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The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
$24.00 Read moreThe unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2023: Politics “The book is a delightful demolition of the many political myths th- Author: Nichter, Luke a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280130
- Language: English
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Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartA worldwide exploration of the history, purpose, and inescapable influence of the Iliad and the Odyssey that will inspire readers to think anew about Homer’s work
No one knows whether Homer was a rea- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272472
- Language: English
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Buddhism: A Journey Through History
$40.00 Add to cartOne of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism presents the story of its dramatic journey across the globe, from 2,500 years ago to the present day
Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism- Author: Lopez, Donald S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 536
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300234260
- Language: English
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The Dark Path: The Structure of War and the Rise of the West
$40.00 Add to cartFrom an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern world
Heraclitus wrote that “war is the father of all,” and it has formed much o- Author: Murray, Williamson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270682
- Language: English
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Ballerina
$18.00 Add to cartA critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France–a novel of art, desire, and time lost and regained, from Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano
“Pithy and introspective. . . . Modiano delivers wondrous im- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Modiano, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278195
- Language: English
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The Tempest
$8.95 Add to cartThe Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest dramatist
Shakespeare’s valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical.- Series: Annotated Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0300108168
- Language: English
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The Performer: Art, Life, Politics
$30.00 Read moreAn acclaimed sociologist’s exploration of the connections among performances in life, art, and politics
“A thought-provoking, essayistic and touchingly personal exploration of the ethics and aestheti- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272901
- Language: English
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Read moreA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
$37.00 Add to cartA extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award a- Series: The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Author: Eltis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0300212542
- Language: English
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The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto
$30.00 Read moreA provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood
“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”–Kirkus Reviews Today there are two seemingly- Author: Boyarin, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0300251289
- Language: English
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Invisibility: The History and Science of How Not to Be Seen
$30.00 Add to cartA lively exploration of how invisibility has gone from science fiction to fact
“The science of invisibility remains largely theoretical and abstract. It is in the literature that the field comes aliv- Author: Gbur, Gregory J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0300250428
- Language: English
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A Little History of Music
$15.00 Add to cartA superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present
Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal’s bone flute to the festivals o- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Philip, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279086
- Language: English
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John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community
$24.00 Add to cartThe first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection “The perfect book, at the right time.”–Michael Henry Adams, The Guardian F- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Arsenault, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281811
- Language: English
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Vigilance Is Not Enough: A History of United States Intelligence
$40.00 Add to cartA broad and deep survey of American intelligence from before the Revolution to the present
Every nation has an intelligence apparatus–some means by which its top officials acquire needed information- Author: Lowenthal, Mark M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0300269293
- Language: English
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A Little History of Economics
$15.00 Add to cartAn accessible account of the history of economics through the ideas of great thinkers
Economics explains the world. For example, the fact that you’re holding this book in your hands puts you in a spe- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Kishtainy, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283245
- Language: English
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A Little History of the World
$15.00 Add to cartThe internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages
The world has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H.- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Gombrich, E. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283253
- Language: English
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Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique
$22.00 Add to cartA detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority
“What are the chances tha- Series: Yale Law Library Legal History and Reference
- Author: Gienapp, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 030028487X
- Language: English
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A Little History of Philosophy
$15.00 Add to cartA lucid guide to humankind’s greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer
Philosophy begins with the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Warburton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283261
- Language: English
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The Children of the Dead
$22.00 Add to cartThe magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek–a spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria
“The surface of [Jelinek’s] prose cracks and bursts .- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Jelinek, Elfriede
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281943
- Language: English
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A Little History of Art
$15.00 Read moreA thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art’s central role in culture today
Art can help us see the world differently or understand our place in it a li- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Mullins, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278357
- Language: English
