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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
$23.00 Add to cartIn Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict, told from both sides.
Setting the scene
- Author: Black, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128602
- Language: English
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Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
$18.99 Add to cartIn order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and
- Author: Watts, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1622037529
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670363X
- Language: English
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
$18.95 Add to cartThe remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map.
“Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.”
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- Author: Defoe, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457668
- Language: English
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The Social Contract
$11.00 Add to cart“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30, 1968
- ISBN10: 0140442014
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$20.00 Add to cartErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd beco… [more below]- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 030740885X
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
$9.99 Add to cartUpdated with enlightening new material, this is the complete, definitive edition of Anne Frank‘s diary, “the single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust” (The New York Times Book Review) … [more below]
- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 03 1997
- ISBN10: 0553577123
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Global Justice: Three Essays on Liberation and Socialism
$13.95 Add to cartThree speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.
In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1644211564
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil and The Antichrist: Two Books in One
$18.99 Add to cartIn Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of foun
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9355224206
- Language: English
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A Spoonful of Sugar: The Story of the Upjohn Pharmacy in Disneyland
$29.95 Add to cartTake a nostalgic stroll down Main Street, U.S.A., and step inside a remarkable intersection of American innovation, family legacy, and Disney magic. A Spoonful of Sugar tells the fascinating story of … [more below]
- Author: Hall, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992564501
- Language: English
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The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
$24.99 Add to cartEurope, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and … [more below]
- Author: Blom, Philipp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020291
- Language: English
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Us and Allied Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan, 2009-21
$21.00 Add to cartAn illustrated study of the development and operations of coalition and Afghan Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan from 2009 until the withdrawal in 2021.
At the end of 2008, the clearly inadequ- Series: Elite #264
- Author: Parkinson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 147286493X
- Language: English
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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
$42.50 Add to cartCharacterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial-era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the mis
- Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
- Author: Kitchens, Joel Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1648433405
- Language: English
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Never Will It Be Lost: Ritual, Remembrance, and the Aztec Calendar
$30.00 Add to cartAs Indigenous Chicanos and Mesoamerican descendants raised in the United States, many of us grow up feeling both rooted and displaced at the same time. We live on land we feel deeply connected to, yet
- Author: Tlapoyawa, Kurly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218932169
- Language: English
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The History of the World in 12 Soccer Matches
$28.99 Add to cartAn epic tale of war, revolution, economic crisis, and social transformation told through the story of twelve historic soccer games, with a gallery of unexpected heroes, thwarted tragedies, and stunnin… [more below]
- Author: Bizzotto, Stefano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1685892299
- Language: English
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
$20.00 Read moreA strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more th- Author: McPhee, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228694
- Language: English
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Axis of Empire: A History of Iranus Relations
$34.95 Add to cartA chronicle of intrigue and influence in the Iran-US entanglement
Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States a- Author: Matin-Asgari, Afshin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1839762268
- Language: English
