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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
$25.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award
of the Council on Foreign Rela- Author: MacMillan, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0375760520
- Language: English
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A History of the World in 500 Walks
$27.99 Read moreThis book covers a lot of ground!
From geologic upheavals and mad kings to trade routes and saints’ ways, this book relates the tales behind the top 500 walks that have shaped our society. It’s easy t- Series: 500 Walks
- Author: Baxter, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 162686554X
- Language: English
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The Two-Headed Whale: Life, Loss, and the Tangled Legacy of Whaling in the Antarctic
$27.95 Add to cartFollowing one woman’s voyage across the Antarctic, this elegant debut confronts the dark history of the whaling industry and the mystery of one young whaler’s death against the backdrop of the vast So… [more below]
- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Winterbottom, Sandy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 1778400906
- Language: English
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The Library: A Fragile History
$35.00 Read morePerfect for book lovers, this is a fascinating exploration of the history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age.
Famed across the known world, jealously- Author: Pettegree, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1541600770
- Language: English
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Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life
$75.00 Read moreA tribute to her father, Makaziwe Mandela shares the most definitive portrait of Nelson Mandela to date, revealing the man behind the anti-apartheid movement that changed the world.
One of Time magazi- Author: Mandela, Makaziwe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0847872009
- Language: English
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The Greeks: A Global History
$22.99 Add to cartA “monumental, sweeping” (Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads) history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sp- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603648
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
$31.18 Add to cartNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, govern… [more below]
- Author: Patel, Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 30 2018
- ISBN10: 520299930
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
$32.00 Add to cartFrom renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human history told through the archaeological discoveries of twelve shipwrecks across time.
The Viking wars- Author: Gibbins, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1250325374
- Language: English
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Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
$35.00 Add to cartThe epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora- Author: Farmer, Jared
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0465097847
- Language: English
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The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary
$20.00 Add to cartAn ordinary Gazan’s “devastating contemporary war journal” that chronicles his fear, sadness, and boredom during Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza (Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient)
The D- Author: Abu Saif, Atef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 5, 2016
- ISBN10: 0807049107
- Language: English
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How to Opt-Out of the Technocratic State: 2nd Edition
$20.00 Add to cartAs humanity enters the third decade of the 21st century, we find ourselves at the precipice of a Technocratic Age where Artificial Intelligence, Smart Technology, and the Internet of Things are becomi
- Author: Broze, Derrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218109936
- Language: English
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All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
$35.99 Add to cartWith a thrilling narrative that sheds much light on recent events, this national bestseller brings to life the 1953 CIA coup in Iran that ousted the country’s elected prime minister, ushered in a quar… [more below]
- Author: Kinzer, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 1, 2008
- ISBN10: 1681620618
- Language: English
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The Return (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing–one of The New York Times Book Review‘s ten best books of the year, winner of th… [more below]
- Author: Matar, Hisham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 4, 2017
- ISBN10: 0812985087
- Language: English
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Among the Russians
$15.99 Add to cart“There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts–the most poetic of us all.” — Jan Morris
The first book in Thubron
- Author: Thubron, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26, 2000
- ISBN10: 0060959290
- Language: English
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D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
$25.00 Add to cart“Glorious, horrifying… D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women.”–Time
Renowned historian Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Battl- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0143118188
- Language: English
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The Romanovs: 1613-1918
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An “epic history on the grandest scale” (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family who c… [more below]
- Author: Montefiore, Simon Sebag
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0307280519
- Language: English
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The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 B- Author: Gessen, Masha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 2, 2018
- ISBN10: 1594634548
- Language: English
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The History of Philosophy
$22.00 Add to cart“A witty, learned, authoritative survey of philosophical thought.” —The New York Times Book Review
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and- Author: Grayling, A. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 2, 2021
- ISBN10: 198487876X
- Language: English
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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
$35.00 Add to cart“A landmark book…[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire.”
An award-winning historian places the corporation–more than the Crown–at the heart of B
–Caroline Elkins, Foreign Affairs- Author: Stern, Philip J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0674988124
- Language: English
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Culture and Imperialism
$20.00 Add to cartA landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it.
In the ninetee- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 31 1994
- ISBN10: 679750541
- Language: English
