General History
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The Inca: Lost Civilizations
$29.00 Add to cartFrom their mythical origins to astonishing feats of engineering, an expertly informed reassessment of one of the great empires of the Americas: the Inca.
In their heyday, the Inca ruled over the lar- Series: Lost Civilizations
- Author: Lane, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1789145465
- Language: English
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon: John Wesley Powell’s Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
$19.00 Read more“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”–The Wall Street Journal
A timely, thrilling acc
“A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history.”–Nature- Author: Ross, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0143128957
- Language: English
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
$35.00 Add to cartTake a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world.
Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an es- Series: DK Ultimate Guides
- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1465462406
- Language: English
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
$46.67 Read moreA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti- Series: America in the World #20
- Author: Osterhammel, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1192
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169802
- Language: English
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The Buccaneers of America
$14.95 Add to cartA cross between genuine privateers, commissioned to defend a country’s colonies and trade, and outright pirates, buccaneers were largely English, French, and Dutch adventurers who plied the waters amo
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Exquemelin, Alexander O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 26 2000
- ISBN10: 048640966X
- Language: English
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Mountain Spirit: The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone
$19.95 Read moreThere is still a pervasive notion that Indians did not inhabit the Yellowstone area. Drawing on the results of ongoing archaeological excavations and extensive ethnographic work among descendant nativ… [more below]
- Author: Loendorf, Lawrence L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0874808677
- Language: English
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Cuba & Angola the War for Free
$10.00 Read moreBeginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s white supremacist re… [more below]
- Author: Villegas, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1604880937
- Language: English
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Welcome to Maine (Welcome To)
$10.99 Add to cartWelcome to Maine! Whether they’re locals or visitors, young readers will love this bright, cheerful, fact-filled picture book celebration of “The Pine Tree State.”
With information about the state’s a- Series: Welcome to
- Author: Gilland, Asa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0593308107
- Language: English
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Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
$22.99 Read moreAn award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin’s vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them.
Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all- Author: Rees, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 161039965X
- Language: English
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The Story of Civilization Activity Book: Volume I – The Ancient World
$14.95 Read moreThe Activity Book and companion Teacher’s Manual provide a complete review of everything read in The Story of Civilization: The Ancient World, along with creative activities to accompany each chapter,… [more below]
- Author: Tan Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1505105714
- Language: English
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Unsettled: Lord Selkirk’s Scottish Colonists and the Battle for Canada’s West, 1813-1816
$23.95 Read moreThe fascinating story of the Red River Settlement, now Winnipeg, in the years 1813 to 1816, told with archival journals, reports, and letters
Unsettled tells the story of two hundred Highlanders who
- Author: Lower, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417184
- Language: English
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Anguish of the Jews (Revised and Updated): Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism
$27.95 Read more“The story told by Edward Flannery…calls not only for reform but for profound and meaningful repentance.” –David W. Tracy “A major contribution to Jewish-Christian relations.” –Marc Tanenbaum “It … [more below]
- Series: Studies in Judaism and Christianity
- Author: Flannery, Edward H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0809143240
- Language: English
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42
$25.00 Add to cartA Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus Reviews
In 1839, nearly 20,000 British troops poured through the mountain passes into Afghanistan and installed the exiled Shah Shuja on the thron- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0307948536
- Language: English
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Basic Call to Consciousness
$12.95 Read moreRepresentatives of the Six Nation Iroquois delivered three position papers titled “The Haudenosaunee Address to the Western World” at a conference on “Discrimination Against the Indigenous Populations… [more below]
- Author: Akwesasne Notes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1570671591
- Language: English
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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
$19.99 Read moreFor centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzlin
- Author: Lyons, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1608190587
- Language: English
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
$16.95 Add to cart“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” –Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
“Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing shor- Author: Jackson, Jeffrey H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643752057
- Language: English
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The Taming of the Shrew: Oxford School Shakespeare
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of The Taming of the Shrew is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scho… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0198392230
- Language: English
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The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five
$14.95 Add to cart“The fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world’s mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods”
Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the br- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Livy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199540047
- Language: English
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Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition
$21.99 Add to cartThis 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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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Add to cartThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
