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From Red Terror to Terrorist State: Russia’s Intelligence Services and Their Fight for World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin
$26.95 Read moreThe history of modern Russia traditionally has Communism at its center. In this radical new history, Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Popov show, however, that the real driver from early in the Russian R
- Author: Felshtinsky, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1783342447
- Language: English
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
$45.00 Add to cartA “breathtakingly magisterial” account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a w… [more below]- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0465066984
- Language: English
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The Cartoon History of the Universe II: Volumes 8-13: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome
$28.00 Add to cartHere’s a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient India to Rome and China … [more below]
- Series: Cartoon History of the Universe II Vols. 8-13 (Paperback) #13
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0385420935
- Language: English
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Prophets Without Honor: The 2000 Camp David Summit and the End of the Two-State Solution
$34.99 Add to cartA high-level insider’s history of the efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, from 2000 Camp David Talks to the present, that explains why successive attempts have all failed.
The clash be… [more below]- Author: Ben-Ami, Shlomo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0190060476
- Language: English
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Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
$18.99 Add to cartUnfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroe… [more below]
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1568584784
- Language: English
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Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
$20.00 Add to cartThe raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to powe… [more below]
- Author: Dawisha, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476795207
- Language: English
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History of New Zealand: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Land of the Long White Cloud, from the Polynesians Through the Māori Mu
$24.99 Add to cartDid you know New Zealand was the first country to offer universal suffrage?
Many people today only started dreaming of visiting New Zealand after discovering it was the beautiful filming place of the L
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 17 2023
- ISBN10: 163716873X
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
$17.95 Add to cartStephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimen… [more below]
- Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0471686131
- Language: English
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Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy
$32.99 Add to cartOn the 100th anniversary of the Titanic‘s sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever
The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenge
- Author: Pellegrino, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0470873876
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
$21.99 Add to cartIn The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation’s most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Deale
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0060936428
- Language: English
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Citizen of the World: Soon-Young and the U.N.
$29.95 Add to cartAs a North Korean refugee, Soon-Young Yoon understood from an early age that people’s destinies are connected to international events. This book is a collection of her reflections as a feminist who ha
- Author: Yoon, Soon-Young
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1954786719
- Language: English
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Selected Works of José Carlos Mariátegui
$18.00 Add to cartJos Carlos Mari tegui was born in Moquegua, Peru, to a poor mestizo family on July 14, 1894. Considered by many to be the father of Latin American Communism, he is celebrated for being the first pers
- Author: Noakes, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: February 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1087951690
- Language: English
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The Navalny case: Conspiracy to serve foreign policy
$21.99 Add to cartWas Navalny deliberately poisoned? Does the evidence we have justify sanctions against Russia? Was the recording with the KGB agent a set-up? Is Navalny really the “main opponent of Vladimir Putin”? D… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 2315011345
- Language: English
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Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
$21.99 Add to cartA searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from the bravest of Russian journalists (The New York Times)
Hailed as a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness (New States- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082506
- Language: English
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
$32.00 Read moreThe meaning of our concern for mortal remains–from antiquity through the twentieth century
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beas- Author: Laqueur, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180938
- Language: English
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
$21.99 Add to cart“Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.” —Kirkus Review
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061702625
- Language: English
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Artist’s Path in 500 Walks: Follow the Inspired Footsteps of William Shakespeare, Frida Kahlo, Otis Redding, and More
$27.99 Add to cartFind inspiration on the trails that influenced hundreds of artists, musicians, and writers from around the world.
Step onto the trails in The Artist’s Path in 500 Walks, which takes readers around the- Series: 500 Walks
- Author: Stathers, Kath
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1645172457
- Language: English
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The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
$28.00 Read moreNational Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor Literature
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod—the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1635573076
- Language: English
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Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
$30.28 Add to cart
“Remarkable and hopeful . . . a deeply honest and intense
” Shehadeh’s] books are maps, painstakingly pieced together, of regions lost to senseless division, to bad choices, and to lies.”
—The Nation- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972913
- Language: English
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After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
$24.00 Add to cartTamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this m
- Author: Darwin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596916028
- Language: English
