General History
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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Cuba 1959: Novela. Ficcion Historica
$24.02 Add to cartCUBA 1959 is a fictional novel written in the Spanish language that recounts the determination and success of a group of young Cubans resisting against Fidel Castro’s takeover of the island on January
- Author: Rivero, Andres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: August 12, 2013
- ISBN10: 1481779559
- Language: Spanish
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Former People
$36.00 Add to cartThe riveting and harrowing story of the Russian nobility caught in the upheaval of the Revolution
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Kansas City Star an- Author: Smith, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037794
- Language: English
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La Contracultura En M?xico / Mexican Counterculture
$15.95 Read more«Una audaz radiograf?a sobre los movimientos contraculturales en M?xico en voz de uno de sus mayores exponentes. 190 p?ginas llenas de salvajes historias de rebeld?a, ingenuidad, incorrecci?n, d… [more below]
- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073824130
- Language: Spanish
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”–Dan Rather
To some- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0345455827
- Language: English
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
$38.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679726101
- Language: English
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Read moreA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World
$26.60 Add to cartA comprehensive narrative history of the ancient world’s center, from its founding to its modern rediscovery
The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the “omphalos”–th- Author: Scott, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169845
- Language: English
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The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
$22.95 Add to cartOne spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their disc
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Glob, P. V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590170903
- Language: English
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The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
$22.99 Read more100 fascinating, unexpected, and startling stories you didn’t learn in history class, presented by The History Channel
History is filled with unpredictable people and unbelievable stories. Consider:
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- Series: Greatest Stories Never Told
- Author: Beyer, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0060014016
- Language: English
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The Vikings: A History
$20.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and thrilling history of the Vikings for fans of the History Channel series, soon to return for its fifth season
From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared seamen and plundere- Author: Ferguson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0143118013
- Language: English
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Epigrams: With Parallel Latin Text
$16.95 Read more“If you’re one of those terribly serious readers, now is a good time to leave.”
The poet we call Martial, Marcus Valerius Martialis, lived by his wits in first-century Rome. Pounding the mean streets- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Martial
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199645450
- Language: English
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Tristes Tropiques
$22.00 Add to cartA milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology
This watershed work records Claude L?i-Strauss’s search for “a human society reduced to its most basic expression.” From
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Levi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106252
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
$29.95 Add to cartThe Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuri… [more below]
- Author: Arrighi, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1844673049
- Language: English
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The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy
$21.00 Add to cartDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Gre… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1137278838
- Language: English
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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
$35.00 Add to cartThis reader, compiled by renowned Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney in collaboration with the Solzhenitsyn family, provides in one volume a rich and representative se… [more below]
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1935191551
- Language: English
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb’s Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
“A fantastic tru… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0547248024
- Language: English
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. – “A splendid book in … [more below]
- Author: Sides, Hampton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0307946916
- Language: English
