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The Unseen Hand: An Introduction to the Conspiratorial View of History
$15.95 Add to cartRalph Epperson contends that the major events of the past, the revolutions, the wars, the depressions and the revolutions, have been planned years in advance by an international conspiracy. He puts fo… [more below]
- Author: Epperson, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0961413506
- Language: English
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A Short History of Relations Between Peoples: How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism
$24.99 Add to cartA Short History of Relations Between Peoples traces how the cultural attitudes that different peoples and nations had toward each other have undergone a profound and positive change during the last 50… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774053
- Language: English
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Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex
$35.00 Add to cartWe take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel
- Author: Cleves, Rachel Hope
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1509553630
- Language: English
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The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
$37.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom
Choice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to w- Author: Rosenfeld, Sophia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691164711
- Language: English
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Goa, 1961: The Complete Story of Nationalism and Integration
$26.99 Read moreThe subject of the liberation of Goa in 1961 and its integration into the Indian Union in 1962 is sparsely understood at best and misunderstood at worst. What were the events that led to the thirty-si… [more below]
- Author: Faleiro, Valmiki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0670097926
- Language: English
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Myths of Modern History: From the French Revolution to the 20th Century World Wars and the Cold War – New Perspectives on Key Events
$27.95 Read moreAt a time when it’s all too easy to see history in black-and-white terms, historian Jacques R. Pauwels urges readers to let go of conventional history textbooks and re-examine historical events outsid… [more below]
- Author: Pauwels, Jacques R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1459416937
- Language: English
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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza
$22.99 Add to cartNew York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller
Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.
Two leading authorities–an acclaimed historian
- Author: Petraeus, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0063293145
- Language: English
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
$20.00 Read moreA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets
In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sug- Author: Mintz, Sidney W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 05 1986
- ISBN10: 0140092331
- Language: English
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
$23.99 Add to cartThe Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France,
- Author: Zuckerman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0865475784
- Language: English
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Oil, Power, and War: A Dark History
$34.95 Add to cartCatholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs
“Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction.”–Nature
The story of oil is one of hubris, fortune, betrayal, a
- Author: Auzanneau, Matthieu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1603589783
- Language: English
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450-1800
$24.95 Add to cartThe emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and t… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Febvre, Lucien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1844676331
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes–this is award winning writer Simon Winchester’s brilliant and all-encompassing look at ho
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0063142899
- Language: English
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After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
$24.00 Add to cartTamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this m
- Author: Darwin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596916028
- Language: English
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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
$20.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller.
A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we’re living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0735222932
- Language: English
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Past and Present
$8.94 Add to cartThomas Carlyle’s Past and Present (1843) was a prophetic warning of impending disaster for mid-Victorian Britain that was delivered in what the author described as a ‘miraculous thunder-voice, from ou… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Carlyle, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0198841086
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
$39.00 Add to cart“A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledg
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 006329723X
- Language: English
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Energy: A Human History
$22.00 Add to cartA “meticulously researched” (The New York Times Book Review) examination of energy transitions over time and an exploration of the current challenges presented by global warming, a surging world popul… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 11 2019
- ISBN10: 1501105361
- Language: English
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world–from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. – “Fascinating…Lively…A convi
- Author: Mann, Charles C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307278247
- Language: English
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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
$40.00 Read moreNew York Times, USA Today, Amazon, and Publishers Weekly bestseller
Aspects of History, The Critic, Octavian, and Modern War Institute Book of the Year.
Two leading authorities–an acclaimed historian
- Author: Petraeus, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063293137
- Language: English
