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Cats: A History
$32.95 Read moreA sweeping and fascinating history of cat-human relationships.
For more than 10,000 years, cats have prowled at the edges of human life. But, starting only a few decades ago, hundreds of millions of th
- Author: Phillips, Rod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1421454181
- Language: English
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
$24.95 Add to cart“Brilliantly revealing history of medieval women . . . Howes’s debut has just the right meld of insightful research, enjoyable storytelling and contemporary contexts.”–The Guardian
“A history of med- Author: Howes, Hetta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0520430824
- Language: English
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Globemaster Down: Soviet Espionage and the Doomed American Attempt to Sneak Nukes Into Europe
$29.00 Add to cartJust in time for the 75th anniversary comes the first book-length investigation into one of the great unsolved mysteries from the early days of the Cold War, when an American cargo plane allegedly car… [more below]
- Author: Robberson, Tod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 0806544600
- Language: English
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The Visionaries: Bretton Woods, the Marshall Plan, and the Making of the Post-World War II Order
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight d
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 0802168078
- Language: English
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The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
$29.99 Read moreA riveting expos? of the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, the largest act of sabotage in modern history, told through unprecedented access and deep investigative reporting–part geopolitical thril
- Author: Pancevski, Bojan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1250410436
- Language: English
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The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol. III: Louis XIV to the Brink of World War I, A.D. 1661 – 1914
$64.99 Add to cartThis third volume of Conrad Black’s magnificent series opens with the assumption of direct rule by Louis XIV of France and covers the great sweep of history with the rise of Russia, the decline of the
- Author: Black, Conrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1040
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1966833091
- Language: English
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Global Justice: Three Essays on Liberation and Socialism
$13.95 Add to cartThree speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara.
In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1644211564
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil and The Antichrist: Two Books in One
$18.99 Add to cartIn Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of foun
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2023
- ISBN10: 9355224206
- Language: English
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A Spoonful of Sugar: The Story of the Upjohn Pharmacy in Disneyland
$29.95 Add to cartTake a nostalgic stroll down Main Street, U.S.A., and step inside a remarkable intersection of American innovation, family legacy, and Disney magic. A Spoonful of Sugar tells the fascinating story of … [more below]
- Author: Hall, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992564501
- Language: English
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The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
$24.99 Add to cartEurope, 1900-1914: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. The major topics of the day: terrorism, globalization, immigration, consumerism, the collapse of moral values, and … [more below]
- Author: Blom, Philipp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020291
- Language: English
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Us and Allied Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan, 2009-21
$21.00 Add to cartAn illustrated study of the development and operations of coalition and Afghan Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan from 2009 until the withdrawal in 2021.
At the end of 2008, the clearly inadequ- Series: Elite #264
- Author: Parkinson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 147286493X
- Language: English
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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
$42.50 Add to cartCharacterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial-era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the mis
- Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
- Author: Kitchens, Joel Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1648433405
- Language: English
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Never Will It Be Lost: Ritual, Remembrance, and the Aztec Calendar
$30.00 Add to cartAs Indigenous Chicanos and Mesoamerican descendants raised in the United States, many of us grow up feeling both rooted and displaced at the same time. We live on land we feel deeply connected to, yet
- Author: Tlapoyawa, Kurly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: February 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218932169
- Language: English
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The History of the World in 12 Soccer Matches
$28.99 Add to cartAn epic tale of war, revolution, economic crisis, and social transformation told through the story of twelve historic soccer games, with a gallery of unexpected heroes, thwarted tragedies, and stunnin… [more below]
- Author: Bizzotto, Stefano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1685892299
- Language: English
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Liberty or Death: The French Revolution
$20.00 Read moreA strikingly new account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more th- Author: McPhee, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228694
- Language: English
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Axis of Empire: A History of Iranus Relations
$34.95 Read moreA chronicle of intrigue and influence in the Iran-US entanglement
Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari’s accessible history of relations between the United States a- Author: Matin-Asgari, Afshin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1839762268
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$22.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691235309
- Language: English
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Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of the Holocaust
$29.95 Add to cart- Series: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
- Author: Scheidt, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1978846746
- Language: English
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Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
$20.00 Add to cartThe basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels–from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.
When Ludwig van Beethoven lay- Author: Martin, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2001
- ISBN10: 076790351X
- Language: English
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
$31.99 Read moreIn 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing like it had ever been attempted. Field knew nothing about te
- Author: Tabor, James M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036028
- Language: English
