World
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
$35.00 Read moreHow the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages
For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these relig- Author: Morton, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541616308
- Language: English
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Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties, the
$23.99 Add to cartThe classic world history of the events, ideas, and personalities of the twentieth century.
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: August 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0060935502
- Language: English
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Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction – Nominated for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap, the e- Author: Coll, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0143132504
- Language: English
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The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization
$26.99 Add to cartWhether you’re an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilizatio
- Author: Mangalwadi, Vishal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1595555455
- Language: English
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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a New York Times bestselling historian, the “truly revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) story of how the alphabet ordered our world
A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601165
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters
$18.00 Add to cartThe walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.
Since ancient times,- Author: Bruce, Scott G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27, 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107682
- Language: English
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The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State
$21.00 Add to cartThis is a book about China’s grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People’s Repu… [more below]
- Author: Blumenthal, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: December 28 2020
- ISBN10: 084475031X
- Language: English
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
$39.99 Add to cartIn her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393059758
- Language: English
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
$25.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure,… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0345308239
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
$7.95 Read moreClassic collection of black history and trivia
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper featur
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0960229477
- Language: English
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Lying about Hitler
$19.99 Add to cartIn ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of histo… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0465021530
- Language: English
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Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
$41.25 Add to cartCompellingly written and evenhanded in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. Mr. McKittrick and Mr. McVea… [more below]
- Author: McKittrick, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 18 2002
- ISBN10: 1561310700
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$35.00 Read moreFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply&#- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617940
- Language: English
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Putin
$40.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years
Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1627793666
- Language: English
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Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations–Myanmar, Thai… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rush, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0190248769
- Language: English
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Strategy: A History
$40.99 Add to cartSelected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013
In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world’s leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of st- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325154
- Language: English
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
$45.99 Add to cartFrom the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world’s oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization.
From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, (“Magnificent- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0199934983
- Language: English
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
$25.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse sch… [more below]
- Author: Marcuse, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0807014176
- Language: English
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The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
$22.95 Add to cart“The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe.”–Kimber… [more below]
- Author: Beydoun, Khaled A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0520402693
- Language: English
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Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
$22.00 Add to cartThe story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Se
- Author: McGreevy, John T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066040
- Language: English
