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Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
$22.99 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present
INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPS
Lords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-pa
- Author: Hampton, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0062262092
- Language: English
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The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America
$0.00 Read more“An in-depth and compelling account of diverse Americans living off the grid.” –Los Angeles Times
The radical search for the simple life in today’s America. On a frigid April night, a classically tr- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0735216088
- Language: English
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Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
$18.95 Add to cart
An examination of the failure of the United States as a broker in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, through three key historical moments For more tha
Winner of the 2014 Lionel Trilling Book Award- Author: Khalidi, Rashid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0807033243
- Language: English
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Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic
$30.00 Read moreThe true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway–COVID-19–days before the world shut down in March 2020. This riveting narrative… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0385547404
- Language: English
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21 Days to Baghdad: General Buford Blount and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War
$35.00 Read moreAn authoritative military history of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom, describing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the siege and fall of Baghdad, and the nation-building miss
- Author: Stur, Heather Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853636
- Language: English
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Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
$19.99 Add to cartWhen–and how–did America become so polarized? In this masterful history, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer uncover the origins of our current moment. It all starts in 1974 with
- Author: Kruse, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357708
- Language: English
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The Stories They Tell: Artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum
$29.95 Read moreThis poignant selection of artifacts–and their stories–from September 11 provides an official, lasting record of that day’s experience. In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is tol… [more below]
- Author: Greenwald, Alice M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0847841332
- Language: English
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The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
$21.00 Read moreOne of New York Magazine’s best books on Silicon Valley
The true, behind-the-scenes history of the people who built Silicon Valley and shaped Big Tech in America Long before Margaret O’Mara became o- Author: O’Mara, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0399562206
- Language: English
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
$18.95 Read moreWeaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, … [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1631499068
- Language: English
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After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We’ve Made
$22.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United States” (New York Jour… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1984856073
- Language: English
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Day of the Assassins
$19.99 Read moreA forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
- Author: Burleigh, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 152903017X
- Language: English
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Filipinos in Greater Boston
$23.99 Read moreAs early as the Civil War, a dozen Filipino men living in Massachusetts enlisted in the Union army. In the 1900s, Filipino pensionados studied at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Talusan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109606
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Volume 3: Armed Formations of the Luhansk People’s Republic 2014-2022
$29.95 Read more“These volumes have provided greater clarity about the war, since the media’s reporting on the war has been, by necessity, lacking in important details. If one is interested in the background to the w… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Crowther, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1804512176
- Language: English
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
$16.00 Read moreIn this “exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s s… [more below]
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1101973463
- Language: English
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
$26.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document … is Applebaum’s answer.” –Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, wit- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0385545800
- Language: English
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American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
$18.99 Read moreExamine the ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues with this collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winn… [more below]
- Author: Will, George F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0306924390
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism
By one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the politic
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932938
- Language: English
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There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
$16.95 Read moreThis kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today–Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314697
- Language: English
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
$27.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times
From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbç–£, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of stron- Author: Rachman, Gideon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1635422809
- Language: English
