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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
$27.00 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 Add to cartIn 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
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns: (True Crime Gift)
$19.99 Add to cartSmall towns have always been thought of as sleepy places where nothing bad ever happens, but as Mitzi Szereto’s The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns shows that bad things can and do happen in … [more below]
- Series: Best New True Crime Stories
- Author: Szereto, Mitzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1642502804
- Language: English
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The Spanish Civil War
$26.00 Add to cart“Mr. Thomas has understood the Spanish Civil War] incredibly well and has written it superbly. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject.”–Vincent Sheean, The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Thomas, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: December 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0375755152
- Language: English
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The First World War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBy the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known.
This Very Short Introduction provides a concise- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Howard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0199205590
- Language: English
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You Can Free Yourself from the Karma of Chaos
$16.95 Add to cartWe have come here as a group to help you because it is a pivotal time in your planet’s evolution. You are seeing monumental changes in your society now. To achieve the shifts that these transfiguratio
- Author: Spalding, Tina Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1622330579
- Language: English
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
$34.99 Read moreConnecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this… [more below]
- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 019931599X
- Language: English
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Half Century, Baby!: Fifty Years of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat
$70.00 Add to cartHalf Century, Baby! marks the 50th anniversary of the first two Grumman F-14A fleet squadrons (VF-1 and VF-2) receiving their first Tomcats during the summer of 1973. This lavishly illustrated volume … [more below]
- Author: Bangs?, Mads
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1911658921
- Language: English
