World
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in XI Jinping’s China
$29.00 Add to cartAn intimate, deeply reported investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from an… [more below]
- Author: Feng, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593594223
- Language: English
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The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Shuster, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063307448
- Language: English
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Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine
$29.95 Add to cartA leading expert on US-Russian relations reveals how the United States and its European allies set the course for the war in Ukraine–and offers a sobering indictment of American foreign policy since
- Author: Haslam, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299078
- Language: English
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The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the West
$40.00 Add to cartFrom an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world
Heraclitus wrote that “war is the father of all,” and it has formed much o- Author: Murray, Williamson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270682
- Language: English
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Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War
$39.95 Add to cartA group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War
In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading histor- Author: Anderson, Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297674
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
$29.00 Add to cartBy the award-winning author of A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: a history of humanity on the brink of decline.
We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first ti- Author: Gee, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250325587
- Language: English
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
$28.00 Add to cartJohn Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadlie… [more below]
- Author: Green, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0525556575
- Language: English
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Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning political scientist shows that a society’s path to prosperity, sustainability, and equality depends on who owns the land
For millennia, land has been a symbol of wealth and privilege- Author: Albertus, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1541604814
- Language: English
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100 Books That Changed the World
$27.95 Read moreA thought-provoking chronological timeline of the world’s most influential books.
Many books have become classics, must-reads, or overnight publishing sensations, but how many can genuinely claim to h- Author: Salter, Colin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1849948674
- Language: English
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The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network
$29.99 Add to cartThis is the definitive account of the Western world’s most powerful–but least known–intelligence alliance, which remains central to the defense of the free world in a dangerously uncertain time.
Th- Author: Kerbaj, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1454952512
- Language: English
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The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
$19.95 Add to cartThe first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks.
We see notebooks everywhere we go. But where did these indispensable implements come from? How did they revo
- Author: Allen, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1771966289
- Language: English
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The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State
$23.99 Add to cartAfter three decades of “reform and opening up,” China is closing its doors, clamping down on Western influence in the economy, media, and civil society. At the same time, President Xi Jinping has emer… [more below]
- Author: Economy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2019
- ISBN10: 019005655X
- Language: English
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The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy
$22.99 Read more100 fascinating, unexpected, and startling stories you didn’t learn in history class, presented by The History Channel
History is filled with unpredictable people and unbelievable stories. Consider:
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- Series: Greatest Stories Never Told
- Author: Beyer, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0060014016
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Add to cartA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- Language: English
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About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
$18.95 Add to cartFor thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021950
- Language: English
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To Lose a War: The Fall and Rise of the Taliban
$30.00 Add to cartFrom one of the great foreign correspondents of our time, author of some of the most essential reporting from Afghanistan from before 9/11 to the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, the first full… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Jon Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593493095
- Language: English
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
$21.99 Add to cartOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest popul
- Author: Van Reybrouck, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110449
- Language: English
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Target Tehran: How Mossad Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – And Secret Diplomacy – To Realign the Middle East
$19.99 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year/Politics
“One of the most accurate and fascinating books so far” (Michael Bar-Zohar, coauthor
Winner of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Prize- Author: Bob, Yonah Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1668014572
- Language: English
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A Little History of Music
$15.00 Add to cartA superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present
Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal’s bone flute to the festivals o- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Philip, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279086
- Language: English
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Sourdough Culture: A History of Bread Making from Ancient to Modern Bakers
$20.00 Add to cartThe essential history of bread baking and sourdough’s rise to a global phenomenon.
Sourdough bread fueled the labor that built the Egyptian pyramids. The Roman Empire distributed free sourdough loaves
- Author: Pallant, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1572843462
- Language: English
