Social History
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Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous But Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence
$22.00 Add to cartA lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history’s most famous figures, including Shakespeare, Queen Victoria, and the Beatles, from debut author (and viral historical Ti… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593476042
- Language: English
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Ernestine Winchell and the Pioneer Women of Fresno County, California
$35.99 Add to cartRediscovering Fresno County, California: A Glimpse into the Lives of Women Pioneers, their Struggles, Successes, and Inter-Racial Relations in the 1800s.
This riveting narrative takes you back to Fresn
- Author: Raymond, Jeannine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822959286
- Language: English
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
$19.99 Add to cartCopyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battle
- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105097
- Language: English
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Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
$28.00 Add to cartWith warmth, a popular radio and podcast host shares her love of language, weaving together linguistic history, regional phrases, the hidden poetry in etymologies, new words, and stories from her life… [more below]
- Author: Barnette, Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1419778846
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom
$16.95 Add to cartA persuasive account of the philosophy and power of nonviolence organizing, and a resource for building and sustaining effective social movements.
Despite the rich history of nonviolent philosophy, m- Author: Lawson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0520402294
- Language: English
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The Roma: A Traveling History
$27.99 Add to cartA unique, deeply personal portrait of the nomadic Romani people and their on-going journey that sheds new light on their history, where they have traveled and settled, and what it means to be Romani t
- Author: Potter, Madeline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063337665
- Language: English
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Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History
$30.00 Add to cartA bracing, accessible history of white American liberals–and why it’s time to change the conversation about them.
If there’s one thing most Americans can agree on, it’s that everyone hates white lib- Author: Schultz, Kevin M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226824365
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Romantics
$52.17 Add to cartExplore the transformative power of Romanticism–where emotion, imagination, and contradiction collide–through the eyes of its greatest thinkers and artists.
The post-Enlightenment movement known
- Author: Kellogg, Michael K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1493087118
- Language: English
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Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives
$18.99 Add to cartThe Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
‘The star of her generation’ – Dan Snow, host of History Hit
‘Bursting with ideas and images’ – Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl
‘Utterly, utterly br- Author: Loxton, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1035031299
- Language: English
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Behind the Badge
$32.99 Add to cartFirst responders run toward things the rest of us run away from.
What makes a person want to become a first responder? Who would become a cop after her brother died in the line of duty? What guy reject
- Author: Jones, Johnny Joey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 63432102
- Language: English
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The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin
$28.00 Add to cartThe complete story of how we came to worship money, and how we can stop greed from destroying everything.
The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unsp- Author: Vigna, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1250343283
- Language: English
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Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
$22.99 Add to cartAn acclaimed cartoonist presents New York City as you’ve never seen it before, with a side-splittingly funny illustrated history of the blocks, the buildings, the guts, and the little known charms (an… [more below]
- Author: Wertz, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0316582336
- Language: English
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Like: A History of the World’s Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word
$27.99 Add to cartA comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language.
Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as “like.” Indeed, excessive us
- Author: Reynolds, Megan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063415283
- Language: English
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World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age
$35.00 Add to cartA new and heartbreaking history of World War II as told through the shocking experiences of zoos across the globe.
As Europe lurched into war in 1939, zookeepers started killing their animals. On Se- Author: Kinder, John M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827666
- Language: English
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
$27.99 Add to cartNearly forty years after the official end of the Vietnam War, Dear America allows us to witness the war firsthand through the eyes of the men and women who served in Vietnam. In this collection of mor… [more below]
- Author: Edelman, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323048
- Language: English
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The Basque Witch-Hunt: A Secret History
$35.00 Read more2025 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARDS WINNER: EUROPEAN HISTORY
In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province o- Author: Machielsen, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1350441503
- Language: English
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
$22.95 Add to cart“In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!”–Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A sweepi- Author: Alfani, Guido
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 069122711X
- Language: English
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Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age
Until now, the standard narrative of Ameri- Author: Tweed, Thomas a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 300221487
- Language: English
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Empire of the Elite: Inside Cond? Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America
$29.99 Add to cartFrom a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Cond? Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through… [more below]
- Author: Grynbaum, Michael M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1668003910
- Language: English
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Tastes and Traditions: A Journey Through Menu History
$45.00 Add to cartA delectable and beautifully illustrated exploration of the deep meaning of the menu across time–at and beyond the table.
Menus are invaluable snapshots of the food consumed at specific moments in t- Author: Cooke, Nathalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 02 2025
- ISBN10: 183639067X
- Language: English
