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The History of the World
$56.00 Add to cartJ.M. Roberts’s renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: May 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0199936765
- Language: English
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Understanding Hamas: And Why That Matters
$19.95 Add to cartBoth accessible and authoritative, Understanding Hamas provides much-needed insight into a widely misunderstood movement whose involvement in a just resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict will be
- Author: Cobban, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1682196348
- Language: English
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The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy
$32.00 Add to cartA sweeping journey through twenty-first century India’s violent lurch towards autocracy.
Since Narendra Modi’s election in May 2014, India has become more dysfunctional and dangerous than ever. The “… [more below]
- Author: Bhatia, Rahul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1541704002
- Language: English
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Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
$27.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe fo
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163688
- Language: English
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When We Sold God’s Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon
$32.00 Add to cartIn this “remarkable” true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston).
Growing up in a remote corne- Author: Cuadros, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1538701502
- Language: English
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Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
$32.00 Add to cartThe full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resisted
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the w- Author: Finkel, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604679
- Language: English
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Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals
$17.99 Add to cartAll tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave entrepreneurs, botanists, distillers, beverage distributor
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076100
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
$16.95 Read more2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER — HISTORY: GENERAL
“. . . inherently interesting, unique, and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and academic libr- Author: Orzel, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1953295606
- Language: English
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A Social History of Western Political Thought
$34.95 Read moreA sweeping and nuanced materialist history of Western political thought
In this groundbreaking work, Ellen Meiksins Wood rewrites the history of political theory, from Plato to Rousseau. Treating cano- Author: Wood, Ellen Meiksins
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766093
- Language: English
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El Infierno Tan Temido: El Secuestro En México / The Hell We Dread: Kidnapping I N Mexico
$17.95 Read moreEl libro ofrece una contraparte no menos amarga con la voz de las vÃctimas para develar cómo fue su dÃa a dÃa durante el secuestro, qué secuelas fÃsicas y mentales quedaron en su vida, cómo fue… [more below]
- Author: Niño de Rivera, Saskia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 607381206X
- Language: Spanish
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Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
$16.99 Add to cartContinuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel
- Author: Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0062333941
- Language: English
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You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
$16.95 Read moreIn this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, an… [more below]
- Author: War, Pyae Moe Thet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222008
- Language: English
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Breve Historia del Mundo. Edición Ilustrada
$26.95 Read moreNueva edición ilustrada de esta obra clásica que lleva décadas divulgando la historia del mundo a lectores de todas las edades.
Esta Breve historia del mundo no es un manual al uso: es la historia d
- Author: Gombrich, Ernst H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 6075692282
- Language: Spanish
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
$15.95 Read moreThe human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490990
- Language: English
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How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict
$20.95 Read moreSince the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia. The question no one seems to be able
- Author: Jankowicz, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0755642082
- Language: English
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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
$35.00 Add to cartIn Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the da… [more below]
- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0812994000
- Language: English
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The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
$16.95 Read moreA very funny view of the great, and nearly great, people throughout history by New Yorker humorist Will Cuppy.
Hysterically funny (yet historically accurate), Cuppy transforms luminaries such as Nero- Series: Nonpareil Books #31
- Author: Cuppy, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1567923771
- Language: English
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The Prince
$10.00 Read moreThat Machiavelli’s name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Prince–the world’s preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting an… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0593310861
- Language: English
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Feminisms: A Global History
$45.00 Read moreFeminism’s origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostly white and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has been and continues to be a global movement. For centuries, … [more below]
- Author: Delap, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 022675409X
- Language: English
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Coup: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia
$19.95 Read moreIn three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales’ pink tide government had worked to implement in Bolivia and beyond came to a screeching
- Author: Farthing, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 164259587X
- Language: English
