Chronological Period/Modern
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Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
$19.95 Add to cartProspect Top 50 Thinker of 2021
“Provocative, elegantly written.”
British Academy Book Prize Finalist
PROSE Award Finalist
–Fara Dabhoiwala, New York Review of Books “Demonstrates how a broad rethinking- Author: Mamdani, Mahmood
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0674278607
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling: A New Translation
$26.95 Read moreFirst published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (“John of Silence”), Soren Kierkegaard’s richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history
- Author: Kierkegaard, Søren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498312
- Language: English
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
$30.00 Add to cartIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin’s fam
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527172
- Language: English
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Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life
$22.99 Add to cartAn exploration of everything Kant’s philosophy can teach us about being the best people we can be, from using our human reasoning to its fullest potential to being affably drunk at dinner parties.
Imm- Series: Guides to the Good Life
- Author: Stohr, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0197537812
- Language: English
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
$21.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
“An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that prod
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 143110357
- Language: English
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Free Market: The History of an Idea
$32.00 Read moreFrom a MacArthur “Genius,” an intellectual history of the free market, from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century
After two government bailouts of the US economy in less than twenty years, free mark
- Author: Soll, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0465049702
- Language: English
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The Malleus Maleficarum
$41.95 Add to cartThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digit… [more below]
- Author: Summers, Montague
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: February 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1585095753
- Language: English
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A Guide to Sky Monsters: Thunderbirds, the Jersey Devil, Mothman, and Other Flying Cryptids
$20.00 Read moreWhen a dark shadow passes overhead, do you stop? Or do you run?
Infamous sky monsters have haunted our imaginations for centuries. The Thunderbird, steeped in Native American folklore, supposedly cont
- Author: Mart, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1684352177
- Language: English
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Witchcraze: New History of the European Witch Hunts, a
$18.99 Add to cart“In the sixteenth century, a rise in sexual violence in European society was exacerbated by pressure from church and state to change basic sexual customs…As the centuries since have shown escalating… [more below]
- Author: Barstow, Anne L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 24 1995
- ISBN10: 0062510363
- Language: English
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
$22.95 Add to cartA surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomes
How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wis- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #49
- Author: Clark, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168377
- Language: English
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution
$23.99 Add to cartThe Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up-to-date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic
- Series: Cartoon Guide
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0060760044
- Language: English
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part II: From the Bastille to Baghdad
$23.99 Add to cart“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 nove
- Series: Cartoon Guide
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0060760087
- Language: English
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The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock ‘n’ Roll
$19.95 Add to cartDrop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you’ve been meaning to pick up–the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since
- Author: Dore, Florence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766201
- Language: English
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Words I Wish I Wrote
$18.99 Add to cartIn Words I Wish I Wrote, Robert Fulghum reveals the works of writers who have inspired him. During the past four decades he’s reviewed and revised the basic principles of his philosophy many times, s… [more below]
- Author: Fulghum, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0060932228
- Language: English
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Five Moral Pieces
$12.95 Add to cartEmbracing the web of multiculturalism that has become a fact of contemporary life from New York to New Delhi, Eco argues that we are more connected to people of other traditions and customs than ever … [more below]
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0156013258
- Language: English
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The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season
$15.00 Add to cart“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.”
Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stre- Series: Year of Quotes
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 022662496X
- Language: English
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Giving the Devil His Due
$23.00 Add to cartFlannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky shared a deep faith in Christ, which compelled them to tell stories that force readers to choose between eternal life and demonic possession. Their either-or ex… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jessica Hooten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1498291376
- Language: English
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On Solitude
$14.00 Add to cartFor the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin’s celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history’s most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and el… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Books: Great Ideas
- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0141399252
- Language: English
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
$19.99 Add to cartIn this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repr
- Author: Paz, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0156003651
- Language: English
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Kayaking with Lambs
$22.00 Add to cartBrian Miller’s Kayaking with Lambs is about the idyllic farm life of your imagination–fresh fruits and vegetables, livestock large and small, endless gatherings of kith and kin around a table of home… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Brian D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1666781673
- Language: English
