Modern - 21st Century
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No One s Coming
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history.
JULY 2014. Two American medical volunt- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783177
- Language: English
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No One’s Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There’s Nowhere Else to Turn
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. As contagions spring up around the world… [more below]
- Author: Hazzard, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0306835185
- Language: English
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Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination
$35.00 Add to cartA deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, M- Author: Ball, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0300258046
- Language: English
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Year 2000: The Inside Story of Y2K Panic and the Greatest Cooperative Effort Ever
$22.95 Add to cartYear 2000 shares the untold story of the actors operating on the global stage responsible for managing computer hardware and software for Year 2000 compliance, thus keeping national infrastructures, f
- Author: James, Nancy P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1493085611
- Language: English
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Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy
$36.95 Add to cartOn October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy… [more below]
- Author: Henry, Chas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126457
- Language: English
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The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
$45.99 Add to cartA panoramic view of global history from the end of World War Two to the dawn of the new millennium, and a portrait of an age of unprecedented transformation.
In this ambitious, groundbreaking, and swe- Author: Sperber, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: January 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0190918950
- Language: English
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Unremitting: The Marine “Bastard” Battalion and the Savage Battle That Marked the True Start of America’s War in Iraq
$32.50 Add to cartFrom the former USA Today journalist and author of The Chosen Few, the untold story of The Battle of Ramadi, which led to a war that would last seven years, claim thousands of lives and evolve into a … [more below]
- Author: Zoroya, Gregg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0306833026
- Language: English
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Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
$19.00 Add to cartFrom New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
From t- Author: Chayka, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593466799
- Language: English
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The Stories They Tell: Artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum
$29.95 Read moreThis poignant selection of artifacts–and their stories–from September 11 provides an official, lasting record of that day’s experience. In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is tol… [more below]
- Author: Greenwald, Alice M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0847841332
- Language: English
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Day of the Assassins
$19.99 Read moreA forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
- Author: Burleigh, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 152903017X
- Language: English
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Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia
$35.00 Add to cartThe first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion
“A fascinating and highly informative narrative.”–Art- Author: Karatnycky, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0300269463
- Language: English
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The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Wire, the “utterly absorbing” (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s bustling cities–rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning ref… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1501191039
- Language: English
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Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way
$18.99 Add to cartThe bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind.
“M
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1642860751
- Language: English
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Cities on a Hill
$14.19 Add to cartCities on a Hill: 21 isolated months with the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two weeks is a long time when you’re ninety. While America spent two weeks to flatten the cur
- Author: Urban, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986419718
- Language: English
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of tod
- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 0525512179
- Language: English
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I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country
$30.00 Add to cart* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
“A haunting book of rare courage.” –Clarissa Ward, CNN chief international correspondent a- Author: Kostyuchenko, Elena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593655265
- Language: English
