Chronological Period/Modern
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What Is Called Thinking?
$18.99 Add to cart“For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? is as important as Being and Time. It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker’s late philosophy and . . . it is … [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 12 1976
- ISBN10: 006090528X
- Language: English
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
$22.00 Add to cartThe bestselling classic that examines the history of economic thought from Adam Smith to Karl Marx–“all the economic lore most general readers conceivably could want to know, served up with a flouris
- Author: Heilbroner, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 10, 1999
- ISBN10: 068486214X
- Language: English
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Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders
$16.99 Add to cartA global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day
- Author: Lehr, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273339
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil: The Philosophy Classic
$15.00 Add to cartA deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal work
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This landmark work continues to be one o
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0857088483
- Language: English
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Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
$29.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 1982144939
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$24.99 Add to cartA “panoramic and thought-provoking” (The Guardian) history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West
The Ottoman Empire has long been d- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541673794
- Language: English
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How Democracies Die
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE – SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GE- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1524762946
- Language: English
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
$20.99 Add to cartA “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.
Dress codes are as old as clothing its- Author: Thompson Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1501180088
- Language: English
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Little Black Classics Box Set
$140.00 Add to cartA stunning collection of all 80 exquisite Little Black Classics from Penguin
This spectacular box set of the 80 books in the Little Black Classics series showcases the many wonderful and varied write- Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 5120
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 141398876
- Language: English
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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
$19.99 Add to cart“Another gem from one of the world’s justly celebrated historians specializing in unusual and always fascinating subjects and people.” — Booklist (starred review)
The revered New York Times bestsellin
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0062652567
- Language: English
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These Truths: A History of the United States
$19.95 Add to cartWidely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself–a devotion to facts, proof, and e
- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: October 01, 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357422
- Language: English
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Columbine
$21.99 Read more“Excellent…amazing how much still comes as a surprise.” —New York Times Book Review
“Like Capote’s In Cold Blood, this tour de force gets below the who and the what of a horrifying incident to lay b
- Author: Cullen, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0446546925
- Language: English
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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Volume I
$15.99 Add to cartA part of Jaspers’s planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Are
- Series: Socrates, Buddha, Confucius & Jesus #1
- Author: Jaspers, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 03, 2012
- ISBN10: 0156835800
- Language: English
