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Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
$38.50 Add to cartA unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar’s Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda an… [more below]
- Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0471095702
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Human Race
$27.99 Add to cartWhy has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different way? What should we make of the disproportionate role o… [more below]
- Author: Cook, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0393326454
- Language: English
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The Stones of Florence
$18.99 Add to cartA journey through the glorious Italian city’s scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times best-selling author of Venice Observed and The Group.
Renowned for her sharp literary style, essayis… [more below]
- Author: McCarthy, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027631
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval Village
$18.99 Read moreMedieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415662
- Language: English
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The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers
$20.99 Add to cart“A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China’s secretive rulers.
- Author: McGregor, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0061708763
- Language: English
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Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq
$20.99 Add to cartGuerrilla warfare is not just the tool of modern-day terrorists in the Middle East. Its roots stretch back to our very own revolution.
In Violent Politics, William R. Polk takes us on a concise, brilli
- Author: Polk, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0061236209
- Language: English
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
$19.99 Add to cartPeter Watson’s hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such con
- Author: Watson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 852
- Publish Date: December 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0060935642
- Language: English
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City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule
$27.00 Add to cart- Author: Hung, Ho-Fung
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: May 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1108840337
- Language: English
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Social Contagion: And Other Material on Microbiological Class War in China
$12.00 Read moreSocial Contagion presents the untold story of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. Chuang, a collective of communists living inside and outside China, chronicle the struggles of everyday people caught betw… [more below]
- Author: Chuang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 203
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860070
- Language: English
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Jerusalem: History of a Global City
$43.68 Add to cartAn expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the world’s most mythologized cities.
Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal battlefield- Author: Lemire, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 520299906
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History
$19.99 Add to cartA thought-provoking and important book that raises essential issues crucial not only for understanding our past but also the present day.
In this panoramic history, Jeremy Black tells how slavery was- Series: Brief Histories
- Author: Black, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1849016895
- Language: English
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The Industrial Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Major Industrialization and the Introduction of the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin,
$16.97 Add to cartExplore the Captivating History of the Industrial Revolution
For most of human existence, people lived in a somewhat similar fashion. Everything that has been produced, from food and raw materials to c
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1647488508
- Language: English
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Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
$19.95 Add to cart- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Maher, Geo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1784782238
- Language: English
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
$21.95 Add to cartBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude–the world’s largest reserves–an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist g… [more below]
- Author: Gallegos, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640122133
- Language: English
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Israel’s Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire
$39.95 Add to cartThe ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of
- Author: Marcus, Raphael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1626166110
- Language: English
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5 Cities That Ruled the World: How Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London & New York Shaped Global History
$19.99 Add to cartIn Five Cities that Ruled the World, theologian Douglas Wilson fuses together, in compelling detail, the critical moments birthed in history’s most influential cities –Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London
- Author: Wilson, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2009
- ISBN10: 1595551360
- Language: English
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A History of Religious Rules: A Legacy of Piety and Coercion
$19.99 Add to cartThis book is a history and a suggestion as to how to approach religious differences . It is not a work of theology. It is not about belief, faith, God, or salvation. The prophets and founders of the g
- Author: Varner, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987522905
- Language: English
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Adam’s Synchronological Chart or Map of History [with Key] [With Key]
$49.99 Add to cartThis is a time line that follows the Annals of the World time line by James Ussher.
- Author: Adams, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 21
- Publish Date: August 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0890515050
- Language: English
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The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe
$36.00 Add to cartDavid Roskies, in one hundred powerful selections, presents the two-thousand year history of Jewish responses to castastrophe. The cyclical nature of violent regimes and their overthrow is delineated … [more below]
- Author: Roskies, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0827604149
- Language: English
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Shia Power Comes of Age: The Transformation of Islamist Politics in Iraq, 2003-2023
$24.99 Add to cartShia politics roared to the center of power in Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003 after decades of marginalization under Saddam Hussein. A new generation of clerics and politicians, self-described a
- Author: Cambanis, Thanassis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0870785702
- Language: English
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