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The World After Gaza: A History
$28.00 Add to cartFrom one of our foremost public intellectuals, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza that reframes our understanding of the ongoing conflict, its historical roots, and the fractured global respo… [more below]
- Author: Mishra, Pankaj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit
$45.00 Add to cartHegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel proposed an arresting and novel picture of the relation of mind to wor… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Hegel Translations
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Fredrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: January 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1108730086
- Language: English
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On Sunny Days We Sang: A Holocaust Story of Survival and Resilience
$24.95 Add to cartWhen the Germans march into their little Polish shtetl at the start of World War II, the Jews of Wlodawa see their lives abruptly torn apart. For Hil and Alexandra it marks the beginning of a struggle
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII
- Author: Grunhaus de Gelman, Jeannette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14 2022
- ISBN10: 9493276198
- Language: English
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Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times
$32.00 Add to cartA “beautiful, deep, thoughtful” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning–and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety
- Author: Heine, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541600819
- Language: English
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F. Scott Fitzgerald on Writing
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s remarks on his craft, taken from his works and letters to friends and colleagues—an essential trove of advice for aspiring writers.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald famou- Author: Phillips, Larry W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668070367
- Language: English
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Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
$26.00 Add to cartThe untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history
In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European inte- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Mittelmeier, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 300259301
- Language: English
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The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
$29.99 Add to cartWe often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global populat
- Author: Brands, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 132403694X
- Language: English
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Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
$29.99 Add to cartLong before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to P
- Author: Dwork, Deb?rah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020342
- Language: English
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Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
$25.00 Add to cart“Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop
Alice Notley, the author of m
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987828816
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War
$40.00 Add to cartAn in-depth, authoritative account of the fall of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in World War I and in modern warfare–by the founding editor of MHQ: The… [more below]
- Author: Cowley, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1400068525
- Language: English
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Defense Against Drones: Defending Against Threats From The Air – Combatting Scout and Attack Drones
$19.90 Add to cartPROTECTION AGAINST THREATS FROM THE AIR
Drones have become a very particular challenge on the modern battlefield. Particularly small commercially available drones pose a massive threat against militar
- Series: Spartanat Black Book #5
- Author: Nagy, Krist?f
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 3903526177
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$32.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Me… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0385548265
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
$27.95 Add to cartAn encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulen- Author: Schl?gel, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0691237298
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartAn 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
