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The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Schreiber, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0063259206
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
$24.95 Read morePeople have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very di
- Author: Elledge, Jonn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 189101157X
- Language: English
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The Burning Earth: A History
$35.00 Add to cartIn this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing
- Author: Amrith, Sunil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324007184
- Language: English
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Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea
$19.99 Add to cartTHE STORY THEY COULDN’T HACK: In this international bestseller, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to free… [more below]
- Author: Jin-Sung, Jang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1476766568
- Language: English
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Thank You, Rain
$18.99 Add to cartA family walk in the rain helps a young girl gain perspective and appreciate nature in all its forms.
Watching rain dance down her window, a child is feeling cooped up and gloomy because she can’t go o
- Series: Thank You, World
- Author: McCauley, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798885544870
- Language: English
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The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom Remade the World
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of how Union victory in the American Civil War inspired democratic reforms, revolutions, and emancipation movements in Europe and the Americas
The Age of Reconstruction looks beyond- Series: America in the World #54
- Author: Doyle, Don H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0691256098
- Language: English
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The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan
$29.99 Add to cartShinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of rei… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Tobias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1787383105
- Language: English
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Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
$29.95 Add to cartHow does Israel extend its control over Palestinian lands? From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels the mechanisms of control and how the… [more below]
- Author: Weizman, Eyal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297100
- Language: English
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
$19.00 Read moreShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011
“A masterpiece.” –Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book R- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120549
- Language: English
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The History of Money
$18.00 Add to cart“If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read “–Charles R. Schwab
Cultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationshi- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 10 1998
- ISBN10: 0609801724
- Language: English
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Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
$18.99 Add to cartA new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin’s last great conspiracy.
On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had
- Author: Brent, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0060933100
- Language: English
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Great State: China and the World
$20.00 Read moreNow in paperback
“A dizzying and exhilarating journey. . . . Understanding how China sees itself and how it justifies its actions is critical to understanding today’s world. Great State offers some com
- Author: Brook, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063143445
- Language: English
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Russia: Myths and Realities
$27.95 Read moreAn expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story.
Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery insi- Author: Braithwaite, Rodric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362886
- Language: English
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The State Is the Enemy: Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice
$19.95 Add to cartIncendiary and heartrending, the sixteen essays in The State Is the Enemy
lay bare government brutality against the working class, immigrants,
asylum-seekers, ethnic minorities, and all who are deemed- Series: Kelman Library #3
- Author: Kelman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639680
- Language: English
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Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia and North Korea
$36.99 Add to cartHistory didn’t end. Democracy didn’t triumph. America’s leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established afte… [more below]
- Author: Stallard, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0197575358
- Language: English
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Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East
$28.99 Read moreThe Trump administration’s peace agreements in the Middle East were the greatest foreign policy accomplishment in decades. Now, for the first time, his ambassador to Israel explains how they pulled it
- Author: Friedman, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063098113
- Language: English
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Fifty Animals That Changed the Course of History
$19.95 Add to cart“Uncovers some of the most interesting stories of how animals … have impacted human civilization in economic, political, and industrial history. This is an original approach that links the biologic
- Series: Fifty Things That Changed the Course of History
- Author: Chaline, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 30 2015
- ISBN10: 177085634X
- Language: English
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Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
$23.00 Add to cartWith a new Introduction by the author, this “erudite and brilliantly readable book” (The Observer, London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reve… [more below]
- Author: Saul, John Ralston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1476718962
- Language: English
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Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
$42.00 Add to cartFrom renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent comes a dissection of how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world — and increased Russia’s status on the global stage.
How did Russia manage to em… [more below]- Author: Stent, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1455533025
- Language: English
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Tried by Fire: The Story of Christianity’s First Thousand Years
$19.99 Add to cartA major narrative history of Christianity’s first thousand years by acclaimed educator and #1 New York Times bestselling author William J. Bennett. Now in trade paper.
Full of larger-than-life characte
- Author: Bennett, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1400207460
- Language: English
