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Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
$35.00 Read moreAmongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed u… [more below]
- Author: Darlington, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 030025928X
- Language: English
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México, Manual de Usuario / Mexico, User Manual
$17.95 Read morePor qué eres asÃ, México? Quién te hizo tanto daño? Preguntas de esta naturaleza requieren delicados estudios socio-antropológicos para perfilar respuestas adecuadas. Pero como en el paÃs nad… [more below]
- Author: Torres, Chumel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 6073811152
- Language: Spanish
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The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom the eighteenth century until the 1950s, the British Empire was the largest and most far-flung political entity in the world, holding sway at one time over one fifth of the world’s population. The… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jackson, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0199605416
- Language: English
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The Money Culture
$17.99 Read moreThe 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ’29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338657
- Language: English
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Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe
$28.99 Add to cartEmpires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of m… [more below]
- Author: Heather, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0199892261
- Language: English
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Black Flags: The Rise of Isis
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – In a thrilling dramatic narrative, the award-winning reporter traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread wit… [more below]
- Author: Warrick, Joby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0804168938
- Language: English
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In Search of the River Jordan: A Story of Palestine, Israel and the Struggle for Water
$30.00 Read moreA writer’s travels along the legendary yet contested Jordan River–exploring the long conflict over water supply
Access to water has played a pivotal role in the Israel-Palestine dispute. Israel has- Author: Fergusson, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0300244150
- Language: English
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Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
$26.00 Read moreAward-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram, hailed as “the Indian successor to Kapuscinski” (Basharat Peer) and praised for “remarkable” (Jon Stewart), “excellent” (Fareed Zakaria), and “courageous and h… [more below]
- Author: Sundaram, Anjan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 164622115X
- Language: English
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A War Made in Russia
$19.95 Read moreIn this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation … [more below]
- Author: Medvedev, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1509558403
- Language: English
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Not Here: Why American Democracy Is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself
$28.99 Read moreWhat does it mean to live beside an eroding democracy? As this powerful and timely book argues, that question will define the next generation of Canadian politics.
As a congressional staffer in the Un- Author: Goodman, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 166801243X
- Language: English
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5,000 Days of War: The Firsthand Account of an Afghan Special Forces Operator
$29.99 Read moreYa marg Ya zindagi.
Life or death. Born to poverty and facing starvation in his remote Afghan village, eighteen-year-old Yousuf Sediq travels across Taliban territory to apply for a job as an interp- Author: Sediq, Yousuf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1955026432
- Language: English
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
$46.67 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
A stunning work of popular history–the story of how a crop transformed the history of sla
Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize- Author: Lewis, Jori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1620971569
- Language: English
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Seven Games: A Human History
$17.95 Read moreCheckers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and
- Author: Roeder, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051027
- Language: English
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Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfac… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bull, Anna Cento
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198726511
- Language: English
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Time’s Monster: How History Makes History
$19.95 Read moreA New Statesman Best Book of the Year
“Powerful and radically important.”
–Robert Gildea, Times Literary Supplement “Bracingly describes the ways imperialist historiography has shaped visions of the f- Author: Satia, Priya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292170
- Language: English
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In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
$28.00 Read moreShortlisted for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America
“Chilling and nuanced … a murder mystery but also, more important, a portrait of a nation where no one knows what to b- Author: Corcoran, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1635575036
- Language: English
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On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern world
When people think of Irish emigration, they often think of the Great Famine of the 1840s, which caused
- Author: Connolly, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0465093957
- Language: English
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Russia’s War on Everybody: And What It Means for You
$35.00 Read moreYou may not be interested in Russia. But Russia is interested in you.
Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine saw confrontation between Moscow and the West spill over into open conflict once again. But Russia- Author: Giles, Keir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1350255084
- Language: English
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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to XI Jinping
$27.00 Add to cart“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China.”
–William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lea- Author: M?hlhahn, Klaus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0674248317
- Language: English
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Black Man of the Nile: And His Family
$29.95 Add to cartIn a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose “Europeanized” African history. Order Black Man of the Nile here.
- Author: Ben-Jochannan, Yosef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 381
- Publish Date: November 22 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121261
- Language: English
