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Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
$29.99 Add to cartFrom 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. Sponsoring lavish trips to Africa and Central Asia, the mu
- Author: Lunde, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065672
- Language: English
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Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
$35.00 Add to cartDemocracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germany’s first democracy endured for fourteen t
- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110546
- Language: English
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
$20.00 Add to cartIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history-from the fall o… [more below]
- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400030277
- Language: English
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Philip Roth: Stung by Life
$28.00 Add to cartA landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life
In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Phili- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Zipperstein, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300251556
- Language: English
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The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
$19.99 Add to cartBuilt in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825430
- Language: English
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Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed the World
$34.95 Add to cartThe gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history forever.
From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao’s- Author: Hall, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0571367151
- Language: English
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The Power and the Glory: The History of the World Cup
$35.00 Add to cartA definitive new history of the world’s most watched sporting event–just in time for the 2026 tournament
Since 1930, the World Cup has become a truly global obsession. It is the most watched- Author: Wilson, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030407
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$12.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110317
- Language: English
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Goethe: A Life in Ideas
$39.95 Add to cartA new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics. I- Author: Bell, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0691153957
- Language: English
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The Information Bomb
$19.95 Add to cart“Civilization or the militarization of science?”
With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Virilio, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 1844670597
- Language: English
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Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
$19.95 Add to cartA deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance
Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did “modern policing”- Author: Bean, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903735
- Language: English
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Chasing the Dark: A 140-Year Investigation of Paranormal Activity
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping narrative that uses the case files of Tony Cornell and the Society for Physical Research to examine our interactions and obsessions with all things paranormal.
Tony Cornell spent his life- Author: Machell, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1538770687
- Language: English
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Raincoast Chronicles 25: M̓am̓aɫa Goes Fishing
$22.95 Add to cartThis 25th edition of Raincoast Chronicles intertwines Alan Haig-Brown’s experiences of his formative years as a deckhand on a We Wai Kai seiner with the historical and cultural context of BC’s commerc
- Series: Raincoast Chronicles #25
- Author: Haig-Brown, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1998526186
- Language: English
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Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph … [more below]
- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593685539
- Language: English
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Kant: A Revolution in Thinking
$29.95 Add to cartA foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.
Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His- Author: Willaschek, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674296109
- Language: English
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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance
$21.99 Add to cart“The phrase jazz dance has a special meaning for professionals who dance to jazz music (they use it to describe non-tap body movement); and another meaning for studios coast to coast teaching ‘Modern … [more below]
- Author: Stearns, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: March 22 1994
- ISBN10: 0306805537
- Language: English
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Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism by Fire
$31.99 Add to cartBetween 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324117575
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: An Intimate History
$80.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America’s founding struggle–expanding on … [more below]
- Author: Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 052565867X
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition
$14.95 Add to cartChe Guevara’s classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy.
Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionar- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1644211467
- Language: English
