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Footnote to History: From Hungary to America. The Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor
$19.95 Add to cartThe secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his e
- Series: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII
- Author: Laszlo, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9493322858
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$28.00 Add to cartA highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising and ever-evolving relevance of Milton’s epic poem through the scandalous life of its creator a… [more below]
- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602790
- Language: English
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege- Author: Albertus, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604814
- Language: English
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Planning the Murder of Anne Boleyn
$34.95 Read moreAnne Boleyn’s downfall was driven by political machinations, religious conflict, and alliances, with little connection to her alleged crimes.
Almost 500 years have passed since the death of Anne Boleyn… [more below]
- Author: Angus, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1399031864
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network
$29.99 Add to cartThis is the definitive account of the Western world’s most powerful–but least known–intelligence alliance, which remains central to the defense of the free world in a dangerously uncertain time.
Th- Author: Kerbaj, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1454952512
- Language: English
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Debunk It! Fake News Edition: How to Stay Sane in a World of Misinformation
$14.99 Read moreWe live in an era of misinformation, much of it spread by authority figures, including politicians, religious leaders, broadcasters, and, of course, apps and websites.
In this second edition, author J
- Author: Grant, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1942186592
- Language: English
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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
$19.95 Add to cartThe first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revo
- Author: Allen, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966289
- Language: English
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the United States and around the world.”–Dan Rather
To some- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0345455827
- Language: English
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Questions I Am Asked about the Holocaust
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the few remaining living Holocaust survivors answers the questions children ask her
“There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.”
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- Author: Fried, Hédi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1947534599
- Language: English
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
$38.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679726101
- Language: English
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Read moreA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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Hobbes
$12.99 Read moreThomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes may inde… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #64
- Author: Tuck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802550
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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Being and Time
$79.95 Add to cartThe publication in 1927 of Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time, signaled an intellectual event of the first order and had an impact in fields far beyond that of philosophy proper. Being and… [more below]
- Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1438432755
- Language: English
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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
$29.95 Add to cartThe Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuri… [more below]
- Author: Arrighi, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1844673049
- Language: English
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The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy
$21.00 Add to cartDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Gre… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1137278838
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality
$19.95 Read moreA concise, comprehensive overview of the “M Theory” and its application in today’s world, by a renowned American philosopher
Ken Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of ou- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 16 2001
- ISBN10: 1570628556
- Language: English
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb’s Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
“A fantastic tru… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0547248024
- Language: English
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7 Seconds to Die: A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting
$22.95 Read moreThe first full analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War–the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war–fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between Se… [more below]
- Author: Antal, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1636241239
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
$29.95 Read moreNo one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental imp
- Author: Sutton, Angela C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888444
- Language: English
