World
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times
From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbç–£, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of stron- Author: Rachman, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1635424054
- Language: English
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A History of Ideas: The Most Intriguing, Relevant and Helpful Concepts from the Story of Humanity
$32.99 Add to cartA collection of humanity’s most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.
This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas – and no
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1912891964
- Language: English
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Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
$26.99 Add to cart- Author: Gordon, Philip H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 125088991X
- Language: English
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
$21.99 Add to cartA bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as “a rattling good tale” (Wall Street Journal) and “popular history at its best” (Washington Post)
The- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0465023290
- Language: English
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Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization
$35.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples’ human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Robert A., Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0230338763
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Fascist Lies
$21.18 Add to cart“There is no better book on fascism’s complex and vexed relationship with truth.”–Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
In this short companion to his book From Fas- Author: Finchelstein, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 520389778
- Language: English
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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World
$28.00 Add to cartA new picture of China’s rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.
The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A
- Author: Akhtar, Ali Humayun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1503627470
- Language: English
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A Short History of Russia: How the World’s Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin
$27.99 Read moreA Library Journal 2020 Title to Watch
“Terrific – and an amazing achievement to cover so much ground in such a short and wonderfully readable book.” -Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Silk Roa… [more below]
- Author: Galeotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1335145702
- Language: English
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Russia’s War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Edele, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0522879837
- Language: English
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Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
$19.99 Read moreA powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of t… [more below]
- Author: Wrong, Michela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703219
- Language: English
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The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy
$24.95 Read moreIs peace with the Islamic Republic of Iran possible? There has been an ongoing shadow war between the West and Iran, one that could explode and plunge the world into a third world war. The Biden Admin… [more below]
- Author: Weichert, Brandon J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 164572056X
- Language: English
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Between Good and Evil: The Stolen Girls of Boko Haram
$29.99 Read moreA NATIONAL BESTSELLER
“This work is important and astonishing, but it is also a riveting read.” –Louise Penny, author of A World of Curiosities and the Inspector Gamache novels
Behind the Beautiful For
- Author: Fung, Mellissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 144345608X
- Language: English
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The Secret World: A History of Intelligence
$26.00 Add to cart“The first global history of intelligence, remarkable for its scope and delightful for its unpredictable comparisons.”–Richard J. Aldrich, TLS
- Author: Andrew, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0300248296
- Language: English
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Modern India: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIndia is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world’s emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jeffrey, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198769342
- Language: English
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Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People
$15.00 Read moreAn evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasure
“From the meaning of carnations in Sex and the City- Author: Boddy, Kasia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264798
- Language: English
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Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations
$32.95 Read moreThis book is the first comprehensive examination of UN efforts to protect Palestinian human rights in the territories occupied by Israel more than 50 years ago in the 1967 War. Working through the UN … [more below]
- Author: Falk, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1949762548
- Language: English
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The Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 – November 9, 1989
$21.99 Add to cart“This vivid account of the Wall and all that it meant reminds us that symbolism can be double-edged, as a potent emblem of isolation and repression became, in its destruction, an even more powerful to
- Author: Taylor, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0062985884
- Language: English
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The Great Fire of London: In That Apocalyptic Year, 1666
$19.95 Add to cartThe tragic story of the disastrous London fire is told here from both a human and architectural point of view, as the fire destroyed lives along with buildings such as the original St. Paul’s cathedra… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 15 2002
- ISBN10: 1620458381
- Language: English
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World
$32.50 Add to cartOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest popul
- Author: Van Reybrouck, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073691
- Language: English
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Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change
$16.00 Read moreWhat can hip-hop tell us about Egypt today?
A decade ago, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a people-led revolution that captivated the world’s attention and sent ripples across the Middle- Author: El Rashidi, Yasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 111
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
