Social History
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974–The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
$19.99 Read more“An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in Amer
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062899228
- Language: English
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American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLong before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190622431
- Language: English
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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
$18.95 Read moreDrowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. P
- Author: Green, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064498
- Language: English
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Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History
$22.00 Add to cartThe must-read music book of the year–and the first such history bringing together all musical genres to tell the definitive narrative of the birth of Pop from 1900 to the mid-1950s.
Pop music didn’t- Author: Stanley, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364633
- Language: English
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Physics 100 Ideas in 100 Words: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Science’s Key Concepts
$16.99 Read moreGet to grips with the essential topics in physics today through 100 key ideas, each one explained clearly in 100 words.
Physics: 100 Ideas in 100 Words offers the essential facts at your fingertips, s- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0744081629
- Language: English
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
$20.00 Add to cart“A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves.”
―John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city,- Author: Sante, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 24 2003
- ISBN10: 0374528993
- Language: English
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
$21.99 Add to cartScurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventur
- Author: Brown, Stephen R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312313926
- Language: English
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The Little Book of LGBTQ+: An A-Z of Gender and Sexual Identities
$15.95 Add to cartFeel confident in the ABCs of LGBTQ+
Language is a key path to awareness, acceptance and empowerment. It’s central to understanding the world and the communities we live in, but it can often be trick- Author: Dyer, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1627783237
- Language: English
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The World of Lore: Dreadful Places
$28.99 Add to cartCaptivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories from the podcast Lore–now a streaming television series–including “Echoes,” “Withering Heights,” and “… [more below]
- Series: World of Lore #3
- Author: Mahnke, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1524798029
- Language: English
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Making of the World: Sapiens’ Journey From Wilderness to Civilization
$22.99 Add to cartThis book is “a strong summary of world history and social evolution” (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).
Humanity was once divided into thousands of smal… [more below]
- Author: Khan, Mahbub H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1039185800
- Language: English
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Paris Reborn
$26.00 Add to cartIn the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol駮n III and his unstoppable accomplice, Baron Haussmann. Thi
- Author: Kirkland, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1250042682
- Language: English
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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
$17.95 Read moreControl is a book about eugenics, what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as
- Author: Rutherford, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 132406613X
- Language: English
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
$20.00 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of th… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0770437087
- Language: English
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Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
$27.00 Read moreA rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the w
- Author: Feltman, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1645037169
- Language: English
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Tudor England: A History
$20.00 Read moreA compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
- Author: Wooding, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273320
- Language: English
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The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
$27.95 Read more“This is a brilliant book by a brilliant man. A magician with perfect taste. Thank God I met him. He is gold dust!” — Elton John
From the Beatles to Elton John and the Rolling Stones, Tony King has be… [more below]- Author: King, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0571371930
- Language: English
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Legendary Children: The First Decade of Rupaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
$18.00 Add to cartA definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo
NPR’s Best Books of the Year 202- Author: Fitzgerald, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134620
- Language: English
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O Say Can You Hear: A Cultural Biography of the Star-Spangled Banner
$19.95 Read moreMost Americans learn the tale in elementary school: During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key witnessed the daylong bombardment of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry by British navy ships; seeing the Stars and
- Author: Clague, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064471
- Language: English
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The Art of Ectoplasm: Encounters with Winnipeg’s Ghost Photographs
$34.95 Add to cartThe legacy of the Hamiltons’ psychic archive
In the wake of the First World War and the 1918-19 pandemic, the world was left grappling with a profound sense of loss. It was against this backdrop that
- Author: Keshavjee, Serena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1772840378
- Language: English
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Camp!: The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World
$24.95 Add to cartBy the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how this inescapable part of popular culture has also played an importa… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1804440329
- Language: English
