Modern
-
New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603
$24.00 Add to cartNo period in British history has more resonance and mystery today than the sixteenth century. New Worlds, Lost Worlds brings the atmosphere and events of this great epoch to life. Exploring the underl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Britain
- Author: Brigden, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001252
- Language: English
-
On Both Sides of the Wall: A Resistance Fighter’s Firsthand Account of the Warsaw Ghetto
$29.00 Add to cartThe essential new edition of one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, On Both Sides of the Wall, which recounts one woman’s harrowing experiences as a c… [more below]
- Author: Meed, Vladka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544104
- Language: English
-
Syria: A Modern History
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark new history of Syria, a country forged in conflict, cursed by civil war and dictatorship, and pivotal to the future of the Middle East
Modern Syria has seen violence, repression, and autoc- Author: Neep, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1541608127
- Language: English
-
Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
$33.00 Add to cartFrom renowned, prize-winning historian Frank Dik?tter, a commanding new history of China’s path to Communism.
The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in th- Author: Dikötter, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1639733973
- Language: English
-
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy
$35.00 Add to cartFor fans of Ben Macintyre and Erik Larson, the gripping story of the assassination of Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the deadly game of cat and mouse that preceded it
On August 20, 1940, Leon T- Author: Ireland, Josh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0593187105
- Language: English
-
Kent State: An American Tragedy
$19.99 Add to cartOn May 4, 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protesters wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taun
- Author: Vandemark, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324116854
- Language: English
-
The Memoirs of Andr? Trocm?: The Pastor Who Rescued Jews
$29.95 Add to cartA unique addition to the literature of ethical action during the Holocaust. . . . Trocm?’s story, available in English here for the first time, teaches us how to act when we are sure of nothing. —Kir
- Author: Trocmé, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1636081592
- Language: English
-
Hidden Lives: Stories from Child Survivors of the Holocaust
$35.95 Add to cartOne and a half million Jewish children were murdered in the Holocaust. The Nazis’ goal to eradicate the entire Jewish population in Europe included children–from infants to teenagers–who were target
- Author: Goldstein, Rachelle L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1772604429
- Language: English
-
Chasing CHI: The Fbi’s Groundbreaking Pursuit of China’s Most Prolific Spy Family
$39.95 Add to cartEspionage, betrayal, and the FBI’s historic victory–this is the true story of the hunt for Chi Mak and his spy ring.
It began as furtive tip, grew to fevered investigation, and climaxed with midnigh- Author: Gaylord, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1493091964
- Language: English
-
Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie’s writing l… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Plain, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0198863748
- Language: English
-
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief
$35.00 Add to cartIn this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and mercurial personality, a secretly expressive… [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0307379671
- Language: English
-
Nuremberg’s Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice
$39.95 Add to cartThe remarkable life of one of the twentieth century’s great warriors for justice, from Nuremberg to the first trial of the International Criminal Court
On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before- Series: Democratic Ideals in Global Perspective
- Author: Gordon, Gregory S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 081395309X
- Language: English
-
Born Survivors
$19.99 Read more“With remarkable detail gleaned from a wealth of research, journalist and author Holden relates the three women’s unforgettable journey from their imprisonment in ghettos to their arrival at Auschwitz
- Author: Holden, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 006237026X
- Language: English
-
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
$30.00 Add to cartAn indelible, deeply reported human narrative of contemporary China in which the country’s carefully regulated internet offers a lens into the broader national tension between freedom and control
In t- Author: Liu, Yi-Ling
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593491858
- Language: English
-
Good Pope PB
$15.99 Add to cart“John XXIII was, in the best possible sense, a revolutionary–a Pope of modernization who kept in continuity with the church’s past, yet made even the most enlightened of his 20th century predecessors
- Author: Tobin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0062089412
- Language: English
-
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
$39.99 Add to cartAs recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire.” I
- Author: Dalrymple, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123788
- Language: English
-
No Neutrals There: Us Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine
$24.95 Add to cartThe definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians.
US trade unionists are
- Author: Schuhrke, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904558
- Language: English
-
Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities
$35.00 Add to cartA two part book reimagining dark matter and the dark
Transtraterrestrial is an experimental book that documents Sage Ni’Ja Whitson’s groundbreaking performance pieces, blending African Diasporic practi
- Author: Whitson, Sage Ni’ja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501999
- Language: English
-
Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
$32.00 Add to cartNobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious
In- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593802748
- Language: English
-
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
$22.00 Add to cartThe premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year–and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compo
- Author: Sachs, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812969073
- Language: English
