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Metamorphosis and Identity
$24.95 Read moreIn Metamorphosis and Identity, award-winning historian Caroline Walker Bynum explores the Western obsession with the nature of change and personal identity. Focusing on the twelfth and thirteenth cent
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2005
- ISBN10: 1890951234
- Language: English
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My Mother’s War: The Incredible True Story of How a Resistance Fighter Survived Three Concentration Camps
$16.99 Read more“A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.”–Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
The extraordinary story of Sabine Zuur, a… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1335469532
- Language: English
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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
$29.95 Read moreAn authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary.
Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama a- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271823
- Language: English
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Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe last century has been a tumultuous one for the culture and politics of Britain. Kenneth Morgan’s Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and conflict that have exi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Morgan, Kenneth O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2005
- ISBN10: 019285397X
- Language: English
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartWidely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the … [more below]
- Author: Barrett, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: July 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031386
- Language: English
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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
$29.95 Read moreFirst published almost a century ago, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all the major powers. Kaiser Wilhelm is said to ha… [more below]
- Series: Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor
- Author: Mahan, A. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0486255093
- Language: English
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Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
$18.95 Read moreIn the first comprehensive history of the links between autism and Nazism, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer uncovers how a diagnosis common today emerged from the atrocities of the Third Reich. A
- Author: Sheffer, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0393357791
- Language: English
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Day of the Assassins
$19.99 Read moreA forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
- Author: Burleigh, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 152903017X
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Volume 3: Armed Formations of the Luhansk People’s Republic 2014-2022
$29.95 Read more“These volumes have provided greater clarity about the war, since the media’s reporting on the war has been, by necessity, lacking in important details. If one is interested in the background to the w… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Crowther, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1804512176
- Language: English
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Ultimate Allied Fighters of the Second World War
$60.00 Read moreProfusely illustrated with technical drawings and provides exhaustive coverage on different models and variants.
During the five years of the Second World War, the power of engines and speed of aircraf… [more below]
- Author: Miranda, Justo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: March 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1781558884
- Language: English
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Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost
$21.00 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – National Bestseller – A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change th… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1400075351
- Language: English
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1969: The Year Everything Changed
$24.95 Read moreWoodstock, the moon landing, Charles Manson, Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, and more. A must-read for baby boomers and the generations that came after!
Here is a rich, comprehensive narrative, chroni- Author: Kirkpatrick, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1602393664
- Language: English
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
$16.00 Read moreIn this “exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s s… [more below]
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1101973463
- Language: English
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
$26.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document … is Applebaum’s answer.” –Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, wit- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0385545800
- Language: English
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical “long year” of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party a… [more below]
- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0804172463
- Language: English
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
$26.95 Read moreA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by auth
- Author: Cirino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927130
- Language: English
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
$17.95 Read moreThe long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s b
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020199
- Language: English
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern
$19.95 Read moreA radical new history of a dangerous idea
Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world f- Author: Jeffries, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1788738233
- Language: English
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion
$40.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings
This lively book reveals the cl- Author: Davidson, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0300218729
- Language: English
