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Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
$18.00 Add to cart#1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER – A “fantastic” (Mark Ruffalo), fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but connects it to the climate crisis, poverty, and fa… [more below]
- Author: Monbiot, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0593735153
- Language: English
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At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China
$32.00 Add to cartWinner of the Baifang Schell Book Prize – 2025 Orwell Prize Finalist
One of The Washington Post‘s 50 Notable Nonfiction Books of 2024 “A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along.” —The Wal- Author: Wong, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1984877402
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$32.00 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0691235287
- Language: English
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Burma ’44: The Battle That Turned World War II in the East
$30.00 Add to cartCelebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East
In Februar
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160581
- Language: English
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Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century
$26.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between t
- Author: Beers, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324075082
- Language: English
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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
$27.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them
A- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0385549938
- Language: English
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Charles & Ray: Designers at Play: A Story of Charles and Ray Eames
$18.99 Add to cartA playful introduction to the designs of Charles and Ray Eames by Geisel-winning creator James Yang.
Charles was an architect. Ray was a painter. Together they made the perfect team. By using structur- Author: Yang, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0593404823
- Language: English
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
$30.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 2025 Mark Lynton History Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by The New Yorker, NPR and BookPage.
“Michael Waters performs- Author: Waters, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0374609810
- Language: English
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Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles.
S?amas O’Reilly’s mother died when he was fiv
- Author: O’Reilly, Séamas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316424269
- Language: English
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Evitchka: A True Story of Survival, Hope and Love
$25.95 Add to cartBefore World War II, there were two hundred Jewish children in the small town of Humenn?, Czechoslovakia. After the war, there were six. Evitchka was one of them. Her survival is a testament to the lu
- Author: Levitt, Lawrence P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1952352231
- Language: English
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Unveiled Memories: Twins Reunited After the Holocaust
$18.00 Add to cartFor many years I lived my life with a hole in my soul that could not
be filled. Something was missing. In 1995 my beating heart found
the echo heartbeat of my twin brother Adam. Each of our questionin- Author: Paluch-Kersz, Ida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0578592274
- Language: English
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One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 Wto Protests
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests, featuring over 100 original interviews and timed to the event’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
One week in late 1999, more than 5- Author: Gibson, Dw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1668033569
- Language: English
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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
$17.95 Add to cartDuring World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredib
- Author: Mayer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 28 2011
- ISBN10: 098411131X
- Language: English
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Out from the Shadows: Growing up with Holocaust Survivor Parents
$18.95 Add to cartMake the happiest amigurumi gnomes!
Gnomes make a perfect project all year round, from the happy holiday season and the splendor of spring to the bright summer days and the coziness of fall. Amigurum- Author: Mufficorn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9491643517
- Language: English
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The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
$27.95 Add to cartA poverty expert reveals how truly random the world is–including how economic inequality is experienced–and how we can learn to acknowledge chance and appreciate it.
It’s comforting to think that- Author: Rank, Mark Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0520390962
- Language: English
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
$37.95 Add to cartA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of languag- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0674296087
- Language: English
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Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight to Save Civilization
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing series–with more than 12 million copies sold–comes a soaring account of England’s desperate fight to fend off Ge… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0593473213
- Language: English
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Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation
$34.00 Add to cartThe pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times b… [more below]
- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0316508659
- Language: English
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Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction
$25.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Asw… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0525509488
- Language: English
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The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris – The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century
$29.99 Add to cartThe racers–an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several rival journalists–battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gob
- Author: St Clair, Kassia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1324094915
- Language: English
