General History
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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 Read moreBringing 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 Add to cartEncompassing 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 Add to cartThe 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
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Phenomenology of Perception
$48.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Ph?om?ologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with th
- Author: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 610
- Publish Date: August 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0415834333
- Language: English
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The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994
$23.00 Read moreAuthor of the groundbreaking The Question of Palestine, Edward Said has been America’s most outspoken advocate for Palestinian self-determination. As these collected essays amply prove, he is also our… [more below]
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0679761454
- Language: English
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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
$19.00 Read moreIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm’s other
volumes, th… [more below]- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772545
- Language: English
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The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World’s Greatest Civilization
$25.00 Add to cartA magisterial account of how a tiny city-state in ancient Greece became history’s most influential civilization, from the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian
- Author: Everitt, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0812984986
- Language: English
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Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
$27.95 Read moreHonorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards – Performing Arts & Music
Popular music has long been a powerful force for social chang
Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition- Author: Schreiber, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1978839022
- Language: English
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El Futuro Recordado / The Remembered Future
$17.95 Read more«Los libros de Irene Vallejo, claros e inteligentes, se leen muy bien e invitan a pensar. En la mejor línea humanista. -CARLOS GARCÍA GUAL
La aparente contradicción que da título a este lib- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820968
- Language: Spanish
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Tragicomedia Mexicana 1: La Vida En México de 1940 a 1970 / Tragicomedy 1
$13.95 Read moreLa radiografía de un país hecha por uno de sus más conocidos autores.
En este primer volumen de la Tragicomedia mexicana, que comprende de 1940 a 1970, tenemos los grandes acontecimientos políticos… [more below]- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 6073820682
- Language: Spanish
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What Is History, Now?
$19.99 Read moreThis groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that h
- Author: Lipscomb, Suzannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 147462247X
- Language: English
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
$30.00 Read more“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life.”–Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestsel
- Author: Puhak, Shelley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1635574919
- Language: English
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African Europeans: An Untold History
$30.00 Read moreA dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent
One of the Best History Books of 2021 — Smithsonian
Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are o… [more below]
- Author: Otele, Olivette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1541619676
- Language: English
