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The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World
$29.99 Add to cartWe often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global populat
- Author: Brands, Hal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 132403694X
- Language: English
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Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
$29.99 Add to cartLong before their country officially joined the war, American aid workers were active in rescue efforts across Europe. Two such Americans were Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who were originally sent to P
- Author: Dwork, Deb?rah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020342
- Language: English
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Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018
$25.00 Add to cart“Once again, we encounter Notley as one the great interlocutors of the world, a dedicated advocate for what is between and beyond definition.” –Tess Michaelson, Full Stop
Alice Notley, the author of m
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987828816
- Language: English
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
$18.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution,” Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on par
- Author: Branigan, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1324076283
- Language: English
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The Killing Season: The Autumn of 1914, Ypres, and the Afternoon That Cost Germany a War
$40.00 Add to cartAn in-depth, authoritative account of the fall of 1914 on the Western Front and the First Battle of Ypres, a true turning point in World War I and in modern warfare–by the founding editor of MHQ: The… [more below]
- Author: Cowley, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1400068525
- Language: English
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Defense Against Drones: Defending Against Threats From The Air – Combatting Scout and Attack Drones
$19.90 Add to cartPROTECTION AGAINST THREATS FROM THE AIR
Drones have become a very particular challenge on the modern battlefield. Particularly small commercially available drones pose a massive threat against militar
- Series: Spartanat Black Book #5
- Author: Nagy, Krist?f
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 3903526177
- Language: English
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Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah
$32.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Me… [more below]
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0385548265
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
$27.95 Add to cartAn encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulen- Author: Schl?gel, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0691237298
- Language: English
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Korea: A New History of South and North
$18.00 Add to cartA major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day
“Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and ba- Author: Cha, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278705
- Language: English
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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
$11.00 Add to cartA lively new translation of Rousseau’s best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rou- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0141191759
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
$38.00 Add to cartThe first thorough account of a formative and little understood chapter in Chinese history
“Almost every page contains an eye-opening detail. . . . The Great Transformation evokes the multiple paths,- Author: Westad, Odd Arne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300267088
- Language: English
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They Flew: A History of the Impossible
$24.00 Add to cartAn award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
“Historically rich and superbly written.”–David J. Davis, Wall Street Journa- Author: Eire, Carlos M. N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280076
- Language: English
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Patriot: A Memoir
$35.00 Add to cartThe powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs.
Alexei Navalny began writing Patriot shortly after his near-fatal poisoning in 20- Author: Navalny, Alexei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0593320964
- Language: English
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El Diario de Ana Frank (Tapa Dura) / The Diary of Anne Frank
$12.95 Add to cart«No quiero haber vivido para nada, como la mayor?a de las personas. Quiero ser de utilidad y alegr?a para los que viven a mi alrededor, a?n sin conocerme. Quiero seguir viviendo, aun despu?s de
- Author: Frank, Ana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 6073917325
- Language: Spanish
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
$32.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri- Author: Herring, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600940
- Language: English
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Antisemitism in America: A Warning
$28.00 Add to cartIn an urgent and personal new book, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-elected Jewish official in America, sheds light on the Jewish American experience and sounds the alarm about the t… [more below]
- Author: Schumer, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1538771624
- Language: English
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Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies
$34.95 Add to cartAfter World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were hired to work for newly formed government agencie… [more below]
- Author: Petty, Terrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1640125698
- Language: English
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Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
$40.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more–from acclaimed cultural h… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Nicholas Fox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0307961591
- Language: English
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1939: Countdown to War
$27.00 Add to cart“Overy’s book is easily the best account of Europe’s descent into…death and destruction.” —Evening Standard (London)
A brilliantly concise narrative of the days leading to the outbreak of history’s
- Author: Overy, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120069
- Language: English
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1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India
$24.95 Read moreThe year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people’s homes and their stories, and in political discourse.
- Author: Zakaria, Anam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 014345403X
- Language: English
