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A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
$26.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
“Sweeping…A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars.”
—New Y- Author: Slotkin, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0674301439
- Language: English
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The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
$37.95 Add to cartHow the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today.
“This majestic book by Oswyn Murray has been long and eagerly awaited…and its quality and scope exceed expectations.” –E- Author: Murray, Oswyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0674297458
- Language: English
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Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
$39.95 Add to cartAn Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year
“Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus.”
–Tom Holland, The Telegraph “Ambitious…seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire’s reputation by re-ex- Author: Wilson, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0674244869
- Language: English
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The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
$21.95 Read moreAn Economist Book of the Year
“A road map for money
A Financial Times Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Book of the Year
A ProMarket Book of the Year
One of The Week‘s Ten Best Business Books of the Year- Author: Prasad, Eswar S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293894
- Language: English
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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
$26.00 Add to cartSeamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illum
- Author: Vendler, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066383
- Language: English
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The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
$35.00 Read more“The Making of the Bible is invaluable for anyone interested in Scripture and in the intertwined histories of Judaism and Christianity.”
–John Barton, author of A History of the Bible: The Book and It- Author: Schmid, Konrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0674248384
- Language: English
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Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
$39.95 Read moreFrom the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil’s Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and
- Author: Harris, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674247477
- Language: English
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
$19.95 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“The achievement of a lifetime.”
Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award
Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize
–Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin “Naim- Author: Naimark, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292154
- Language: English
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the SHEAR Book Prize
“Few books have captured the lived experience of slavery as powerfully.”
Honorable Mention, Avery O. Craven Award
–Ari Kelman, Times Literary Supplement “[One] of the mos- Author: Johnson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975383
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
$55.00 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had–in the words of
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0674057929
- Language: English
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The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble But Flawed Ideal
$21.00 Read more“Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers.”
“At a time of growing national chauvinism, M
—Globe and Mail- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260392
- Language: English
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The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
$21.00 Read moreHere in a newly annotated edition are the two founding documents of the United States of America: the Declaration of Independence (1776), our great revolutionary manifesto, and the Constitution (1787-
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2012
- ISBN10: 0674066227
- Language: English
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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$22.00 Add to cart“Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.”
Martin L
–Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of Books- Author: Shelby, Tommie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 674237838
- Language: English
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Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
$32.95 Read moreA BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year
The history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could h
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year- Author: Gewirtz, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0674241843
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Add to cartRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
$33.50 Read moreGreil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: th… [more below]
- Author: Marcus, Greil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0674034805
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure
$29.95 Read moreFrom an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.
Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but fe- Author: Aly, Götz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0674276574
- Language: English
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From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
$19.00 Read moreA Wired Most Fascinating Book of the Year
“An important book that reminds us that navigation remains one of our most underappreciated arts.”
–Tristan Gooley, author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s- Author: Bond, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260414
- Language: English
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Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
$29.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An ABC Australia Best Book on Religion and Ethics of the Year
Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Associat- Author: Bellah, Robert N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: May 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0674975340
- Language: English
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The First Crusade: The Call from the East
$24.00 Add to cart“The most significant contribution to rethinking the origins and course of the First Crusade for a generation.”
“Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense
–Mark Whittow, Times Literary Supplement- Author: Frankopan, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0674970780
- Language: English
