East and West
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
$28.00 Add to cartA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today.
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history and the end of the Byzantium Empi- Author: Crowley, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1401301916
- Language: English
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
$19.00 Add to cartBy the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He… [more below]- Author: Mitchell, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812976363
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself em… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0192801635
- Language: English
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The Post-American World: Release 2.0
$18.99 Add to cart“This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else.” So begins Fareed Zakaria’s blockbuster on the United States in the twenty-first century, and the trends h… [more below]
- Author: Zakaria, Fareed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340384
- Language: English
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Why the West Rules–For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, r- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611692
- Language: English
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East, West: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 23 1995
- ISBN10: 0679757899
- Language: English
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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found
$21.00 Read moreAfter the fall of Rome, as civilizations collapsed and libraries burned, ancient knowledge that would eventually fuel the Renaissance was at risk of being lost. This thrilling history tracks three cru… [more below]
- Author: Moller, Violet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1101974060
- Language: English
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Untigering: Peaceful Parenting for the Deconstructing Tiger Parent
$16.99 Add to cartPeaceful parenting is hard enough for the average parent. Imagine trying to do it when you have the instincts of a tiger mother.
In Untigering, Iris Chen shares her journey of leaving behind authorita
- Author: Chen, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1736825402
- Language: English
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Orientalism
$19.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking critique of the West’s historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is–three decades after its first publication–one of the most important books written about ou
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 12 1979
- ISBN10: 039474067X
- Language: English
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The Case for Colonialism
$24.99 Add to cart“For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article “The Case for Colonialism” of 2017. The article sparked a global furo
- Author: Gilley, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1943003904
- Language: English
