Social History
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartSelected testimonies to living history–speeches, letters, poems, songs–offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring in… [more below]
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1609805925
- Language: English
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Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin
$23.99 Read moreIn April 1938, Swift River Valley residents held a farewell ball to mark the demise of the quintessential New England town of Enfield and its three smaller neighbors, Greenwich, Dana, and Prescott.
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- Series: Lost
- Author: Palladino, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147974
- Language: English
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Math 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Add to cartGet to grips with the essential topics in maths today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words.
Math: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisf- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081610
- Language: English
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Sage: Poems
$26.95 Read moreIn her galvanizing sixth collection of poems, Marilyn Chin once again turns moral outrage into unforgettable art. A rambunctious take on our contemporary condition, Sage shifts skillfully in tone and
- Author: Chin, Marilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050152
- Language: English
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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
$19.99 Add to cartSweeping away misconceptions about the “Me Decade,” Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s… [more below]
- Author: Schulman, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 030681126X
- Language: English
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We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for t
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Clay, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639729
- Language: English
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Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mindvolume 67
$29.95 Add to cartFor at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #67
- Author: León-Portilla, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0806122951
- Language: English
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
$16.99 Read more“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad ran
- Author: Weill, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753371
- Language: English
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
$20.00 Add to cart“All disasters are in some sense man-made.”
Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disaste- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297393
- Language: English
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
$18.95 Add to cartWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defian
- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092009
- Language: English
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974–The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
$19.99 Add to cart“An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in Amer
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062899228
- Language: English
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American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190622431
- Language: English
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
$18.95 Read moreDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. P
- Author: Green, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064498
- Language: English
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Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History
$22.00 Add to cartThe must-read music book of the year–and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop from 1900 to the mid-1950s.
Pop music didn’t- Author: Stanley, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364633
- Language: English
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Physics 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Read moreGet to grips with the essential topics in physics today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words.
Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, s- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081629
- Language: English
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
$20.00 Add to cart“A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.”
―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city,- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528993
- Language: English
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
$21.99 Add to cartScurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventur
- Author: Brown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312313926
- Language: English
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The Little Book of LGBTQ+: An A-Z of Gender and Sexual Identities
$15.95 Add to cartFeel confident in the ABCs of LGBTQ+
Language is a key path to awareness, acceptance and empowerment. It’s central to understanding the world and the communities we live in, but it can often be trick- Author: Dyer, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1627783237
- Language: English
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The World of Lore: Dreadful Places
$28.99 Add to cartCaptivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories from the podcast Lore–now a streaming television series–including “Echoes,” “Withering Heights,” and “… [more below]
- Series: World of Lore #3
- Author: Mahnke, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1524798029
- Language: English
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Making of the World: Sapiens’ Journey From Wilderness to Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartThis book is “a strong summary of world history and social evolution” (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).
Humanity was once divided into thousands of smal… [more below]
- Author: Khan, Mahbub H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1039185800
- Language: English
