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Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter–which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people
In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltim- Author: Taylor, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0300263996
- Language: English
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Women of the Catholic Imagination: Twelve Inspired Novelists You Should Know
$24.95 Read moreThere is no lack of talented women in the Catholic literary tradition. Yet these brilliant writers are often unfamiliar to today’s readers, or, if widely read, their Catholic identity is unrecognized
- Author: Stewart, Haley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1685780962
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$39.95 Read moreA gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR–and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia
Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpec- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 691117039
- Language: English
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For God, Glory, and Gold: Spanish Exploration of La Florida and the Mainland: 1513-1543
$20.95 Add to cart- Author: Macdougald, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: July 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1662953631
- Language: English
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Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil
Ou- Author: Jähner, Harald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606205
- Language: English
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Tyranny of the Minority
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late–from the authors of How Democracies Die
“[Levitsky and Ziblatt] write with terrifying clarity a- Author: Levitsky, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593443098
- Language: English
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On Freedom
$32.00 Read moreA brilliant exploration of freedom–what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival–by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller O… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593728726
- Language: English
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Next War: Reimagining How We Fight
$24.95 Add to cart“…a useful addition to the literature of the changing character of war. Its scoping and focus, and its application of the identified disruptors to current challenges offer immediate insights for tod… [more below]
- Author: Antal, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1636243355
- Language: English
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On Freedom
$34.00 Add to cartA brilliant exploration of freedom–what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival–by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller O… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014286
- Language: English
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Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
$30.00 Read moreThe extraordinary untold story of how Irish and Jewish immigrants worked together to secure legitimacy in America.
Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United State- Author: Diner, Hasia R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1250243920
- Language: English
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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
$22.00 Read moreA New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in “a finely etched memoir with the powerful sweep of history” (David Grann, #1 bestselling author of Killers of the Flower … [more below]
- Author: Bilger, Burkhard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0804173303
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: A History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007184
- Language: English
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On Sunny Days We Sang: A Holocaust Story of Survival and Resilience
$16.95 Add to cartWhen the Germans march into their little Polish shtetl at the start of World War II, the Jews of Wlodawa see their lives abruptly torn apart. For Hil and Alexandra it marks the beginning of a struggle
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII
- Author: Grunhaus de Gelman, Jeannette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14 2022
- ISBN10: 949327618X
- Language: English
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How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
$29.95 Read moreNietzsche’s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler’s shado
- Author: Felsch, Philipp
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 150955761X
- Language: English
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A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
$35.00 Add to cartThe Port of Los Angeles is all around us. Objects we use on a daily basis pass through it: furniture, apparel, electronics, automobiles, and much more. The busiest container port in the Western hemisp
- Author: Tejani, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093552
- Language: English
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Battleground: 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
$28.00 Read moreThe essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Sprin- Author: Phillips, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0300263422
- Language: English
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Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe
$8.95 Read moreSimone Arnold is an ordinary French schoolgirl, spirited and stubborn. Then the Nazis march in, demanding complete conformity. Friends become enemies. Teachers spout Nazi propaganda. School officials … [more below]
- Author: Liebster, Simone Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1937188000
- Language: English
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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
$26.95 Add to cart“In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essen
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2002
- ISBN10: 189095117X
- Language: English
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A History in Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era
$49.95 Add to cart- Author: Cornelius, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 197660009X
- Language: English
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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
$29.95 Read moreThe Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts–first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets–by hiding them on their bod… [more below]
- Author: Fishman, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1512603309
- Language: English
