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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
$20.00 Read moreThis definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama
Defined by waves of idealism- Author: MacArthur, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0241982308
- Language: English
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How to Read Wittgenstein
$14.95 Read moreApproaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction–a personal master class in reading–that brings you fac… [more below]
- Series: How to Read #0
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393328201
- Language: English
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P-38 Lightning Vs Bf 109: North Africa, Sicily and Italy 1942-43
$23.00 Read moreAn exciting account of the aerial battles fought by the USAAF’s P38 Lightnings and the Jagdflieger‘s Bf 109Gs for dominance over North Africa and the Mediterranean.
USAAF fighter pilots experienced a- Series: Duel #131
- Author: Young, Edward M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472859545
- Language: English
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How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong
$14.95 Read moreIn a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intr
- Author: LaTour, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1509559477
- Language: English
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Waffen-SS on the Western Front: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
$24.95 Read moreThis book in the popular Images of War series covers the deeds of the Waffen-SS on the Western Front during the Second World War. With extensive text and in-depth captions with many rare and unpublish… [more below]
- Series: Images of War
- Author: Baxter, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1781591857
- Language: English
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How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
$18.99 Read moreOn the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to t
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492535
- Language: English
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Night: A Memoir
$15.99 Add to cartA memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power
When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a me
- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1432876929
- Language: English
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The Care of the Self
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillful… [more below]
- Series: History of Sexuality #03
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0394741552
- Language: English
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Revolution of Everyday Life
$22.00 Add to cartOriginally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and aphoristic critique of the “society of the spectacle” f
- Author: Vaneigem, Raoul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1604866780
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Add to cart“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
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Napoleon: A Biography
$19.99 Read moreThis acclaimed biography of one history’s great figures–called “monumental” (Library Journal), “brilliant” (Times, London) and “a rounded and persuasive portrait” (New York Times)—is now available i… [more below]
- Author: McLynn, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1951627547
- Language: English
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
$17.00 Read moreSearching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.
Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the Hou- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450917
- Language: English
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
$22.00 Read moreIn roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction b
- Author: Ngai, Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036109
- Language: English
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Studies in Classic American Literature
$17.00 Read more“Nobody ever read [the great old books] like Lawrence did–as madly, as wildly or as insightfully. . . . You will be jolted awake.” –A. O. Scott, The New York Times
A Penguin Classic Lawrence asserte- Series: Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
- Author: Lawrence, D. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140183779
- Language: English
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The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State
$17.95 Read moreProhibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous gangsters, flappers, and speakeasies. Now at last Lisa McGirr dismantles this cherished myth to r
- Author: McGirr, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353524
- Language: English
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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China, with a New PostScript
$27.00 Add to cartOne of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang
- Author: Taylor, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: April 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674060490
- Language: English
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Against Everything: Essays
$19.00 Read moreFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating- Author: Greif, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1101971746
- Language: English
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No Sacrifice Too Great: The 1st Infantry Division in World War II
$39.95 Read moreThe U.S. 1st Infantry Division (1st ID), familiarly known as the Big Red One, adapted to dynamic battlefield conditions throughout the course of its deployment during World War II by innovat… [more below]
- Series: American Military Experience
- Author: Fontenot, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0826222846
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Volume 2: Russian Invasion, February 2022
$29.95 Read more“The reader will be hard pressed to find another book providing this sort of detailed information. It is liberally illustrated with battlefield photographs and good maps.” — Military Heritage Magazin… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Cooper, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1804512168
- Language: English
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Drawn and Quartered
$19.99 Read moreIn this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task,… [more below]
- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1611456967
- Language: English
