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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Read more“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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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 Add to cartFinalist 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 Add to cartIn 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
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Badly Behaved Women: The Story of Modern Feminism
$29.95 Read 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
$70.00 Read 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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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War
$22.00 Add 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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Hegel in a Wired Brain
$19.95 Read moreIn 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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Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
$40.00 Read 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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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$38.33 Read 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
$34.95 Read 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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The Dutch-Indonesian War 1945-49: Armies of the Indonesian War of Independence
$20.00 Read 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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Everything World War I
$12.99 Add to cartExplore 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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The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
$19.95 Add 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
