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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
$17.60 Read moreIt has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it
- Author: Goni, Uki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783789255
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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Humanist Manifesto 2000: A Call for New Planetary Humanism
$13.99 Add to cartThis entirely new Humanist Manifesto is designed to address the problems of the twenty-first century and the millennium beyond. Providing a strong defense of scientific naturalism and technology, it i… [more below]
- Author: Kurtz, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 157392783X
- Language: English
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When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains
$18.00 Add to cartIn this astonishing story that “reads like a thriller and is so, so timely” (BuzzFeed) Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: “Like Anne Frank’s diary, it offers a story that need… [more below]
- Author: Neumann, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1982106387
- Language: English
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Apocalypse Ready: The Manual of Manuals; A Century of Panic Prevention
$35.00 Add to cartGlobal warming continues to cause extreme weather events and threatens to destroy the planet, while the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that disaster can manifest at any time. These an
- Author: Young, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024316
- Language: English
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A Man of Modern Letters
$19.95 Add to cartThe Modern Movement in art was an authentic response to a much-changing world. The rapid industrialization and urbanization of western society called for a new wave in the arts, a dismantling of past
- Series: Hemingway and the Rise of Modern Literature #2
- Author: McLallen, Wylie Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065282
- Language: English
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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBorn in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gutting, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198830785
- Language: English
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Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into the Native American Worldview
$18.95 Add to cartOne summer in the 1980s, theoretical physicist F. David Peat went to a Blackfoot Sun Dance ceremony. Having spent all of his life steeped in and influenced by linear Western science, he was entranced
- Author: Peat, F. David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 23 2005
- ISBN10: 1578633710
- Language: English
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Pathetic Literature
$34.00 Read moreAn utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Broo… [more below]
- Author: Myles, Eileen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157157
- Language: English
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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
$19.99 Add to cartRebecca Frankel’s Into the Forest is a gripping story of love, escape, and survival, from wartime Poland to a courtship in the Catskills.
A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
One of Smithsonian M- Author: Frankel, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250874904
- Language: English
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – This “excellent, all-embracing” (The New York Times) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a distance–and a captivating windo… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Sally Bedell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0812979796
- Language: English
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Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes “a masterwork of history” (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, … [more below]
- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501116231
- Language: English
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The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: McMahon, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0198859546
- Language: English
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Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one’s daily life
With Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to “destroy, mercilessly . .- Series: Compass
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140194738
- Language: English
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The Treacherous World of the 16th Century & How the Pilgrims Escaped It: The Prequel to America’s Freedom
$25.00 Add to cartDiscover the facts you’ve been missing from the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving story
Did freedom of religion & conscience exist in 16th century Europe?
How did kings of Spain, France & England, & Turkish Sul- Author: Federer, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: December 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0989649148
- Language: English
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Bergsonism
$27.95 Add to cartWhat is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant of contemporary philosophers, this question of “novelty” is the major problem posed by Bergson’s work
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299078
- Language: English
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
$26.95 Add to cartSlavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the field… [more below]
- Series: Essential Zizek
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673006
- Language: English
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Winning Numbers: A Deep Dive Into the Lottery and Luck
$12.99 Add to cartWhat would you do if you won the lottery?
In 1998, James Hayes won $19 million. Why did he end up in prison twenty years later? A winner in Massachusetts receives $1 million a year for life. Why does h
- Author: Copetas, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989217205
- Language: English
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
$30.00 Read moreA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live–and to create–with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish… [more below]
- Author: Watling, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0593319664
- Language: English
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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
$18.95 Read moreWhy? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift an
- Author: Hayes, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 393355462
- Language: English
