World
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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
$26.00 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 Read moreWhile 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
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Against the World: Anti-Globalism and Mass Politics Between the World Wars
$18.99 Read moreBefore the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects on matters ranging from women’s rights to world peace
- Author: Zahra, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075201
- Language: English
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Cosmic Memory: The Story of Atlantis, Lemuria, and the Division of the Sexes (Cw 11)
$25.00 Add to cartWritten 1904-1908 (CW 11)
“Rudolf Steiner shows that the insoluble link between humanity and cosmos is the fundamental basis of evolution. As human beings have participated in the development of the wo… [more below]
- Series: Cosmic Memory, Prehistory of Earth & Man #15
- Author: Steiner, Rudolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0893452270
- Language: English
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Introduction to World Christian History
$24.99 Add to cartChristianity is a global faith. Today, people are increasingly aware that Christianity extends far beyond Europe and North America, permeating the Eastern and Southern hemispheres. What we may know le
- Author: Cooper, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: May 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0830840885
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Third Reich
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive account of Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power and The Third Reich at War.
“The clearest and most grippin… [more below]- Series: History of the Third Reich
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 622
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034693
- Language: English
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
$20.00 Add to cartThe Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was firs
- Author: Murray, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1472958055
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$19.95 Add to cartThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397894
- Language: English
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Summer of ’49
$18.99 Add to cart“Dazzling…A celebration of a vanished heroic age and a ‘simpler America’ ” —New York Times Book Review
David Halberstam’s classic chronicle of baseball’s most magnificent season, as seen through th
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0060884266
- Language: English
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Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
$35.00 Read moreAward-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.
The “Devil Dogs” of- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 628
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361995
- Language: English
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy–Winner Take All
“A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil- Author: Maddow, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575480
- Language: English
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Slavery in the Arab World
$29.85 Add to cart“…A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today…”-Arab Book World
- Author: Gordon, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310239
- Language: English
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Ecological Imperialism
$26.00 Add to cartPeople of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world – North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are ea… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Crosby, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569877
- Language: English
