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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
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Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
$21.00 Read moreA true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and,- Author: Milton, Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 02, 2015
- ISBN10: 1250069289
- Language: English
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Exploring the New Testament World: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Jesus and the First Christians
$26.99 Add to cartThe timeless message of the New Testament applies to people of every culture and generation. Yet there is great value in understanding the world in which that message was first revealed – its social m
- Author: Bell, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 1998
- ISBN10: 0785214240
- Language: English
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Critical Path
$28.00 Add to cartCritical Path marks the masterwork of one of the finest minds and most significant thinkers of the modern age
R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century- Author: Fuller, R. Buckminster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 15 1982
- ISBN10: 0312174918
- Language: English
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
$16.99 Read moreOne of Library Journal‘s 10 Best Books of 2015
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0062315420
- Language: English
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – “A rich, penetrating, and moving portrayal of Arab-Jewish hostility, told in human terms.”–Newsday
Now expanded and updated – “The best and most comprehensive work ther… [more below]- Author: Shipler, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0553447513
- Language: English
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
$19.99 Add to cartAs seen on PBS’s American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom.
“The genius of Hanson’s fascinati- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097405
- Language: English
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When China Attacks: A Warning to America
$29.99 Add to cartWhen China Attacks is a fire bell in the night–a warning about a war that we are already losing. It offers a frightening, and well-founded, blow-by-blow account of what might happen next.
China pose- Author: Newsham, Grant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1684513650
- Language: English
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
$32.00 Read moreThe creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Ro… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1610397215
- Language: English
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A History of Tea: The Life and Times of the World’s Favorite Beverage
$14.99 Add to cartAs the world’s most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.
A History of Tea tells the compelling story of the rise of tea i- Author: Martin, Laura C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0804851123
- Language: English
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Wall and the Gate
$34.99 Add to cartFrom renowned human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, an unprecedented exploration of the struggle for human rights in Israel’s courts
A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his ol- Author: Sfard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1250860644
- Language: English
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$32.50 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0316418536
- Language: English
