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  • The Boundaries of Desire

    A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities

    The author of Sex and Punishment takes “a bracing look at the often-strange relationship between sexuality and the legal system over 6 tumultuous decades”—challenging our most cherished notions about family, power, gender, and identity (Booklist).The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dangerous Ideas

    A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

    This “engrossing history of censorship” is an urgent, timely read for our era of social media trolls, fake news, and free speech debates (The Economist).How restricting speech continuously shapes our culture, props up authorities, and maintains class and gender disparitiesThrough compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sex and Punishment

    Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

    Take an “enormously informative and entertaining” tour through the history of Western sex law, from ancient times through the 19th century (Boston Globe)!What royal mistresses and gay charioteers, medieval cross-dressers and lonely goat–lovers, can tell us about the history of human desire . . .The “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. However, that’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sex and Punishment

    Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire

    Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for 'gross indecency' in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law. The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human ... Read more

    $11.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Dangerous Ideas

    A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

    Narrated by Tim Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 38 min

    A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparitiesThrough compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More than just a history of censorship, Dangerous Ideas illuminates the power of ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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  • The Housewives Underground

    The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery

    The untold story of the women who debunked the Warren Report—a “captivating and impressively researched” (The New Yorker) history of obsession, heartbreak, and the myth of the great American century“A ghostly past brought brimmingly, engrossingly to life . . . a social history of novelistic propulsion with fanatical documentation and a sympathetic understanding of what drives the driven.”—The New ... Read more

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    How to Save a Constitutional Democracy

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    Unabridged

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    Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In the United States, the tenure of Donald Trump has seemed decisive turning point for many. What kind of president intimidates jurors, calls the news media the “enemy of the American people,” and seeks foreign assistance investigating domestic political ... Read more

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  • Transported

    The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams

    **A Wall Street Journal Best Book To ReadA song comes on—and suddenly, you’re somewhere else.**Reliving past heartbreak. Picturing a serene future. Imagining a fantastical scene. Across genres, music has an uncanny ability to carry us into distinct inner worlds.In Transported, acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis explores the phenomenon of musical daydreams—the vivid, ... Read more

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  • Tamed

    From Wild to Domesticated, the Ten Animals and Plants That Changed Human History

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    An "epic and joyous" (Adam Rutherford) history of our species, using recent scientific discoveries to explore humanity's domestication of the plants and animals that have allowed human civilization to thrive."An excellent point of entry for anyone who wants to understand the new deep human history and what it portends." —The GuardianDogs became our companions.Wheat fed booming populations.Cattl... ... Read more

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  • The Almighty Dollar

    500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money

    In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Eye-opening, educational, exhaustively reported, and very fun to read.”—Foreign PolicyAmerica’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international ... Read more

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    It's a Numberful World

    How Math Is Hiding Everywhere

    by Eddie Woo ...
    Narrated by Adam Lofbomm ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 12 min

    Why aren't left-handers extinct? What makes a rainbow round? How is a pancreas . . . like a pendulum?These may not look like math questions, but they are—because they all have to do with patterns. And mathematics, atheart, is the study of patterns.That realization changed Eddie Woo's life—by turning the "dry" subject he dreaded in high school into a boundless quest for discovery. Now an award ... Read more

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