World
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Russia Against Modernity
$19.95 Read morePutin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and d
- Author: Etkind, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556583
- Language: English
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The Great U.S.-China Tech War
$9.99 Read moreThe United States and China are locked in a “cold tech war,” and the winner will end up dominating the twenty-first century.
Beijing was not considered a tech contender a decade ago. Now, some call it- Author: Chang, Gordon G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1641771186
- Language: English
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Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion
$32.00 Read moreScience and religion have always been at each other’s throats, right?
Most things you ‘know’ about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth centur- Author: Spencer, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0861544617
- Language: English
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A Livable Future Is Possible: Confronting the Threats to Our Survival
$19.95 Add to cartA sweeping yet penetrating collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, exploring the most pressing global concerns of our time.
In these illuminating interviews conducted by C.J. Polychroniou, Noam C… [more below]- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888902622
- Language: English
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Explorers: A New History
$22.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 132407387X
- Language: English
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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
$18.99 Add to cart“This book unravels the mysteries behind humanity’s greatest masterpieces.” — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again
Discover the secret method used to build the world…
For m
- Author: Hammack, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1728280451
- Language: English
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Kamala, The Motherland, and Me
$29.99 Add to cartKamala, The Motherland, and Me, a captivating memoir by Dr. Nii-Quartelai Quartey, takes you on a journey of self-discovery and political revelation. Join him aboard Air Force Two, where he accompani
- Author: Quartey, Nii-Quartelai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1953315429
- Language: English
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Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
$29.99 Add to cartIn the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed t
- Author: Green, Nile
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1324002417
- Language: English
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Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
$29.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.
If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty- Author: Godfrey-Smith, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0374189935
- Language: English
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Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy
$29.95 Add to cartA masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire.
The pirates that exist in our- Author: Blakemore, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366334
- Language: English
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How Economics Explains the World: A Short History of Humanity
$26.00 Add to cart“If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh’s clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” –Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee P
- Author: Leigh, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063383780
- Language: English
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Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America
$18.00 Add to cartA new collection from one of Latin America’s most dynamic radical thinkers–in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano.
Constructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization of
- Author: Zibechi, Ra?l
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1849355428
- Language: English
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The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping first-person account of how one Israeli grandfather helped rescue two generations of his family on October 7, 2023–a saga that reveals the deep tensions and systemic failures behind Hamas’… [more below]
- Author: Tibon, Amir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0316580961
- Language: English
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The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
$19.00 Add to cart“Ambitious…. The truth is that Fromkin’s outline is persuasively thought out and presented.”–The Washington Post Book World
As the human race approaches the 21st century, questions of our past trou- Author: Fromkin, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2000
- ISBN10: 0679766693
- Language: English
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Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years
$18.99 Read moreTwenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing clothing created from spun fibers. In Women’s Work, archaeologist-linguist Elizabeth Wayland Barber “weaves the strands of mythology and litera
- Author: Barber, Elizabeth Wayland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 132407602X
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$25.00 Read moreThe 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267479
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse?the Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation
$16.95 Add to cartZen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Downer, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1891011669
- Language: English
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
$19.95 Add to cartHow Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine
**WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE**
**Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** Israel’s milita- Author: Loewenstein, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1839762098
- Language: English
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Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
$40.00 Add to cartA unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history
From the emergence of money in the ancient wor- Author: Wojcik, Dariusz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300253052
- Language: English
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From Hamas to America: My Story of Defying Terror, Facing the Unimaginable, and Finding Redemption in the Land of Opportunity
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Hamas to America is a gripping memoir that follows the son of Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan, as he breaks away from his culture’s practice of terrorism to becoming a double-agent for Israel to fina… [more below]
- Author: Hassan Yousef, Mosab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1637633181
- Language: English
