General History
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50 Lgbtqi+ Who Changed the World
$31.99 Add to cartMarsha P. Johnson, Keith Haring, Harvey Milk, Audre Lorde, Peter Tatchell, RuPaul… the names of pioneers and trailblazers who have advanced the LGBT cause and helped bring about new human rights.
Thi
- Author: Manelli, Florent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1913641287
- Language: English
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Kitchener (Berlin) 1880-1960
$24.99 Read moreKitchener, Ontario, is a community with two histories. As Berlin, it was a rapidly growing and prosperous town reveling in its Germanic heritage. After dramatic civic upheavals from 1915 to 1919, it e… [more below]
- Series: Image of Canada
- Author: Mills, Rych
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 03 2002
- ISBN10: 073851151X
- Language: English
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The Fables of Aesop
$45.00 Read moreThis brilliant new hardcover version of Aesop’s timeless tales offers a fresh take on the classic 1909 Hodder and Stoughton edition. Newly reset and decorated with ornate borders and running heads, th… [more below]
- Series: Calla Editions
- Author: Detmold, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1606600567
- Language: English
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Badly Behaved Women: The Story of Modern Feminism
$29.95 Read moreBadly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women’s movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonc , body positivity and #MeToo.
In the
- Author: Crowhurst, Anna-Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0233006222
- Language: English
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
$27.99 Read moreThis unique, absorbing biography of Jerusalem brings to light its overlooked histories and diverse contemporary voices.
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old Ci- Author: Teller, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1635423341
- Language: English
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Next: A Brief History of the Future
$18.00 Read moreStar Trek-loving inventors who 3D print in space, vegan researchers who replicate the composition and chemical structures of meat in a lab, and mad scientists who save humans from terrible disorders b
- Author: Jorisch, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 9657023750
- Language: English
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
$16.95 Read moreThe cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them today. But what was it like to live in B
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500293406
- Language: English
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Impossible Histories: The Soviet Republic of Alaska, the United States of Hudsonia, President Charlemagne, and Other Pivotal Moments of Hist
$24.99 Read moreAcross 1400 years and six continents (sorry, Australia), Impossible Histories examines pivotal moments in history from both sides–what happened and what would have happened had things gone differentl
- Author: Johnson, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250809673
- Language: English
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A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
$21.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of Iran, from the ancient Persian empires to today
Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Frida- Author: Axworthy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 24 2016
- ISBN10: 0465098762
- Language: English
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The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
$34.95 Read moreIn the single month of September 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated or disciplined six of its members. These six individuals-some of them intellectuals, some activist… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Sara M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1560854669
- Language: English
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Narratives of the New England Witchcraft Cases
$29.99 Read moreA rising tide of witchcraft hysteria overwhelmed the sober Puritan communities of 17th-century New England, culminating in the notorious Salem witch trials of 1692. Rooted in religious zealotry as wel
- Author: Burr, George Lincoln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0486420558
- Language: English
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Scotland: A Concise History
$16.95 Add to cartBringing the story of Scotland up to date, this revised fifth edition of Fitzroy Maclean’s classic work includes additional chapters by distinguished journalist Magnus Linklater. Linklater examines ho
- Author: Linklater, Magnus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0500294720
- Language: English
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Lenin’s Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-23
$17.00 Read moreIn 1922 and 1923, V.I. Lenin, central leader of the world’s first socialist revolution, waged what was to be his last political battle. At stake was whether that revolution, and the international move… [more below]
- Author: Lenin, V. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 379
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1604880279
- Language: English
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A Pocket History of Ireland
$9.95 Read moreEncompassing stories of some of Ireland’s best known characters as well as key moments in Ireland’s past, this pocket history recalls the country’s struggles through dark times, its successes, its peo… [more below]
- Author: McCullough, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0717147290
- Language: English
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
$26.00 Add to cartBy the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies o… [more below]
- Author: Green, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 650
- Publish Date: March 05 2021
- ISBN10: 022678973X
- Language: English
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Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
$22.00 Read more“His is a voice that must be heard.” –Patti Smith
“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving.”
–Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown- Author: Kamysh, Markiyan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601271
- Language: English
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Ireland: A Terrible Beauty
$18.99 Read moreJill and Leon Uris came to Ireland looking for answers. Why was Ireland bled by one internal war after another? How can one country contain such greatness and grief? What they discovered was more than
- Author: Uris, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798200724321
- Language: English
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Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison
$31.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodi… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593632079
- Language: English
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The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
$19.99 Read moreThe Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms … [more below]
- Author: Eisner, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328600
- Language: English
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madne… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 1980
- ISBN10: 039473954X
- Language: English
