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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
$18.00 Add to cartOne of the most important economic documents of the 20th century
John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiat- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Keynes, John Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140188053
- Language: English
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Dark London: A Journey Through the City’s Mysterious and Macabre Underworld
$22.99 Add to cartFrom dark crimes of passion to shocking tales of grave robbing, gruesome murders, dens of iniquity, Victorian s?ances and haunted houses – not far beneath London’s everyday bustle and glitter there ha
- Author: Gray, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004249
- Language: English
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WITH A NEW PREFACE – From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organ… [more below]
- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0593471202
- Language: English
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Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur
$32.50 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman turns his sharp eye and meticulous storytelling to one of pop culture’s most enduring and enigmatic figures–Tupac Shakur–presenting the definitive ret
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063304570
- Language: English
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague
$24.00 Add to cart“Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me–or monsters?” asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed duri… [more below]
- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035428
- Language: English
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Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination
$35.00 Add to cartA deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, M- Author: Ball, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300258046
- Language: English
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Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
$17.95 Add to cartTOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes’s and Chris Abani’s introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations t
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142559
- Language: English
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The West: The History of an Idea
$39.95 Add to cartA comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West
How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did “Westerners” beg- Author: Varouxakis, Georgios
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 069117718X
- Language: English
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A Popular History of IDI Amin’s Uganda
$35.00 Add to cartHow Africa’s most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the count- Author: Peterson, Derek R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278381
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
$7.33 Add to cartThe Great Jazz Age Novel
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The 1925 Original Version, with Classroom History
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The Great Gatsby is considered F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, exploring themes of decadence, idealism, social
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1936767848
- Language: English
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The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
$19.99 Add to cartA Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five young, Polish Jewish
- Author: Hyman, Elizabeth R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0063355019
- Language: English
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On Elizabeth Bishop
$16.95 Add to cartA compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today’s most acclaimed novelists
In this book, novelist Colm T?ib?n offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most im- Series: Writers on Writers #7
- Author: TóibÃn, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271046
- Language: English
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The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642
$35.00 Add to cartA riveting account of the five heated months in which King Charles I attempted to arrest five dissident Members of Parliament by bringing an armed force to the House of Commons–a shocking act of poli… [more below]
- Author: Healey, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0593803086
- Language: English
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Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus
$25.00 Add to cartNATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER – Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals – Featured in the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is … [more below]
- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0375715371
- Language: English
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Mukden 1905: Russia and Japan’s Battle for Manchuria
$25.00 Read moreA compelling narrative of the largest land battle of its time, and the decisive engagement of the Russo-Japanese War.
Mukden stands out as the most significant battle of the Russo-Japanese War. By Feb- Series: Campaign #413
- Author: Valitutto, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1472864220
- Language: English
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Everyday Life in Early America
$17.99 Add to cart“In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers.”–Publishers We… [more below]
- Series: Everyday Life in America Series
- Author: Hawke, David F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060912510
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
$13.99 Add to cart‘I was at one of those periods in youth–vacant, without any particular love object–when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.’
In the Shadow o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0192845675
- Language: English
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Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World
$35.00 Add to cartIn the early 1960s, a peaceful world was an imaginable goal. The still-young United Nations was widely respected and regarded as humankind’s best hope for resolving global conflicts. African and Asian
- Author: Myint-U, Thant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051973
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
$19.00 Add to cartIn the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679753346
- Language: English
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The Street Children of Dickens’s London
$24.95 Read moreMany poor and vulnerable people lived on the streets of Victorian cities. They were the victims of rapid industrialisation, a government policy of non-intervention regarding social issues and the hars… [more below]
- Author: Amy, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1848688466
- Language: English
