Modern
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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
$20.00 Read moreAs China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.
- Author: Platt, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0345803027
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
$25.00 Add to cartAbout national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "… [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0679720197
- Language: English
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To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change
$19.95 Read more“History on an epic scale-sweeping, provocative, and unsparing in its judgment.” –Andrew Bacevich, author of After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
An immensely readable history,- Author: McCoy, Alfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599212
- Language: English
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In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism
$20.00 Read moreThe Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stan
- Author: Daughton, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050357
- Language: English
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Modern Watercolor: A Playful and Contemporary Exploration of Watercolor Painting
$19.99 Read moreModern Watercolor provides a colorful and fun approach to working with watercolor! Use the easy-to-follow instructions and beautiful, colorful artwork featured throughout the book to create dynamic le… [more below]
- Series: Modern
- Author: Van Leuven, Kristin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1633223566
- Language: English
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Crusade in Europe: A Personal Account of World War II
$22.00 Read moreA classic of World War II literature, an incredibly revealing work that provides a near comprehensive account of the war and brings to life the legendary general and eventual president of the United S… [more below]
- Author: Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314859
- Language: English
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Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters
$45.00 Read morePrincess Eugenia (Ena) of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice (Bee) of Saxe Coburg, granddaughters of Queen Victoria of England, married into the Spanish royal family.
In 1906, Ena became the consort of K… [more below]
- Author: de Sagrera, Ana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 178155854X
- Language: English
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Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century
$30.00 Read moreSound Within Sound presents an alternative history of 20th-century composers–nearly all of them women or composers of color–by a leading international music critic.
Think of a composer right now. W- Author: Molleson, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1419753568
- Language: English
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Damn’ Rebel Bitches: The Women of the ’45
$19.95 Read more‘A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account’ Scots Magazine
Too many historians have ignored the role of women in the ’45. This book aims to redress the balance. Damn’ Rebel Bitches- Author: Craig, M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1910948292
- Language: English
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Invited to Life: Finding Hope After the Holocaust
$65.00 Read moreA collection of 90 black-and-white portraits of Holocaust survivors accompanied by stories of their postwar lives
highlighting joy, revival, and embracing life to the fullest! The survivors, many pho… [more below]
- Author: Bialik, Mayim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0764364456
- Language: English
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The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between
$23.00 Add to cartPublished in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a riveting story of Jewish families seeking to escape Nazi Germany.
In 1938, on the eve of World War II, the American journal- Author: Dobbs, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0525434836
- Language: English
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The American Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on Dissent
$19.95 Read moreNew evidence has come to light proving how far the FBI monitored its citizens throughout the Cold War and beyond.
When the possibility of wiretapping first became known to Americans they were outraged.
- Author: Price, David Hotchkiss
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0745346014
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$14.99 Read moreBeyond Good and Evil is a captivating philosophical masterpiece that challenges conventional thinking and explores the depths of human nature. Written by Friedrich Nietzsche, this influential work del
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9358562277
- Language: English
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The Ultimate 70s Collection: Iconic Musicians and Albums, Movies That Defined a Generation, Legendary Toys and Videogames
$19.99 Read moreHow do you remember the seventies? Whether it’s as the “Me Decade,” the heatwave of 1976, or the Winter of Discontent, you’ll find something in these pages to stir up nostalgia for the pop culture tha… [more below]
- Author: Romero, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103789
- Language: English
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Afghan Air Wars: Soviet, Us and NATO Operations, 1979-2021
$40.00 Read moreMichael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021.
US and- Author: Napier, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1472859014
- Language: English
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After the Roundup: Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
$19.00 Read moreOn the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up 11-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. They were held for five days at the V駘odrome d’Hiver stadium, before b
- Author: Weismann, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0253066484
- Language: English
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Hess and the Penguins: The Holocaust, Antarctica and the Strange Case of Rudolf Hess
$19.95 Read morePursuing his investigations of WWII machinations, secret international agreements, breakaway civilizations and hidden wars in Antarctica, author and researcher Joseph P. Farrell examines the continuin… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1939149851
- Language: English
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The Order of the Day
$14.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Boston Globe, and Literary Hub
Winner of the 2017 Goncourt Prize, this behind-the-scenes account of the manipulation, hubris, and greed that together led to Nazi- Author: Vuillard, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1635420407
- Language: English
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The Paris Commune: A Brief History
$22.95 Read moreThe Paris Commune, France’s revolutionary civil war, rocked the nineteenth century and shaped the twentieth. A pivotal moment in history, it is the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures and… [more below]
- Series: Reinventions of the Paris Commune
- Author: Eichner, Carolyn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1978827687
- Language: English
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Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War
$16.95 Read moreHe has been accused of “studied and ingenious cruelty.” By turns, he has been called a savior and a barbarian, a hero and a villain, a genius and a madman. But whatever you call William Tecumseh Sherm… [more below]
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Author: Maxfield, Derek D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1611215994
- Language: English
