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Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way
$30.00 Add to cartThe globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings.
Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders–these are some of the features- Author: Samson, Maxim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844749
- Language: English
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Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam
$30.00 Add to cartA compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor
Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to s- Author: Devji, Faisal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 030027663X
- Language: English
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Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War
$21.95 Add to cartA cutting-edge investigation of how Russia makes war.
Russian strategy in the twenty-first century has been described in terms of ‘hybrid’ warfare, an approach characterised by measures short of war,- Series: Russian Strategy and Power
- Author: Monaghan, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1526164523
- Language: English
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After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization
$19.95 Add to cartWritten during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.
The death toll in Gaza continues to rise―a c
- Author: Dabashi, Hamid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904503
- Language: English
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A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the failures, mistakes, and missed opportunities that shaped history.
From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder to the unsuccessful stint in medical sc- Author: Gazur, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1789297893
- Language: English
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan
$29.00 Add to cartINSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising count- Author: Doucet, Lyse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0735243417
- Language: English
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The New Silk Roads: The New Asia and the Remaking of the World Order
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Silk Roads comes an updated, timely, and visionary book about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now–as seen from the perspective of th… [more below]
- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525566708
- Language: English
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Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
$22.95 Add to cart“Like al-Qazwīnī himself, Travis Zadeh has written a deliciously baggy tome, full of delights and diversions in its tour of the cosmic horizons. This is a book to get lost in, whether one wa
- Author: Zadeh, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299337
- Language: English
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The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets
$32.50 Add to cart- Author: Shedd, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063451832
- Language: English
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Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
$34.99 Add to cartA bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge
For centuries, Westerners have tried to “fi
- Author: Everill, Bronwen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1620979756
- Language: English
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Slow Poison: IDI Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
$32.50 Add to cartA leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his homeland.
In 1972, when Mahmood Mamdani came home to Uganda, he found a count- Author: Mamdani, Mahmood
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299876
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
$20.00 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 warsh- Author: Gibbins, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397197
- Language: English
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The Architect of Espionage: The Man Who Built Israel’s Mossad Into the World’s Boldest Intelligence Force
$31.00 Add to cartFrom a New York Times bestselling author and expert on Middle Eastern conflict comes a riveting biography of Meir Dagan, the legendary Mossad director who transformed Israel’s intelligence service int… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Samuel M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1668059746
- Language: English
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Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
$33.00 Add to cartA revelatory history of enslaved people’s resistance and self-emancipation, across the Atlantic world and beyond.
The ending of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery by European powers during t- Author: Hazareesingh, Sudhir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0374611076
- Language: English
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Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest
$34.00 Add to cartA celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress
For centuries, the developed Western world has exploit- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541675754
- Language: English
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The Impossible Mission
$37.95 Add to cartOur decision to go to war in Iraq was controversial, but our decision to terminate the Iraq war should have been even more controversial.
After eight-and-a half years of war, and the sacrifice of 4,61
- Author: Caslen, Robert L., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1977280544
- Language: English
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Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara
$25.00 Add to cartAn urgent and necessary deep dive into how Israel’s masterful use of propaganda has shaped global perceptions, justified Israel’s policies, and masked its violations of human rights and international … [more below]
- Author: Malinowitz, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1623715806
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia’s Short-Lived Victory Over Totalitarianism
$32.00 Add to cartFrom “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never ove… [more below]
- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668013908
- Language: English
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Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide
$19.95 Add to cartA powerful collection of testimonies from Palestinians facing genocide and displacement in Gaza with hope and resistance.
Displaced in Gaza aims to raise global awareness of how violent displacement
- Author: Aljamal, Yousef M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888905203
- Language: English
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Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America
$18.00 Add to cartAN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2024 – An award-winning journalist’s exploration of how race, identity and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can sh… [more below]
- Author: Ramos, Paola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0593687191
- Language: English
