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The Great Waves of Change
$23.95 Add to cartIn The Great Waves of Change, Marshall Vian Summers explains the steps you can take to navigate our increasingly turbulent and uncertain times. In the face of such uncertainty, Summers presents a revo… [more below]
- Author: Summers, Marshall Vian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1884238610
- Language: English
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Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina’s $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
$29.95 Add to cartThe dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law
Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection f
- Author: Makoff, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1647123976
- Language: English
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Around the World in 80 Books
$30.00 Add to cartA transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them
*Featured in the Chicago Tri… [more below]- Author: Damrosch, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0593299884
- Language: English
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Culture and Resistance
$17.95 Add to cartEdward W. Said discusses the importance and centrality of popular resistance in the framework of culture, history, and struggle. He reveals his thoughts on the war on terrorism and the invasion of Afg
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1608463133
- Language: English
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Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine
$35.99 Add to cartIn June 2007 civil war broke out in the Gaza Strip between two rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. Western peace efforts in the region always focused on reconciling two opposing fronts: Israe… [more below]
- Author: Schanzer, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0230609058
- Language: English
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Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War
$32.00 Add to cartIn this fully revised and updated in-depth analysis of the war in Ukraine, Paul D’Anieri explores the dynamics within Ukraine, between Ukraine and Russia, and between Russia and the West that emerged … [more below]
- Author: D’Anieri, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1009315544
- Language: English
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This Brave New World
$23.99 Add to cart“By turns alarming and encouraging…Manuel delineates with clarity [why] the US must attend closely to…harmonious future relations with China and India” (Kirkus Reviews) and why our obsession with … [more below]
- Author: Manuel, Anja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1501121987
- Language: English
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Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
$21.95 Read moreCelebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to more than
- Series: Asian Arguments
- Author: Eyler, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 15 2019
- ISBN10: 178360719X
- Language: English
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
$19.95 Add to cartA work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted na
- Author: Colley, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092386
- Language: English
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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
