World
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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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28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
$15.99 Add to cartIn 28, Stephanie Nolen, the Toronto Globe and Mail‘s Africa Bureau Chief, puts a human face on the crisis created by HIV/AIDS in Africa. Through riveting anecdotal stories, Nolen brings to life people
- Author: Nolen, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 02 2008
- ISBN10: 080271675X
- Language: English
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Ukraine: Remember Also Me: Testimonies from the War
$27.99 Add to cartA collection of vivid and powerful testimonies from the conflict in Ukraine, collated and illustrated by award-winning artist George Butler.
While reporting on the war in Ukraine, George Butler has cr- Author: Butler, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1536240435
- Language: English
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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
$19.99 Add to cartA “vital” (New York Times Book Review), groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity
Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit- Author: Heyam, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605403
- Language: English
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Dancing with the Dragon: Cautionary Tales of the New China from an Old China Hand
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Jenevein, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1960865226
- Language: English
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Euroshock: How the Largest Debt Restructuring in History Helped Save Greece and Preserve the Eurozone
$45.00 Read moreThe inside story of the unprecedented restructuring of Greece’s debt in 2012–the largest restructuring in history–and how the Eurozone was stabilized and Greece was saved from exit from the Euro and… [more below]
- Author: Dallara, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1957588136
- Language: English
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How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Zizek (Squared) Equals Bannon
$17.99 Add to cartKellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Q-Anon, Fox News, etc., etc., etc. have kidnapped the last century of intellectual thought and philosophical investigation: poststructuralism, quantum ph
- Author: Shields, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990159136
- Language: English
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Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation
$50.00 Add to cartThis striking collection of more than 200 full-color infographics is a vivid portrait of Israeli settler colonialism and the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
As a new generation of movement-builders- Author: Anderson, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888902509
- Language: English
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The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe
$24.95 Add to cartReportage from the frontline of the crisis in the Middle East from a leading Israeli journalist
Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel’s apartheid policies against the Palestinian- Author: Levy, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 180429750X
- Language: English
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Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
$22.00 Add to cartWere World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?
In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case th- Author: Buchanan, Patrick J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0307405168
- Language: English
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Ten Myths about Israel
$19.95 Add to cartThe myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict–from “the most eloquent writer on Palestinian history” (New Statesman)
The outspoken and radical Israeli historia- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297046
- Language: English
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The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art
$35.00 Add to cartDrawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehisto… [more below]
- Author: Owens, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0300260474
- Language: English
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future
$45.50 Read moreA #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]
A titanic battle is being waged for Europe’s integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and mal- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585047
- Language: English
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They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
$39.95 Add to cartA sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires
Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global p- Author: Benton, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0691248478
- Language: English
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have hel… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0743235940
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
$43.68 Add to cartNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, govern… [more below]
- Author: Patel, Raj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 520293134
- Language: English
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What If? II: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
$27.00 Add to cartWhat if Lincoln didn’t abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeeded in killing FDR in 1933? This volume presents 25 intriguing “what if…” scenarios by some of today’s greatest historical minds-inc… [more below]
- Series: What If Essays
- Author: Cowley, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 042518613X
- Language: English
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Garden History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartGardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquility, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gard… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Campbell, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0199689873
- Language: English
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Israel, Palestine and Peace: Essays
$13.95 Add to cartThe haunting poetry of [Oz’s] prose and the stunning logic of his testimony make a potent mixture.” —Washington Post Book World
Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience to advocate for a tw- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0156001926
- Language: English
