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By: Ryrie, Alec
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
$24.00HardcoverAdd to cartExamining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis–and where it might take us.
We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cult- Author: Ryrie, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390823
- Language: English
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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World
$26.00PaperbackAdd to cartFor the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wa… [more below]
- Author: Herwig, Holger H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812978293
- Language: English
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By: Kerouac, Jack
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
$30.00PaperbackAdd to cart“[An] essential Beat masterpiece.” —The Village Voice.
Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119540
- Language: English
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By: Zygar, Mikhail
The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia’s Short-Lived Victory Over Totalitarianism
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never ove… [more below]
- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668013908
- Language: English
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By: Wolf, Thomas
Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season
$36.95HardcoverAdd to cartIn the mid-1920s, America was in the throes of exuberant excess and clashing social change. It was the era of Prohibition and speakeasies; the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan; popular evangelists, inc… [more below]
- Author: Wolf, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496235789
- Language: English
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By: Eagleton, Terry
Modernism: A Literature in Crisis
$26.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism
Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanning artforms and nations. It was centred around feelings of gro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284373
- Language: English
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By: Leblond, Renaud
The Swimmer of Auschwitz: The Incredible True Story of the Olympic Hero Who Swam for His Life
$14.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story.
“Sports writer Leblond revisits in his propulsive English-language debut the life of Alfred Nakache- Author: Leblond, Renaud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1800962967
- Language: English
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By: Garriga, Ana
Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
$28.99HardcoverAdd to cartAn infectiously edifying, not-so-saintly self-help book that dives into the wild, wise, and unconventional lives of 16th- and 17th-century nuns, offering advice for our modern age and proving one thin… [more below]
- Author: Garriga, Ana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668065517
- Language: English
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By: Cohen, Adam
Captain’s Dinner: A Shipwreck, an Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartFour men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. “A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can … [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893310597
- Language: English
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By: Century, Douglas
Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe’s Jews During World War II
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe awe-inspiring and largely untold story of Hannah Senesh, a female paratrooper in World War II whose courage and sacrifice during a daring mission to rescue Europe’s Jews left an indelible mark on … [more below]
- Author: Century, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668035278
- Language: English
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By: Englund, Peter
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
$23.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through i… [more below]
- Author: Englund, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0525434933
- Language: English
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By: O'Reilly, Bill
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller, first time in paperback!
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide wen- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250420962
- Language: English
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By: Van Duyne, Emily
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110368
- Language: English
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By: Deleuze, Gilles
On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981
$34.95PaperbackAdd to cartAvailable for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars on painting
From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental Un
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918405
- Language: English
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By: Watts, Jonathan
The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia Theory
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cart“Utterly fascinating–a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius.”–Robert MacFarlane
Based on in-depth interviews with James Lovelock and unprecedented access to his pe- Author: Watts, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402488
- Language: English
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By: Hill, Gord
The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartWith fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements
When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill’s The Antif
- Author: Hill, Gord
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1834050049
- Language: English
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany–And the Spy Who Betrayed Them
$33.99PaperbackAdd to cart“An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.”–Mi
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063453118
- Language: English
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By: Rosen, Jeffrey
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s F… [more below]
- Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668002485
- Language: English
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By: Walsh, Toby
The Shortest History of AI: The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It
$16.95PaperbackRead moreSince Alan Turing first posed the question “Can machines think?” artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Walsh, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030891
- Language: English
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By: Rosen, Ruth
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America
$30.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Newly Revised and Updated Edition
In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women’s movement from its beginnin- Author: Rosen, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0140097198
- Language: English



















