Charlie Mackesy’s The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse was #1 in the category, selling nearly 25,000 copies.įor the first two weeks of 2021, unit sales of print books were up 23.9% over the comparable period in 2020. The adult fiction category also had a great week, with print unit sales up almost 30% over 2020. On Tyranny is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue, Hiero or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Two educational titles led the way: Crystal Radtke’s My First Learn to Write Workbook sold over 7,000 copies, and Big Preschool Workbook sold 6,400 copies. Juvenile nonfiction sales rose 28.8% over 2020. On Tyranny is Leo Strauss’s classic reading of Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Juvenile fiction sales rose 30.7% in the week led by Little Blue Truck’s Valentine by Alice Schertle, which sold just over 28,000 copies, and Dav Pilkey’s Cat Kid Comic Club, which sold nearly 22,000 copies. An expert on eastern Europe and on the Second World War, he has written acclaimed and prize-winning books about twentieth-century European history, as well as political manifestos and analyses about the rise of tyranny in the contemporary world. Being a tyrant, being called a tyrant and not a king, means having been unable to transform tyranny into kingship, or to transform a title which is generally. Among the twenty include a warning to be aware of how symbols used today could affect tomorrow ('4: Take responsibility for the face of the world.
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Kendi was the top seller, selling more than 4,100 copies. Timothy Snyder is one of the world’s leading historians, and a prominent public intellectual in the United States and Europe. In this slim book, a sort of operating manual for navigating the new authoritarianism that was first born as a set of social media memes after the recent. Timothy Snyder's New York Times bestseller On Tyranny uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. In YA nonfiction, Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Lockhart also had a solid week, with sales just topping 17,000 copies. The release of Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas helped to lift sales in YA fiction, selling nearly 18,000 copies. The biggest gains, however, came in the young adult categories, with fiction up 47.6% and nonfiction rising 46.9%.