Aspects (Academic)/Historical
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
$19.99 Add to cartEye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization
On ship-tracking Web sites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; eac- Author: George, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1250058295
- Language: English
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Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
$20.99 Add to cartA fascinating and authoritative biography of perhaps the most controversial player in baseball history, Ty Cobb–“The best work ever written on this American sports legend: It’s a major reconsideratio… [more below]
- Author: Leerhsen, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1451645791
- Language: English
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The Story of America: Essays on Origins
$20.95 Add to cartFrom celebrated writer Jill Lepore, a literary and political history of American origin stories
In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates America- Author: Lepore, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 27 2013
- ISBN10: 0691159599
- Language: English
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Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
$18.99 Add to cartUnfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroe… [more below]
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1568584784
- Language: English
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God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
$23.99 Add to cartA deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican–the world’s biggest, most powerful religious institution–from an accl… [more below]
- Author: Posner, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1416576592
- Language: English
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Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy
$32.99 Add to cartOn the 100th anniversary of the Titanic‘s sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever
The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenge
- Author: Pellegrino, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0470873876
- Language: English
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Exploration: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWe live in an age of globalization on every conceivable level, but globalization has a deeper history than politicians and pundits often allow, and nothing is more significant to its history than expl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Weaver, Stewart A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0199946957
- Language: English
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100 Years of Fashion
$24.99 Add to cart100 Years of Fashion documents in pictures the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 to today, covering high society, uniforms, sportswear, streetwear and couture. It will appeal to e… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Editions
- Author: Blackman, Cally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1786276828
- Language: English
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Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
$22.00 Add to cartEver since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802124313
- Language: English
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Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide
$35.00 Add to cartSince the mid-nineteenth-century abolition of slavery, the call for reparations for the crime of African enslavement and native genocide has been growing. In the Caribbean, grassroots and official voi
- Author: Beckles, Hilary MCD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2013
- ISBN10: 976640268X
- Language: English
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Battle of Versailles
$23.99 Add to cartOn November 28, 1973, the world’s social elite gathered at the Palace of Versailles for an international fashion show. By the time the curtain came down on the evening’s spectacle, history had been ma
- Author: Givhan, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1250062322
- Language: English
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Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off & Other Lessons from the Le Wis & Clark Trail
$17.95 Add to cartMore than two hundred years later, the “voyage of discovery”–with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery–continues to draw us along the Lewis and … [more below]
- Series: Bison Original
- Author: Tubbs, Stephenie Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803215851
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Switzerland
$34.00 Add to cartDespite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland’s history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging histo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Church, Clive H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 339
- Publish Date: May 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0521143829
- Language: English
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History of Ancient Egypt
$45.00 Add to cartThe ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers to the construction of the pyramids. Famed archaeologist John Romer draws o… [more below]
- Series: History of Ancient Egypt #1
- Author: Romer, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 20 2013
- ISBN10: 1250030110
- Language: English
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Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald
$16.95 Add to cartThe Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz‘s radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite g
- Series: Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book
- Author: Schumacher, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0816680817
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Italy
$32.00 Add to cartSince its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This new edition of Christopher Duggan’s acclaimed introduction chart… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Duggan, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0521747430
- Language: English
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
$28.00 Add to cartA monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea–revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how go
- Author: Paine, Lincoln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1101970359
- Language: English
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Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pi
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1939293715
- Language: English
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Invasion of Laos, 1971: Lam Son 719
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of war
- Author: Sander, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: March 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0806148403
- Language: English
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‘Behind God’s Back’: Gullah Memories: Cainhoy, Wando, Huger, Daniel Island, St. Thomas Island, South Carolina
$19.95 Add to cartWhen freedom came to enslaved Africans who toiled on rice plantations in lower Berkeley County, South Carolina, many remained to farm the land and raise their families in settlements near the plantati
- Author: Frazier, Herb J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0982515472
- Language: English
