World
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The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money
$32.00 Read moreIn this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money–and the people and nations wh… [more below]
- Author: Greeley, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0593138880
- Language: English
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Rooted: How Black and Brown People Created Classical Music
$10.00 Add to cartThis highly captivating book takes readers on a journey through the history of classical music. However, author and music educator Vincent Sneed demonstrates that this history does not begin in Europe
- Author: Sneed, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 26 2025
- ISBN10: 9798295438738
- Language: English
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Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine
$22.95 Add to cartThe social, political, and historical context of the current Israeli-Palestinian War told through the stories of the author’s family and village.
“Ramzy Baroud’s sensitive, thoughtful, searching writi- Author: Baroud, Ramzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1644215284
- Language: English
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After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World
$30.00 Read moreA renowned political scientist’s searing explanation for the rightward turn of global politics since the end of the Cold War.
“A compelling analysis–profoundly challenging to so many Western assumpt- Author: Shapiro, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606264
- Language: English
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Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny
$29.95 Add to cartIn Autocracy 2.0, Jennifer Lind reveals how China’s leaders defied expectations and propelled the country to innovation-superpower status–and what that means for the balance of power and global strug
- Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Author: Lind, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501784145
- Language: English
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Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
$35.00 Read moreThe creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by trial and error on a global scale.
There’s a
- Author: Wyman, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0063256487
- Language: English
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Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Mao’s America comes the untold story of how misguided and selfish U.S. elites transformed China from a Communist wasteland into a global superpower–at America’s expense. … [more below]
- Author: Van Fleet, XI
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1546009345
- Language: English
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The Heartbeat of Iran: Real Voices of a Country and Its People
$22.95 Add to cart“Here are tender, lyrical, colorful stories of an Iran that Americans do not know and have no way of discovering directly. Tara Kangarlou has created a work of people-to-people diplomacy, using her wo
- Author: Kangarlou, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1632462052
- Language: English
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Europe: A New History
$35.00 Read moreA bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture?- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 154160380X
- Language: English
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The Owned Continent
$29.32 Add to cartIn 2025, Europe endured a continental-scale humiliation. The EU and UK gave in to Donald Trump’s tariff extortion – accepting lopsided trade deals, tribute-like payments and adjustments to domestic la
- Author: Keating, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: December 08 2025
- ISBN10: 296040730X
- Language: English
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Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage
$34.95 Add to cartA provocative analysis of the deadly Cold War conflicts that devastated countries and communities far from Moscow and Washington
Transforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into ver
- Author: McCoy, Alfred W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888905029
- Language: English
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The Freedom Manifesto
$24.99 Read moreThe Freedom Manifesto by opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mar?a Corina Machado expands upon her vision of a “new era” for a Venezuela without its dictator Nicol?s Maduro. This manifest… [more below]
- Author: Machado, MarÃa Corina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1510787771
- Language: English
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World Monuments Fund: Irreplaceable: 60 of Humanity’s Most Treasured Places
$65.00 Add to cartA call to safeguard some of the most important monuments of our shared cultural heritage
From the fabled towers of Babylon and Angkor Wat to the colossal stone heads of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and se- Author: World Monuments Fund
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0847875512
- Language: English
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Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
China is a country of huge economic influence, with ambitions to alter the balance of power between East and West. At the same time, many of its c- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Mitter, Rana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0198931107
- Language: English
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How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier
$32.00 Add to cart“Challenges outdated narratives and makes a compelling case for the continent’s economic potential.”–Bill Gates
The acclaimed author of How Asia Works brings his “pithy, well-written and intellectuall
- Author: Studwell, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0802158439
- Language: English
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
$22.00 Read more- Author: Neuman, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 125041704X
- Language: English
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The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
$22.99 Add to cartDiscover the “convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history of the world’s oldest and most influential fraternity
Founded in London in 1717 as a way of bindin- Author: Dickie, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1541704681
- Language: English
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Calendar:: Humanity’s Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year
$17.99 Add to cartThe adventure spans the world from Stonehenge to astronomically aligned pyramids at Giza, from Mayan observatories at Chichen Itza to the atomic clock in Washington, the world’s official timekeeper si
- Author: Duncan, David Ewing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0380793245
- Language: English
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100 Mistakes That Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World
$30.00 Add to cartCollected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world.
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history i- Author: Fawcett, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 042523665X
- Language: English
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The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
$33.99 Read moreToday, a vast majority of us live under the economic system called capitalism–it touches almost every aspect of our lives, and most people alive have never known another. Yet, a cursory look at the w
- Author: Jackson, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1324106875
- Language: English
