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Explorers: A New History
$12.00 Add to cartUnfurling a tapestry of surprising and historically overlooked figures spanning forty centuries and six continents, historian Matthew Lockwood narrates lives filled with imagination and wonder, curios
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Lockwood, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110317
- Language: English
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Goethe: A Life in Ideas
$39.95 Add to cartA new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics. I- Author: Bell, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0691153957
- Language: English
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The Information Bomb
$19.95 Add to cart“Civilization or the militarization of science?”
With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Virilio, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 1844670597
- Language: English
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Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition
$19.95 Add to cartA deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance
Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did “modern policing”- Author: Bean, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888903735
- Language: English
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Chasing the Dark: A 140-Year Investigation of Paranormal Activity
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping narrative that uses the case files of Tony Cornell and the Society for Physical Research to examine our interactions and obsessions with all things paranormal.
Tony Cornell spent his life- Author: Machell, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1538770687
- Language: English
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Raincoast Chronicles 25: M̓am̓aɫa Goes Fishing
$22.95 Add to cartThis 25th edition of Raincoast Chronicles intertwines Alan Haig-Brown’s experiences of his formative years as a deckhand on a We Wai Kai seiner with the historical and cultural context of BC’s commerc
- Series: Raincoast Chronicles #25
- Author: Haig-Brown, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1998526186
- Language: English
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Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library, a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph … [more below]
- Author: Ryback, Timothy W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593685539
- Language: English
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Kant: A Revolution in Thinking
$29.95 Add to cartA foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.
Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His- Author: Willaschek, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674296109
- Language: English
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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance
$25.99 Add to cart“The phrase jazz dance has a special meaning for professionals who dance to jazz music (they use it to describe non-tap body movement); and another meaning for studios coast to coast teaching ‘Modern … [more below]
- Author: Stearns, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: March 22 1994
- ISBN10: 0306805537
- Language: English
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Sword Beach: D-Day Baptism by Fire
$31.99 Add to cartBetween 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324117575
- Language: English
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The American Revolution: An Intimate History
$80.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly illustrated, human-centered history of America’s founding struggle–expanding on … [more below]
- Author: Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 052565867X
- Language: English
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
$21.95 Add to cartAn Air Mail Editor’s Pick
“[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”–Wall Street Journal “Wise and authoritative…As the best R
A Spectator Book of the Year- Author: Morson, Gary Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0674299183
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare: Authoritative, Revised, New Edition
$14.95 Add to cartChe Guevara’s classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy.
Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionar- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1644211467
- Language: English
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A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
$17.99 Add to cartToday, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe — the center of
- Author: Gordon, John Steele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0060524464
- Language: English
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The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
$31.99 Add to cartThe nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creat
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051175
- Language: English
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Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
$19.00 Add to cartA power-hungry baroness with two lovers disrupts life on an Eden-like island in the Gal?pagos, and an isolated community descends into madness and murder–a true story of utopia gone wrong from New Yo… [more below]
- Author: Kahler, Abbott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0451498666
- Language: English
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World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
$35.00 Add to cartA major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II–tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia
In the We- Author: Hellbeck, Jochen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593657381
- Language: English
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Match Made in Hell: The Jewish Boy and the Polish Outlaw Who Defied the Nazis
$19.95 Add to cartConjoined twins have long been a subject of fantasy, fascination, and freak shows. In this first collection of its kind, Millie-Christine McKoy, African American twins born in 1851, and Daisy and Viol… [more below]
- Author: Stillman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0299193942
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$24.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize A “riveting history” (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and sti- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 069125558X
- Language: English
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What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Essential Questions Answered
$20.00 Add to cart“An Austen lover’s greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing.” –The Atlantic
Marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, W- Author: Mullan, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1526693941
- Language: English
