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Questions I Am Asked about the Holocaust
$20.00 Read moreOne of the few remaining living Holocaust survivors answers the questions children ask her
“There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.”
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- Author: Fried, Hédi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1947534599
- Language: English
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
$38.00 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology–a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI’s … [more below]
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: March 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0679726101
- Language: English
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Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
$28.00 Add to cartA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion
This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages t- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 920
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0300240031
- Language: English
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Hobbes
$12.99 Add to cartThomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was the first great English political philosopher, and his book Leviathan was one of the first truly modern works of philosophy. Richard Tuck shows that while Hobbes may inde… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #64
- Author: Tuck, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802550
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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Being and Time
$79.95 Add to cartThe publication in 1927 of Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time, signaled an intellectual event of the first order and had an impact in fields far beyond that of philosophy proper. Being and… [more below]
- Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 482
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1438432755
- Language: English
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The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
$29.95 Add to cartThe Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of “long centuri… [more below]
- Author: Arrighi, Giovanni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1844673049
- Language: English
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The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy
$21.00 Add to cartDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Gre… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 1137278838
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality
$19.95 Read moreA concise, comprehensive overview of the “M Theory” and its application in today’s world, by a renowned American philosopher
Ken Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of ou- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 16 2001
- ISBN10: 1570628556
- Language: English
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times best-selling author Neal Bascomb’s Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of the pursuit and capture of SS Nazi officer and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.
“A fantastic tru… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 20 2010
- ISBN10: 0547248024
- Language: English
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7 Seconds to Die: A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting
$22.95 Read moreThe first full analysis of the second Nagorno-Karabakh War–the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war–fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between Se… [more below]
- Author: Antal, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1636241239
- Language: English
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Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
$29.95 Read moreNo one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental imp
- Author: Sutton, Angela C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888444
- Language: English
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The Pessimist’s Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope
$20.00 Add to cartA personal depiction of life in Poland set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. It is the compelling memoir of Alexander Kimel, taking him from a shtetl in… [more below]
- Author: Kimel, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798887198019
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The New Translation
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century
A Penguin Classic Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twent- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0241484170
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
$29.99 Add to cartBest-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulou
- Author: Pears, Iain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324073772
- Language: English
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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbr?ck
$29.00 Add to cartA profoundly moving celebration of love under the darkest of circumstances
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbr?ck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were insepara- Author: Strauss, Gwen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1250285747
- Language: English
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Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home
$45.00 Add to cartIntimate stories that offer entertaining perspectives on what it was like to engage with radio when it was new.
Radio, today, can feel like a faithful old companion, but its early history was sensatio
- Author: Rubens, Beaty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246312
- Language: English
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Wagner and the Creation of the Ring
$29.95 Add to cartPart cultural history, part biography, this is the fascinating story of Richard Wagner’s life, influences, gift for storytelling, and artistic revolution, culminating in his dramatic journey to write … [more below]
- Author: Downes, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369155
- Language: English
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Backcountry War: The Rise of Francis Marion, Banastre Tarleton, and Thomas Sumter
$34.95 Add to cartOver the past several decades, the history of the American Revolution in the South has undergone a transformation to better incorporate regional events into the greater narrative of the war. Among the… [more below]
- Author: Waters, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1594164312
- Language: English
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Normal Women: Making History for 900 Years
$15.99 Add to cartThe bestselling, critically acclaimed new women’s history book from Philippa Gregory for 2025 – adapted for teen and YA readers!
Today, when we think of women of the past, we often think of the 1800s
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0008725071
- Language: English
