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What Is History, Now?
$19.99 Read moreThis groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that h
- Author: Lipscomb, Suzannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 147462247X
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Canada
$37.00 Add to cartMargaret Conrad’s history of Canada explains what makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state. Beginning in Canada’s deep past with the arrival of its Indigenous peoples, she trac… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Conrad, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: August 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1108736378
- Language: English
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
$32.00 Read moreScience and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth centur- Author: Spencer, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0861544617
- Language: English
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Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
$20.00 Add to cart“[An] elegantly layered exploration of Europe’s past and future . . . a multifaceted masterpiece.”–The Wall Street Journal
“A lovely, personal journey around the Adriatic, in which Robert Kaplan revi- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0399591052
- Language: English
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Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
$29.99 Add to cartIn the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed t
- Author: Green, Nile
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324002417
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$25.00 Read moreThe story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices drove the early modern world econo- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267479
- Language: English
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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
$35.00 Add to cartIt’s been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces -… [more below]
- Author: Peckham, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1788167236
- Language: English
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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
$18.99 Add to cartMoving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections betw
- Author: Sattin, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074744
- Language: English
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Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History
$28.95 Add to cartJourney to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course of human history.
From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and- Author: Taylor, William T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0520380673
- Language: English
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To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
$35.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism
When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certain that Communism was dead. Today, three decades later, it is clear that it was- Author: McMeekin, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541601963
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
$24.95 Read morePeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very di
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 189101157X
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: A History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007184
- Language: English
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Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History
$19.95 Add to cart“Uncovers some of the most interesting stories of how animals … have impacted human civilization in economic, political, and industrial history. This is an original approach that links the biologic
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Chaline, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 30 2015
- ISBN10: 177085634X
- Language: English
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Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
$23.00 Add to cartWith a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reve… [more below]
- Author: Saul, John Ralston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1476718962
- Language: English
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American Indian Stories: Large Print Edition
$25.99 Add to cartLARGE PRINT EDITION . American Indian Stories (1921) is a collection of stories and essays from Yankton Dakota writer Zitkála-Sá. Published while Zitkála-Sá was at the height of her career as an a
- Series: Mint Editions (Native Stories, Indigenous Voices)
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1513137514
- Language: English
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Conduct of War PB
$21.99 Add to cartThe Conduct of War is the study of the way in which political and economical changes since the French Revolution have altered both the techniques and the aims of war, and its theme is that war which i… [more below]
- Series: Quality Paperbacks Series
- Author: Fuller, J. F. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306804670
- Language: English
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Solar Behavior: How Solar- and Geomagnetic Conditions shape Human History, the current Self- Destruction Attempt of the West and the n
$13.00 Add to cartGrand Solar Minima, the “bad-weather- periods” are times of peace, reason and socio- political developments in favor of human rights. Inversely, almost all wars and genocides take place in Grand Solar
- Author: Dobler, Sacha P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 3033082246
- Language: English
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The Great Cities in History
$18.95 Add to cartToday, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here?
From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotam
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0500292515
- Language: English
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The World’s Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThis outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to moder… [more below]
- Author: Copeland, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: September 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0486409031
- Language: English
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The Global Earth/Mars Initiative: A Concise History of the First Thirty Years of the Greatest Project Humanity Has Ever Attempted
$18.99 Add to cartJoin William Bookmaker, a fictitious historian from the late 2050s, as he chronicles the first thirty years (2025-2055) of the most remarkable project humanity has ever envisioned and attempted to exe
- Author: Brown, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989578825
- Language: English
