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Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War
$30.00 Read moreBy 1990, the first Cold War was ending. The Berlin Wall had fallen and the Warsaw Pact was crumbling; following Russia’s lead, cries for democracy were being embraced by a young Chinese populace. The
- Author: Doyle, Michael W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1631496069
- Language: English
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Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
$19.00 Read more“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some per… [more below]
- Author: Eilenberger, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 052555968X
- Language: English
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Kazuo Ohno’s World: From Without & Within
$34.95 Add to cartPhotographs and words illuminate Butoh dance.
Kazuo Ohno is one of the founders of the Japanese modern dance form, Butoh, which had a large influence on contemporary American modern and postmodern danc
- Author: Ohno, Kazuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 343
- Publish Date: July 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0819566942
- Language: English
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France’s War in Indochina: Volume 1: The Tiger Versus the Elephant, 1946-1949
$29.95 Read more“…a very interesting book with insights into how French forces dealt with Viet Minh tactics and strategies, anticipating almost the same problems faced by American forces in Vietnam nearly twenty ye… [more below]
- Series: Asia@War
- Author: Rookes, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1804510149
- Language: English
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Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and a Daughter’s Quest for Justice
$17.95 Read moreWhen Joanne Intrator accepts her father’s deathbed challenge to seek restitution for property stolen from her German Jewish family by the Nazis, she has no idea that the quest will last decades-or how… [more below]
- Author: Intrator, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1647425131
- Language: English
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Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA
$27.95 Read moreThe National Basketball Association (NBA), founded over 75 years ago, is staging a 21st century takeover. Watched in 215 countries and territories worldwide, and with nearly one in three players born
- Author: Krasnoff, Lindsay Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1350384178
- Language: English
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Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International
$39.95 Read moreHope, Struggle and Defeat: The Communist International and the Global Fight for Freedom
The Communist International was the first organised attempt to bring about worldwide revolution and left a last- Author: Studer, Brigitte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768010
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Followed His Father Into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival
$17.99 Add to cart“Brilliantly written, vivid, a powerful and often uncomfortable true story that deserves to be read and remembered. It beautifully captures the strength of the bond between a father and son.”–Heather
- Author: Dronfield, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0063019299
- Language: English
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Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th Century World Wars and the Cold War – New Perspectives on Key Events
$27.95 Read moreAt a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history textbooks and re-examine historical events outsid… [more below]
- Author: Pauwels, Jacques R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1459416937
- Language: English
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The Machinist Sculptor: Industry Meets Craft
$65.00 Read moreBy all rights, machining should have been embraced by artists long ago. During the 20th century, many industrial crafts were developed into studio art mediums. For a long time, however, the crafts mov… [more below]
- Author: Bathgate, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764367552
- Language: English
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Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
$23.00 Read moreA fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch
“Fully succeeds in communicating that ‘vivid presentness, ‘ that ‘joyful eagerness’ fo- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0300271026
- Language: English
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
$17.95 Read moreThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022027
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
$30.00 Read moreThe “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected fore… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1982178523
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
$20.00 Read moreHot, Cold, Heavy, Light collects 100 writings from 1988-2018–some long, some short–that taken together form a group portrait of many of the world’s most significant and interesting artists.
Introdu- Author: Schjeldahl, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1419735268
- Language: English
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Yang Warriors
$16.95 Add to cartAward-winning author Kao Kalia Yang delivers an inspiring tale of resourceful children confronting adversaries in a refugee camp
After lunch the Yang warriors prepare for battle. They practice drills- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1517907985
- Language: English
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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure
$18.00 Read moreIn this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Through- Series: History of Sexuality #02
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 1990
- ISBN10: 0394751221
- Language: English
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
$20.00 Read moreIn a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that … [more below]
- Author: Shorto, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400078679
- Language: English
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley’s Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
$27.95 Read moreHalley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial
- Author: Goodrich, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888568
- Language: English
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Utilidad de Lo Inútil, La
$14.95 Read moreIn this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues for the utility of useless knowledge and against the contemporary fixation on utilitarianism–for the fundamental… [more below]
- Author: Ordine, Nuccio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8415689926
- Language: Spanish
