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By: Plenel, Edwy
The Garden and the Jungle: How the West Sees the World
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cartAn award-winning French journalist’s far-ranging critique of Europe’s betrayal of universal values and equal rights as war and right-wing populism spread worldwide, with a new introduction for U.S. re… [more below]
- Author: Plenel, Edwy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 163542559X
- Language: English
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Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism
$27.95HardcoverAdd to cartA survey of the far-reaching measures the U.S. government brought to bear against the CPUSA, from poison-pen letters to the Red Scare and beyond.
Beginning at the turn of the twentieth century and end
- Author: Leonard, Aaron J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1978841809
- Language: English
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We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartJean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre’s restless intel… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1590174933
- Language: English
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By: Carroll, Henry
The 1990s: A Visual History of the Decade
$60.00HardcoverAdd to cartA visual celebration of a seminal decade. As the Cold War ended and a new millennium approached, grunge, hip–hop, and rave exploded in popularity as teenagers and twenty–somethings searched for some
- Series: Story of a Decade #2
- Author: Carroll, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0500027374
- Language: English
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By: Frank, Anne
Diario de Anne Frank (Edici?n Ilustrada) / Diary of Anne Frank (Illustrated Edition)
$26.95HardcoverAdd to cart80. ANIVERSARIO DEL FINAL DE LA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL
Mar?a Hesse despliega su estilo inconfundible y su trazo m?s sensible para ilustrar uno de los grandes cl?sicos de la literatura universal &laqu- Author: Frank, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 842643231X
- Language: Spanish
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By: Tomalin, Claire
Charles Dickens: A Life
$30.00PaperbackAdd to cartAward-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. … [more below]
- Author: Tomalin, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122053
- Language: English
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartDestined to take its place alongside The Diary of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel’s Night as one of the great classics of the Holocaust, I Will Bear Witness is a timeless work of literature, the most eloqu… [more below]
- Series: I Will Bear Witness #2
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756973
- Language: English
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The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartA groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States
“A genre-bending work of reportage, memoir, and history” —The New- Author: Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250903181
- Language: English
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By: Guelzo, Allen C.
The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume II: The Modern and Contemporary West
$120.00HardcoverAdd to cartA compelling, resource-rich history of the modern West–from the Renaissance to the present–designed for students and lifelong learners alike, and grounded in the enduring ideals of liberty, faith, a… [more below]
- Series: Golden Thread #2
- Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1641774010
- Language: English
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By: Gambino, Paul
Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Death and Mourning
$29.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe visual history of how we deal with death – the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies – is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and trave
- Author: Gambino, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1836004222
- Language: English
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By: Pressman, Steven
50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission Into the Heart of Nazi Germany
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartTwo Ordinary Americans.
Fifty Innocent Lives.
One Unforgettable Journey.In early 1939, few Americans were thinking about the darkening storm clouds over Europe. Nor did they have much sympathy for the
- Author: Pressman, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0062237489
- Language: English
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The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of the Magic Mountain
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos
Like many writers of his generation, Thomas Mann (1875-1955) welcomed the outbreak- Author: Jensen, Morten Høi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300233744
- Language: English
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By: Case, Kristen
Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar: Charts and Observations of Natural Phenomena
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartAn immersive, beautifully illustrated revelation of Henry David Thoreau’s final project–a monthly almanac of natural phenomena.
In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new
- Author: Case, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1571311599
- Language: English
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Cuba: Una Breve Historia
$15.95PaperbackRead moreUna concisa y legible perspectiva de Cuba, revisada a fondo y escrita por cubanos para cualquier persona interesada en comprender r?pidamente la turbulenta historia del pa?s insular.
Cuba: una breve h- Author: Vilaboy, Sergio Guerra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644212110
- Language: Spanish
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By: Ziegelman, Jane
Once There Was a Town: The Memory Books of a Lost Jewish World
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartA powerful exploration of the books created by Jewish Holocaust survivors to honor their lost world
By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who- Author: Ziegelman, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1250284333
- Language: English
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By: Amrith, Sunil
The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111275
- Language: English
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By: Tram, Dang Thuy
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cart“Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid–and despite–the horror and chaos of war… [more below]
- Author: Tram, Dang Thuy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 07 2008
- ISBN10: 0307347389
- Language: English
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George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she wa- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Atkinson, Juliette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0198864329
- Language: English
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By: Zakaria, Fareed
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartPopulist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk–the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most r
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105828
- Language: English
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By: Browar, Ken
Martha Graham Dance Company 100 Years
$75.00HardcoverAdd to cart***Winner of the International Photography Award for Best Book of 2025***
A stunning photographic celebration of The Martha Graham Dance Company on its 100th anniversary, from Ken Browar and Deborah O… [more below]- Author: Browar, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0762487445
- Language: English



















