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Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
$21.99 Read moreWinner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023
*A Telegraph Book of the Year*
A Times Best Book of Summer 2023
*Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards*
An astonishing investigation into the
- Author: Matthews, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 0008562784
- Language: English
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
$19.95 Add to cartAn account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident contaminated as much as thr
- Series: Lannan Selection
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1628973307
- Language: English
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
$18.99 Add to cart“You’ll finish [Greenfield’s] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.”–Houston Chronicle
Int
- Author: Greenfield, Amy Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0060522763
- Language: English
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
$23.00 Add to cartThe second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535620
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
$25.00 Add to cart“[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the “Enlighteners.”… Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the
- Author: Robertson, Ritchie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0062410660
- Language: English
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Sapiens. de Animales a Dioses / Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
$24.95 Add to cartEl libro de no ficci?n del A?O
Un best seller internacional con m?s de un mill?n de ejemplares vendidos.
L?cido e iluminador: la historia de la humanidad en un solo volumen.
Este es el fascinante relato … [more below]- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 8499926223
- Language: Spanish
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A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History
$25.99 Add to cartMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing techno
- Author: Gilbert, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 17 2002
- ISBN10: 006050594X
- Language: English
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Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
$18.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being e- Author: Lim, Louisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 059319182X
- Language: English
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The Cartoon History of the Universe: Volumes 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great
$28.00 Add to cartAn entertaining and informative illustrated guidethat makes world history accessible, appealing, and funny.”
- Series: Cartoon History of the Universe #1-7
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0385265204
- Language: English
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps (Historical Map and Mythology Book, Geography Book of Ancient and Antiqu
$35.00 Add to cartDiscover the mysteries within ancient maps – Where exploration and mythology meet
This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps
- Author: Brooke-Hitching, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1452168407
- Language: English
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Oyster: A Gastronomic History (with Recipes)
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the one-time editor of the #1 bestselling The Good Food Guide, award-winning writer Drew Smith’s Oyster: A Gastronomic History offers readers a global view of the oyster, tracing its role in cook… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 141971922X
- Language: English
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
$34.99 Add to cartThe classic work on debt, now is a special tenth anniversary edition with a new introduction by Thomas Piketty
Before there was money, there was debt.
Every economics textbook says the same thing: Mon… [more below]- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 161219933X
- Language: English
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
$23.00 Add to cartA landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Ti- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0374533229
- Language: English
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The Ordeal of Change
$13.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer–lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge–history, scien
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 6, 2006
- ISBN10: 1933435100
- Language: English
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The World: A Brief Introduction
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times Bestseller
“A superb introduction to the world and global issues. Richard Haass has written something that is brief, readable, and yet comprehensive–marked throughout by his tradem- Author: Haass, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0399562419
- Language: English
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An Edible History of Humanity
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses charts the enlightening history of humanity through the foods we eat.
More than simply sustenance, food historically has been a kind of te- Author: Standage, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 3, 2010
- ISBN10: 0802719910
- Language: English
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Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran
$19.95 Read moreJina Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of Iran’s Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to the streets, uncovering their hair, burning headscarv… [more below]
- Author: Halasa, Malu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0863569722
- Language: English
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
$25.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize – Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award – One of the New York Times‘ Ten Best Books of the Year
“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enorm- Author: Judt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037757
- Language: English
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Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
$28.00 Add to cartThe egg is a paradox–both alive and not alive–and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the e
- Author: Stark, Lizzie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393531503
- Language: English
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914 to 1918
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Drawing on exhaustive research, this intimate account details how World War I reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the fo… [more below]
- Author: Meyer, G. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0553382403
- Language: English
