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Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
$28.00 Read moreFrom the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into the story of the world’s most famous shipwreck, the RMS Titanic
On a frigid April night in 1912, the- Author: Stone, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0593329376
- Language: English
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Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$23.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times
From the editor of The New Yorker a riveting account of the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has become the standar… [more below]- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: April 26 1994
- ISBN10: 0679751254
- Language: English
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
$22.00 Add to cartFifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily mise… [more below]
- Author: Volavkova, Hana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0805210156
- Language: English
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction
$35.00 Read moreAn account of the emergence of creative nonfiction, written by the “godfather” of the genre
“When [Gutkind] stops to look back on his own evolving perspective . . . [and] reflects upon his writing car- Author: Gutkind, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300251157
- Language: English
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences
$19.00 Add to cartWith vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679753354
- Language: English
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After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond
$37.95 Read more, On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edi… [more below]
- Author: Von Benda-Beckmann, Bas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1914414497
- Language: English
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Untold Truths: Exposing Slavery and Its Legacies at Loyola University Maryland
$27.20 Add to cartUntold Truths brings together scholars, students, staff, and descendants to explore Loyola University Maryland’s historical connections to slavery, Jim Crow, and racial injustice. They do so through a… [more below]
- Author: Loyola University Maryland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: April 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1627205446
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$22.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 132407387X
- Language: English
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Final Engagement: A Marine’s Last Mission and the Surrender of Afghanistan
$28.99 Read moreThrough a deadly last showdown beside Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, Marine Corps veteran Christopher Izant illustrates the impossible conditions and strategic blunders that disillusioned a gener
- Author: Izant, Christopher L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1635768721
- Language: English
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The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
$19.95 Add to cart“The most controversial book of the year.”
A controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for personal and political gain
–Guardian
This iconoclastic study was one of the m- Author: Finkelstein, Norman G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297216
- Language: English
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It’s a Gas: The Sublime and Elusive Elements That Expand Our World
$28.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Stuff Matters presents a rollicking guided tour of the secret lives of gases: the magnificent, strange, and fascinating substances that shape our world.
Gases a
- Author: Miodownik, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0358157153
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
$25.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled … [more below]
- Author: Clark, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0525575219
- Language: English
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The Jefferson City Civil Pilots: From Lincoln University to Tuskegee Airmen
$24.99 Read moreAviation captivated young men before World War II, regardless of their skin color. But few Black enthusiasts had access, means or opportunity until the Civil Pilot Training program. Lincoln University… [more below]
- Series: Military
- Author: Brooks, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154490
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Read moreAdam 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
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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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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky
$19.99 Add to cart“Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done…great fun to read.” — New York Times Book Review
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253170
- Language: English
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The Naughty Nineties: The Decade That Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web
$24.99 Add to cartFeaturing a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenu… [more below]
- Author: Friend, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 153876749X
- Language: English
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A Life in Letters
$37.95 Add to cartThe inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in English.
Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909-1943) liv- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0674292375
- Language: English
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Winter Light: The Memoir of a Child of Holocaust Survivors
$18.95 Add to cart“Feuerverger’s search for a “place of inner solace” is profoundly inspiring … often rendered in poetically stirring prose. With affecting clarity, the author meditates on the ways in which trauma is
- Series: Holocaust Heritage
- Author: Feuerverger, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9493322602
- Language: English
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From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
$32.50 Add to cartThe politics of grief, in an era marked by loss, shows us how we can find our humanity once more. From one of our most vital and far-seeing social critics.
Our era is one of significant and substantia
- Author: Jaffe, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703499
- Language: English
