World
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Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pi
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1939293715
- Language: English
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Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea’s Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
$16.99 Add to cart“Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today.” –Martin Uden, Former British Amba… [more below]
- Author: Tudor, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0804846391
- Language: English
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
$22.00 Add to cartDividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 13 1996
- ISBN10: 0679730052
- Language: English
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Religiones del Mundo (World Religions): Cultos, Ideas Y Creencias
$25.00 Read moreLa historia y doctrina de las principales religiones del mundo explicada de forma sencilla y clara.
Descubre los principios y fundamentos de las religiones universales y otros cultos minoritarios, su- Series: DK Compact Culture Guides
- Author: Bowker, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 074406435X
- Language: Spanish
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A History of the World in 100 Animals
$39.95 Add to cartFully illustrated in color, a fascinating exploration of the one hundred animals that have had the most profound influence on humanity throughout the ages.
We are not alone. We are not alone on the p- Author: Barnes, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1643139150
- Language: English
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
$23.00 Read moreIs peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity.
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE N- Author: MacMillan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0593132378
- Language: English
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Whiskey Women: The Untold Story of How Women Saved Bourbon, Scotch, and Irish Whiskey
$34.95 Add to cartBest All-Time Booze Book, Eater.com2013
GOLD Winner for Women Studies, ForeWord Reviews 2014
Silver, Independent Publisher Award in Women’s Issues
Finalist, Spirited AwardsShortly after graduating from t
- Author: Minnick, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1612345646
- Language: English
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The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Inquiry Into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore, and Mythologies
$27.95 Add to cartMining information from mythology, folklore, religious texts, and fairy tales from around the world, a foremost expert on symbols explains word origins and their meanings. The ultimate symbols are the… [more below]
- Author: Bayley, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: January 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1585090700
- Language: English
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Telling the Truth about History
$25.99 Add to cartThis text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality … [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback
- Author: Appleby, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0393312860
- Language: English
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Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
$32.00 Read moreAn “incredibly timely” global history journeys from the Ukrainian steppe to the American prairie to show how grain built and toppled the world’s largest empires (Financial Times).
To understand the r- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646460
- Language: English
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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPostcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Young, Robert J. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0198856830
- Language: English
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
$22.00 Add to cartWinner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction
Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have- Author: Arana, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1501105019
- Language: English
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The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
$30.00 Read moreSince the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next–a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform–borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought ove
- Author: Crawford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324037040
- Language: English
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The Invention of Tradition
$24.99 Add to cartMany of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores exa… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604672
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
$27.95 Add to cartGershon Baskin’s memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family. Baskin joined Young Judaea back in … [more below]
- Author: Baskin, Gershon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0826521819
- Language: English
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Idea of India
$21.99 Add to cartA classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that addresses the paradoxes and ironies of the world’s largest democracy. When, in 1947, the Britis
- Author: Khilnani, Sunil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374537623
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
$18.99 Add to cartA journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremli- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1610396006
- Language: English
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Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power and Purpose
$24.99 Add to cartJapan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the “lost decade” of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepare… [more below]
- Series: Century Foundation Books (PublicAffairs)
- Author: Pyle, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 1586485679
- Language: English
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History Map by Map Collection: 3 Book Box Set
$130.00 Read moreWitness our incredible human story unfold and chart the world’s most significant battles through these bold and beautiful bold maps – now available in a beautifully packaged box set.
SI History Map by… [more below]- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0744081874
- Language: English
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Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning
$29.95 Add to cartWhile exceptionalism is not unique to America, the intensity of this conviction and its global ramifications are. This has led the US to grossly misinterpret–sometimes deliberately–the causative fac… [more below]
- Author: Martyanov, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 249
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0998694754
- Language: English
