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Badly Behaved Women: The Story of Modern Feminism
$29.95HardcoverRead moreBadly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women’s movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonc , body positivity and #MeToo.
In the
- Author: Crowhurst, Anna-Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0233006222
- Language: English
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75 Years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
$70.00HardcoverRead moreThis pictorial journey will take the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works’ very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follow the program through prototype build-up, first flight and, if
- Author: Goodall, James C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1472846478
- Language: English
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By: Anderson, Scott
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War–and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1101911735
- Language: English
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By: Zizek, Slavoj
Hegel in a Wired Brain
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn Hegel and the Wired Brain, Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of philosophical giant G.W.F. Hegel that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, this work in
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1350264040
- Language: English
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By: Baldwin, Neil
Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
$40.00HardcoverRead moreA major biography–the first in three decades–of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling the … [more below]
- Author: Baldwin, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0385352328
- Language: English
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By: Jorisch, Avi
Next: A Brief History of the Future
$18.00PaperbackRead moreStar Trek-loving inventors who 3D print in space, vegan researchers who replicate the composition and chemical structures of meat in a lab, and mad scientists who save humans from terrible disorders b
- Author: Jorisch, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 9657023750
- Language: English
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By: Zaretsky, Robert
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$38.33HardcoverRead moreKnown as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 022654933X
- Language: English
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The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
$34.95HardcoverRead moreIn the single month of September 1993, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated or disciplined six of its members. These six individuals-some of them intellectuals, some activist… [more below]
- Author: Patterson, Sara M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1560854669
- Language: English
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By: Lohnstein, Marc
The Dutch-Indonesian War 1945-49: Armies of the Indonesian War of Independence
$20.00PaperbackRead moreHighly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in
- Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey) #550
- Author: Lohnstein, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854748
- Language: English
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By: Kenney, Karen L.
Everything World War I
$12.99PaperbackRead moreExplore the fascinating history of America’s first World War, meet the greatest military leaders and tacticians, and learn about key battles in this compelling new book in the popular Everything serie… [more below]
- Series: National Geographic Kids Everything
- Author: Kenney, Karen L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1426317158
- Language: English
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By: Hill, Gord
The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, North Carolina in the summer of 2017 linger in the mind, but so do those of the passionate protestors who risked their lives to do the rig… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Gord
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1551527332
- Language: English
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By: Taylor, Alan
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
$20.00PaperbackRead moreIn this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The new
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021802
- Language: English
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By: MacIntyre, Ben
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison
$31.00PaperbackRead moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodi… [more below]
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0593632079
- Language: English
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By: Eisner, Will
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
$19.99PaperbackRead moreThe Plot, which examines the astonishing conspiracy and the fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has become a worldwide phenomenon since its hardcover publication, taught in classrooms … [more below]
- Author: Eisner, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393328600
- Language: English
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By: Foucault, Michel
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartMichel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madne… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 1980
- ISBN10: 039473954X
- Language: English
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By: Hobsbawm, Eric
The Age of Capital: 1848-1875
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm’s other
volumes, th… [more below]- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679772545
- Language: English
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By: Schreiber, Brad
Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change
$27.95PaperbackRead moreHonorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards – Performing Arts & Music
Popular music has long been a powerful force for social chang
Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition- Author: Schreiber, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1978839022
- Language: English
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By: Demick, Barbara
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartA gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy
“A brilliantly reported and eye-opening work of narrative nonfiction.”–The New… [more below]- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0812988116
- Language: English
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Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celina Karp Biniaz
$21.95PaperbackRead more- Author: Friedricks, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1948509385
- Language: English
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By: Gay, Peter
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
$16.99PaperbackRead moreFirst published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay’s distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artis
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2001
- ISBN10: 0393322394
- Language: English






