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Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
$26.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document … is Applebaum’s answer.” –Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, wit- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0385545800
- Language: English
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical “long year” of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party a… [more below]
- Author: Norton, Mary Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0804172463
- Language: English
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One True Sentence: Writers & Readers on Hemingway’s Art
$26.95 Read moreA selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader’s breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by auth
- Author: Cirino, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927130
- Language: English
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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
$17.95 Read moreThe long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s b
- Author: Oakes, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020199
- Language: English
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern
$19.95 Read moreA radical new history of a dangerous idea
Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world f- Author: Jeffries, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1788738233
- Language: English
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What the Thunder Said: How the Waste Land Made Poetry Modern
$75.00 Read moreOn the 100th anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land‘s creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence
When T. S. Eliot published The Waste Lan- Author: Rasula, Jed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 069122577X
- Language: English
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Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion
$40.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings
This lively book reveals the cl- Author: Davidson, Hilary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0300218729
- Language: English
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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge
$20.00 Add to cartPaul Preston is the world’s foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisc… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329879
- Language: English
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao’s Revolution
$24.00 Read moreThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China’s 1949 Communist revolution–a heartrending precursor to the struggles faced by emigra… [more below]
- Author: Zia, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0345522338
- Language: English
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Mig-21 “Fishbed”: Opposing Rolling Thunder 1966-68
$23.00 Read moreUsing archival photographs sourced directly from Vietnam, specially commissioned diagrams and combat accounts from veterans, Istvç–£ Toperczer reveals how the MiG-21 defended Vietnam between 1966 and
- Series: Dogfight #8
- Author: Toperczer, István
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857569
- Language: English
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F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963-73
$23.00 Read moreWith specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the ‘last of the gunfighters’, as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG t
- Series: Dogfight #7
- Author: Davies, Peter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1472857542
- Language: English
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Writers and Their Teachers
$28.00 Read moreBy turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Co
- Author: Salwak, Dale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1350272264
- Language: English
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Noble Treason: The Story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Revolt Against Hitler
$18.95 Read moreSophie Scholl and her brother Hans were handsome, bright university students in 1942 Germany. As members of the Hitler Youth, they had once been enthusiastic supporters of the German renewal promised
- Author: Hanser, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1586175572
- Language: English
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2020 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism
By one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the politic
- Author: Rivera Garza, Cristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1936932938
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of Patton a Soldier’s Date with Destiny: Could World War II’s Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War?
$27.99 Read more“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” — General George S. Patton
It is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious death of General George S. Patton, but as in life, P
- Author: Orlando, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1630061751
- Language: English
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
$27.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times
From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orbç–£, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of stron- Author: Rachman, Gideon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1635422809
- Language: English
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The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
$32.00 Read moreA fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers
“[Mauceri’s] writing is mo- Author: Mauceri, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300233701
- Language: English
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Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History
$83.25 Read moreA sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy–with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural hist- Author: Sayer, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 069118545X
- Language: English
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Gettysburg in Color: Volume 1: Brandy Station to the Peach Orchard
$37.50 Read moreArtificial Intelligence meets Gettysburg. And it is a marvelous pairing.
Patrick Brennan, a long-time student of the Civil War, published author, and an editorial advisor for The Civil War Monitor maga… [more below]
- Author: Brennan, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1611216095
- Language: English
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The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$22.99 Add to cartSir Anthony Kenny’s engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the ea… [more below]
- Series: New History of Western Philosophy #3
- Author: Kenny, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0198752768
- Language: English
