General History
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Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
$18.95 Add to cartFor Fans of True-Life Pirate Stories
“Only someone who has lived in the shadows chasing faded pirates for an age, and is blessed with creativity, can pull off a book of this high caliber.” –Wreck Watch
- Author: Simon, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1642503371
- Language: English
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Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History
$34.95 Add to cartCatholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs
“Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction.”–Nature
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, a
- Author: Auzanneau, Matthieu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1603589783
- Language: English
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Rameses III, King of Egypt: His Life and Afterlife
$40.83 Read moreMaster story-teller and renowned Egyptologist, Aiden Dodson, reveals the secrets of Rameses III, in this fully-illustrated, accessible history, the first to exclusively cover this last great pharaoh, … [more below]
- Author: Dodson, Aidan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 9774169409
- Language: English
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Burton Holmes. Travelogues. the Greatest Traveler of His Time 1892-1952
$29.17 Read moreIt was the Belle ?poque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home.
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Caldwell, Genoa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 31 2018
- ISBN10: 3836557800
- Language: English
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Introduction to Maat Philosophy: Introduction to Maat Philosophy: Ancient Egyptian Ethics & Metaphysics
$29.27 Add to cartINTRODUCTION TO MAAT PHILOSOPHY: Spiritual Enlightenment Through the Path of Virtue Known as Karma Yoga in India, the teachings of MAAT for living virtuously and with orderly wisdom are explained and … [more below]
- Series: Spiritual Enlightenment Through the Path of Virtue
- Author: Ashby, Muata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1884564208
- Language: English
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The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays
$15.00 Add to cartA collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. The Struggle Against the State and ot… [more below]
- Author: Makhno, Nestor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1873176783
- Language: English
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
$24.95 Add to cartThe emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and t… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Febvre, Lucien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1844676331
- Language: English
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A History of Native American Land Rights in Upstate New York
$24.99 Add to cartA complex and troubled history defines the borders of upstate New York beyond the physical boundaries of its rivers and lakes. The United States and the state were often deceptive in their territory n… [more below]
- Author: Amrhein, Cindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14 2016
- ISBN10: 1626199310
- Language: English
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The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship
$22.95 Add to cartTwo days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. … [more below]
- Series: Seafaring America
- Author: Farinelli, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1611687055
- Language: English
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Canoe Indians of Down East Maine
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1604, when Frenchmen landed on Saint Croix Island, they were far from the first people to walk along its shores.
For thousands of years, Etchemins–whose descendants were members of the Wabanaki Con
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Haviland, William a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1609496655
- Language: English
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The Conquest of New Spain
$22.99 Add to cartVivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma’s doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes … [more below]
- Author: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Diaz Del Casti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 28 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961806
- Language: English
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Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism
$45.00 Add to cartPublic interest in Adolf Hitler and all aspects of the Third Reich continues to grow as new generations ponder the moral questions surrounding Nazi Germany and its historical legacy. One aspect of Naz… [more below]
- Author: Luhrssen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1597978574
- Language: English
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It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust
$19.99 Add to cartIMAGINE ELIZABETH BETTINA’S SURPRISE when she discovered that her grandmother’s village had a secret: over a half century ago, many of Campagna’s residents defied the Nazis and risked their lives to
- Author: Bettina, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1595553215
- Language: English
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More Than Dates and Dead People: Recovering a Christian View of History
$10.95 Add to cartMore Than Dates & Dead People: Recovering a Christian View of History, by Stephen Mansfield, is a lively, upbeat, edgy look at history as something exciting rather than a boring list of dates to memo… [more below]
- Author: Mansfield, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1581821182
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of Muskoka
$42.99 Add to cartGhost Towns of Muskoka explores the tragic history of a collection of communities from across Muskoka whose stars have long since faded. Today, these ghost towns are merely a shadow — or spectre — o
- Author: Hind, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 16 2008
- ISBN10: 1550027964
- Language: English
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The Holocaust: A New History
$21.99 Add to cartn June 1944, Freda Wineman and her family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration and death camp. After a cursory look from an SS doctor, Freda’s life was spared and her mother … [more below]
- Author: Rees, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1541730070
- Language: English
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United States Life-Saving Service in Michigan
$39.99 Add to cartMichigan, the Great Lakes State, is full of rich maritime traditions and with these traditions comes the danger and risk of shipwreck. Author William D. Peterson has compiled in this new book a photog… [more below]
- Author: Peterson, William D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 30 2000
- ISBN10: 1531604854
- Language: English
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
$38.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The first definitive history of Israel’s targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world–from the man hailed by Davi… [more below]
- Author: Bergman, Ronen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1400069718
- Language: English
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México
$13.95 Add to cartLa ciudad donde los sueños conviven con las tragedias.
Capital de imperios, ciudad de palacios, metrópoli cosmopolita, pero también víctima de los embates de la naturaleza. Sus tragedias no tienen
- Author: Palou, Pedro Ángel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 6070786505
- Language: Spanish
