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The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part II: From the Bastille to Baghdad
$23.99“From the Bastille to Baghdad,” The Cartoon History of the World Part 2 is the conclusion (for the moment) of Larry Gonick’s award-winning and bestselling annals of humankind presented in graphic novel form. Picking up after the American Revolution, where Part 1 left off, Part 2 opens with the Enlightenment and rolls across Napoleon, the…
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The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
$23.99If you have ever suspected that “heavy water” is the title of a bootleg Pink Floyd album, believed that surface tension is an anxiety disorder, or imagined that a noble gas is the result of a heavy meal at Buckingham Palace, then you need The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry to set you on the road…
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The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation
$17.99The Gettysburg Address: A Graphic Adaptation is a full-color illustrated look at Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech, the bloody battle of the Civil War that prompted it, and how they led to a defining point in the history of America. Most of us can recall “Four score and seven years ago,” but much of what…
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To Explain the World
$17.99A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg–a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus…
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The Cartoon Guide to Biology
$23.99From New York Times bestselling author Larry Gonick and Davidson College biology professor David Wessner comes this comprehensive and humorous cartoon guide to topics in biology Did you faint when your middle school science teacher asked you to dissect a frog? Do you think DNA stands for “Don’t Know the Answer”? Do you still cling…
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Simpsons Comics Knockout
$19.99It’s a unanimous decision! These pulse-pounding stories and more featuring Matt Groening’s beloved first family of fun, the Simpsons, will have you rolling with the punchlines! Go the distance with the Simpson family as they join everybody’s favorite moonraking megalomaniac, Hank Scorpio. for a globetrotting adventure that will not only take you around the world…
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Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron: A Graphic Novel
$19.99From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinncomes this irresistible treat, a charming and jaunty graphic novel, based onstory snippets peppered throughout a number of her books. Originally mentionedin It’s in His Kiss–one of the Bridgerton novels which inspired the smashNetflix series Bridgerton—Miss Butterworth and theMad Baron is finally told here in its entirety…
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Greetings from Strange Planet
$14.99WATCH THE ANIMATED SERIES ON APPLE TV+ A colorful and fun postcard set based on the phenomenally popular #1 New York Times bestseller Strange Planet The fascinating and strangely familiar inhabitants of Strange Planet are at it once again in this charming set of 26 postcards, each featuring a beloved scene from Nathan W. Pyle’s…
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Brave New World: A Graphic Novel
$24.99“Brilliant. . . . This rip-roaring graphic retelling of the Aldous Huxley classic brings to mind Fritz Lang, Spielberg and vintage comics. . . . This is a book that will keep your bedside light burning long into the night.” —The Guardian Available for the first time as a graphic novel, “one of the most…
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Fela: Music Is the Weapon
$48.00A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti–the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerhouse, and father of Afrobeat. In this bold and striking graphic novel, artist Jibola Fagbamiye and writer Conor McCreery team up to tell the remarkable origin story of one of Nigeria’s most famous sons, the King of…
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Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
$26.99A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-shifting understanding of our own identities, for readers of Gender Queer and I Was Their American Dream. Solomon Brager grew up with accounts of their great-grandparents’ escape from Nazi Germany, told over and over until their understanding of self was bound up…
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization
$40.00NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution–when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity’s major woes–war, plague, famine and inequality–originated 12,000 years…
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Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization
$27.99NATIONAL BESTSELLER This second volume of Sapiens: A Graphic History, the full-color graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari’s #1 New York Times bestseller, focuses on the Agricultural Revolution–when humans fell into a trap we’ve yet to escape: working harder and harder with diminishing returns. What if humanity’s major woes–war, plague, famine and inequality–originated 12,000 years…