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By: Garriga, Ana
Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
$28.99HardcoverAdd to cartAn infectiously edifying, not-so-saintly self-help book that dives into the wild, wise, and unconventional lives of 16th- and 17th-century nuns, offering advice for our modern age and proving one thin… [more below]
- Author: Garriga, Ana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668065517
- Language: English
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By: Cohen, Adam
Captain’s Dinner: A Shipwreck, an Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartFour men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. “A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can … [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893310597
- Language: English
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By: Century, Douglas
Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe’s Jews During World War II
$30.00HardcoverAdd to cartThe awe-inspiring and largely untold story of Hannah Senesh, a female paratrooper in World War II whose courage and sacrifice during a daring mission to rescue Europe’s Jews left an indelible mark on … [more below]
- Author: Century, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668035278
- Language: English
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By: Englund, Peter
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II
$23.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – An intimate history of the most important month of World War II, completely based on the diaries, letters and memoirs of the people who lived through i… [more below]
- Author: Englund, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0525434933
- Language: English
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By: O'Reilly, Bill
Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller, first time in paperback!
As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide wen- Series: Bill O’Reilly’s Killing
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250420962
- Language: English
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By: Van Duyne, Emily
Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110368
- Language: English
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By: Deleuze, Gilles
On Painting: Courses, March-June 1981
$34.95PaperbackAdd to cartAvailable for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars on painting
From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze held a weekly seminar at the Experimental Un
- Series: Univocal
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918405
- Language: English
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By: Watts, Jonathan
The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets, Spycraft and Gaia Theory
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cart“Utterly fascinating–a beautifully braided account of the life of a maverick, prophetic genius.”–Robert MacFarlane
Based on in-depth interviews with James Lovelock and unprecedented access to his pe- Author: Watts, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402488
- Language: English
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By: Hill, Gord
The Antifa Comic Book: Revised and Expanded
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartWith fascism in our midst, Indigenous artist Gord Hill revises and expands his brilliant graphic history of fascism and anti-fascist movements
When it was first published in 2018, Gord Hill’s The Antif
- Author: Hill, Gord
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1834050049
- Language: English
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The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany–And the Spy Who Betrayed Them
$33.99PaperbackAdd to cart“An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.”–Mi
- Author: Freedland, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063453118
- Language: English
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By: Rosen, Jeffrey
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s F… [more below]
- Author: Rosen, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668002485
- Language: English
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By: Walsh, Toby
The Shortest History of AI: The Six Essential Ideas That Animate It
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartSince Alan Turing first posed the question “Can machines think?” artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Walsh, Toby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893030891
- Language: English
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By: Rosen, Ruth
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America
$32.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe Newly Revised and Updated Edition
In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women’s movement from its beginnin- Author: Rosen, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 26 2006
- ISBN10: 0140097198
- Language: English
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By: Lunde, Darrin
Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism
$29.99HardcoverAdd to cartFrom 1908 to 1933, the American Museum of Natural History launched more scientific field expeditions than at any other time in its existence. Sponsoring lavish trips to Africa and Central Asia, the mu
- Author: Lunde, Darrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065672
- Language: English
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By: Ullrich, Volker
Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartDemocracies are fragile. Freedoms that seem secure can be lost. Few historical events illustrate this as vividly as the failure of the Weimar Republic. Germany’s first democracy endured for fourteen t
- Author: Ullrich, Volker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110546
- Language: English
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A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartIn A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history-from the fall o… [more below]
- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 1400030277
- Language: English
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Philip Roth: Stung by Life
$28.00HardcoverAdd to cartA landmark biography of one of our most prominent chroniclers of American life
In this groundbreaking literary biography, Steven J. Zipperstein captures the complex life and astonishing work of Phili- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Zipperstein, Steven J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0300251556
- Language: English
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The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Untold Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartBuilt in 1927, the German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona was the greatest ship since the RMS Titanic and one of the most celebrated luxury liners in the world. When the Nazis seized control in Germany, she… [more below]
- Author: Watson, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825430
- Language: English
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By: Hall, Simon
Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed the World
$34.95HardcoverAdd to cartThe gripping, untold story of how six epic journeys launched the three communist revolutions that changed world history forever.
From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao’s- Author: Hall, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0571367151
- Language: English
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By: Wilson, Jonathan
The Power and the Glory: The History of the World Cup
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartA definitive new history of the world’s most watched sporting event–just in time for the 2026 tournament
Since 1930, the World Cup has become a truly global obsession. It is the most watched- Author: Wilson, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1645030407
- Language: English




















