Chronological Period/Modern
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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
$29.95 Read moreA shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
- Author: Brown, Norman O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 387
- Publish Date: June 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0819561444
- Language: English
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The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now (the Deadliest #1, Scholastic Focus): Volume 1
$25.99 Read morePerfect for young readers of I Survived and the Who Was series! Packed with graphics, photos, and facts for curious minds, this is a gripping look at pandemics through the ages.
The deadly outbreak of
- Series: The Deadliest
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1338360205
- Language: English
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The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution
$19.95 Read moreFoucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politics
Part intellectual history, part critical theory, The Last Man Takes LSD challenges the way w… [more below]- Author: Dean, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292648
- Language: English
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns: (True Crime Gift)
$19.99 Add to cartSmall towns have always been thought of as sleepy places where nothing bad ever happens, but as Mitzi Szereto’s The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns shows that bad things can and do happen in … [more below]
- Series: Best New True Crime Stories
- Author: Szereto, Mitzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1642502804
- Language: English
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
$32.99 Add to cartConnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this… [more below]
- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 019931599X
- Language: English
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE – A Pulitzer Prize finalist that’s as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came
- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0375713964
- Language: English
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
$19.99 Read more“Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done…great fun to read.” — New York Times Book Review
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253170
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$53.00 Read moreJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded)
$75.00 Read moreAn expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York–with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations–that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city fro… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Ric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 059353414X
- Language: English
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A Social History of Western Political Thought
$34.95 Read moreA sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating cano- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766093
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScholars have largely misunderstood Soren Kierkegaard, remembering him chiefly in connection with the development of existentialist philosophy in this century. In a short and unhappy life, he wrote ma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #58
- Author: Gardiner, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802569
- Language: English
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Goa, 1961: The Complete Story of Nationalism and Integration
$26.99 Read moreThe subject of the liberation of Goa in 1961 and its integration into the Indian Union in 1962 is sparsely understood at best and misunderstood at worst. What were the events that led to the thirty-si… [more below]
- Author: Faleiro, Valmiki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0670097926
- Language: English
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Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
$19.95 Read more“Charlotte Dennett has written an excellent book summarizing the geopolitics of the Middle East historically through to current events. . . . This is an amazing piece of historical writing. . . . Stud
- Author: Dennett, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1645021475
- Language: English
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Story of the World, Vol. 3 Activity Book, Revised Edition: History for the Classical Child: Early Modern Times
$43.95 Read moreA Complete History Curriculum for One Year
Don’t just read about history–experience it! Color a picture of Captain Cook in Botany Bay, design a Persian rug, play the Battle of Bunker Hill board game,… [more below]- Series: Story of the World #14
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 417
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1945841478
- Language: English
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The Essential Philosophical Works
$11.99 Read moreWith an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris.
David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume conta
- Series: Classics of World Literature
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1840226668
- Language: English
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Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being Against the Capitalocene
$13.95 Read moreOn a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions.
State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security a- Author: Banerjee, Milinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1734643536
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Living
$14.50 Read moreThis volume asks poignant questions about what it means to be alive and inhabit the present.
Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary–to be alive–and the absolutenes- Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
- Author: Jullien, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090561
- Language: English
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The Will to Power
$20.00 Read moreRepresents a selection from Nietzche’s notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.
Nietzsche’s notebooks, kept by him during hi- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704371
- Language: English
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The Black Campus Movement: A History of Black Student Activism
$19.99 Add to cartIn his first book, published in 2012, Ibram X. Kendi provided the first national study of when Black students organized, demanded, and protested against racism in almost every US State between 1965 an
- Series: Contemporary Black History
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 313
- Publish Date: June 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3031373936
- Language: English
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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
$25.00 Add to cartBestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans’ peculiar fascination with small things–and what small things tell us about our larger world.
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1501199587
- Language: English
