Social History
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The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the host of the critically acclaimed pro wrestling podcast Straight Shoot, this graphic novel history of wrestling features the key grapplers, matches, and promotions that shaped this beloved spo… [more below]
- Series: Comic Book Story of
- Author: Sitterson, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0399580492
- Language: English
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The Official History of the Tour de France (2025): Revised and Updated
$29.95 Add to cartA lavish, illustrated companion to the Tour de France that makes for the perfect gift for any cycling fan.
The Official History of the Tour de France – fully revised and updated for 2025 – is a celebr- Author: Edwardes-Evans, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 103542665X
- Language: English
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A Social History of Maoist China
$35.00 Add to cartWhen the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to ‘turn society upside down’. Efforts to build a communist society created hopes and dreams, coupled with fear and disillusionment. Th… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to Asian History
- Author: Wemheuer, Felix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: March 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1107565502
- Language: English
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Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola – The Aor Glory Years 1976-1986
$30.00 Add to cartA massively entertaining oral biography of the golden era of critically derided yet monumentally popular radio rock, when Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, Toto, and more ruled the airwaves
Paul Rees’
- Author: Rees, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0306836041
- Language: English
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The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World
$39.50 Add to cartA bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene–the killing age.
We are used to speakin- Author: Crais, Clifton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827410
- Language: English
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Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art
$18.99 Add to cartA finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award
“A compelling, absolutely unputdownable story . . . And, in case you’re wondering, yes, the book is funny. In places, very funny. A remarkable st
- Author: Wasson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1328508005
- Language: English
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Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City
$31.99 Add to cartNurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was onc
- Author: Brown, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1324105836
- Language: English
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Judy Blume: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe highly anticipated biography of one of the world’s most treasured literary voices, showcasing a life as triumphant and inspiring as the stories she crafted.
To know the name Judy Blume is to know- Author: Oppenheimer, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 059371444X
- Language: English
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Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. II
$40.00 Add to cartIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on s… [more below]
- Series: Myth of the Machine #2
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 20 1974
- ISBN10: 0156716100
- Language: English
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Against the Current: Father Tom Oddo and the New American Catholic
$26.99 Add to cartAnnotated Chapter Overview
Prologue Set on October 29, 1989, the Prologue recounts the fatal accident that claimed Tom Oddo’s life and the immediate impact on the University of Portland community.
Part … [more below]
- Author: Bieber, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798986566450
- Language: English
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The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds Across Landscapes and Imagination
$22.50 Add to cartMapping the acoustic onto the human soul, moving meditations on the power and meaning of sound.
Nature writers Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen set out in search of sounds beautiful and loathsome, melo- Author: Vieser, Michaela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1836391102
- Language: English
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Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People: An Organize the Rich Anthology
$25.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years, a growing movement has been quietly organizing wealthy people to redistribute their resources toward justice. From the radical rich kids of the 1970s to today’s cross-class coali
- Author: Gast, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218735340
- Language: English
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Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas about Women
$27.99 Add to cartThe dangerous belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to “traditional” values is a myth that has long prospered in American politics, playing an especially vicious role in the d
- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324075902
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartHow only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271844
- Language: English
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Sojourners to Joke Sings: Tales of Chinatown & Beyond
$33.32 Add to cartSojourners to Joke Sings: Tales of Chinatown & Beyondis a transgenerational, genre-blending work of family memoir, historical recovery, and cultural witness. The lives of Chinese American ancestors an
- Author: Lee, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1961794063
- Language: English
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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent
$9.99 Add to cartCollected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.
To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book A People’s History of the United States, Ho
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: March 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0060578262
- Language: English
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, Second Edition
$22.50 Add to cartCelebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.
Aphorisms are literature’- Author: Geary, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226838609
- Language: English
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Volga Blues: A Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$31.99 Add to cartSince the invasion of Ukraine and ban on foreign reporters, Russia seems to have sunk into an even deeper shadow than in the darkest times of the Soviet Union. Only by presenting himself as an histori
- Author: Mian, Marzio G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324111038
- Language: English
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Scotland’s Clans & Their Tartans: The Histories and Origins of the Clans and Their Tartan Plaids
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the fascinating history of Scotland’s clans and explore the stories behind their iconic tartans in this comprehensive guide.
Scotland’s Clans & their Tartans offers an authoritative exploratio- Author: Grimble, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1788405935
- Language: English
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I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month
$24.99 Add to cartOn its one-hundredth anniversary, a powerful and essential meditation on the origins, evolution, and future of Black History Month from one of America’s leading historians of Black education and the a
- Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 006347882X
- Language: English
