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Korea: A New History of South and North
$18.00 Add to cartA major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day
“Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and ba- Author: Cha, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278705
- Language: English
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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
$11.00 Add to cartA lively new translation of Rousseau’s best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rou- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0141191759
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
$38.00 Add to cartThe first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
“Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple paths,- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267088
- Language: English
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They Flew: A History of the Impossible
$24.00 Read moreAn award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
“Historically rich and superbly written.”–David J. Davis, Wall Street Journa- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280076
- Language: English
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Patriot: A Memoir
$35.00 Add to cartThe powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.
Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 20- Author: Navalny, Alexei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0593320964
- Language: English
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El Diario de Ana Frank (Tapa Dura) / The Diary of Anne Frank
$12.95 Add to cart«No quiero haber vivido para nada, como la mayor?a de las personas. Quiero ser de utilidad y alegr?a para los que viven a mi alrededor, a?n sin conocerme. Quiero seguir viviendo, aun despu?s de
- Author: Frank, Ana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 6073917325
- Language: Spanish
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
$32.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri- Author: Herring, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600940
- Language: English
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Antisemitism in America: A Warning
$28.00 Add to cartIn an urgent and personal new book, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-elected Jewish official in America, sheds light on the Jewish American experience and sounds the alarm about the t… [more below]
- Author: Schumer, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538771624
- Language: English
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Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies
$34.95 Add to cartAfter World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were hired to work for newly formed government agencie… [more below]
- Author: Petty, Terrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640125698
- Language: English
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Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
$40.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more–from acclaimed cultural h… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Nicholas Fox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0307961591
- Language: English
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1939: Countdown to War
$24.00 Add to cart“Overy’s book is easily the best account of Europe’s descent into…death and destruction.” —Evening Standard (London)
A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history’s
- Author: Overy, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120069
- Language: English
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1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India
$24.95 Read moreThe year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people’s homes and their stories, and in political discourse.
- Author: Zakaria, Anam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 014345403X
- Language: English
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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
$29.95 Read moreA shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
- Author: Brown, Norman O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 387
- Publish Date: June 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0819561444
- Language: English
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I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior: Memoirs of an American Soldier
$13.00 Read moreFOR YOUNG READERS–A SPECIAL EDITION OF THE BESTSELLER, SEAL TEAM SIX
When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six–a secret unit made- Author: Wasdin, Howard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1250016436
- Language: English
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Representations of the Intellectual
$19.00 Read moreIn these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today.
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761276
- Language: English
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
$35.00 Add to cartTake a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world.
Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an es- Series: DK Ultimate Guides
- Author: Parker, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1465462406
- Language: English
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
$46.67 Read moreA panoramic global history of the nineteenth century
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti- Series: America in the World #20
- Author: Osterhammel, J?rgen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1192
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169802
- Language: English
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Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz
$16.95 Add to cartThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine.
Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece.
- Author: Venezia, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 0745643841
- Language: English
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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
$47.48 Add to cart- Author: Warraq, Ibn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591024846
- Language: English
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Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Metaxas is a scrupulous chronicler and has an eye for a good story. . . . full, instructive, and pacey.” –The Washington Post From #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric- Author: Metaxas, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1101980028
- Language: English
