21st Century
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
$18.95 Read moreWeaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, … [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1631499068
- Language: English
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After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We’ve Made
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening ‘after the fall’ of the global system created by the United States” (New York Jour… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1984856073
- 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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Filipinos in Greater Boston
$23.99 Read moreAs early as the Civil War, a dozen Filipino men living in Massachusetts enlisted in the Union army. In the 1900s, Filipino pensionados studied at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Talusan, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1467109606
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Volume 3: Armed Formations of the Luhansk People’s Republic 2014-2022
$29.95 Read more“These volumes have provided greater clarity about the war, since the media’s reporting on the war has been, by necessity, lacking in important details. If one is interested in the background to the w… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Crowther, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1804512176
- Language: English
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
$16.00 Read moreIn this “exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life” (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s s… [more below]
- Author: Iyer, Pico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1101973463
- Language: English
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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
$26.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document … is Applebaum’s answer.” –Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, wit- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0385545800
- Language: English
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American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
$18.99 Read moreExamine the ways in which expertise, reason, and manners are continually under attack in our institutions, courts, political arenas, and social venues with this collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winn… [more below]
- Author: Will, George F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0306924390
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
$16.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism
By one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the politic
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932938
- Language: English
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There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
$16.95 Read moreThis kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today–Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Tracy K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314697
- Language: English
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
$27.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times
From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbç–£, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of stron- Author: Rachman, Gideon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1635422809
- Language: English
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The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear
$50.00 Read moreAn eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans.
For decades, immigration has been one of the most divisive, content- Author: Watson, Tara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 2022
- ISBN10: 022627022X
- Language: English
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Afghan Air Wars: Soviet, Us and NATO Operations, 1979-2021
$40.00 Read moreMichael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021.
US and- Author: Napier, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1472859014
- Language: English
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The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The Fbi, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party, Usa-1939-1956
$16.95 Add to cartThe first book to document the efforts of the FBI against the most famous American folk singers of the mid-twentieth century, including Woody Guthrie, ‘Sis Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Lee Hays and Burl I… [more below]
- Author: Leonard, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1913462005
- Language: English
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Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and the Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory
$20.00 Read moreBy virtue of his previous four books on the subject, David Ray Griffin is widely recognized as one of the leading spokespersons of the 9/11 truth movement, which rejects the official conspiracy theory… [more below]
- Author: Griffin, David Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 156656686X
- Language: English
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
$21.99 Read more“Better and more comprehensive than any prior account. . . . Those of us who lived through those days will find the book cathartic; those rising generations who were too young to remember 9/11, or who
- Author: Zuckoff, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0062275658
- Language: English
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American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation
$29.00 Read moreIt could have been so much worse: a deeply reported, insider story of how a handful of Washington officials staged a daring resistance to an unprecedented presidency and prevented chaos overwhelming t… [more below]
- Author: Rothkopf, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1541700635
- Language: English
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Wonderlands: Essays on the Life of Literature
$17.00 Read moreSearching and erudite new essays on writing from the author of Burning Down the House.
Charles Baxter’s new collection of essays, Wonderlands, joins his other works of nonfiction, Burning Down the Hou- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450917
- Language: English
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Professional Wrestling in Mississippi: A History
$23.99 Read moreBounce off the ropes for a high-flying jaunt through the history of Magnolia State professional wrestling. At its peak, professional wrestling was arguably the most popular sport in Mississippi. The p… [more below]
- Series: Sports
- Author: Martin, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154288
- Language: English
