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Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
$21.99 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seeme… [more below]
- Author: Brinkley, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391837
- Language: English
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All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the author of If You Can’t Take the Heat comes a travel memoir of finding yourself exactly where you need to be– even if you aren’t quite sure where you are
Some people are meant to travel the- Author: Deruiter, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724658
- Language: English
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A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy
$30.00 Read moreNamed one of Mother Jones’ BOOKS WE NEEDED IN 2022
A true-crime story for the post-truth era
Named one of CrimeReads’ BEST NEW TRUE CRIME BOOKS OUT NOW
In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunsho- Author: Kroll, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541751140
- Language: English
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Shtetl
$21.99 Add to cartIn Shtetl (Yiddish for “small town”), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture,… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1586485245
- Language: English
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How Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
$19.99 Add to cartA maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor—and how rich countries make sure to keep it that way.
Throughout history, some combination of government… [more below]- Author: Reinert, Erik S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762894
- Language: English
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The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
$30.00 Add to cartEighty years after the stunning and decisive battle, a revelatory new history of Midway
The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and ai- Author: Simms, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1541701372
- Language: English
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The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII
$21.99 Add to cartNOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG
In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous que- Author: El-Hai, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1610394631
- Language: English
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The Future of War: A History
$18.99 Add to cartAn award-winning military historian, professor, and political adviser delivers the definitive story of warfare in all its guises and applications, showing what has driven and continues to drive this u… [more below]
- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 154174277X
- Language: English
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When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution, Revised Edition
$25.00 Add to cartAward-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the ri… [more below]
- Author: Becker, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: November 10 1998
- ISBN10: 1891620002
- Language: English
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War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
$18.99 Add to cartGeneral George S. Patton famously said, “Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!” Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is… [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393597
- Language: English
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Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
$30.00 Read moreIn 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back to South America to kill another fugitive Nazi, the so-called “butcher of Riga,” Latv
- Author: Kinstler, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 23, 2022
- ISBN10: 154170259X
- Language: English
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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
$24.99 Add to cartA sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.
Africa has been cov- Author: Meredith, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1610396359
- Language: English
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The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
$21.99 Add to cartThe Political Brain is a groundbreaking investigation into the role of emotion in determining the political life of the nation. For two decades Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at E… [more below]
- Author: Westen, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 06 2008
- ISBN10: 1586485733
- Language: English
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They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a … [more below]
- Author: Ajak, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 11 2015
- ISBN10: 1610395980
- Language: English
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Slave: My True Story
$21.99 Add to cartMende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and roundi… [more below]
- Author: Nazer, Mende
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 27 2005
- ISBN10: 1586483188
- Language: English
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
$37.00 Add to cartA major literary moment: after being lost to history for more than a century, The Road to Dawn uncovers the incredible story of the real-life slave who inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
-He rescued 118 ens- Author: Brock, Jared A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1541773926
- Language: English
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Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
$15.99 Add to cartA host of books and films in recent years have documented the dangers of our current food system, from chemical runoff to soaring rates of diet-related illness to inhumane treatment of workers and ani… [more below]
- Author: Hesterman, Oran B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391020
- Language: English
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1918, the Italian-Americans of New York, the Yupik of Alaska and the Persians of Mashed had almost nothing in common except for a virus–one that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times and ha… [more below]
- Author: Spinney, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1541736125
- Language: English
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Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
$18.99 Add to cartForbes, Best Business Books of 2022
The facts, not the fiction, of America’s immigration experience Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly m
Behavioral Scientist, Notable Books of 2022- Author: Abramitzky, Ran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1541797841
- Language: English
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This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
$18.99 Add to cartLearn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this “insightful” account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times).
When infor- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1541762126
- Language: English
