General History
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Fifty Minerals That Changed the Course of History
$19.95 Read more“The brief sections are consistently interesting, and plenty of supplemental illustrations and photos make this a handsome volume… best-suited to curious kids and casual mineralogists.” –Publisher
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Chaline, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1770855874
- Language: English
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The American Puritans
$18.00 Add to cartIn The American Puritans , Dustin Benge and Nate Pickowicz tell the story of the first hundred years of Reformed Protestantism in New England through the lives of nine key figures: William Bradford,
- Author: Benge, Dustin W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1601787731
- Language: English
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The Utter Disaster on the Oregon Trail: The Utter and Van Ornum Massacres of 1860
$16.95 Read moreThe greatest disaster to befall a emigrant party on the Oregon Trail occurred in September 1860 in what is now southwestern Idaho. A party composed of eight wagons and 44 men, women and children was a… [more below]
- Series: Snake Country
- Author: Shannon, Donald H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0963582828
- Language: English
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Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams
$26.95 Read more2022 Banff Mountain Book Competition Special Jury Mention
“A book every thoughtful adventurer and seeker of dreams should read.” — Outside- Author is a renowned writer in international climbing com
- Author: Ives, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1680515411
- Language: English
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From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony
$39.95 Read moreIn 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. There he was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg, the most famous So… [more below]
- Author: Sutzkever, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0228008999
- Language: English
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Letters to Camondo
$22.00 Read moreA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Mo?e de Camondo.
63 rue de Monceau, Paris
Dear friend,
As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1250851068
- Language: English
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Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City
$20.00 Add to cartAn endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesqu- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 0307743756
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
$17.95 Read moreThe most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, accla
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356264
- Language: English
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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969
$22.00 Add to cartThe first of its kind, From Columbus to Castro is a definitive work about a profoundly important but neglected and misrepresented area of the world. Quite simply it’s about millions of people scattere… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394715020
- Language: English
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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny
$18.00 Read moreVictor David Hanson, author of the highly regarded classic The Western Way of War, presents an audacious and controversial theory of what contributes to the success of military campaigns.
Examining in- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0385720599
- Language: English
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution
$24.00 Add to cartThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution–a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigra… [more below]
- Author: Zia, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0345522338
- Language: English
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The Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
$22.00 Read moreA sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses–and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen m- Author: Eisen, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0451495799
- Language: English
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We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin
$19.95 Read more“Miller’s terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake.”
–Michael- Author: Miller, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292146
- Language: English
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When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection
$8.00 Read moreIn an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Yetman, Norman R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0486420701
- Language: English
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China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China
$35.00 Read moreChina’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time–from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 unti
- Author: Van de Ven, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0674983505
- Language: English
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The Kindertransport: What Really Happened
$22.95 Read moreIn 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but the
- Author: Hammel, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1509553770
- Language: English
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Pacific Voyages: The Story of Sail in the Great Ocean
$49.95 Read more“Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller’s] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms
- Author: Miller, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1771623470
- Language: English
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A History of the Barricade
$17.95 Read more- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1784781282
- Language: English
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The Decline of the West
$17.95 Add to cartSince its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a… [more below]
- Author: Spengler, Oswald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 11 2006
- ISBN10: 1400097002
- Language: English
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A History of Fatigue: From the Middle Ages to the Present
$35.00 Read more“Stress,” “burn out,” “mental overload” the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves in
- Author: Vigarello, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1509549250
- Language: English
