21st Century
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Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11
$19.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, the riveting story of the response of the heroic pilots and air traffic controllers who found themselves on the front lines of an undeclared war on September 11, 2001.
In this grippi- Author: Spencer, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1416559264
- Language: English
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
$37.50 Add to cartIn this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what’s really important and what’s just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that mat… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, E. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 03 2002
- ISBN10: 618226478
- Language: English
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK
Selected by New York Times‘ critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political- Author: Packer, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534608
- Language: English
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
$27.95 Read moreThe pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a million residents fled the most crowded city in Ame
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868478
- Language: English
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Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from Trump’s Revenge
$19.99 Add to cartThe author behind the “eye-popping” (CNN) #1 New York Times bestseller A Warning presents an urgent look at how our deeply divided nation is setting the stage for “The Next Trump.”
Donald Trump will b- Author: Taylor, Miles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1668015994
- Language: English
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Memories of 9/11: Where We Were on September 11, 2001
$9.11 Add to cartAbout Memories of 9/11
The baby boomer generation always asked, “Where were you when Kennedy was shot?” The question now is: “Where were you when the towers fell on 9/11?” This book is an anthology of … [more below]
- Author: Walsh, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: September 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1088135048
- Language: English
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Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies
$17.99 Add to cartWith intrigue that rivals the best le Carr novels, Russians Among Us tells the explosive story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the United States and the West—from the end of the Cold War to th
- Author: Corera, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062889427
- 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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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$19.95 Add to cartThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397894
- Language: English
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Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
$24.99 Add to cartThe author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful
- Author: Schulman, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0062859021
- Language: English
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We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism
$29.00 Read moreA gripping investigation into the nation’s most notorious far-right group, revealing how they created a new blueprint for extremism and turned American politics into a blood sport
After the 2016 elect- Author: Campbell, Andy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20, 2022
- ISBN10: 0306827468
- Language: English
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Countdown Bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the MasterMind of 9/11 to Justice
$17.99 Add to cart#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Following Chris Wallace’s “riveting” (The New York Times) and “propulsive” (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deeply reported, revelato- Series: Chris Wallace’s Countdown
- Author: Wallace, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1982176539
- Language: English
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Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11
$16.95 Add to cartNow in paperback, the most complete account of what actually took place aboard Flight 93 – from its delayed takeoff in Newark to the moment it plunged upside-down at 563 miles per hour into an open fi… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1493009346
- Language: English
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A Year Outside of Time
$15.95 Add to cartAt the height of the pandemic lockdowns in early 2020, Titus Naso was reading Fasti, a collection of poems about the Roman calendar and holidays written by the poet Ovid, who was exiled to Tomis on th
- Series: Annum Poetica
- Author: Naso, Titus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1958337145
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Sfo: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport
$29.95 Add to cartAn illuminating profile of the San Francisco Bay Area, and its regional and global influence, as seen from the focal point of San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
A People’s History of SFO uses- Author: Porter, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0520380037
- Language: English
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Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
$20.00 Add to cartA wide-ranging work of cultural history and criticism that reexamines the impact of post-World War II myths of the “good war.”
“Essential reading. This eloquent, far-ranging analysis of the national p- Author: Samet, Elizabeth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1250859085
- Language: English
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The Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual
$24.95 Add to cartIn this shocking expos , investigative researcher and author S. K. Bain explores the inconsistencies, coincidences, and historical precedents of the events of September 11, 2001, and reconstructs an o… [more below]
- Author: Bain, S. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1937584178
- Language: English
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All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
$18.99 Add to cart* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY *
The New York Times bestselling investigatio- Author: Traister, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1476716579
- Language: English
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This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future
$19.99 Add to cartThe “blockbuster” (The Guardian) New York Times bestseller, a shocking, definitive account of the 2020 election and the first year of the Biden presidency by two New York Times reporters, exposes the … [more below]
- Author: Martin, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1982172495
- Language: English
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Ninth Revised Edition
$21.00 Add to cartSince it first appeared in 1971, Rise to Globalism has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The ninth edition of this classic survey, now updated through the administration of George W. Bush, offers … [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: December 22 2010
- ISBN10: 0142004944
- Language: English
