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From Light Into Darkness: The Evolution of Religion in Ancient Egypt
$16.95PaperbackRead moreHave popular modern religions developed out of practices in ancient Egypt? Did religion in Egypt represent only a shadow of the spiritual practices of prehistoric people? This work explores the teachi… [more below]
- Author: Mehler, Stephen S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1931882495
- Language: English
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By: Vogel, Steve
Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation
$19.99PaperbackRead more“A riveting and vivid account. … A remarkable story. … It reads like a Hollywood screenplay.” —Foreign Affairs
The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage
- Author: Vogel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062449605
- Language: English
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By: Agamben, Giorgio
Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cart“In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essen
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 189095117X
- Language: English
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By: Cornelius, Carol
A History in Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era
$49.95PaperbackAdd to cart- Author: Cornelius, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 197660009X
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95PaperbackRead moreThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
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Phenomenology of Perception
$45.99PaperbackAdd 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 Anatomy of Fascism
$18.00PaperbackRead moreWhat is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.
From the first violent uniformed bands b- Author: Paxton, Robert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 321
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 1400033918
- Language: English
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By: Back, Joe
Horses, Hitches, and Rocky Trails: The Packer’s Bible
$12.95PaperbackAdd to cartWritten in the language of the West, this is a complete and often humorous presentation of packing horses into the wilderness. Amplified by the beautiful, often witty drawings, Back includes step-by-s… [more below]
- Series: Little Western Library
- Author: Back, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1555664776
- Language: English
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By: Nirenberg, David
Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
$21.99PaperbackRead moreThis incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational an… [more below]
- Author: Nirenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0393347915
- Language: English
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By: Harte, Jeremy
Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape
$16.00PaperbackRead moreNow in paperback, an exploration of the myths of England’s deceptively bucolic rolling hills and country lanes believed to be created and shaped by the Dark Lord himself.
According to legend, the Eng- Author: Harte, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1789148332
- Language: English
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By: Kennedy, John F.
A Nation of Immigrants
$15.99PaperbackAdd to cart“In this timeless book, President Kennedy shows how the United States has always been enriched by the steady flow of men, women, and families to our shores. It is a reminder that America’s best leader
- Author: Kennedy, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0062859692
- Language: English
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The History of Money
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cart“If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read “–Charles R. Schwab
Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationshi- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0609801724
- Language: English
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By: Hardy, Kerry
Notes on a Lost Flute: A Field Guide to the Wabanaki
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartAnyone interested in Native American lifeways will want to pore over Notes on a Lost Flute. Hardy brings together his expertise in forestry, horticulture, and environmental science to tell us about Ne… [more below]
- Author: Hardy, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0892727799
- Language: English
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
$30.00PaperbackAdd to cartThis classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships
Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a- Author: Moore, Barrington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807050733
- Language: English
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By: Riggs, Christina
Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-On Guide
$24.95HardcoverRead moreIn the ancient world, if you needed a love charm, wanted to contact your dead wife, or needed the ability to fly like a bird, the magicians of Egypt were the ones who could make it happen. In Ancient
- Author: Riggs, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0500052123
- Language: English
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The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartA documentary drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald is … [more below]
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 151790644X
- Language: English
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By: Elliott, Alicia
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
$19.99PaperbackRead more“In her raw, unflinching memoir . . . she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community . . . A searing cry.” —New York Times Book Review
The- Author: Elliott, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 161219866X
- Language: English
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Under the Lilacs
$7.99PaperbackAdd to cartA boy runs away from the circus in search of his father and finds a new family along the way in this coming-of-age classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women.
Twelve-year-old Ben Brown- Series: The Louisa May Alcott Hidden Gems Collection
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1665926252
- Language: English
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Exploring the White House: Inside America’s Most Famous Home
$8.99PaperbackAdd to cart#1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower shares a special inside look into the most famous home in America–and the lives of hardworking staff members and first ladies who’ve maintain
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0062906429
- Language: English
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Under the Lilacs
$17.99HardcoverRead moreA boy runs away from the circus in search of his father and finds a new family along the way in this coming-of-age classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women.
Twelve-year-old Ben Brown- Series: The Louisa May Alcott Hidden Gems Collection
- Author: Alcott, Louisa May
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1665926260
- Language: English











