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Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World
$29.95 Add to cartThe globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.
For millennia the ‘wild’ was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from jo- Author: Lonsdale, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1526168693
- Language: English
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Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, a
$17.99 Add to cartThis evocation of the figures and events of one of the most extraordinary eras of this century makes the most vivid portrait of the period yet written . . . The culture is plentiful and the gossip is … [more below]
- Author: Friedrich, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 13 1995
- ISBN10: 0060926791
- Language: English
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Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict with the West
$28.95 Add to cartRussia’s World Order explores the ideas underlying the undeclared New Cold War between Russia and the West. The first Cold War was a struggle between capitalism and communism; most Western politicians
- Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Author: Robinson, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501780018
- Language: English
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I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
$35.00 Add to cartA moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti’s fight for independence from French colonial rule
“My name has become a horror to all those who- Author: Gaffield, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0300255470
- Language: English
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Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
$21.99 Add to cart“The best modern account” (Wall Street Journal) of the war that toppled the French Empire, unified Germany, and set Europe on the path to World War I
Among the conflicts that convulsed Europe during- Author: Chrastil, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606353
- Language: English
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Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps Tragedy
$36.95 Add to cartOn October 19, 1979, the largest, most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded propelled 5,500 gallons of gasoline into corrugated steel huts filled with U.S. Marines. The gas ignited, injuring seventy… [more below]
- Author: Henry, Chas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1640126457
- Language: English
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The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
$21.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390478
- Language: English
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Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949
$27.00 Add to cart“A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill.”–Sunday Telegraph
From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem In this bri- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437921
- Language: English
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The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
$19.99 Add to cartBooks about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us abou… [more below]
- Author: Geroulanos, Stefanos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096128
- Language: English
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The White Sniper: Simo H?yh?
$19.95 Read more“Anyone who wants to learn more about sniping needs this book in their library.” — Infantry Magazine
Simo H?yh? (1905 – 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought betwe… [more below]
- Author: Saarelainen, Tapio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1612008550
- Language: English
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Golden State: The Making of California
$32.50 Add to cart“Superb. Hiltzik makes a compelling case that California is the heartbeat of our nation.”–Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Spring Revolution
From Pulitzer Prize winner Mic
- Author: Hiltzik, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 035853934X
- Language: English
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Leviathan
$15.99 Add to cart‘He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in?himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind.’
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan?is not just one of the greatest philosophical?texts in the Englis- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hobbes, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0192868748
- Language: English
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult
$29.99 Add to cartThe interwar period was a golden age for the occult. Spiritualists, clairvoyants, fakirs, Theosophists, mind readers, and Jinn summoners all set out to assure the masses that just as newly discovered
- Author: Cormack, Raphael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0393881105
- Language: English
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The Pirate Menace: Uncovering the Golden Age of Piracy
$32.00 Read moreThis new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau.
Angus Konstam, one of the world’s leading pirate expert- Author: Konstam, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1472857739
- Language: English
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America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators
$18.99 Read moreWhy do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orb?n’s illib… [more below]
- Author: Heilbrunn, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095679
- Language: English
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Guinness World Records 2025: Con R?cords de Am?rica Latina (Edici?n Latinoamericana) / Gwr 2025: Featuring Latin American Records (Latin American Edit
$39.95 Read moreCelebra el 70 aniversario de Guinness World Records con una nueva edici?n especial cargada de r?cords para la historia!
Descubre los nuevos récords más espectaculares sobre el espacio, el
- Author: Guinness World Records
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 8408290339
- Language: Spanish
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Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women’s Bank That Empowered a Generation
$16.99 Add to cartThe galvanizing true story of a group of remarkable women in the 1970s male-run world of business, banking, and finance. They didn’t play by the rules. They changed them and made history.
In the 1970s,
- Author: Williams, Grace L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1542025516
- Language: English
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Band of Sisters: Madeleine Pauliac, the Women of the Blue Squadron, and Their Daring Rescue Missions in the Last Days of World War II
$27.95 Read moreBand of Sisters tells the dramatic story of Madeleine Pauliac, a French army doctor, and a group of Red Cross nurses and ambulance drivers–known as the Blue Squadron. At the request of Charles DeGual
- Author: Maynial, Philippe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1538198797
- Language: English
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The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece
In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. T- Author: Kotsonis, Yanni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 069121526X
- Language: English
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A Short History of Relations Between Peoples: How the World Began to Move Beyond Tribalism
$24.99 Read moreA Short History of Relations Between Peoples traces how the cultural attitudes that different peoples and nations had toward each other have undergone a profound and positive change during the last 50… [more below]
- Author: Ellis, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774053
- Language: English
