Chronological Period/Modern
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Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of Randy Shilts Award
In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts–th- Author: Beachy, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0307473139
- Language: English
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Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State
$22.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness- Author: Allman, T. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122302
- Language: English
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Why Argument Matters
$20.00 Read moreHailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence”
“An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Siegel, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271077
- Language: English
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The Road to Ticonderoga: The Campaign of 1758 in the Champlain Valley
$34.95 Read moreThe British campaign to capture Fort Carillon on the Ticonderoga Peninsula in 1758 resulted in the largest battle of the French and Indian War. Crafted by Prime Minister William Pitt, the scope and sc… [more below]
- Author: Laramie, Michael G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 159416407X
- Language: English
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
$19.99 Add to cart“Beyond terrific. I didn’t want it to end.” –Bill Bryson
Driven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter M
- Author: Palin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1771645725
- Language: English
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In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness
$27.95 Read moreOver one hundred years ago in Russia, G. I. Gurdjieff introduced a spiritual teaching of conscious evolution–a way of gnosis or “knowledge of being” passed on from remote antiquity. Gurdjieff’s early… [more below]
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 161180082X
- Language: English
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text–an influential academic journal of cultural studies–touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern p
- Author: Sokal, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0312204078
- Language: English
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Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
$19.00 Read more“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some per… [more below]
- Author: Eilenberger, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 052555968X
- Language: English
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Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA
$27.95 Read moreThe National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover. Watched in 215 countries and territories worldwide, and with nearly one in three players born
- Author: Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1350384178
- Language: English
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Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th Century World Wars and the Cold War – New Perspectives on Key Events
$27.95 Read moreAt a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history textbooks and re-examine historical events outsid… [more below]
- Author: Pauwels, Jacques R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1459416937
- Language: English
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of one of the most important–and incendiary–books in Western history
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 24 2013
- ISBN10: 069116018X
- Language: English
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfac… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bull, Anna Cento
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198726511
- Language: English
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused
- Author: Connolly, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0465093957
- Language: English
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Critique of Judgement
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552460
- Language: English
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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping
$27.00 Add to cart“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.”
–William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lea- Author: M?hlhahn, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248317
- Language: English
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
$32.00 Read moreScience and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth centur- Author: Spencer, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0861544617
- Language: English
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
$19.99 Add to cart“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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A Nietzsche Reader
$16.00 Read moreThe literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443290
- Language: English
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Great State: China and the World
$20.00 Read moreNow in paperback
“A dizzying and exhilarating journey. . . . Understanding how China sees itself and how it justifies its actions is critical to understanding today’s world. Great State offers some com
- Author: Brook, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063143445
- Language: English
