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Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
$19.99 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 Read moreNational 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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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
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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
$20.00 Read morePaul Preston is the world’s foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisc… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329879
- Language: English
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution–a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigra… [more below]
- Author: Zia, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0345522338
- Language: English
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Mig-21 “Fishbed”: Opposing Rolling Thunder 1966-68
$23.00 Read moreUsing archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, Istvç–£ Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and
- Series: Dogfight #8
- Author: Toperczer, István
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857569
- Language: English
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F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963-73
$23.00 Read moreWith specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the ‘last of the gunfighters’, as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG t
- Series: Dogfight #7
- Author: Davies, Peter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857542
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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Noble Treason: The Story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Revolt Against Hitler
$18.95 Read moreSophie Scholl and her brother Hans were handsome, bright university students in 1942 Germany. As members of the Hitler Youth, they had once been enthusiastic supporters of the German renewal promised
- Author: Hanser, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1586175572
- Language: English
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
$16.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism
By one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the politic
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932938
- Language: English
