Aspects (Academic)/Historical
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Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
$26.99 Add to cartWith his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.
In eighteenth-century France, c
- Author: Darnton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351807
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
$22.00 Add to cartAn engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power.
Hatshepsut–the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt’s throne–was expe- Author: Cooney, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0307956776
- Language: English
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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Book Award
Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Foreign Affairs Book
Winner of the Asia- Author: Bass, Gary J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0307744620
- Language: English
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
$22.00 Add to cart“A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.”–Chris Hayes
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measure- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2015
- ISBN10: 022627618X
- Language: English
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Descent Into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver’s Memoir
$25.95 Add to cartOn December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese ttack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers hea… [more below]
- Author: Raymer, Estate Of Edward C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1591147247
- Language: English
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To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
$16.00 Add to cartOver sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers pla
- Series: Canons #71
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1786891581
- Language: English
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The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America’s First Labor War
$19.95 Add to cartSensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivati
- Author: Bulik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1531502954
- Language: English
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Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
$17.99 Add to cartMore than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America’s history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian once again reco
- Author: Foner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18, 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352196
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Alchemy
$27.00 Add to cartIn The Secrets of Alchemy, Lawrence M. Principe, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, brings alchemy out of the shadows and restores it to its important place in human history and cu… [more below]
- Series: Synthesis
- Author: Principe, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 18 2015
- ISBN10: 022610379X
- Language: English
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Bismarck: A Life
$25.99 Add to cartThis riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian cul… [more below]
- Author: Steinberg, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0199975396
- Language: English
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137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession
$26.99 Add to cartIs there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Arthur I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: May 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0393338649
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Russia
$35.00 Add to cartAccessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the und… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Bushkovitch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: December 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0521543231
- Language: English
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Champagne Supernovas: Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and the ’90s Renegades Who Remade Fashion
$18.99 Add to cart“Terrifically exciting and fun” (Publishers Weekly), Champagne Supernovas is “a lucid, smoothly executed look at a pivotal decade in the legacy of American fashion” (Kirkus Reviews) as told through th
- Author: Callahan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01, 2015
- ISBN10: 1451640587
- Language: English
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A History of Bombing
$29.68 Add to cartA daring literary and historical look at the ideologies of war and violence, by the author of “Exterminate All the Brutes”
On November 1, 1911, over the North African oasis Tagiura, Lieutenant Giulio
- Author: Lindqvist, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1565848160
- Language: English
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Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
$20.99 Add to cartThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abo
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351211
- Language: English
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The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians
$29.95 Read moreThe Story of the Longest and Largest Forced Migration of Native Americans in American History
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was the culmination of the United States’ policy to force native populatio… [more below]- Author: Stockwell, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1594162581
- Language: English
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
$21.99 Add to cartNow a documentary on CBS All Access.
Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars–a mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega,
- Author: Harris, Blake J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0062276700
- Language: English
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
$20.00 Add to cartThe broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women’s rights pioneer
Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks’s courageous act of resistance, police dragged a y- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143106821
- Language: English
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Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
$24.99 Read moreThe explosive search for the truth about who killed JFK, “the final word until 2039-when government files on the case can be unlocked.” (Kirkus)
Will we ever know the truth about the Kennedy assassin- Author: Marrs, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0465031803
- Language: English
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Great Maps: The World’s Masterpieces Explored and Explained
$38.00 Read moreA superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world!
From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a must-… [more below]- Series: DK Great
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1465424636
- Language: English
