World
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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
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The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care
$32.99 Add to cartIn 1948, the State of Israel was founded. While the philosophy of Zionism that advocated for a Jewish homeland in what was then known as Palestine dates back to 1897, the creation of Israel in 1948 wa… [more below]
- Author: Kovalik, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1510780599
- Language: English
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Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End
$16.95 Add to cartIs Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?
The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even av
- Author: Gordis, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470643900
- Language: English
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China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartIn this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent que… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
- Author: Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0190659084
- Language: English
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A Splintered History of Wood: Belt-Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats
$15.99 Add to cartA Splintered History of Wood is a passionate and personal exploration of nature’s greatest gift: wood. In the successful tradition of books such as Salt and Cod, writer and carpenter Spike Carlsen exp
- Author: Carlsen, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0061373575
- Language: English
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Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDiplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Siracusa, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0192893912
- Language: English
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Putin’s Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia’s Information War Against the World
$18.95 Add to cart“Timely exposé of Russia’s vast disinformation campaign from a Finnish journalist persecuted for her persistent reporting of its brazen abuses…a damning portrait of Putin and his autocratic, manipu
- Author: Aro, Jessikka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1632461293
- Language: English
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Colonialism in Global Perspective
$42.50 Add to cartKris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe’s continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the rea… [more below]
- Author: Manjapra, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2020
- ISBN10: 110844136X
- Language: English
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La Verdadera Noche de Iguala / The Real Night of Iguala
$16.95 Read moreAnte acontecimientos como el del 26 de septiembre de 2014, ning?n pa?s puede seguir adelante sin conocer la verdad a la que tienen derecho las v?ctimas y la sociedad.
Los hechos de Iguala nos obligan a… [more below]- Author: Hern?ndez, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 6073149263
- Language: Spanish
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These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons
$24.95 Read moreHundreds of thousands of Palestinians have experienced life in Israel’s prisons since 1967, as did many more in previous decades during the course of the ongoing Israeli military occupation. Yet rarel… [more below]
- Author: Baroud, Ramzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1949762092
- Language: English
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Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
$21.99 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seeme… [more below]
- Author: Brinkley, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391837
- Language: English
