General History
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The Curious History of Weights & Measures
$25.00 Read moreA fascinating miscellany of the stories behind our weights and measures.
How long is an ell? How big is the largest champagne bottle? How do you measure the heat of a chili pepper? Why is the depth o- Author: Cock-Starkey, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1851245790
- Language: English
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The Story of Civilization Teacher’s Manual: Volume I – The Ancient World
$19.95 Add to cartThe Activity Book and companion Teacher’s Manual provide a complete review of everything read in The Story of Civilization: The Ancient World, along with creative activities to accompany each chapter,… [more below]
- Author: Tan Books
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1505105706
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of England
$14.95 Read moreThis book gives a comprehensive and enjoyable survey of England’s past from prehistoric times right through to the present. All the major periods of English history are dealt with, including the Roman… [more below]
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Daniell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1566566045
- Language: English
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How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life
$18.99 Read moreOn the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to t
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492535
- Language: English
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Night: A Memoir
$26.65 Read moreA memorial edition of Elie Wiesel’s seminal memoir of surviving the Nazi death camps, with tributes by President Obama and Samantha Power
When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a me
- Author: Wiesel, Elie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1432876929
- Language: English
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Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
$32.00 Read moreOn the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s historic 70th anniversary on the throne, Tracy Borman’s sweeping narrative of the British monarchy illuminates one of history’s most iconic and enduring legacies
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- Author: Borman, Tracy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159109
- Language: English
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A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
$19.00 Add to cart“Thrilling . . . a bracing summary of what we have learned [from] ‘archaeogenetics’–the study of ancient DNA . . . Krause and Trappe capture the excitement of this young field.”–Kyle Harper, The Wal… [more below]
- Author: Krause, Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0593229436
- Language: English
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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
$24.95 Read more“Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate.”
Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world
-Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism- Author: Ishchenko, Volodymyr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 180429554X
- Language: English
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Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
$19.95 Add to cartTo be stewards of the earth, not owners: this was the way of the Lenape. Considering themselves sacred land keepers, they walked gently; they preserved the world they inhabited. Drawing on a wide rang… [more below]
- Author: Pritchard, Evan T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1571781358
- Language: English
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The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
$35.00 Read moreFrom language to culture to cultural collision: the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age
Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cu… [more below]- Author: Ansary, Tamim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1610397967
- Language: English
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One Left
$22.95 Read moreDuring the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territo
- Author: Soom, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0295747668
- Language: English
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The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
$18.95 Read moreA sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something h- Author: Strathern, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362134
- Language: English
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The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics
$22.00 Read moreIn roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction b
- Author: Ngai, Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036109
- Language: English
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50 Lgbtqi+ Who Changed the World
$37.32 Read moreMarsha P. Johnson, Keith Haring, Harvey Milk, Audre Lorde, Peter Tatchell, RuPaul… the names of pioneers and trailblazers who have advanced the LGBT cause and helped bring about new human rights.
Thi
- Author: Manelli, Florent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1913641287
- Language: English
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Kitchener (Berlin) 1880-1960
$24.99 Read moreKitchener, Ontario, is a community with two histories. As Berlin, it was a rapidly growing and prosperous town reveling in its Germanic heritage. After dramatic civic upheavals from 1915 to 1919, it e… [more below]
- Series: Image of Canada
- Author: Mills, Rych
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 03 2002
- ISBN10: 073851151X
- Language: English
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The Fables of Aesop
$45.00 Read moreThis brilliant new hardcover version of Aesop’s timeless tales offers a fresh take on the classic 1909 Hodder and Stoughton edition. Newly reset and decorated with ornate borders and running heads, th… [more below]
- Series: Calla Editions
- Author: Detmold, Edward J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2014
- ISBN10: 1606600567
- Language: English
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Badly Behaved Women: The Story of Modern Feminism
$29.95 Read moreBadly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women’s movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonc , body positivity and #MeToo.
In the
- Author: Crowhurst, Anna-Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0233006222
- Language: English
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
$27.99 Read moreThis unique, absorbing biography of Jerusalem brings to light its overlooked histories and diverse contemporary voices.
In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old Ci- Author: Teller, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1635423341
- Language: English
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
$16.95 Read moreThe cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them today. But what was it like to live in B
- Author: Norwich, John Julius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500293406
- Language: English
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Impossible Histories: The Soviet Republic of Alaska, the United States of Hudsonia, President Charlemagne, and Other Pivotal Moments of Hist
$24.99 Read moreAcross 1400 years and six continents (sorry, Australia), Impossible Histories examines pivotal moments in history from both sides–what happened and what would have happened had things gone differentl
- Author: Johnson, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250809673
- Language: English
