World
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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
$30.00 Add to cartThe Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents – all in new English translation – that illustrate aspects of the encounters between the Portuguese and the peoples o… [more below]
- Author: Newitt, Malyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0521159148
- Language: English
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Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
$21.99 Add to cartSS Kommandant Rudolph H ss (1900-1947) was history’s greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, … [more below]
- Author: Hoss, Rudolph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0306806983
- Language: English
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The European Union: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organization. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member states,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Pinder, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0198808852
- Language: English
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
$18.00 Add to cart“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef ‘s bookstore–the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failur
- Author: Wassef, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858860
- Language: English
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Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion
$20.00 Add to cartHistory is not made by kings, politicians, or a few rich individuals–it is made by all of us. From the temples of ancient Egypt to spacecraft orbiting Earth, workers and ordinary people everywhere ha
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Working Class History, Working Class His
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1629638234
- Language: English
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Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
$29.99 Read more“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”–Boston Globe
The auth
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 19, 2021
- ISBN10: 0062938339
- Language: English
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The Great Depression: A Captivating Guide to the Worldwide Economic Depression that Began in the United States, Including the Wall Street Cr
$29.99 Add to cartDid you know that the unemployment rate between 1933 and 1934 was one in four people?
The stock market crash of 1929 didn’t cause the Great Depression by itself, but it is a powerful symbolic starting
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483069
- Language: English
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Culture and Resistance
$36.00 Add to cartEdward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change. He reveals his thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, and
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1608465829
- Language: English
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
$20.00 Add to cartIn this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in
- Author: Dalrymple, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1400078334
- Language: English
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A Sus Órdenes, Mi General / On Your Command, General
$17.95 Read more«En Nueva York, en la Corte del Distrito Este, hay un caso muy delicado que tiene que ver con tu pa?s. SE TRATA DE UN GENERAL DE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS METIDO CON EL NARCOTR?FICO. Hablo de un gener… [more below]
- Author: Esquivel, J Jes?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073826133
- Language: Spanish
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0
$18.99 Add to cart“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends h… [more below]
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340384
- Language: English
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Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land
$14.99 Add to cartAn urgent and deeply necessary work, Dear Zealots offers three powerful essays that speak directly to our present age, on the rise of zealotry in Israel and around the world.
“Concise, evocative . .- Author: Oz, Amos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0358175445
- Language: English
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Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
$26.95 Read moreA revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West
**Longlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize** The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settl- Author: Koch, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763698
- Language: English
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The hounds of Actaeon: the magical origins of public relations and modern media
$29.95 Add to cart- Author: Loza, Mauricio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1680531271
- Language: English
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Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945
$22.99 Add to cart“A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan…” —New York Journal of Books
Japan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story of Japan’s transformation from a Samurai-led feudal- Author: Clements, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 4805316470
- Language: English
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Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects
$30.00 Add to cartFour billion years in the palm of your hand, Relics: A History of the World Told in 133 Objects is the story of our planet as you’ve never seen it before.
The Mini Museum is a collection of treasure- Author: Grove, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1681885859
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: America, China, and the Struggle for Global Leadership
$30.00 Read moreAn authority on Asia and globalization identifies the challenges China’s growing power poses and how it must be confronted
“Timely and thought-provoking. . . . An unsparing analysis of how Washington’- Author: Prestowitz, Clyde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0300248490
- Language: English
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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs
$28.43 Add to cartThis important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions. David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, “drive the Arabs i… [more below]
- Series: Edward Burlingame Book
- Author: Pryce-Jones, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1566638267
- Language: English
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Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
$24.99 Add to cartThe Holocaust and the Nakba (“Catastrophe,” Palestinian Israelis’ name for the War of Independence) both marked Israel’s founding, and these two world-changing events continue to form the generations … [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Jo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1459710118
- Language: English
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Azaadi, Freedom and Change in Kashmir
$29.99 Add to cartKashmir has been in geopolitical limbo since the partition of the British Raj in 1947. A region of stunning natural beauty and diverse ethnicities and cultures, its people have experienced violence, s
- Author: Schuurmans, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1914390105
- Language: English
