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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
$18.99 Add to cartIn a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years. Like
- Author: Olson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0618352104
- Language: English
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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
$23.00 Add to cartIn this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate… [more below]
- Author: Jasanoff, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400075467
- Language: English
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Caf? Europa: Life After Communism
$27.00 Add to cart“Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world.” –Gloria Steinem
Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been repla- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140277722
- Language: English
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The Perfect Machine
$18.99 Add to cartAlmost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the S… [more below]
- Author: Florence, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 04 1995
- ISBN10: 0060926708
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History
$14.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller! A compendium about tiny ripples that created big waves in history. What was Hitler’s real name? Which famous artist was mistakenly thought to be stillborn, until his uncle r… [more below]
- Author: Mason, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1510744401
- Language: English
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The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World
$39.50 Add to cartA bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene–the killing age.
We are used to speakin- Author: Crais, Clifton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0226827410
- Language: English
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Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 12 Maps, this is the revelatory history of the four cardinal directions that have oriented and defined our place on the globe fo
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0802166008
- Language: English
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Mafia: A Global History
$35.00 Add to cartA gripping and deeply researched exploration of the hidden influence of organized crime on the global economy that reveals the mafia as an uncredited architect of modern society.
In Mafia: A Global Hi- Author: Gingeras, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1668056429
- Language: English
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Malachi Martin: In the Shadows of the Vatican
$28.99 Add to cartFormer CIA operations officer Robert Marro Jr. pens a gripping memoir about his close friend and confidante, the famed enigmatic exorcist, bestselling author, and Vatican insider Malachi Martin.
In th- Author: Marro, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888456705
- Language: English
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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartHow only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271844
- Language: English
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How a Lone American Star Defeated the Soviet Chess Machine
$19.99 Add to cartBy the authors of the national bestseller Wittgenstein’s Poker, a riveting account of the legendary 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky, the world champion from the Soviet Union, and the American c
- Author: Edmonds, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0060510250
- Language: English
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Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria
$32.00 Add to cart“Defiance takes my breath away. A nail-biting tale of astonishing courage.”
“An anthem against patriarchy and authoritariani
–Jeannette Walls #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle- Author: Mrie, Loubna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1984880004
- Language: English
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A Short History of Nearly Everything: 2.0
$39.00 Add to cartTHE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey–into the most intriguing and … [more below]
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217287925
- Language: English
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Volga Blues: A Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$31.99 Add to cartSince the invasion of Ukraine and ban on foreign reporters, Russia seems to have sunk into an even deeper shadow than in the darkest times of the Soviet Union. Only by presenting himself as an histori
- Author: Mian, Marzio G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324111038
- Language: English
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Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China That Changed History
$22.99 Add to cartSilk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable – war and humiliation. Much … [more below]
- Author: Pembroke, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1761451987
- Language: English
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Adam and Eve and the Great Reset: How an Ancient Cataclysm Warning Was Silenced for 50 Years
$18.00 Add to cartClassified for 50 years by the CIA – now the hidden truth is revealed.
In 1966, The Adam and Eve Story by Chan Thomas shocked the scientific world with a chilling theory: sudden, violent pole shifts ha
- Author: Pike, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1998704920
- Language: English
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Hello, World! Solar System Boxed Set
$35.96 Add to cartFrom Hello, World!, the bestselling nonfiction board book series, comes a four-book space-themed boxed set–perfect for holiday gifts, birthdays, and baby showers.
Attention all young astronauts! Babi- Series: Hello, World!
- Author: McDonald, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 26
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593519019
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Scandinavia: 14,000 Years from the Stone Age and the Vikings to the Happiest Nations in the World
$16.95 Add to cartOutsiders have long viewed Scandinavia as special, starting with the ancient Greeks and their myths of Ultima Thule, a place “where the Sun goes to rest.” Today, we admire Scandinavia for its universa
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Kuldkepp, Mart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893030914
- Language: English
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Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today
$39.00 Add to cartAn illustrated story of the relationship between mapping and secrecy, charting the role maps played in concealing and revealing knowledge across centuries.
Is there anything more intriguing than a sec
- Author: Harper, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0226846164
- Language: English
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
$39.99 Add to cartAs recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire.” I
- Author: Dalrymple, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123788
- Language: English
