Social History
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Killer Cocktails: Dangerous Drinks Inspired by History’s Most Nefarious Criminals
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the hosts of the criminally popular podcast Criminalia, Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi, a dangerously delicious cocktail and mocktail book inspired by history’s most notorious (and notoriously ov
- Author: Frey, Holly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0306834111
- Language: English
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
$39.95 Read moreA gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR–and still provides a model of opposition in Putin’s Russia
Beginning in the 1960s, the Soviet Union was unexpec- Author: Nathans, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 691117039
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Stuff: The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Objects
$25.00 Add to cartExplore the past, present, and future of the everyday stuff in your home, from tinned food to tampons.
Learn how 30,000 bath toys and the work of amateur beachcombers have helped scientists study ocea- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081602
- Language: English
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When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer: Reflections on Collective Liberation
$24.95 Read moreAn esteemed activist invites us to consider the complex idea of abolition as much more than a strategy or a set of tactics–at a deeper level, abolition is an entire political framework, culture, and … [more below]
- Author: Ayers, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0807020346
- Language: English
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Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
$35.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and consequential history of Germany’s short-lived experiment with democracy between the world wars, when vibrant cultural experimentation collided with political and economic turmoil
Ou- Author: Jähner, Harald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606205
- Language: English
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Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery
$39.95 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas.
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, more than twelve million enslaved Africans were forcibly transported- Author: Araujo, Ana Lucia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 022677158X
- Language: English
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J. D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly: Think Twice Before Calling (All) Coalfield Appalachians Racists, Sexists, and Ignoramuses
$14.99 Add to cartDiscover the Point of View of a Real Mountaineer
For far too many decades, the residents of the Appalachian Mountains have faced the ridicule, prejudice, and misunderstanding from those outside the reg
- Author: Kilgore, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: August 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1733364404
- Language: English
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When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond: Strong-Arm Politics in Virginia’s Capital City
$35.95 Add to cartOur nation’s first elected Black governor, L. Douglas Wilder, returned to public service in 2005 as the first popularly elected mayor of Richmond, Virginia, in sixty years. Despite his landslide elect
- Author: Norman, Linwood
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1962416216
- Language: English
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Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
$30.00 Add to cartThis classic work of comparative history explores why some countries have developed as democracies and others as fascist or communist dictatorships
Originally published in 1966, this classic text is a- Author: Moore, Barrington
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 586
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807050733
- Language: English
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Russia: Myths and Realities
$27.95 Read moreAn expert historian and former ambassador to Moscow unlocks fact from fiction to reveal what lies at the root of the Russian story.
Churchill remarked that Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery insi- Author: Braithwaite, Rodric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362886
- Language: English
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The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture
$18.99 Add to cartA “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “clear-eyed and incisive” (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone–including themselves. … [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1982114193
- Language: English
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Warholcapote: A Non-Fiction Invention
$26.99 Read moreAn enthralling play based on lost tapes between two cultural giants and friends–Andy Warhol and Truman Capote.
In 1978 Andy Warhol and Truman Capote decided to write a Broadway play. Andy suggested t- Author: Roth, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103825
- Language: English
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Ludwig Van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartProposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl
Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional c- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bonds, Mark Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0190051736
- Language: English
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
$39.00 Read moreWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world withou
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Groebner, Valentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951722
- Language: English
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Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms
$19.95 Add to cartChronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms for self-defense, law professor Nicholas Johnson presents an array of examples reaching back to the pre-Civil War era that demonstrate … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 161614839X
- Language: English
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Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Unity
$32.95 Add to cartIn recent years the United States has witnessed major controversies surrounding past American presidents, monuments, and sites. Consider Mount Rushmore, which features the heads of the nation’s most r… [more below]
- Author: Senie, Harriet F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124993
- Language: English
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Under the Knife
$29.99 Add to cartSurgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his own experience and expertise to tell this engrossing history of surgery through 28 famous operations–from Louis XIV and Einstein to JFK and Houdini.
From the story- Author: Van de Laar, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1250826012
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$31.00 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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The Brewer’s Tale: A History of the World According to Beer
$16.95 Add to cartThe Brewer’s Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer’s quest to bring them–and their ancient, forgotten beers–back to life, one taste at a time… [more below]
- Author: Bostwick, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351998
- Language: English
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Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made
$21.99 Add to cartJuggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made is a vivid journey into the heart of a misunderstood subculture. Through firsthand reporting, including interviews with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0306823772
- Language: English
