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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
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
$17.99 Read moreNamed 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 Read moreA 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
