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History Year by Year: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Events That Shaped the World
$50.00 Add to cartDiscover the world’s most significant events through a detailed, dynamic, book-long timeline of over 7 million years.
When did Hannibal cross the Alps? What caused the War of Jenkins’ Ear? Who was Ros- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0744091993
- Language: English
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Unruly Figures: Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You’ve (Probably) Never Heard of
$24.95 Read moreA fascinating look at the lives of twenty rebels and rule-breakers throughout history and what made their contributions to society–in science, politics, art, and more–transformative. By the author a… [more below]
- Author: Clark, Valorie Castellanos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1797223631
- Language: English
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3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan
$29.95 Add to cartOn March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the shockwaves of a 9.0 magnitude undersea earthquake originating less than 50 miles off its eastern coastline. The most powerful earthquake to have hit Japan in
- Author: Samuels, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0801452007
- Language: English
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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea
$31.99 Add to cartShadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy’s merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world’s most undemocratic regions.
What happens- Author: Hamid, Shadi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0197579469
- Language: English
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Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
$28.95 Read moreMoving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections betw
- Author: Sattin, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035455
- Language: English
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The Penguin History of the World
$27.00 Add to cartThe completely updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad’s widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1280
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1846144434
- Language: English
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Clay: The History and Evolution of Humankind’s Relationship with Earth’s Most Primal Element
$29.95 Add to cartMore than a third of the houses in the world are made of clay. Clay vessels were instrumental in the invention of cooking, wine and beer making, and international trade. Our toilets are made of clay. … [more below]
- Author: Staubach, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1611685036
- Language: English
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Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
$19.95 Read moreDiscover the little known facts about some of the world’s greatest historical icons.
We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we’ve heard a hundred times–but often our
- Author: Rayborn, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1646433653
- Language: English
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Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and h… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goldstone, Jack A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0197666302
- Language: English
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Hezbollah: A Short History Updated and Expanded Third Edition
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing a new prologue and conclusion and two new chapters on recent developments
With Hezbollah’s entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the p- Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics #69
- Author: Norton, Augustus Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180881
- Language: English
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A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World
$19.95 Add to cartWhen was the first chat line between men established? Who was the first “lesbian”? Were ancient Greek men who had sex with each other necessarily “gay,” and what did Shakespeare think about crossdress
- Author: Parkinson, R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 023116663X
- Language: English
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50 Guns That Changed the World: Iconic Firearms That Altered the Course of History
$19.99 Read moreDiscover how fifty great firearms influenced and helped shape our world.
World history has always been interwoven with developments in firearms technology and so is peppered with legendary guns. Since- Author: Sadowski, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1510772650
- Language: English
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Miraculous Milestones in Science, Medicine & Innovation- And the Faith of Those Who Achieved Them
$20.00 Read more- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0989649199
- Language: English
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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy–and how the West crushed it
When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationa
- Author: Thompson, Elizabeth F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0802148603
- Language: English
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The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
$24.99 Add to cartA sweeping history the fortune seekers, adventurers, despots, and thieves who have ruthlessly endeavored to extract gold, diamonds, and other treasures from Africa and its people.
Africa has been cov- Author: Meredith, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1610396359
- Language: English
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Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism
$37.00 Add to cartAuthoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small parties can still sh… [more below]
- Author: Norris, Pippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: February 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1108444423
- Language: English
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Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
$40.00 Add to cartA “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history–from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns–and how their biases influence our understand… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1982195789
- Language: English
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Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World’s Last Frontier
$29.99 Add to cart“Gripping. … Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia — and how hard it will be to eradicat
- Author: Araujo, Heriberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063024268
- Language: English
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Freemasons for Dummies
$27.99 Add to cartUnravel the mysteries of the Masons
All the myths and rumors about Masonic organizations probably have you wondering “what do Masons really do?” Questions like this one are a natural by-product of bei
- Author: Hodapp, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1119843421
- Language: English
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Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy
$19.95 Add to cartEighteen prominent South African scholars reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel.
- Author: Jacobs, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1608465187
- Language: English
