Social History
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Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
$27.95 Read moreThe definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and society
Thoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and striki
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Author: Weitz, Eric D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183058
- Language: English
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On Freedom Road: Bicycle Explorations and Reckonings on the Underground Railroad
$27.95 Read moreA thoughtful and illuminating bicycle journey along the Underground Railroad by a climate scientist seeking to engage with American history.
The traces of the Underground Railroad hide in plain sight- Author: Goodrich, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363459
- Language: English
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Together
$19.99 Read moreA gentle and philosophical look at the events of 2020, and how we can deal with the challenges that life throws us in general. A book to share with the friends and family that we have been missing.
A- Author: Hawker, Luke Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 857839446
- Language: English
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El Infinito En Un Junco / Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
$21.95 Add to cartDe humo, de piedra, de arcilla, de seda, de piel, de ?rboles, de pl?stico y de luz… Un recorrido por la vida del libro y de quienes lo han salvaguardado durante casi treinta siglos.
Este es un libr- Author: Vallejo, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0593312570
- Language: Spanish
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Silk: A World History
$32.50 Add to cartA Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for April
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists
- Author: Prasad, Aarathi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063160250
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area: Volume 3
$31.18 Add to cartAn alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.
A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized i- Series: People’s Guide #3
- Author: Brahinsky, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 520288378
- Language: English
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The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
$30.00 Read moreFrom the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast, an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern wor… [more below]
- Author: Sexton, Jared Yates
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593185234
- Language: English
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The Wine List: Stories and Tasting Notes Behind the World’s Most Remarkable Bottles
$28.00 Read moreA one-of-a-kind exploration of the relationship between culture, politics, history, and wine.
Vintage refers to the year grapes are harvested, and that vintage holds meaning. You can look up the weath
- Author: Reynolds, Grant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1454947500
- Language: English
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Power Players: Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency
$30.00 Read moreA colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes.
POWER PLAYERS tells all the great sto- Author: Cillizza, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1538720604
- Language: English
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It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History
$21.95 Add to cartPortland, Oregon, 1988: the brutal murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by racist skinheads shocked the city.
In response disparate groups quickly came together to organize against white nati- Author: Bowstern, Moe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1629633518
- Language: English
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
$22.99 Add to cartNicholas Ostler’s Empires of the Word is the first history of the world’s great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living o
- Author: Ostler, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0060935723
- Language: English
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
$18.00 Add to cartJokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carli… [more below]
- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125689
- Language: English
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Winter in Taos
$26.95 Add to cart“Winter in Taos” starkly contrasts Luhan’s memoirs, published in four volumes and inspired by Marcel Proust’s “Remembrances of Things Past.” They follow her life through three failed marriages, numero… [more below]
- Series: Southwest Heritage
- Author: Luhan, Mabel Dodge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0865345937
- Language: English
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The Britannias: An Archipelago’s Tale
$35.00 Add to cartFrom Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by
- Author: Albinia, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0393608557
- Language: English
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Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters
$30.00 Read moreDispatches from a land of extremes, by writers and movie stars, natives and visitors, activists and pioneers, and more.
California has always been, literally, a place to write home about. Renowned fig
- Author: Kipen, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1503614697
- Language: English
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids, a “sweeping yet remarkably accessible” (The Wall Street Journal) analysis that “offers superb, often counterintuitive insights” (The New York Times) to d… [more below]
- Author: Putnam, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1982129158
- Language: English
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San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History
$24.99 Read moreDigging into a forgotten past – and the dead left behind.
San Francisco is famous for not having any cemeteries, but the claim isn’t exactly what it seems. In the early 20th Century, the city relocat… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Winegarner, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 28 2023
- ISBN10: 146715492X
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$30.00 Read moreIn an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters
- Author: Gaddy, Kristina R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393866807
- Language: English
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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
$19.99 Add to cartIn the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. New Yorkers weaves the voic
- Author: Taylor, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021993
- Language: English
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Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069
$21.99 Add to cartThe seminal work on generations from acclaimed authors William Strauss and Neil Howe of The Fourth Turning, and Howe’s The Fourth Turning Is Here. The Strauss-Howe generational theory explains how gen
- Author: Howe, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0688119123
- Language: English
