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Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War
$35.00 Read moreIn the second half of the eighteenth century, approximately three quarters of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by a vast Islamic power, the centuries-old Ottoman Empire…. [more below]
- Author: Rutledge, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0863569501
- Language: English
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Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy, Heretics, Blatchford Controversies Volume 1
$21.95 Add to cartContains three of Chesterton’s most influential works. In Heretics, Chesterton sets forth one of the most telling critiques of contemporary religious notions ever. The Blatchford Controversies are the… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
- Author: Chesterton, G. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: February 13 1986
- ISBN10: 0898700795
- Language: English
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Taking Things Hard: The Trials of F. Scott Fitzgerald
$44.95 Add to cartF. Scott Fitzgerald published America’s favorite novel, The Great Gatsby, at the young age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the nex
- Author: Garnett, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179345
- Language: English
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Why Argument Matters
$20.00 Read moreHailed by the New York Times as a book that “examines the role that argument has played throughout history and how it has shaped human existence”
“An invigorating reflection on the nature and value of- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Siegel, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271077
- Language: English
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Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
$35.00 Read moreAmongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed u… [more below]
- Author: Darlington, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 030025928X
- Language: English
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Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans
$23.95 Read moreA chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness court reporter for the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Nazi doctors. This is the account of 23 men tort… [more below]
- Author: Spitz, Vivien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1591810329
- Language: English
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Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict – Catholic against Protesta… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mulholland, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198825005
- Language: English
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A Gypsy in Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the ‘Forgotten Holocaust’
$12.99 Add to cartA unique and deeply affecting memoir of a child’s survival in the Roma and Sinti holocaust
Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them- Author: Rosenberg, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 180096112X
- Language: English
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Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust–conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”–Th… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1101903473
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
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Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
$17.00 Add to cartSailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0375755195
- Language: English
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F-104 Starfighter: Lockheed’s Sleek Cold War Interceptor
$24.99 Read moreLockheed developed the F-104 Starfighter in the late 1950s. The plane was designed to be an all-weather interceptor. Speed, climb, and altitude all were priorities, and the plane did turn out to be ex… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #65
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367862
- Language: English
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In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness
$27.95 Read moreOver one hundred years ago in Russia, G. I. Gurdjieff introduced a spiritual teaching of conscious evolution–a way of gnosis or “knowledge of being” passed on from remote antiquity. Gurdjieff’s early… [more below]
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 161180082X
- Language: English
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text–an influential academic journal of cultural studies–touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern p
- Author: Sokal, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0312204078
- Language: English
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator: Reuben Fleet, the Factories, and the Product
$59.95 Add to cartIn the first of his massive two volume B-24 Liberator set, Dr. Wolf presents a meticulously researched, truly ultimate look at the B-17’s stablemate from the drawing board to its emergence as America’… [more below]
- Author: Wolf, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: September 19 2024
- ISBN10: 178155840X
- Language: English
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Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
$0.00 Read more“This is a fascinating book. It will educate you. Schwartzel has done some extraordinary reporting.” — The New York Times Book Review
“In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Sc- Author: Schwartzel, Erich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1984878999
- Language: English
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Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II
$35.00 Add to cartOne of the last, great untold stories of World War II–kept hidden for decades–even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various a… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0525655816
- Language: English
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
$20.00 Read moreFeatured historian in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust on PBS – WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD – In this remarkable work of historical reclamation, Holocaust historian Re… [more below]
- Author: Erbelding, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433740
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
Winner … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
