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By: McDonough, Frank
The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
$45.00HardcoverAdd to cart‘This accessible history will keep the subject alive for a new generation [..] It is about providing an accessible, sober and vivid resource that keeps the subject alive. In this aim, the book succeed
- Author: McDonough, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1035912481
- Language: English
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By: Osterweil, Vicky
The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World
$28.95HardcoverRead moreA provocative history of Disney’s rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode the political messages hidden in all of your favorite childhood movies.
In The Exte
- Author: Osterweil, Vicky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888903667
- Language: English
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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cart
“Esther Safran Foer is a force of nature: a leader of
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS FINALIST – “Part personal quest, part testament, and all thoughtfully, compassionately written.”–The Washington Post- Author: Foer, Esther Safran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575995
- Language: English
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By: Meltzer, Brad
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy–And Why It Failed
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 2025
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Nazi Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes a true, little-known- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 125079059X
- Language: English
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By: Beevor, Antony
Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial househo… [more below]
- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217061181
- Language: English
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By: Taylor, Victoria
Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
$32.99HardcoverAdd to cartTELEGRAPH HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025
By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler’s forces. Her forces driven off the continent, many rescued from c- Author: Taylor, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1804549991
- Language: English
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By: Pappe, Ilan
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartSince its foundation in 1948, Israel has drawn on Zionism, the movement behind its creation, to provide a sense of self and political direction. In this groundbreaking new work, Ilan Pappe looks at th… [more below]
- Author: Pappe, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1836740409
- Language: English
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By: Copjec, Joan
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
$26.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines–psychoanalysis and historicis… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Copjec, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1781688885
- Language: English
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By: Althusser, Louis
For Marx
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “str… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Althusser, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 184467052X
- Language: English
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Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures
$27.00PaperbackAdd to cartA spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world
In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe’s extraord- Author: Saltzman, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115316
- Language: English
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By: Veale, Sara
Wild Grace: The Untamed Women of Modern Dance
$34.95HardcoverAdd to cart“Opening a door into the rich world of modern dance.” Kirkus starred review ⭐
“Captivating.” Publishers Weekly starred review ⭐
“Refreshing.” New Statesman
“Compelling.” Harper’s Bazaar
“Pas- Author: Veale, Sara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0571368565
- Language: English
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By: More, Thomas
Utopia
$11.99PaperbackAdd to cart‘To find citizens ruled by good and wholesome laws, that is an exceeding rare, and hard thing.’
Thomas More’s Utopia presents an account of an idealised fictional society that has fascinated readers s- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 019886020X
- Language: English
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By: Diamond, Larry
Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
$27.00PaperbackAdd to cart*Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur Ross Book Award*
From America’s leading scholar of democracy, a personal, passionate call to action against the rising authoritarianism that challenges our world order- Author: Diamond, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0525560645
- Language: English
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By: Baldwin, James
The Amen Corner: A Play
$15.00PaperbackAdd to cartFrom one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century–a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701885
- Language: English
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By: Reade, Orlando
What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cart“Enlightening and enthusiastic.” –Ed Simon, The New York Times Book Review
Now in paperback, a highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603401
- Language: English
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By: Berryman, Luke
Resisting Nazism: True Stories of Resistance to the World’s Most Dangerous Ideology, from 1920 to the Present
$27.00HardcoverAdd to cartNazism has always faced resistance: from the German artists who caricatured the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try and expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who un
- Author: Berryman, Luke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881800697
- Language: English
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1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartToday, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our pe… [more below]
- Author: Emmerson, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1610393805
- Language: English
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By: Stamper, Kory
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color–From Azure to Zinc Pink
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartA kaleidoscopic journey through the secret history of hues–and the story of the obsessive genius behind the definitions of colors we use today, from the beloved author of Word by Word
begonia (n.): 3- Author: Stamper, Kory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1524733032
- Language: English
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By: Fleming, Ian
The Diamond Smugglers: The True Story of an International Crime Ring and Its Downfall, Told by the Creator of James Bond
$27.99PaperbackAdd to cartTHE TRUE STORY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME RING AND ITS DOWNFALL
In 1957, as the Cold War raged, Ian Fleming took a respite from writing James Bond to craft a work of nonfiction every bit as tense as a B
- Author: Fleming, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0063445735
- Language: English
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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang – The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
$35.00HardcoverAdd to cartEach year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The Commandant’s choice for 1993 was We Were Soldiers Onc… [more below]
- Author: Moore, General Ha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 20 1992
- ISBN10: 0679411585
- Language: English



















