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The Middle Ages
$21.99 Add to cartIn this single indispensable volume, one of America’s ranking scholars combines a life’s work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoriatative and beautifully told, THE M
- Series: American Heritage Library
- Author: Bishop, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 26 2001
- ISBN10: 061805703X
- Language: English
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Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry Into Corruption in High Places
$34.95 Read moreThe world’s leading forensic scholar exposes international duplicity and complicity in the Gaza genocide.
Methodically debunking the claims of its apologists, Norman Finkelstein has for decades laid ba
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1682196577
- Language: English
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A Short History of Ancient Rome
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the hit Short History of… podcast comes the dramatic and thrilling story of ancient Rome, an immersive account packed with historical detail that brings to life the rise and fall of one of the … [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Pascal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1335001328
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
$18.95 Add to cartA single boundary might, upon closer inspection, reveal eons of history–from epic tales of conquest, treaties, and alliances to intimate, all-too-human stories of love, greed, and folly. None of the … [more below]
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030822
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Global History
$49.00 Add to cartA landmark event years in the making, a brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years of human history
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisive- Author: Beckert, Sven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1344
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0735220832
- Language: English
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Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
$28.95 Add to cartRevealed: How pro-Israel lobbying groups influence the Middle East policies of Britain, the US and others
In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Z
- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0861549163
- Language: English
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Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed the World
$34.95 Add to cartThe gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history forever.
From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao’s- Author: Hall, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0571367151
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$12.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110317
- Language: English
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Vanilla: The History of an Extraordinary Bean
$30.00 Add to cartThe fascinating and wide-ranging history of vanilla, from the sixteenth century to today
Vanilla is one of the most expensive of flavorings–so valuable that it was smuggled or stolen by pirates in t- Author: Jennings, Eric T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300264534
- Language: English
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This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
$29.99 Add to cartFrom YouTube’s Map Men comes a funny and fascinating journey into the maps that messed up: big time!
In their long-awaited debut, Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman (aka, the Map Men) bring their highly… [more below]
- Author: Men, Map
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 133500131X
- Language: English
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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the Wind
$35.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style.
What is going on with our atmosphere? The headli
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063374455
- Language: English
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The History of Money: A Story of Humanity, with a Foreword by Michael Lewis
$32.99 Add to cartIn this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money–from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.
The story- Author: McWilliams, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1250408180
- Language: English
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Israel on the Brink: And the Eight Revolutions That Could Lead to Decolonization and Coexistence
$27.95 Add to cartA renowned Israeli-British historian argues Israel is fracturing, and considers the issues that must be centered for a peaceful future for Palestinians and Jews alike
In this timely book, historian Il- Author: Pappé, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0807018791
- Language: English
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The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
$35.00 Add to cartA prize-winning historian’s fascinating and unfamiliar recasting of America’s war of independence as a transformative international event
In this revelatory and enthralling book, award-winning histori- Author: Bell, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593719514
- Language: English
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Guest Privileges
$27.95 Add to cartWeaving memoir with unprecedented reportage, Guest Privileges is a decade-long journey of discovery through the clandestine queer communities of the Gulf States, and into the very nature of home and b
- Author: Adams, Gaar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1938603303
- Language: English
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The Romans: A 2,000-Year History
$40.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century
When we think of “ancient Romans” toda- Author: Watts, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619811
- Language: English
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
$32.00 Add to cartA magisterial history of the seven rivers representing the great natural arteries running through civilization, by virtue of the roles they have played in our shared and conflicted world history.
Ever- Author: Taylor, Vanessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368639
- Language: English
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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
$35.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a bold, clear-eyed look at how the autocracies of China and Russia are challenging the current global o
- Author: McFaul, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0358677874
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices drove the early modern world econo- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281129
- Language: English
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
$22.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness
Winner of the National Book Award in nonfiction- Author: Osnos, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535272
- Language: English
