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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian
“Accessible and electric…. [Ellis] crisply covers the decis… [more below]- Author: Ellis, Joseph J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0307946371
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
$18.00 Read moreUnafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, u… [more below]
- Author: Glendon, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760466
- Language: English
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Art Deco Masterpieces of Art
$19.99 Read moreArt Deco style is everywhere, from travel posters to furniture, fine art to design. This new edition offers an introduction to this classic aesthetic.
Focusing on Art Deco graphic art and illustration- Series: Masterpieces of Art
- Author: Tyson, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1804173355
- Language: English
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Aces at Kursk: The Battle for Aerial Supremacy on the Eastern Front, 1943
$42.95 Read moreThe Battle of Kursk in July 1943 is known for being the largest tank battle in history. A Russian victory, it marked the decisive end of the German offensive capability on the Eastern Front and set th… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, Christopher A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1399081438
- Language: English
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The Essential Philosophical Works
$11.99 Read moreWith an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris.
David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume conta
- Series: Classics of World Literature
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: August 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1840226668
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Daniel Parker, Frontier Universalist
$36.95 Read moreA vastly informative and rare early-American pioneer autobiography rescued from obscurity.
In this remarkable memoir, Daniel Parker (1781-1861) recorded both the details of everyday life and the extra
- Author: Parker, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0821424297
- Language: English
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King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles Edited by Duff Hart-Davis
$22.99 Read more‘Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless’ Spectator
‘Fascinating … as much a contribution to royal legend as to the history of the war’ Daily Telegraph As Assistant Private Secretary to- Author: Lascelles, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1474618200
- Language: English
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Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
$32.95 Read moreA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year
The history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could h
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year- Author: Gewirtz, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674241843
- Language: English
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Subaltern Studies 2.0: Being Against the Capitalocene
$13.95 Read moreOn a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions.
State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security a- Author: Banerjee, Milinda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: November 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1734643536
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Living
$14.50 Read moreThis volume asks poignant questions about what it means to be alive and inhabit the present.
Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary–to be alive–and the absolutenes- Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
- Author: Jullien, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090561
- Language: English
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21 Days to Baghdad: General Buford Blount and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War
$35.00 Read moreAn authoritative military history of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom, describing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the siege and fall of Baghdad, and the nation-building miss
- Author: Stur, Heather Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853636
- Language: English
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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father
$18.99 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE
A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria
Two decades before he led America to independe
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0062416073
- Language: English
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Facing Black Star
$34.95 Read moreThe Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency’s print collection.
In 2005, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryers- Series: Ric Books (Ryerson Image Centre Books)
- Author: Gervais, Thierry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047845
- Language: English
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The Will to Power
$20.00 Read moreRepresents a selection from Nietzche’s notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.
Nietzsche’s notebooks, kept by him during hi- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704371
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Read moreRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
$21.00 Add to cartErica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast er… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721754
- Language: English
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The Stories They Tell: Artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum
$29.95 Read moreThis poignant selection of artifacts–and their stories–from September 11 provides an official, lasting record of that day’s experience. In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is tol… [more below]
- Author: Greenwald, Alice M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0847841332
- Language: English
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The Death of Joachim Murat: 1815 and the Unfortunate Fate of One of Napoleon’s Marshals
$42.95 Read moreThe only English-language book on the fall and death of Joachim Murat and the final act in the drama of the Napoleonic Wars.
Joachim Murat, son of an innkeeper, had won his spurs as Napoleon’s finest c… [more below]
- Author: North, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1399058401
- Language: English
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The Black Campus Movement: A History of Black Student Activism
$19.99 Add to cartIn his first book, published in 2012, Ibram X. Kendi provided the first national study of when Black students organized, demanded, and protested against racism in almost every US State between 1965 an
- Series: Contemporary Black History
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 313
- Publish Date: June 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3031373936
- Language: English
