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The Impolite Canadian: Why Playing Nice Is Costing Us the Future
$29.99 Add to cartCanada is often praised as one of the world’s nicest countries. But what if that niceness is costing us the future?
In The Impolite Canadian, Kumaran Nadesan challenges one of the country’s most endur- Author: Nadesan, Kumaran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798887507408
- Language: English
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Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster
$34.00 Add to cart“A phenomenal feat of journalism. . . . I tore through it like a novel but with the queasy knowledge that the whole damn thing is true.” –Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War
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- Author: Shroder, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062066544
- Language: English
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Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made
$30.00 Read moreA vibrant, revealing portrait of the “King of Calypso,” whose extraordinary performing career and activism helped remake America through the civil rights era and beyond
Even three years after his deat- Series: Significations
- Author: Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 0593652703
- Language: English
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We Shall Outlast Them: Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West
$31.99 Read morePutin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 produced a rupture with the United States and Europe not seen since the Cold War. As a result, Russia refocused its entire state machinery on one purpose: To outlas
- Author: Notte, Hanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 132411701X
- Language: English
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The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartThe changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to today
The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry–and- Author: Rosenblatt, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0691203962
- Language: English
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History
$14.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller! A compendium about tiny ripples that created big waves in history. What was Hitler’s real name? Which famous artist was mistakenly thought to be stillborn, until his uncle r… [more below]
- Author: Mason, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1510744401
- Language: English
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A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the failures, mistakes, and missed opportunities that shaped history.
From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder to the unsuccessful stint in medical sc- Author: Gazur, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1789297893
- Language: English
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Heroes: From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle
$18.99 Add to cartA galaxy of legendary figures from the annals of Western history
In this enlightening and entertaining work, Paul Johnson, the bestselling author of Intellectuals and Creators, approaches the subject o
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 02 2008
- ISBN10: 0061143170
- Language: English
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Humans: A Monstrous History
$24.95 Add to cart“Surekha Davies invites readers to imagine the lives of historical monsters and to empathize with their often-wretched treatment.” ― Science Magazine
A history of how humans have created monster- Author: Davies, Surekha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0520430794
- Language: English
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
$32.00 Add to cartThe creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Ro… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1610397215
- Language: English
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Great Maps: The World’s Masterpieces Explored and Explained
$38.00 Add to cartA superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world!
From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a must-… [more below]- Series: DK Great
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1465424636
- Language: English
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The History of the World
$53.00 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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Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out
$29.95 Read moreOur Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out aims to challenge several strata of the current Palestine discourse that have led to the present dead end: the American… [more below]
- Author: Baroud, Ramzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: May 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1949762440
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 500 Walks
$27.99 Add to cartThis book covers a lot of ground!
From geologic upheavals and mad kings to trade routes and saints’ ways, this book relates the tales behind the top 500 walks that have shaped our society. It’s easy t- Series: 500 Walks
- Author: Baxter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 162686554X
- Language: English
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Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History
$22.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia Revival
A gripping account that overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the wor- Author: Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0691269068
- Language: English
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Silk Mirage: Through the Looking Glass in Uzbekistan
$27.00 Add to cartSilk Mirage is a compelling portrait of Uzbekistan, a country at the heart of the ancient Silk Road and now the centre of a power struggle between reformers and reactionaries for the soul of this stra
- Author: Lillis, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 135029246X
- Language: English
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The Freedom Manifesto
$12.99 Add to cartThe 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 manifes… [more below]
- Author: Machado, MarÃa Corina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1510787496
- Language: English
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Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History
$26.95 Add to cart“Hoof Beats helps readers see the drama even in the grass eating. . . . Taylor has written that too-rare work that is as authoritative as it is legible to the lay audience.”–New York Times
Journey to- Author: Taylor, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0520430808
- Language: English
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Bukele, El Rey Desnudo
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: MartÃnez, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 8433948865
- Language: Spanish
