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Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father
$18.99 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE
A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria
Two decades before he led America to independe
- Author: Stark, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0062416073
- Language: English
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Facing Black Star
$34.95 Read moreThe Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: the expectations, challenges, and results of a decade of research in a key photo agency’s print collection.
In 2005, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryers- Series: Ric Books (Ryerson Image Centre Books)
- Author: Gervais, Thierry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047845
- Language: English
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The Will to Power
$20.00 Read moreRepresents a selection from Nietzche’s notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.
Nietzsche’s notebooks, kept by him during hi- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704371
- Language: English
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Trotsky: A Biography
$30.00 Add to cartRobert Service completes his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union in an eagerly anticipated, authoritative biography of Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing an- Author: Service, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0674062256
- Language: English
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The Age of Empire: 1875-1914
$21.00 Add to cartErica Hobsbawm discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. Hobsbawm combines vast er… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721754
- Language: English
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The Stories They Tell: Artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum
$29.95 Read moreThis poignant selection of artifacts–and their stories–from September 11 provides an official, lasting record of that day’s experience. In both text and photography, the story of September 11 is tol… [more below]
- Author: Greenwald, Alice M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0847841332
- Language: English
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The Death of Joachim Murat: 1815 and the Unfortunate Fate of One of Napoleon’s Marshals
$42.95 Read moreThe only English-language book on the fall and death of Joachim Murat and the final act in the drama of the Napoleonic Wars.
Joachim Murat, son of an innkeeper, had won his spurs as Napoleon’s finest c… [more below]
- Author: North, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1399058401
- Language: English
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The Black Campus Movement: A History of Black Student Activism
$19.99 Add to cartIn his first book, published in 2012, Ibram X. Kendi provided the first national study of when Black students organized, demanded, and protested against racism in almost every US State between 1965 an
- Series: Contemporary Black History
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 313
- Publish Date: June 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3031373936
- Language: English
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A6m2/3 Zero-Sen: New Guinea and the Solomons 1942
$23.00 Read moreThis book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens.
The combat record of the Zero-sen in New Guinea has- Series: Dogfight #10
- Author: Claringbould, Michael John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857496
- Language: English
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Medieval Indian Armies (2): Indo-Islamic Forces, 7th-Early 16th Centuries
$20.00 Read moreThis illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century.
From 1206, much of what is now India as well as part- Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey) #552
- Author: Nicolle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1472853342
- Language: English
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The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
$21.00 Add to cartLike Winchester’s Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history
In the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel c- Author: Klingaman, William K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042755
- Language: English
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Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute: An Untold History of Spacemen & Spies
$23.99 Read moreFor six decades western North Carolinians have asked the question: “What are those big satellite dishes doing behind that chain-linked fence?” In the early years of the site near Rosman, NASA gave pub… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Gralley, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152188
- Language: English
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Alvin Plantinga
$15.99 Read moreAlvin Plantinga is the contemporary world’s most influential Christian philosopher. His work over the past six decades has paved the way for Christian thinkers in the fields of philosophy of religion,… [more below]
- Series: Great Thinkers
- Author: Welty, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1629958530
- Language: English
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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World
$25.00 Add to cartBestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans’ peculiar fascination with small things–and what small things tell us about our larger world.
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1501199587
- Language: English
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Holocaust Chronicle
$29.98 Read moreThe Holocaust Chronicle, written and fact-checked by top scholars, recounts the long, complex, anguishing story of the most terrible crime of the 20th century.
- The mission of The Holocaust Chronicle is
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1680228323
- Language: English
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Story of the World, Vol. 4 Activity Book, Revised Edition: The Modern Age: From Victoria’s Empire to the End of the USSR
$43.95 Read moreDesigned for parents and elementary/middle grade students (grades 4-8) to share together, The Story of the World, Volume 4: The Modern Age Revised Edition is widely used in charter and private schools… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World #6
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 571
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1945841923
- Language: English
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Our Peculiar Times: Catholic Wisdom for Times of Crisis
$18.95 Read moreFrom the inimitable Fr. George Rutler comes this timely set of reflections on the ominous times in which we’re living.
From riots to pandemics, speech codes to behavior mandates, modern man is living i
- Author: Rutler, Fr George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1644132265
- Language: English
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The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
$20.00 Read moreFrom bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII
In May 1945, after German forces surrendered to the Allied powers, millions of- Author: Nasaw, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0143110993
- Language: English
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Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home
$18.00 Read moreA sweeping portrait of the turmoil of the twentieth century and the legacy of immigration, as seen through the German-American family of the celebrated book publisher Kurt Wolff
A literary gem research… [more below]
- Author: Wolff, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158269
- Language: English
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Struggle and Mutual Aid: The Age of Worker Solidarity
$29.99 Read moreA dynamic historian revisits the workers’ internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.
In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in oppo- Author: Delalande, Nicolas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1635420105
- Language: English
