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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
$14.99 Read moreIbn Battutah – ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
He did not return t- Author: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621471
- Language: English
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The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartHermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society – from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests,
and mountains, depicted in art, literature, and
- Author: Rodriguez, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736866508
- Language: English
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The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After the Americans Left
$26.00 Read moreThe first account of the new Taliban–showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors
A Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Book of 2023 Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the- Author: Abbas, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267886
- Language: English
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The Book of This Day in History
$16.98 Add to cartGo through the year, day by day, to discover the variety of events that took place on that day. This fun, informative read will entertain you throughout the year (Leap Day included)!
- Hundreds of events
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640301925
- Language: English
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
$18.99 Add to cartFrom The Three Stooges to Seinfeld, Born to Kvetch is a smart and witty portrait of Yiddish and its relationship to both Jewish culture and American life.
“An earthy romp through the lingua franca of J
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Wex, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0061132179
- Language: English
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Inside Terrorism
$28.95 Add to cartBruce Hoffman’s Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition of his classic text, Ho
- Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
- Author: Hoffman, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0231174772
- Language: English
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Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time
$19.95 Read moreA wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this tumultuous moment.
In these informative interviews, conducted for Truthout by C.J. Polych
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599050
- Language: English
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
$19.00 Add to cartMark Kurlansky’s first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy–with recipes throughout.
According t- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1632863839
- Language: English
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Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
$19.99 Add to cartThe defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?
China and America are world powers … [more below]- Author: Mahbubani, Kishore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1541768140
- Language: English
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
$22.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Egyptians’ prehistoric origins to their conquest by the P… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 525
- Publish Date: February 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0192804588
- Language: English
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Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program
$40.00 Add to cartNorth Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this country–one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years–progress fro
- Author: Hecker, Siegfried S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1503634450
- Language: English
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The Feminism Book
$19.99 Add to cartAre you born a woman_x2026_ or do you become one? Can men ever truly be feminists? And do we still need feminism in the 21st century?
This book answers these questions and many more, exploring the str- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0744051576
- Language: English
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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man’s Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
$25.48 Add to cartNow part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa–and the terr
- Author: Lindqvist, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1565843592
- Language: English
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Timelines of World History
$40.00 Add to cartAn illustrated record covering all the major events and achievements in human history. Designed for history aficionados, trivia buffs, or anyone with a curious mind, Timelines of World History takes a… [more below]
- Series: DK Timelines Adult
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0744056276
- Language: English
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The Story of Golf in Fifty Holes
$19.95 Add to cart“The latest golf book from Dear (Every Golf Question You Ever Wanted Answered) meets the formidable challenge of trying to tell the 600-year history of golf…. a Masters-level celebration of the gam
- Author: Dear, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0228103487
- Language: English
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Atlas of World History
$59.00 Add to cartOxford’s Atlas of World History is the result of years of intensive work by a specialist team of scholars, editors, and cartographers. It presents the story of humanity in its physical setting, from t… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199746532
- Language: English
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Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
$18.99 Add to cartA “marvelously macabre” (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead.
For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start- Author: Lovejoy, Bess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1451655002
- Language: English
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The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
$30.00 Read moreFrom the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast, an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern wor… [more below]
- Author: Sexton, Jared Yates
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593185234
- Language: English
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of End Times
In War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin uses his expertise in evolutionary biology to offer a bold new theory about the course of world history. Turchin argues that the ke- Author: Turchin, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0452288193
- Language: English
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Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War
$30.00 Add to cart“Having saddled the tiger of militarized patriotism, Putin expertly made it trot in the right direction. But the animal required more and more meat; as it grew, it became harder to dismount.”
In this
- Author: Aron, Leon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0844750549
- Language: English
