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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
$49.99 Read moreTo those of us in the West, the Soviet Union is synonymous with Stalinism. The common view of the USSR is of a brutal regime that squelched dissent and oversaw a drab, terrified society. Yet as Cambri
- Author: Smith, Mark B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1631498290
- Language: English
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Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation’s Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind
$30.00 Add to cartAn absorbing tale of science and showmanship, ideology and enterprise, that provides not just a fascinating history of our country, but also crucial insight into the deep currents that continue to pro… [more below]
- Author: Stob, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1640096833
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Political Life
$45.00 Add to cartA major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings
The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he- Author: Callanan, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691227977
- Language: English
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History’s Most Spectacular Heists: High-Stakes Thefts, Incredible Treasures, and Daring Rescues
$19.99 Add to cartDive into the world’s most unbelievable, high-stakes, fascinating heists, from art thefts to bank robberies to jewel burglaries–perfect for kids 8-12.
A collection of jewels vanishes in the dead of n- Author: Berne, Emma Carlson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798886742541
- Language: English
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The Rolling Stones: The Biography
$38.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of classic histories of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, a groundbreaking reckoning with the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band
All great music is a threat. Wh- Author: Spitz, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593489098
- Language: English
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Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
$49.99 Add to cartKant’s Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important works in the Western philosophical tradition, which made seminal contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the foundations of moral ph… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
- Author: Guyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 764
- Publish Date: November 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1009600052
- Language: English
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The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
$45.00 Add to cart‘This accessible history will keep the subject alive for a new generation [..] It is about providing an accessible, sober and vivid resource that keeps the subject alive. In this aim, the book succeed
- Author: McDonough, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1035912481
- Language: English
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The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
$28.95 Add to cartA provocative history of Disney’s rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode the political messages hidden in all of your favorite childhood movies.
In The Exte
- Author: Osterweil, Vicky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888903667
- Language: English
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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
$19.00 Add to cart
“Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST – “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”–The Washington Post- Author: Foer, Esther Safran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575995
- Language: English
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The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy–And Why It Failed
$19.99 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 125079059X
- Language: English
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Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
$35.00 Add to cartFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial househo… [more below]
- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217061181
- Language: English
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Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
$32.99 Add to cartTELEGRAPH HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler’s forces. Her forces driven off the continent, many rescued from c- Author: Taylor, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1804549991
- Language: English
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The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
$24.95 Add to cartSince its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at th… [more below]
- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1836740409
- Language: English
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Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
$26.95 Add to cartIn Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines–psychoanalysis and historicis… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Copjec, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1781688885
- Language: English
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For Marx
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “str… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Althusser, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 184467052X
- Language: English
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Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures
$27.00 Add to cartA spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world
In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe’s extraord- Author: Saltzman, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115316
- Language: English
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Wild Grace: The Untamed Women of Modern Dance
$34.95 Add to cart“Opening a door into the rich world of modern dance.” Kirkus starred review ⭐
“Captivating.” Publishers Weekly starred review ⭐
“Refreshing.” New Statesman
“Compelling.” Harper’s Bazaar
“Pas- Author: Veale, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0571368565
- Language: English
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Utopia
$11.99 Add to cart‘To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.’
Thomas More’s Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers s- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 019886020X
- Language: English
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Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
$27.00 Add to cart*Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award*
From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order- Author: Diamond, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525560645
- Language: English
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The Amen Corner: A Play
$15.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century–a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701885
- Language: English
