Social History
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
$20.00 Add to cartAn exciting account of the origins of the modern world
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author- Author: Herman, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 24, 2002
- ISBN10: 0609809997
- Language: English
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1932: Fdr, Hoover and the Dawn of a New America
$28.00 Read moreAn enthralling slice of history with contemporary resonance, this unique account examines the most transformative year in American history — when a battered nation would emerge from the Great Depress… [more below]
- Author: Martelle, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0806541865
- Language: English
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
$32.00 Read moreAn unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled
The promise that you can
- Author: Quart, Alissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 006302800X
- Language: English
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Imbibe! Updated and Revised Edition: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to Professor Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the
$29.00 Add to cartThe newly updated edition of David Wondrich’s definitive guide to classic American cocktails.
Cocktail writer and historian David Wondrich presents the colorful, little-known history of classic Americ… [more below]- Author: Wondrich, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0399172610
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Magisterial . . . A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt’s complex evolution over the course of three millenniums.”–Los Angeles Times
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR- Author: Wilkinson, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0553384902
- Language: English
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Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
$35.00 Add to cartA rich exploration of the importance of books and libraries in the ancient world that highlights how humanity’s obsession with the printed word has echoed throughout the ages – “Accessible and enterta
- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593318897
- Language: English
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A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
$21.95 Read moreChina Mi?ille’s strikingly imaginative new introduction to the Communist Manifesto offers both a critical appraisal and a spirited defense of the modern world’s most influential political document.
Few- Author: Mi?ville, China
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1642598917
- Language: English
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia, from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
NA- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 21, 2017
- ISBN10: 0399588825
- Language: English
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El Libro de la Historia (the History Book)
$27.99 Add to cartGrandes ideas, explicaciones sencillas
Qué permitió el surgimiento de la democracia en la antigua Grecia? Cómo conquistó España América Central y del Sur? Qué provocó la caÃda del Muro de BerlÃn?
Es- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1465473769
- Language: Spanish
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
$25.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858801
- Language: English
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We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
$21.99 Add to cartFintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government–in despair, because all the young people were leaving–opened the country to foreign investment and pop
- Author: O’Toole, Fintan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092874
- Language: English
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
$21.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”–Dwight Garner, The New York Ti… [more below]
- Author: Wilkerson, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0593230272
- Language: English
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Russian Black Magic: The Beliefs and Practices of Heretics and Blasphemers
$16.99 Read moreA rare look into the history, theory, and craft of the black mages and sorcerers of Russia
– Examines practical rituals and spells, the demonic pantheon, places of power, offerings and sacrifices, Hel- Author: Helvin, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 22, 2019
- ISBN10: 1620558874
- Language: English
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The Years
$19.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when p… [more below]- Author: Ernaux, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1609807871
- Language: English
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The Real-Life Murder Clubs: Citizens Solving True Crimes
$16.95 Add to cartWhat happens when ordinary people, in real-life murder clubs, set out to investigate cold cases and other crimes?
The Netflix hit Don’t F**k with Cats was based on the 2012 Montreal murder of Lin Jun b
- Author: Stow, Nicola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 31, 2023
- ISBN10: 1802470794
- Language: English
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Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving
$20.00 Add to cartFrom beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, a rigorously researched, “funny and smart” (Jon Stewart) book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.
Mo Rocc- Author: Rocca, Mo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1501197630
- Language: English
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
$24.99 Read moreA collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America–including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more–with a foreword by Jela
- Author: Cobb, Jelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0063017601
- Language: English
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Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
$20.99 Add to cartA “sharp and entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.
Dress codes are as old as clothing its- Author: Thompson Ford, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1501180088
- Language: English
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The Making of Asian America: A History
$23.00 Add to cartA “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new after
- Author: Lee, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 16, 2016
- ISBN10: 1476739412
- Language: English
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The Stonewall Reader
$18.00 Add to cartFor the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund Whit
- Author: New York Public Library
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 30, 2019
- ISBN10: 0143133519
- Language: English
