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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
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The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
$19.00 Add to cart“Ambitious…. The truth is that Fromkin’s outline is persuasively thought out and presented.”–The Washington Post Book World
As the human race approaches the 21st century, questions of our past trou- Author: Fromkin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0679766693
- Language: English
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No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust
$40.00 Add to cartThis by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continual… [more below]
- Author: Heath, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0805243712
- Language: English
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Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy
$24.95 Read moreExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observer
In Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured t- Author: Hazan, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1839767251
- Language: English
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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza
$22.99 Add to cartNew York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller
Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.
Two leading authorities–an acclaimed historian
- Author: Petraeus, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0063293145
- Language: English
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Our Nazi: An American Suburb’s Encounter with Evil
$25.00 Add to cartThe first book to lay bare the life of a Nazi camp guard who settled in a Chicago suburb and to explore how his community and others responded to discoveries of Nazis in their midst.
Reinhold Kulle s- Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions
- Author: Soffer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835545
- Language: English
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The Official German Report
$66.65 Add to cartFeatured on Rachel Maddow’s Ultra Podcast.
REPRINT EDITION
This book presents the shocking findings from O. John Rogge’s stunning investigation into the Nazi infiltration of the United States Congress.
- Author: Rogge, O. John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79887E+12
- Language: English
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Operation Nightfall: The Web of Spies
$15.99 Add to cartPoland, 1948
Former SOE operative Luba Haas and MI6 agent Natalie Jenkins secretly enter Poland to meet with a sleeper agent and anti-communist insurgents not realizing their mission has been compromi
- Author: Wegener, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan
$32.95 Add to cartIn America’s Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze’s career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving in
- Author: Wilson, James Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2024
- ISBN10: 150177607X
- Language: English
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Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
$40.00 Add to cartA deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a dec- Author: Gurstein, Rochelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0300215487
- Language: English
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Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century
$22.17 Read moreThrough a series of lively and absorbing portraits of iconic modern Chinese leaders and thinkers, two of today’s foremost specialists on China provide a panoramic narrative of this country’s rise to p… [more below]
- Author: Schell, Orville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 0812976258
- Language: English
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them
We- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217014323
- Language: English
