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Victorians
$40.99 Add to cartAs one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers,
- Author: Wilson, A. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 738
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325431
- Language: English
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
$22.99 Add to cartIn an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the
- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312422601
- Language: English
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Conduct of War PB
$21.99 Add to cartThe Conduct of War is the study of the way in which political and economical changes since the French Revolution have altered both the techniques and the aims of war, and its theme is that war which i… [more below]
- Series: Quality Paperbacks Series
- Author: Fuller, J. F. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306804670
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Read moreIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Madness: The Invention of an Idea
$14.99 Add to cartMichel Foucault’s first exploration of insanity as a social construct–and his debut work of criticism, published nearly a decade before Madness and Civilization—Madness offers an invaluable lens thr… [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0062007181
- Language: English
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.” –Marie Claire
The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were dep
- Series: P.S. #1
- Author: Moorehead, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0061650714
- Language: English
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
$75.00 Add to cartA fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller–from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin
Once a week, in late- Author: Hay, Daisy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0691243964
- Language: English
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How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the 19th-Century Innovators Who Forged Our Future
$29.95 Read moreThe rich and fascinating history of the scientific revolution of the Victorian Era, leading to transformative advances in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
The Victorians invented the idea of- Author: Morus, Iwan Rhys
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362606
- Language: English
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The Story of the Stanczak Brothers Baseball Team: Baseball’s All Brothers World Champions
$10.99 Add to cartThe story of the most famous all-brother, semi-pro baseball team of all time began when Mary and Martin Stanczak were forced to flee their Polish homeland for America. They settled in Illinois where,
- Author: Stanczak, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1638370001
- Language: English
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Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish Family from Nazi Germany
$24.00 Add to cartGrowing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis and their sympathizers on Europe’s Jewish population during the Holocaust.
- Author: Haahr, Joan Gluckauf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: April 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1946989894
- Language: English
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A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany
$19.99 Add to cart“Evocative. . . . Epic. . . . Chock-full of colorful anecdotes and charismatic figures, A Demon-Haunted Land not only offers a brilliant rethinking of postwar German history, but also asks us to see t
- Author: Black, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250813859
- Language: English
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Titanic: Why She Collided, Why She Sank, Why She Should Never Have Sailed
$18.95 Add to cartSenan Molony caused a worldwide media flurry in 2017 by revealing publicly that there was an uncontrolled coal bunker fire aboard Titanic. Experts held the fire would have significantly weakened a for
- Author: Molony, Senan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1493055496
- Language: English
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Hegel Contra Sociology
$19.95 Add to cartGillian Rose is among the twentieth century’s most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative t… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Rose, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673545
- Language: English
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The Second World War: An Illustrated History
$55.99 Read moreDiscover the story of the Second World War brought to life in full colour by renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns
‘A fully immersive experience. A comprehensive yet fa- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0241601320
- Language: English
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Our Suffering Brave: Waitsfield Boys and Men in the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cart163 boys and men from Waitsfield, Vermont joined the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. Their individual stories of bravery as well as suffering-from wounds, sickness, and/or deprivation during i
- Author: Evans, Alice May
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: August 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1937667332
- Language: English
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American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
$17.99 Read moreNew attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver
- Author: Larson, Edward J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 132407521X
- Language: English
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Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine
$18.99 Add to cartWhat must a person believe to be a Christian? In this collection of 16 essays, famed author Dorothy L. Sayers discusses why the church desperately needs to refocus on doctrine, as doctrine impacts all
- Author: Sayers, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0849945267
- Language: English
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Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order
$41.99 Add to cartOnly Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, could reveal the untold story behind the Vatican’s role in today’s winner-take-all race against time to establish, maintain, an… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Malachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0671747231
- Language: English
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The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945
$20.00 Add to cart“Books about Nazism are endless, but The War Against the Jews comes to us as a major work of synthesis, providing for the first time a full account of the Holocaust. . . . Dawidowicz has produced a wo… [more below]
- Author: Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 1986
- ISBN10: 055334532X
- Language: English
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Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction
$30.00 Add to cartOther books have tried to explain Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the twentieth century’s most important and elusive thinkers, in general terms. However, Todd May organizes his introduction around … [more below]
- Author: May, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: January 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0521603846
- Language: English
