Social History
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Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work
$16.00 Read moreStories of passion, courage, and commitment, following individuals as they pursue the work they were born to do, from StoryCorps founder Dave Isay
Told through touching conversations between friends,- Series: Storycorps Book
- Author: Isay, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110071
- Language: English
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How to Be a Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide to Victorian Life
$19.95 Add to cartLauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the “the cheapest time-travel machine you’ll find” (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an… [more below]
- Author: Goodman, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 21 2015
- ISBN10: 163149113X
- Language: English
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Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
$22.00 Add to cartA brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinkin… [more below]
- Author: Okrent, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 074327704X
- Language: English
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The Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think
$34.95 Add to cartHow do ancient Greek myths find themselves retold and reinterpreted in cultures across the world, several millennia later? In this volume, bestselling author Richard Buxton explores the power that eig
- Series: Myths That Shape the Way We Think #1
- Author: Buxton, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0500518807
- Language: English
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Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their Power Over Humanity
$21.99 Add to cartUnlike other books on epidemics, which either focus on the science behind how microbes cause disease or tell first-person accounts of one particular disease, Epidemics: The Impact of Germs and Their P
- Author: Loomis, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1684426731
- Language: English
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
$16.95 Add to cartIn The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the “cultural revolution” of the 1960s and ’70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our inn… [more below]
- Author: Kimball, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: June 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1893554309
- Language: English
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A Hangman’s Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617
$16.99 Add to cartNow an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman’s Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt’s executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as … [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1629144800
- Language: English
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Botanic Gardens of the World: The Story of Science, Horticulture, and Discovery in 40 Gardens
$35.00 Read moreToday there are 1,775 botanic gardens around the world, forging the way in conservation efforts and scientific research, but the roots of these horticultural institutions are much older. From early bl… [more below]
- Author: Trentham, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1529428092
- Language: English
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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
$33.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0399589813
- Language: English
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In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
$30.00 Add to cartA fresh argument for rioting and looting as our most powerful tools for dismantling white supremacy.
Looting — a crowd of people publicly, openly, and directly seizing goods — is one of the more extr… [more below]- Author: Osterweil, Vicky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1645036693
- Language: English
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Voices of a People’s History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartSelected testimonies to living history–speeches, letters, poems, songs–offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring in… [more below]
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1609805925
- Language: English
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Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin
$23.99 Read moreIn April 1938, Swift River Valley residents held a farewell ball to mark the demise of the quintessential New England town of Enfield and its three smaller neighbors, Greenwich, Dana, and Prescott.
Th
- Series: Lost
- Author: Palladino, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147974
- Language: English
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Math 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Add to cartGet to grips with the essential topics in maths today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words.
Math: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, satisf- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081610
- Language: English
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Sage: Poems
$26.95 Read moreIn her galvanizing sixth collection of poems, Marilyn Chin once again turns moral outrage into unforgettable art. A rambunctious take on our contemporary condition, Sage shifts skillfully in tone and
- Author: Chin, Marilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050152
- Language: English
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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
$19.99 Add to cartSweeping away misconceptions about the “Me Decade,” Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the 1970s… [more below]
- Author: Schulman, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 030681126X
- Language: English
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We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to risk all for your beliefs? How do you fight an enemy in your midst? We Go Where They Go recounts the thrilling story of a massive forgotten youth movement that set the stage for t
- Series: Working Class History
- Author: Clay, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639729
- Language: English
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Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mindvolume 67
$29.95 Add to cartFor at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #67
- Author: León-Portilla, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0806122951
- Language: English
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Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
$16.99 Add to cart“A deep dive into the world of Flat Earth conspiracy theorists . . . that brilliantly reveals how people fall into illogical beliefs, reject reason, destroy relationships, and connect with a broad ran
- Author: Weill, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1643753371
- Language: English
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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
$20.00 Add to cart“All disasters are in some sense man-made.”
Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. Disaste- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297393
- Language: English
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America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
$18.95 Add to cartWhat began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nationwide movement. Millions of mostly young people defian
- Author: Hinton, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092009
- Language: English
