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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
$23.95 Read moreThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #94
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216738
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
$21.99 Read moreEverything you should know–but PC professors won’t teach–about Western heritage.
Western civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of huma- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Esolen, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1596980591
- Language: English
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This Arab Life: A Generation’s Journey into Silence
$22.65 Add to cartThis Arab Life is an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generation’s descent into silence. Personal and panoramic, granular and sweeping, the book offers a raw account of the unremitting
- Author: Ghandour, Amal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1954805268
- Language: English
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
$29.95 Add to cartThe Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spa
- Author: Todorov, Tzvetan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0806131373
- Language: English
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The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
$52.42 Add to cartWell before the Industrial Revolution, Europe developed the superior military potential and expertise that enabled her to dominate the world for the next two centuries. In this attractively illustrate… [more below]
- Author: Parker, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0521479584
- Language: English
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Library: An Unquiet History
$24.99 Add to cartThrough the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB vision
- Author: Battles, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351459
- Language: English
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- Language: English
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most cru- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531331
- Language: English
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Why the West Rules–For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, r- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611692
- Language: English
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Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World
$22.99 Add to cartGlobal refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined “basic needs,” has changed littl… [more below]
- Author: Collier, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0190659157
- Language: English
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Te Abraza Con Todo Fervor Revolucionario: Epistolario de Un Tiempo 1947-1967
$22.95 Read moreLa primera edición de las cartas del Che Guevara, la mayorÃa nunca antes publicadas en inglés.
“El Che no era solamente un intelectual, era el ser humano más completo de nuestra época.” — Jean- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1925756394
- Language: Spanish
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Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
$21.99 Add to cartFrom a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist specializing in the Middle East, this groundbreaking account of the Syrian Civil War reveals the never-before-published true story of a 21st-century humanita… [more below]
- Author: Dagher, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0316556734
- Language: English
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How Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
$19.99 Add to cartA maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor—and how rich countries make sure to keep it that way.
Throughout history, some combination of government… [more below]- Author: Reinert, Erik S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1541762894
- Language: English
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The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative Places
$18.99 Add to cartTag along on this New York Times bestselling “witty, entertaining romp” (The New York Times Book Review) as Eric Winer travels the world, from Athens to Silicon Valley–and back through history, too–… [more below]
- Author: Weiner, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 145169167X
- Language: English
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The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
$22.99 Add to cartThe Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Lening… [more below]
- Author: Salisbury, Harrison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0306812983
- Language: English
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The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern Work Was Created
$36.00 Add to cart“Compact and immensely readable . . . a tour de force. Prepare to be amazed.” — John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group
“Vital–a cogent, timely journey through the economic histor
- Author: Bernstein, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0071747044
- Language: English
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World History for Dummies
$27.99 Add to cartDiscover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion
Want to get a taste of the entirety of human history in a single book? With World History For Dummies
- Author: Haugen, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1119855608
- Language: English
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And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
$17.00 Add to cartA major New York Times bestseller by NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel–this riveting story of the Middle East revolutions, the Arab Spring, war, and terrorism seen close up “should be r… [more below]
- Author: Engel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1451635125
- Language: English
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Three Dangerous Men: Russia, China, Iran and the Rise of Irregular Warfare
$20.00 Read moreIn Three Dangerous Men, defense expert Seth Jones argues that the US is woefully unprepared for the future of global competition. While America has focused on building fighter jets, missiles, and conv
- Author: Jones, Seth G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 132405056X
- Language: English
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Crisis of Zionism
$23.99 Add to cartA deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel.–President Bill Clinton
A probing, courageous, and timely book… Beinart offers a forceful exposition of American apprehensions about Israe- Author: Beinart, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1250026733
- Language: English
