World
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The Romans: A 2,000-Year History
$40.00 Add to cartAn acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century
When we think of “ancient Romans” toda- Author: Watts, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1541619811
- Language: English
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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History
$32.00 Add to cartA magisterial history of the seven rivers representing the great natural arteries running through civilization, by virtue of the roles they have played in our shared and conflicted world history.
Ever- Author: Taylor, Vanessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368639
- Language: English
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Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder
$35.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul comes a bold, clear-eyed look at how the autocracies of China and Russia are challenging the current global o
- Author: McFaul, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0358677874
- Language: English
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World
$20.00 Add to cartThe story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific
Spices drove the early modern world econo- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281129
- Language: English
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Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
$22.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness
Winner of the National Book Award in nonfiction- Author: Osnos, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535272
- Language: English
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Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
$17.99 Add to cartA profound meditation on memory and the preservation of Palestinian heritage, from the award-winning author of We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I.
Forgotten uncovers the hidden or neglected m- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1635424747
- Language: English
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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
$35.00 Add to cartAcclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.
In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the
- Author: Ioffe, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 006287912X
- Language: English
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Shah of Shahs
$19.00 Add to cart“Insightful and important…. A readable, timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in Iran…. The reader almost becomes a participant.” —The New York… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kapuscinski, Ryszard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 04 1992
- ISBN10: 0679738010
- Language: English
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History of the World in 500 People
$27.99 Add to cartExplore the lives of the most influential people in history, from the dawn of civilization to the present day.
History is made by the people who were there, and this book looks at the lives of 500 rem- Author: Phillips, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1667205218
- Language: English
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North to the Orient
$16.99 Add to cartIn 1931 Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh set off on a flight to the Orient by the Great Circle Route. The classic North to the Orient is the beautifully written account of the trip.
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0156671409
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Ancient Rome: A Millennium of Western Civilization, from Kingdom to Republic to Empire – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cart“For who is so indifferent or indolent as not to wish to know by what means the Romans succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government–a thing unique in history?”—
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: King, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030587
- Language: English
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Rebel Russia: Dissent and Protest from the Tsars to Navalny
$25.00 Add to cartNavalny. Lenin. Pugachev. The Russian rebel – in his epic battle against the Leviathan of the Russian state – has enthralled readers and writers for decades. The rebel’s story is almost always a sad o… [more below]
- Author: Arutunyan, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509552294
- Language: English
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History of the World in 500 Buildings
$27.99 Add to cartExamine the origins, history, and influence of 500 famous buildings that have shaped civilizations around the world.
Discover the fascinating story of humanity through the lens of 500 remarkable build- Author: Collins, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1667205226
- Language: English
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A Little History of Archaeology
$15.00 Add to cartThe thrilling story of archaeological adventure, and astonishing discoveries around the globe
Archaeology tells the story of our ancestors: how they lived, what they believed in and how their culture- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283407
- Language: English
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New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
$19.95 Add to cartThe images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe Ruth, and Charles Lindbergh to the fight for women’s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0306813793
- Language: English
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The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization
$31.99 Add to cartWhen Ovid was exiled from Rome to a border town on the Black Sea, he despaired at his bleak and barbarous new surroundings. Like many Greeks and Romans, Ovid thought the outer reaches of his world was
- Author: Rees, Owen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036524
- Language: English
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A Path to Peace: A Brief History of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations and a Way Forward in the Middle East
$16.00 Add to cartThe “illuminating” (Los Angeles Times) answer to why Israel and Palestine’s attempts at negotiation have failed and a practical, “admirably measured” (The New York Times) roadmap for bringing peace to… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, George J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1501153927
- Language: English
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Princeton Review AP World History: Modern Premium Prep, 7th Edition: 6 Practice Tests + Digital Practice Online + Content Review
$27.99 Add to cartPREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5–WITH THE MOST PRACTICE ON THE MARKET! Ace the newly-digital AP World History: Modern Exam with this comprehensive study guide. Includes 6 practice tests with answer e… [more below]
- Series: College Test Preparation
- Author: The Princeton Review
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0593518594
- Language: English
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The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability
$41.93 Add to cartIn The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical… [more below]
- Series: Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
- Author: Puar, Jasbir K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0822369184
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China
$19.95 Add to cartTaiwan: a place with its own flag, currency, government and military, but which most of the world does not recognise as a sovereign country. An island that China regards as a ‘rebellious province’, bu
- Series: Asian Arguments
- Author: Brown, Kerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 135036388X
- Language: English
