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A General History of the Pyrates
$39.95 Add to cartFamed for his enduring fictional masterpieces Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe also possessed considerable expertise in maritime affairs. As a commission merchant, importer, shipowner,
- Series: Dover Maritime
- Author: Defoe, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 0486404889
- Language: English
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
$40.00 Add to cartIs there any chapter in American history more dramatic than that of the Northwest from the time of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877? Heroic – and not so heroic -characters
- Series: American Heritage Library
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395850118
- Language: English
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History as a System, and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History
$22.99 Add to cartFour stimulating essays: “The Sportive Origin of the State,” “Unity and Diversity of Europe,” “Man the Technician,” and “History as a System.” The essays by Ortega in this volume were originally publi… [more below]
- Author: Ortega y. Gasset, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393001229
- Language: English
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Theology After Wittgenstein
$21.99 Add to cartThe philosopher Wittgenstein is considered by many to be the most influential and significant of the 20th century. This book introduces him to students of theology and focuses on his writings dealing … [more below]
- Author: Kerr, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 21 1997
- ISBN10: 0281050635
- Language: English
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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault
$31.00 Add to cartBased on Michel Foucault’s 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collé‘’e de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited seq… [more below]
- Author: Burchell, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 09 1991
- ISBN10: 0226080455
- Language: English
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Paris Journal, 1944-1955
$17.99 Add to cartHere is a continuation of selections from Flanner’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature ” Gen黎.” With clarity and authority,… [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0156709481
- Language: English
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The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein
$7.99 Read more‘Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself’ Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of ‘the inner’, of our subjective experience and of our know- Series: Great Philosophers
- Author: Hacker, Peter
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1474616771
- Language: English
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Unbridled Dreamer
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #1
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065274
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$6.40 Add to cartIn “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm “beyon… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: December 14 2020
- ISBN10: 8027337097
- Language: English
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Vince Leo: Remembered as a Blessing: Visitation Stones in Jewish Cemeteries
$65.00 Read moreA beautifully somber photographic meditation on an ancient Jewish ritual
The Jewish tradition of leaving a stone or pebble at the gravesite of a loved one is an ancient custom of remembering the depart
- Author: Leo, Vince
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1735762989
- Language: English
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Yad l’Yedinitz; memorial book for the Jewish community of Yedintzi, Bessarabia
$88.00 Add to cartYedinitz, Bessarabia, compared to where we live today, was a small shtetl. Yet for us, it was a city. I can still see the streets and small lanes. Here is the small marketplace, the Torhovitse as we u
- Author: Reicher, Mordechai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 780
- Publish Date: January 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1954176600
- Language: English
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Bipolar Refugee: A Saga of Survival and Resilience
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1939, Mary Krotoczynski left Berlin on the Kindertransport while her parents remained to perish in the Holocaust. In this memoir, her son chronicles her courageous struggles as a refugee, first in
- Series: Holocaust Survivor True Stories
- Author: Wiesner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9493276953
- Language: English
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Music Comes in Springtime
$20.95 Add to cartWe walked down the steps of the church into the cold December air laughing. Then, I suddenly saw a boy of about fourteen in a cap running past the church, shouting, “The Japs bombed Pearl Harbor! The
- Author: Kuykendall, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889430865
- Language: English
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Our Smallest Ally
$14.99 Add to cartOur Smallest Ally by William Wigram is a compelling account of the vicissitudes and events that befell the Assyrian nation, Britain’s smallest ally, during World War One. Dr. Wigram, a long-standing m… [more below]
- Author: Wigram, William Ainger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0982712413
- Language: English
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Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
$24.95 Add to cartPresenting an advanced and authoritative perspective, this definitive study chronicles the rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious Enlightenment-era guild surrounded by myth. Descri… [more below]
- Author: Melanson, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 531
- Publish Date: January 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0977795381
- Language: English
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The Greatest Generation
$22.00 Add to cartThe instant classic that changed the way we saw World War II and an entire generation of Americans, from the beloved journalist whose own iconic career has lasted more than fifty years.
In this magn… [more below]- Author: Brokaw, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0812975294
- Language: English
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The Perennial Scope of Philosophy
$16.00 Add to cartThe text of six lectures in which Karl Jaspers redefines the position of philosophy in the world today, particularly in relation to science and theology, and defines and outlines his own philosophy.
Au… [more below]
- Author: Jaspers, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 01 1949
- ISBN10: 080652961X
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
$22.95 Add to cartThe Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher’s intellectual development and as one of the earliest and mo
- Series: Cornell Paperbacks
- Author: Vico, Giambattista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 15 1963
- ISBN10: 080149088X
- Language: English
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The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate’s Deep Throat
$17.99 Add to cartThe mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 remained hidden for thirty-three years. In The Secret Man, Woodward tells the story of his lon… [more below]
- Author: Woodward, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0743287169
- Language: English
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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors reveals how Franklin Roosevelt’s and Harry Truman’s private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the… [more below]
- Author: Beschloss, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: October 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0743244540
- Language: English
