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Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
$60.00 Add to cartFrom ancient Egypt to today, enjoy a sweeping survey of world history through its most memorable words in this completely revised and updated nineteenth edition.
More than 150 years after its initial- Author: Bartlett, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1504
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0316375306
- Language: English
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
$20.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28 1988
- ISBN10: 067972110X
- Language: English
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
$19.99 Add to cart“A remarkable–and singularly chilling–glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book…represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.”–Newsweek
Christopher R.
- Author: Browning, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062303023
- Language: English
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Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
$18.00 Add to cartThis disturbing expos? describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Euro… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Paul L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1633884783
- Language: English
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Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
$24.00 Add to cartIn Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent four decades studying and covering the Middle East, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict, told from both sides.
Setting the scene
- Author: Black, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 16, 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128602
- Language: English
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Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
$18.99 Add to cartIn order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and
- Author: Watts, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1622037529
- Language: English
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Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England–perfect for re
- Author: Thomson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 031670363X
- Language: English
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An Atlas of Extinct Countries
$18.95 Add to cartThe remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map.
“Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They’re all equally implausible once you get up close.”
C
- Author: Defoe, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457668
- Language: English
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The Social Contract
$11.00 Add to cart“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains”
These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30, 1968
- ISBN10: 0140442014
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$20.00 Add to cartErik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.
The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd beco… [more below]- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 030740885X
- Language: English
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The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Secret Vatican Archives
$19.95 Read moreFor over two decades, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, has been blasted in the public square as “Hitler’s Pope”, accused by bestselling authors of cowardice in the face of the Nazi regime. Some have ev
- Author: Hesemann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 459
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1621643735
- Language: English
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end o
- Author: MacIntyre, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 1101904216
- Language: English
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
$25.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of … [more below]
- Author: Yergin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1439110123
- Language: English
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Scalp Hunter: Major Robert Rogers and His Rogue Rangers, 1755 – 1760
$45.00 Add to cartMajor Robert Rogers is an icon in American history, but he does not deserve that status. Scalp Hunter provides the first exhaustive examination of Rogers and his Rangers. This is the most complete tel… [more below]
- Series: From Reason to Revolution
- Author: Gaff, Alan D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: August 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1804518239
- Language: English
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Modern Civil Aircraft: Airliners * Regional Jets * Turboprops
$27.99 Add to cartIllustrated with detailed artworks of modern civil aircraft with exhaustive captions and specifications, Modern Civil Aircraft is an extensively researched review of the airliners and regional jets de… [more below]
- Series: Technical Guides
- Author: Ward, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1838866590
- Language: English
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Out of Chaos: How the Nation State Emerged from the Ruins of World War II
$34.00 Add to cartA provocative history of how nation states arose out of the ashes of World War II, showing how catastrophe, compromise, and contested visions forged the fragile order we still live in today.
“A magnifi
- Author: Wilson, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1541701623
- Language: English
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The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA
$39.95 Add to cartThe untold story of how America’s brightest academic minds revolutionized intelligence analysis at the CIA
In the early days of the Cold War, the United States faced a crisis in intelligence analysis.
- Series: Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
- Author: Grace, Peter C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: January 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1647126444
- Language: English
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The Truth about the Truth: De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World
$27.00 Add to cartIncludes essays and excerpts from the works of prominent modern thinkers such as Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Isaiah Berlin among others.
- Series: New Consciousness Reader
- Author: Anderson, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 1995
- ISBN10: 0874778018
- Language: English
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The Miracle Menorah of Mariupol
$19.99 Add to cartHanukkah is a holiday known for the miracle of the oil, of light lasting longer than was thought possible. This is the story of a modern-day Hanukkah miracle, a menorah bringing light when it’s neede
- Author: Churnin, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1954354487
- Language: English
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Dead Man’s Ridge: The Bravery of American Paratroopers at the Battle of the Bulge
$24.95 Add to cartIn the frozen hell of the Battle of the Bulge, green American paratroopers faced German tanks on Dead Man’s Ridge–and prevailed.
The Battle of the Bulge was one of the worst places imaginable for an- Author: Hanrahan, Peter M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 0811778193
- Language: English
