Social History
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Five Days in November: In Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of Jfk’s Assassination
$35.00 Add to cartSecret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New Y… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Clint
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1668035758
- Language: English
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Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
$28.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073713
- Language: English
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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker’s History
$35.00 Read more“A hugely entertaining achievement.” –Esquire
“An engaging survey through a period of intellectual history that reveals as much about people who wear watches as the objects on their wrists.” – Wall Str
- Author: Struthers, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0063048701
- Language: English
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The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
$26.99 Read moreBrian “Box” Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, he unravels how marketing that targeted children in the 1980s has shaped adults in the present.
Powere- Author: Brown, Brian Box
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1250261406
- Language: English
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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years
$35.00 Add to cart“[A] tour de force of global history…Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live.”–Los Angeles Review of
- Author: Bosma, Ulbe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0674279395
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$29.95 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1324051957
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
$38.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution–from the development of agriculture and cities- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0374157359
- Language: English
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The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera
$35.00 Add to cart*A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice*
Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, f- Author: Miles, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364951
- Language: English
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Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
$29.00 Add to cartA historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they’re dealt” (Ada Calhoun,
- Author: O’Donnell Heffington, Peggy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675576
- Language: English
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Why We Swim
$18.99 Add to cart“A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book.” –Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
We swim in freezing Arctic wat… [more below]- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1643751379
- Language: English
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The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
$28.95 Read more*A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’S CHOICE*
A revealing and unique portrait of Victorian life as told through the discovery of one woman’s textile scrapbook. In 1838, a young woman was given a diar- Author: Strasdin, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364218
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the World
$26.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, Mark Booth’s The Secret History of the World is “an entire library’s worth of scholarship [in] a single volume” (San Francisco Gate).
“Authentically mind-boggling.” —Kirk- Author: Booth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1590201620
- Language: English
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Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
$30.00 Read moreFrom beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America’s obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power
The United States was born in parano- Author: Dickey, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0593299450
- Language: English
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
$24.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller – One of the year’s most acclaimed works of nonfiction
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast Company
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- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063278529
- Language: English
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Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
$35.99 Add to cartFrom one of the country’s most distinguished journalists, a revisionist and riveting look at the American politician whom history has judged a loser, yet who played a key part in the greatest social m… [more below]
- Series: Pivotal Moments in American History
- Author: Freedman, Samuel G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0197535194
- Language: English
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Flight of the Wasp: The Rise, Fall, and Future of America’s Original Ruling Class
$30.00 Read moreFifteen families.
Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in
America’s history.For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph
Alsop to the editors of Politic- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161863
- Language: English
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Harry Tiebout: The Collected Writings
$17.95 Add to cartThis collection of writings by Harry Tiebout, one of the first psychiatrists to describe alcoholism as a disease, are seminal documents in the history, treatment, and understanding of alcoholism.
One- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 23 1999
- ISBN10: 1568383452
- Language: English
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The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors
$28.00 Read moreA masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer–from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination–… [more below]
- Author: Howsare, Erika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221346
- Language: English
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Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
$39.99 Add to cart“Lively, timely and gloriously energetic. Each page bursts with life, and every chapter swirls with personalities left out of traditional narratives of Britain’s past. Philippa Gregory has produced so
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063304325
- Language: English
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
$26.99 Add to cartThe groundbreaking international best-seller that turns everything you think about money, debt, and society on its head–from the “brilliant, deeply original political thinker” David Graeber (Rebecca … [more below]
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 1612194192
- Language: English
