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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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The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History
$45.33 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 Read moreIn 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
