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Operation Barbarossa: The History of a Cataclysm
$42.99 Add to cartAuthor of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of the largest military operation not only of World War … [more below]
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197547214
- Language: English
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The Pianist (Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition): The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
$18.00 Read moreThe 75th Anniversary Edition of the memoir that inspired Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winning film, with a new introduction by Szpilman’s son, Andrzej
On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin- Author: Szpilman, Wladyslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1250249546
- Language: English
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
$19.99 Read more“Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done…great fun to read.” — New York Times Book Review
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253170
- Language: English
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
$18.95 Add to cartIn this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918–which inspired events that forever changed the European continent–here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and ris… [more below]
- Author: Hoyer, Katja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362975
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$56.00 Add to cartJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
$25.00 Read moreThe first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst.
Reinhold Kulle s- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Soffer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835545
- Language: English
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The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America
$32.50 Add to cartFrom true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history–a story of glitz, glamour,
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063265532
- Language: English
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
$33.00 Add to cartA Washington Post most anticipated fall book
“How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently dema
A legendary editor’s reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends.- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0374270961
- Language: English
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
$24.00 Add to cartHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architect- Author: Cockett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279361
- Language: English
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Let’s Make Things Better: A Holocaust Survivor’s Message of Hope and Celebration of Life
$28.00 Add to cartIn this hopeful book, a holocaust survivor shares how his experiences have taught him to keep hope alive for the future-and how we can rise up against hate in the face of adversity.
Gidon Lev is one- Author: Lev, Gidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0306835630
- Language: English
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New York: An Illustrated History (Revised and Expanded)
$75.00 Read moreAn expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York–with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations–that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city fro… [more below]
- Author: Burns, Ric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 059353414X
- Language: English
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A Social History of Western Political Thought
$34.95 Read moreA sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating cano- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766093
- Language: English
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Grant at 200: Reconsidering the Life and Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant
$32.95 Read moreProceeds from this volume will go to support the Ulysses S. Grant Association and the Grant Monument Association.
Ulysses S. Grant stood at the center of the American Civil War maelstrom. The Ohio nati… [more below]
- Author: Mackowski, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216141
- Language: English
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The Boy Generals: George Custer, Wesley Merritt, and the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac: Volume 2 – From the Gettysburg Retreat Through the Shenan
$34.95 Read more“Al Ovies combines an impressive array of source material and intricate analysis to craft a historical gem. This is a must-read for anyone interested in Civil War cavalry and later war actions in the … [more below]
- Author: Ovies, Adolfo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216176
- Language: English
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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London
$28.00 Read moreThe intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
“Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the ci- Author: Jackson, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0300266200
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScholars have largely misunderstood Soren Kierkegaard, remembering him chiefly in connection with the development of existentialist philosophy in this century. In a short and unhappy life, he wrote ma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #58
- Author: Gardiner, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802569
- Language: English
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Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall: From America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
$17.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Who was Bobby Fischer? In this “nuanced perspective of the chess genius” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed biographer chronicles his meteoric rise and confounding fall, wit… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0307463915
- Language: English
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Revolution Song: The Story of America’s Founding in Six Remarkable Lives
$17.95 Read moreAt a time when America’s founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto looks back to the era in which those principles were forged. In Revolution Song, Shorto weaves the lives
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356213
- Language: English
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Heirs of the Founders: Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
$22.00 Read moreFrom the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War comes “a historical spellbinder” (The Christian Science Monitor) about a trio of political giants in… [more below]
- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433902
- Language: English
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Making Dances That Matter: Resources for Community Creativity
$27.95 Read moreDance innovator shares wisdom and scores
Anna Halprin, vanguard postmodern dancer turned community artist and healer, has created ground-breaking dances with communities all over the world. Here, she p
- Author: Halprin, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0819575658
- Language: English
