National characteristics
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Italian Lessons: Fifty Things We Know about Life Now
$18.00 Read moreOne-of-a-kind timeless lessons for handling challenges and living with joy, the Italian way–“with unparalleled insight and brilliant wit, Severgnini’s book not only transports us to Italy but deep in… [more below]
- Author: Severgnini, Beppe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0593315634
- Language: English
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Colombia – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$14.99 Add to cartColombia has a spectacular and variant landscape, embracing tropical beaches, highland plateaus, the rugged, snow-capped peaks of the Andes, arid deserts, and dense Amazonian jungle. Colombian society… [more below]
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Cathey, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1857338863
- Language: English
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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
$18.00 Read moreFirst published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events”–events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order t
- Author: Boorstin, Daniel J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679741801
- Language: English
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important bo… [more below]
- Author: Andersen, Kurt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0812978900
- Language: English
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
$21.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the Founding Fathers viewed faith–and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choi… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0812976665
- Language: English
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused
- Author: Connolly, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0465093957
- Language: English
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What Does It Mean to Be American?
$17.99 Read moreAn engaging picture book for children that celebrates what it means to be American!
What does it mean to be American? Does it mean you like apple pie or fireworks? Not exactly.
This patriotic picture bo
- Series: What Does It Mean to Be…? #0
- Author: Diorio, Rana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1492683809
- Language: English
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Italians
$22.00 Add to cartIn this consummate portrait of the Italian people, bestselling author, publisher, journalist, and politician Luigi Barzini delves deeply into the Italian national character, discovering both its great… [more below]
- Author: Barzini, Luigi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0684825007
- Language: English
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In the Land of Israel
$14.95 Add to cart“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemi… [more below]
- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0156481146
- Language: English
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Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic
$30.00 Read moreA French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites
France, t- Author: Ramdani, Nabila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703251
- Language: English
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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
$28.43 Add to cartThis important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, “drive the Arabs i… [more below]
- Series: Edward Burlingame Book
- Author: Pryce-Jones, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1566638267
- Language: English
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American Dreams: The United States Since 1945
$18.00 Add to cartThe story of our nation from the A-bomb to the iPhone from bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands
With keen insight and an impeccable sense of the spirit of the times, H. W. B- Author: Brands, H. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119559
- Language: English
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In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession, and the Landscapes of American Empire
$28.99 Read moreIn this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fic… [more below]
- Author: Puglionesi, Alicia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1982116757
- Language: English
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Paris France
$15.95 Add to cartCelebrated for her innovative literary bravura, Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) settled into a bustling Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, never again to return to her native America. While in Par… [more below]
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: June 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0871403749
- Language: English
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
$18.99 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan.
The World War II-era study by the cultural anthr
- Author: Benedict, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618619593
- Language: English
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
$33.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0399589813
- Language: English
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
$30.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Barack Obama’s lucid vision of America’s place in the world and call for a new kind of politics that builds upon our shared understandings as Americans, based on his yea… [more below]
- Author: Obama, Barack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0307237699
- Language: English
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USA – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$14.99 Add to cartDon’t just see the sights―get to know the people.
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich and complex society that brims wi
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Beechey, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1787023214
- Language: English
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God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time
$32.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed religion scholar, Stephen Prothero, captures the compelling and unique saga of twentieth-century America on an identity quest through the eyes and books
- Author: Prothero, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0062464043
- Language: English
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
$27.00 Add to cartThe Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.
A national bestseller and “hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant” (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation o- Author: Menand, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0374528497
- Language: English
