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American Sniper: Memorial Edition
$29.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.
From 199
- Author: Kyle, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0062297872
- Language: English
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Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of Us Empire
$24.95 Add to cartCorporate Coup looks at the attempted overthrow of the elected government of Venezuela, an intervention which, despite open backing by the United States, failed spectacularly.
In January of 2019, the T
- Author: Parampil, Anya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1682193594
- Language: English
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John Stuart Mill: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Bri- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Claeys, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0198749996
- Language: English
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French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrench culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with e… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gaukroger, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198829175
- Language: English
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Meditations on First Philosophy
$9.99 Add to cartDescartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in completely revised edition of his well-established trans
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 9562916170
- Language: English
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The Anti-Christ
$6.95 Add to cartThis is Nietzsche’s last book and a fitting capstone to his career. It’s succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in his other works. This edition contains an 8,000-word… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 91
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1884365205
- Language: English
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What Is Subjectivity?
$22.95 Add to cartJean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy’s leading intellectuals
In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1784781371
- Language: English
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The Essential William James
$18.00 Add to cartWilliam James (1842-1910) was one of the most original and influential American thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a professor at Harvard University he published many works that ha… [more below]
- Author: Shook, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1616144394
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of the Royal Tar: The 1836 Circus Steamship Fire
$12.95 Add to cartOn October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. On board was a small circus menagerie returning to Boston from a summer-long tour of the Canadian Maritimes. … [more below]
- Author: Warner, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1608933571
- Language: English
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Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
$23.00 Add to cartWith a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reve… [more below]
- Author: Saul, John Ralston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1476718962
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso, Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great Wa
$37.43 Add to cartMcAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the 20th century, where creative dynamos set their respective circles on fire with their revolutionary visions and discoveries. But all was not w… [more below]
- Author: McAuliffe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1442276134
- Language: English
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The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
$26.00 Add to cartA beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs’ grip on Europe’s historical and cultural imagination.
In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into e
- Author: Wolff, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1503635643
- Language: English
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A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
$21.95 Add to cartBorn in Kentucky, Elizabeth Hardwick left for New York City on a Greyhound bus in 1939 and quickly made a name for herself as a formidable member of the intellectual elite. Her eventful life included
- Author: Curtis, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052082
- Language: English
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The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope
$28.99 Read more*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
WITH A FOREWORD BY SIR BEN KINGSLEY
A powerful memoir by one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her childhood growing up during the Holo… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Tova
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1335475931
- Language: English
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The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
$22.99 Add to cart
A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind–the Great Irish Potato Famine–conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality
In this ma- Author: Kelly, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1250032172
- Language: English
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Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of Hardscrabble New England
$16.95 Add to cartThe story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating stories of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks will take the top fifty wil… [more below]
- Author: Mayo, Matthew P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0762759682
- Language: English
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
$19.95 Read moreThe story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships–and how it influenced modern thought
David Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his l- Author: Rasmussen, Dennis C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192286
- Language: English
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas – Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cart“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”–Immanuel Kant
Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century–an activist of the intellec- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691155933
- Language: English
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1848: Year of Revolution
$22.99 Read moreA “lively, panoramic” history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had ke- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020674
- Language: English
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Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
$20.99 Add to cartOne of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a l
- Author: Gutman, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0395901308
- Language: English
