World
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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
$41.99 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
$47.99 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
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914
$35.00 Add to cartIt began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel–in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship … [more below]
- Author: Cothran, Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676559
- Language: English
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
$24.99 Add to cartLarry Gonick’s celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. P… [more below]
- Series: Cartoon History of the Earth (Paperback) #03
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393324036
- Language: English
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Israel: A History
$25.99 Add to cart“The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published.” — The Sunday Telegraph
“An epic history . . . a picture of an Israel that persevered and prevailed, that was determined to survive an
- Author: Gilbert, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0688123635
- Language: English
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Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring
$19.99 Add to cart“Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn’t take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem.” –Jon Stewart
“The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World”–the creator of The Program, the most popular tele
- Author: Youssef, Bassem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0062446908
- Language: English
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
$19.99 Add to cartThis New York Times bestseller “elegantly weaves evidence and insights . . . into a single, accessible historical narrative” (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe — from the… [more below]
- Author: Christian, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0316392014
- Language: English
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This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History’s Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures
$24.95 Add to cartFrom the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History.
Have you ever wondered wh
- Author: Cider Mill Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1646433629
- Language: English
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Epic Mexico: A History from Its Earliest Times
$24.95 Add to cartSpanning the full breadth of Mexico’s long and storied past in one compact volume, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history, at once comprehensive, succinct, and consistently engag
- Author: Rugeley, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0806167076
- Language: English
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
$32.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford’s massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the … [more below]
- Author: Mumford, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: October 23 1968
- ISBN10: 0156180359
- Language: English
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Racism: A Short History
$22.95 Add to cartA concise history of racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to today
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn’t racism appear in Europe before t- Series: Princeton Classics #106
- Author: Fredrickson, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691167052
- Language: English
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The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
$40.00 Add to cartThe world-famous reference that tells who did what when from 4500 BC to the present day–now updated for the 21st century.
“A unique, encyclopedic book–rewarding, informative, entertaining.” —The Wa- Author: Grun, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0743270037
- Language: English
