Social History
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A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present
$32.99 Add to cartAn acclaimed cultural historian takes readers on an intellectual thrill ride through the kaleidoscopic story of futurology, a surprisingly powerful force in the modern world.
For millennia, predicting- Author: Adamson, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1639730230
- Language: English
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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade
$29.95 Add to cartHow the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad
Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade–and its devastatin- Author: Schuhrke, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 183976905X
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
$19.00 Add to cartMarty Goddard dreamed up a new crime-solving tool–a kit that could help rape survivors fight for justice. This thrilling investigation tells the story of the troubled, heroic woman who kicked off a f… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Pagan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593314719
- Language: English
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I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free
$28.99 Add to cart“Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“This work is vitally important and essential to understanding the ma
- Author: Hawkins, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0062823167
- Language: English
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The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
$19.95 Add to cart*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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366911
- Language: English
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It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
$23.99 Add to cartShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
The story of art collective Gran Fury–which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda–offers lessons in love a- Author: Lowery, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 164503660X
- Language: English
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We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration
$32.00 Add to cartAn award-winning author’s deep exploration of pivotal moments in Texas history through multiple generations of her own family, and a ruthless reexamination of our national and personal myths
New York- Author: Goudeau, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593300505
- Language: English
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
$18.99 Add to cartParis Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended r- Author: Kelleher, Katy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982179368
- Language: English
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A Little History of Psychology
$28.00 Add to cartA rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature
What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Hayes, Nicky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0300269943
- Language: English
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A Short History of Flowers: The Stories That Make Our Gardens
$24.99 Add to cartGarden and social historian Advolly Richmond (of Gardener’s World) unravels the surprising histories of 60 flowers that shape our gardens.
Have you ever wondered where your favorite garden flowers ca- Author: Richmond, Advolly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0711282226
- Language: English
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Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England
$29.99 Add to cartPatrick Curry rediscovers the history of astrology in early modern England: he seeks to overturn the accepted view that astrology was a marginal pursuit that died out after the mid-seventeenth century
- Author: Curry, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1907767304
- Language: English
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Goodreads Choice Award Winner in History & Biography One of Time‘s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 “A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail- Author: Friss, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593299922
- Language: English
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The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, a probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so… [more below]
- Author: Goldwag, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 059346706X
- Language: English
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Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey Through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future
$30.00 Add to cartA provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTok
Contrary to popular- Author: James, Esmé Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593716906
- Language: English
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction – An NPR Best Book of the Year – A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year – A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year – A N… [more below]
- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0735225281
- Language: English
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Estuche Harari (Contiene: Sapiens; Homo Deus; 21 Lecciones Para El Siglo XXI) / Yuval Noah Harari Books Set (Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for 21st C
$37.95 Add to cartEste estuche es una oportunidad ?nica para hacerse con la trilog?a de Harari, el fen?meno global que ha cautivado a millones de lectores.
Sapiens es un recorrido por nuestro pasado, Homo Deus, una m… [more below]- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 8466361219
- Language: Spanish
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Crazy as Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History
$13.54 Add to cartA refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels
- Author: Glover, Hoke S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078871
- Language: English
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Shake It Up, Baby!: The Rise of Beatlemania and the Mayhem of 1963
$32.00 Add to cartA vivid, captivating account of the Beatles’s musical transformation throughout the pivotal year of 1963, as the world became caught up in the maelstrom of Beatlemania and its far-reaching cultural im… [more below]
- Author: McNab, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 163936658X
- Language: English
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Vows: The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite
$28.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Home Comforts comes the “timely” (The New Yorker), “fascinating, and morally serious,” (The Wall Street Journal) story of our wedding vows–what they mean and why they s… [more below]
- Author: Mendelson, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1668021560
- Language: English
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The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion
$50.00 Read moreThe eagerly anticipated final volume in Jonathan Sumption’s
prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War, “one of the great historical
undertakings of our age.” ― Dan Jones, Sunday Times
Triumph… [more below]- Author: Sumption, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1006
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0571274579
- Language: English
