General History
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The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner’s Guide
$15.99 Read moreAn updated edition of this bestselling introduction to the conflict
The essential guide that allows both sides to be heard Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok presents the Israeli perspective, while Dr D- Series: Beginner’s Guides
- Author: Cohn-Sherbok, Daniel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 086154370X
- Language: English
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Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
$18.99 Add to cart“Even if read while sober, Andy Lechter’s Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom, is a near-transcendent experience.” -New York Times Book Review
Since its rediscovery only fifty years ago, t
- Author: Letcher, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 19 2008
- ISBN10: 0060828293
- Language: English
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
$18.95 Add to cartWhy? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift an
- Author: Hayes, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 393355462
- Language: English
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The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic: An Illustrated History
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the days of the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Judaism, and Islam. Secret words, spells, an
- Author: Dell, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0500518882
- Language: English
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A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives
$16.95 Read moreA vibrant portrait of a lost world, A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives reveals the mightiest civilization of antiquity through the eyes of one hundred of its citizens. The book gives a voice not j… [more below]
- Author: Matyszak, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297053
- Language: English
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D.
$69.99 Add to cartThe Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D. covers great swathes of time beginning with the earliest written records of the Hebrews, Sumerians, Baby
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1152
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1943003866
- Language: English
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La Bailarina de Auschwitz / The Choice: Embrace the Possible
$14.95 Read moreUna emocionante historia de superaci?n sobre la capacidad del ser humano para sanar y vencer la adversidad.
Eger ten?a diecis?is a?os cuando los nazis invadieron su pueblo de Hungr?a y se la llevaron
- Author: Eger, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 6070797671
- Language: Spanish
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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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Congo: The Epic History of a People
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu’s brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo:
- Author: Van Reybrouck, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 0062200127
- Language: English
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The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
$18.99 Add to cartThe dramatic and tragic story of the only successful Native American uprising against the Spanish, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and m… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0743255178
- Language: English
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The Gospel of the Red Man: An Indian Bible an Indian Bible
$13.95 Add to cartConsidered one of the best books on Native Americans ever written. The author and compiler reveals how Indians once lived and what they believed in relation to spiritual principles. As we move further
- Author: Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: September 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1585092762
- Language: English
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If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley
$29.95 Add to cartCemeteries have stories to tell, voices to unearth-and lessons from the past that we can draw upon to better shape the future. If These Stones Could Talk brings fresh light to a forgotten corner of Am
- Author: Buck, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986618852
- Language: English
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
$27.99 Read moreImmersed in mist and old magic, Storyland is an exquisitely illustrated new mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. Historian and printmaker Amy Jeffs reimagines ancient legends in wondro… [more below]
- Author: Jeffs, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 152488233X
- Language: English
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
$32.50 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy–from the New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and De… [more below]
- Author: Millard, Candice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0385543107
- Language: English
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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos
$20.00 Add to cartFrom ancient Malay settlements to Spanish colonization, the American occupation and beyond, A History of the Philippines recasts various Philippine narratives with an eye for the layers of colonial an… [more below]
- Author: Francia, Luis H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1468308572
- Language: English
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The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
$34.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the ‘Holy Land’ of Israel–and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it.
What is a homeland, and when does it become a nation- Author: Sand, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 305
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1781680833
- Language: English
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Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb
$28.95 Add to cart- Author: Groueff, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0595092381
- Language: English
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money’s Prophets: 1798-1848
$28.00 Add to cartIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success… [more below]
- Series: House of Rothschild #1
- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140240845
- Language: English
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A Concise History of the Netherlands
$37.00 Add to cartThe Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as cannabis and euthanasia. Yet the historica… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Kennedy, James C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 502
- Publish Date: July 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0521699177
- Language: English
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The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner
$50.00 Add to cartA highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner.
The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century now known as the Wars of the Roses w- Author: Turner, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1472847288
- Language: English
