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City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Hung, Ho-Fung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: May 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1108840337
- Language: English
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Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China
$12.00 Read moreSocial Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught betw… [more below]
- Author: Chuang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860070
- Language: English
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Jerusalem: History of a Global City
$43.68 Add to cartAn expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the world’s most mythologized cities.
Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal battlefield- Author: Lemire, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 520299906
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History
$19.99 Add to cartA thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.
In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was- Series: Brief Histories
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1849016895
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin,
$16.97 Add to cartExplore the Captivating History of the Industrial Revolution
For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to c
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1647488508
- Language: English
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Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
$19.95 Add to cart- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Maher, Geo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1784782238
- Language: English
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
$21.95 Add to cartBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude–the world’s largest reserves–an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist g… [more below]
- Author: Gallegos, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640122133
- Language: English
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Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire
$39.95 Add to cartThe ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of
- Author: Marcus, Raphael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1626166110
- Language: English
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5 Cities That Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London & New York Shaped Global History
$19.99 Add to cartIn Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history’s most influential cities –Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London
- Author: Wilson, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1595551360
- Language: English
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A History of Religious Rules: A Legacy of Piety and Coercion
$19.99 Add to cartThis book is a history and a suggestion as to how to approach religious differences . It is not a work of theology. It is not about belief, faith, God, or salvation. The prophets and founders of the g
- Author: Varner, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987522905
- Language: English
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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
$62.33 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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