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The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood
$29.99 Add to cartThe story begins with the abandonment of the newborn Agata Smeralda on February 5, 1445, in Florence’s Hospital of the Innocents, the first–but certainly not the last–child to be left at its doors.
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065788
- Language: English
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
$24.99 Add to cartThe literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.
“An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionat
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063452049
- Language: English
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The Nietzsche Reader
$21.50 Add to cartThe Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche’s writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche’s life and importance, and in… [more below]
- Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers
- Author: Ansell-Pearson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0631226540
- Language: English
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I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941
$22.00 Read moreThe publication of Victor Klemperer’s secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. “In its cool, lucid style and power of observation,” said The New York … [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback) #1
- Author: Klemperer, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753788
- Language: English
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Inventing Human Rights: A History
$16.95 Add to cartHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and i… [more below]
- Author: Hunt, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331997
- Language: English
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On This Day in Tudor History III
$28.99 Add to cartStep Back in Time: Daily Tudor Events for History Lovers and Trivia Enthusiasts
On This Day in Tudor History III offers a captivating journey through the calendar, presenting one fascinating Tudor eve
- Series: On This Day in Tudor History #3
- Author: Ridgway, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 598
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 8412971639
- Language: English
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Ring Legends of Tolkien Deluxe Edition
$19.99 Add to cartThe most popular legends about the Rings of Power are discussed in detail in this deluxe edition that will hold a special place on your bookshelf.
The history of J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional world of- Author: Day, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1667211331
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE – From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-cen… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593466713
- Language: English
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Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
$33.00 Add to cartA revelatory history of enslaved people’s resistance and self-emancipation, across the Atlantic world and beyond.
The ending of the slave trade and the abolition of slavery by European powers during t- Author: Hazareesingh, Sudhir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0374611076
- Language: English
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Rescuing Titanic: A True Story of Quiet Bravery in the North Atlantic
$15.99 Add to cartThis exquisitely illustrated story of quiet bravery tells in rich detail how the little ship Carpathia saved 705 passengers of the Titanic from the icy waters of the North Atlantic.
With the approach- Series: Hidden Histories
- Author: Delargy, Flora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1836007582
- Language: English
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Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945
$35.00 Add to cartWith Mussolini ‘s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth–the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English–vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century’s mos… [more below]
- Author: Bosworth, R. J. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038567
- Language: English
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Chain of Fire: The Siege of Khartoum and the Campaign of Egypt and the Sudan
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain’s extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan.
In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield tha- Author: Hart, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369775
- Language: English
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Defending Dixie’s Land: What Every American Should Know About The South and The Civil War
$39.95 Add to cartARE YOU INTERESTED IN KNOWING the actual history of your country, or are you content with the propagandized version the winners of wars conjure up to feed school children? When it comes to the story a
- Author: Bishop, Isaac C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 196350643X
- Language: English
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The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
$24.00 Add to cartExamining everything from popular novels to politics, an investigation of persistent fascination with Nazis–and where it might take us.
We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cult- Author: Ryrie, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1836390823
- Language: English
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The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World
$26.00 Add to cartFor the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wa… [more below]
- Author: Herwig, Holger H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0812978293
- Language: English
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Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
$32.00 Add to cart“[An] essential Beat masterpiece.” —The Village Voice.
Perhaps one of the last great dual correspondences of the twentieth century, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters reveals not only the- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119540
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Earth: Russia’s Short-Lived Victory Over Totalitarianism
$32.00 Add to cartFrom “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced” (The New York Times) reporters comes a gripping and urgent exploration of why the Soviet Union’s collapse was incomplete and the Cold War was never ove… [more below]
- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668013908
- Language: English
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Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season
$36.95 Add to cartIn the mid-1920s, America was in the throes of exuberant excess and clashing social change. It was the era of Prohibition and speakeasies; the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan; popular evangelists, inc… [more below]
- Author: Wolf, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496235789
- Language: English
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Modernism: A Literature in Crisis
$26.00 Add to cartAn engaging, approachable introduction to literary modernism
Modernism represented an astonishing outbreak of cultural innovation, spanning artforms and nations. It was centred around feelings of gro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284373
- Language: English
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The Swimmer of Auschwitz: The Incredible True Story of the Olympic Hero Who Swam for His Life
$14.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story.
“Sports writer Leblond revisits in his propulsive English-language debut the life of Alfred Nakache- Author: Leblond, Renaud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1800962967
- Language: English
