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The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
$0.00 Read moreIan Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures–a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur–who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule,… [more below]
- Author: Buruma, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593296648
- Language: English
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Legacy of Empire: Britain, Zionism and the Creation of Israel
$16.95 Read moreIt is now more than seventy years since the creation of the state of Israel, yet its origins and the British Empire’s historic responsibility for Palestine remain little known. Confusion persists too
- Author: Thompson, Gardner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0863564828
- Language: English
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Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust, Once Removed: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
For readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Leder- Author: Lederman, Marsha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0771049382
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-Shek, China, 1887-1975
$40.00 Read moreAn extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) le- Author: Pantsov, Alexander V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260202
- Language: English
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Zwingli the Pastor: A Life in Conflict
$29.99 Read moreThe Reformer at war
In Zwingli the Pastor, Stephen Brett Eccher tells the story of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), embattled pastor and reformer. Zwingli’s ministry in Zurich was characterized by confli… [more below]- Author: Eccher, Stephen Brett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1683597354
- Language: English
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Maus I: Relato de Un Sobreviviente. Mi Padre Sangra Historia / Maus I: A Survivo R’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
$17.95 Add to cartGanadora del Premio Pulitzer 1992
Maus nos cuenta la historia de Vladek Spiegelman, un jud?o superviviente del Holocausto, y de su hijo, un historietista que intenta reconciliarse con su padre, con l- Series: Maus. Relato de Un Superviviente
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 8418897007
- Language: Spanish
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Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy
$19.95 Read moreEssential essays on art in our current era from one of the most important art critics writing today.
- Author: Davis, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1642594628
- Language: English
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The Pope’s Cabinet: Pius XII’s Secret War for Saving Jews
$24.95 Read moreFor the first time since World War II, the newly opened archives of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State reveal the crucial role Pius XII and the Holy See played in trying to save Jews from capture and
- Author: Ickx, Johan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1644138581
- Language: English
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How to Read Modern Buildings: A Crash Course in Architecture of the Modern Era
$18.95 Read moreSmall enough to fit in a pocket yet serious enough to provide real answers, this is the ultimate field guide to understanding modern architecture.
This eighth entry in Rizzoli’s popular How to Read..- Series: How to Read…
- Author: Jones, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0789332728
- Language: English
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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 Read moreWinner 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 Read more“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
