memoir of his relationship with Pope John Paul II


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: George Weigel

ISBN: 9780465028320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Basic Books
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"An engaging, lucid, and informative introduction to the teachings and traditions of Catholicism." -Wall Street Journal


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By: Daniel Boulud

ISBN: 9780465093427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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"A priceless manual for anyone seriously interested on the restaurant world. Concise, pointed, informative, and candid, it explains simply to the neophyte chef the difficult but wonderful and rewarding world of the kitchen."-Jacques Ppin


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By: Nadia Comaneci

ISBN: 9780465025053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2011
Publisher: Basic Books
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A unique glimpse into the remarkable life, and fascinating mindset, of the woman who broke records-and boundaries-for female athletes everywhere


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By: Ian Stewart

ISBN: 9780465082322
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2007
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2007
Publisher: Basic Books
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Inspiration and guidance for aspiring mathematicians


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By: Martha Nussbaum

ISBN: 9780465018536
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Basic Books
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In one of greatest triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future US overcame religious intolerance in favour of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs. This title presents a historical and conceptual study of the American tradition of religious freedom.


(Hardback)

By: Allison Gilbert

ISBN: 9781541674356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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The first biography of Elsie Robinson, the most influential newspaper columnist you've never heard of


(Hardback)

By: James Reston

ISBN: 9780465063932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Basic Books
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From a celebrated religious scholar, a riveting account of the Catholic Church's failed attempt to crush Martin Luther and his Reformation.


(Hardback)

By: Eric Alterman

ISBN: 9781541616820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2020
Publisher: Basic Books
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The definitive history of presidential lying, revealing how our standards for truthfulness have eroded -- and what makes Trump's lies especially dangerous


(Paperback)

By: Robert Whitaker

ISBN: 9781541618060
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2019
Publisher: Basic Books
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An updated edition of the classic history of schizophrenia in America, which gives voice to generations of patients who suffered through "cures" that only deepened their suffering and impaired their hope of recovery


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By: Raymond Aron

ISBN: 9781541607309
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Basic Books
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The first volume of the landmark study, tracing the emergence and formation of sociological thought from the French liberal school to the Marxists


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By: Raymond Aron

ISBN: 9781541607293
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Basic Books
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The second volume of the landmark study, examining the work of sociology's defining thinkers from the turn of the nineteenth century to the interwar period

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