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The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor
$26.99 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller
In this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing
- Author: Jaku, Eddie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0063097680
- Language: English
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France: An Adventure History
$21.95 Add to cartBeginning with the Roman army’s first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Freq
- Author: Robb, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064692
- Language: English
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
$23.00 Add to cartAn “introduction to the nonfascist life” (Michel Foucault, from the Preface)
When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and “a work of heretical madness” by oth- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105825
- Language: English
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Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
$22.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s history
Named One of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 – Named One of the 10 Best History- Series: The Lamar Western History
- Author: Hamalainen, Pekka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 030025525X
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the World
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, Mark Booth’s The Secret History of the World is “an entire library’s worth of scholarship [in] a single volume” (San Francisco Gate).
“Authentically mind-boggling.” —Kirk- Author: Booth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1590201620
- Language: English
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The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
$32.00 Read moreA soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time o… [more below]
- Author: Eilenberger, Wolfram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0593297458
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$13.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche’s posi… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 29 2003
- ISBN10: 014044923X
- Language: English
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
$35.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
“A provocative read…There are few tomes that coherently map such broad economic histories as well as Mr. Dalio’s. Perhaps more unusuall- Series: Principles
- Author: Dalio, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982160276
- Language: English
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We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope
$26.99 Add to cartFrom the moment European settlers reached these shores, the American apocalypse began. But Native Americans did not vanish. Apocalypse did not fully destroy them, and it doesn’t have to destroy us.
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- Author: Charleston, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1506486673
- Language: English
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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
$17.95 Add to cartRuth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the “strongman” playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin–enabling her to predict with uncanny accuracy the recent experience in America an
- Author: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0393868419
- Language: English
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Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
$17.95 Add to cartThis rich and magisterial work traces Palestine’s millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded hist
- Author: Masalha, Nur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0755649427
- Language: English
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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
$30.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller – One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023 – A New York Times Notable Book
“A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important,- Author: Bakewell, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 735223378
- Language: English
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
$50.00 Add to cart* A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a t- Author: de Hamel, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0525559418
- Language: English
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Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late–from the authors of How Democracies Die
“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity a- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 593443071
- Language: English
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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
$40.00 Add to cartNew York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller
Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.
Two leading authorities–an acclaimed historian
- Author: Petraeus, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063293137
- Language: English
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Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
$19.99 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to to- Author: Tishby, Noa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982144947
- Language: English
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The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion
$14.99 Add to cart“A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate publicity everywhere.”– From The Present Age
In The Present Age (1
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062930850
- Language: English
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The Portable Nietzsche
$23.00 Add to cartA captivating collection of Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal works, from his provocative musings on truth and morality to his profound exploration of human existence
“In this volume, one may very conven- Series: Viking Portable Library
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 27 1977
- ISBN10: 0140150625
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
$12.99 Add to cart“Philosophy is not a theory,” asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), “but an activity.” In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Witt
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0486404455
- Language: English
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The Conquest of Happiness
$14.99 Add to cart“Should be read by every parent, teacher, minister, and Congressman in the land.”―The Atlantic
In The Conquest of Happiness, iconoclastic philosopher Bertrand Russell attempted to diagnose the my
- Author: Russell, Bertrand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 15, 2019
- ISBN10: 1684116694
- Language: English
