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Adam’s Synchronological Chart or Map of History [with Key] [With Key]
$49.99 Read moreThis is a time line that follows the Annals of the World time line by James Ussher.
- Author: Adams, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 21
- Publish Date: August 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0890515050
- Language: English
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The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe
$36.00 Add to cartDavid Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated … [more below]
- Author: Roskies, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0827604149
- Language: English
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Shia Power Comes of Age: The Transformation of Islamist Politics in Iraq, 2003-2023
$24.99 Add to cartShia politics roared to the center of power in Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 after decades of marginalization under Saddam Hussein. A new generation of clerics and politicians, self-described a
- Author: Cambanis, Thanassis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0870785702
- Language: English
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Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan
$30.99 Add to cartA surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan.
In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan’s recent, and chronic, crises — from the failure of its banks- Author: Kerr, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0809039435
- Language: English
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The Horse in Human History
$59.50 Add to cartThe horse is surely the “aristocrat” of animals domesticated by man. This book documents the origins of horse domestication on the Pontic-Caspian steppes some 6,000 years ago and the consequent migrat… [more below]
- Author: Kelekna, Pita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: April 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0521736293
- Language: English
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Swords Around a Throne: Napoleon’s Grande Armée
$32.99 Add to cartThis authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon’s most powerful weapon–the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines ev
- Author: Elting, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0306807572
- Language: English
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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
$16.95 Add to cartAccording to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world’s second-largest economy, after China bu… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Kamdar, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199973598
- Language: English
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The First World War
$21.00 Read more“This serious, compact survey of the war’s history stands out as the most well-informed, accessible work available.” (Los Angeles Times)
Nearly a century has passed since the outbreak of World War I,- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035185
- Language: English
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The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
$15.95 Add to cartEveryone knows that America is 50 states and…some other stuff. Scattered shards in the Pacific and the Caribbean, the not-quite states–American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Island
- Author: Mack, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0393355616
- Language: English
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The Yellow Wind: With a New Afterword by the Author
$19.00 Add to cartDavid Grossman’s The Yellow Wind is essential reading for anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of Israel today.
The Israeli novelist David Grossman’s impassioned account of what he observed on the- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420986
- Language: English
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
$24.00 Add to cartThe bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a bette… [more below]
- Author: Diamond, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124404
- Language: English
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Empire of Terror: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
$34.95 Add to cartIn Empire of Terror Mark D. Silinsky argues that Iran is one of the United States’ deadliest enemies. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, known as the Guards, bring Iran’s sway over much of the gre… [more below]
- Author: Silinsky, Mark D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 164012313X
- Language: English
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Everything Ancient Was Once New: Indigenous Persistence from Hawaiʻi to Kahiki
$24.99 Add to cartIn Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ancestral homeland for Kānaka Maoli (Hawaiians) and
- Series: Indigenous Pacifics
- Author: Case, Emalani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 082488681X
- Language: English
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Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan
$18.99 Add to cartBy the author of Destiny Disrupted: An enlightening, lively, accessible, history of Afghanistan from 1840 to today, from the Afghan point of view, that illuminates how Great Power conflicts have inte… [more below]
- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393198
- Language: English
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All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
$21.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary behind-the-scenes portrait of the court of Vladimir Putin, the oligarchs that surround it, and the many moods of modern Russia that reads like a real House of Cards(Lev Lurie).
All th- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1568588178
- Language: English
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Origins: How Earth’s History Shaped Human History
$30.00 Read moreA New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive … [more below]- Author: Dartnell, Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1541617908
- Language: English
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Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest
$18.99 Add to cartIn this revised version that includes an exclusive new chapter on the Russia-Ukraine war, renowned foreign policy expert Angela Stent examines how Putin created a paranoid and polarized world–and inc… [more below]
- Author: Stent, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1538741628
- Language: English
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Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic
$30.00 Read moreA French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites
France, t- Author: Ramdani, Nabila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703251
- Language: English
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The Red Flag: A History of Communism
$24.00 Add to cartCommunism was one of the most powerful political and intellectual movements the world has ever seen. At the height of their influence, Communists controlled more than a third of the earth’s surface. B… [more below]
- Author: Priestland, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 675
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0802145124
- Language: English
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The Fated Sky: Astrology in History
$19.99 Add to cartFrom ancient times to the present day, astrology has captured the imagination — is it possible that human fate is influenced by the stars? Astrologers throughout the ages have advised the powerful, f… [more below]
- Author: Bobrick, Benson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0743268954
- Language: English
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