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A Splintered History of Wood: Belt-Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats
$15.99 Add to cartA Splintered History of Wood is a passionate and personal exploration of nature’s greatest gift: wood. In the successful tradition of books such as Salt and Cod, writer and carpenter Spike Carlsen exp
- Author: Carlsen, Spike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0061373575
- Language: English
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Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDiplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Siracusa, Joseph M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0192893912
- Language: English
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Putin’s Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia’s Information War Against the World
$18.95 Add to cart“Timely exposé of Russia’s vast disinformation campaign from a Finnish journalist persecuted for her persistent reporting of its brazen abuses…a damning portrait of Putin and his autocratic, manipu
- Author: Aro, Jessikka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1632461293
- Language: English
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Colonialism in Global Perspective
$42.50 Add to cartKris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe’s continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the rea… [more below]
- Author: Manjapra, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2020
- ISBN10: 110844136X
- Language: English
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La Verdadera Noche de Iguala / The Real Night of Iguala
$16.95 Read moreAnte acontecimientos como el del 26 de septiembre de 2014, ning?n pa?s puede seguir adelante sin conocer la verdad a la que tienen derecho las v?ctimas y la sociedad.
Los hechos de Iguala nos obligan a… [more below]- Author: Hern?ndez, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 6073149263
- Language: Spanish
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These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons
$24.95 Read moreHundreds of thousands of Palestinians have experienced life in Israel’s prisons since 1967, as did many more in previous decades during the course of the ongoing Israeli military occupation. Yet rarel… [more below]
- Author: Baroud, Ramzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: December 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1949762092
- Language: English
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Cambodia’s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land
$21.99 Add to cartA Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seeme… [more below]
- Author: Brinkley, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391837
- Language: English
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Confronting Empire
$19.95 Add to cartBrilliant and insightful political analyses of key political events and movements of the second half of the twentieth century.
- Author: Ahmad, Eqbal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1608466213
- Language: English
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Ukraine’s Unnamed War: Before the Russian Invasion of 2022
$49.58 Add to cartThe Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has its roots in the events of 2013-2014. Russia cynically termed the seditionist conflict in Crimea and Eastern Donbas a ‘civil war’ in order to claim non-invo… [more below]
- Author: Arel, Dominique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1009055941
- Language: English
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Can Democracy Work?
$23.99 Add to cart“Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experim
- Author: Miller, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1250234670
- Language: English
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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History’s 100 Worst Atrocities
$35.00 Add to cartEvangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White’s epic examination of history’s one hundred most violent events, or, in White’s piquant phrasing, “the numbers that people want to ar… [more below]
- Author: White, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0393081923
- Language: English
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Indian Summer
$34.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary story of romance, history, and divided loyalties — set against the backdrop of one of the most dramatic events of the twentieth century
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, lib- Author: Von Tunzelmann, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0312428111
- Language: English
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Godfather of the Kremlin: The Decline of Russia in the Age of Gangster Capitalism
$18.99 Add to cartFrom nuclear superpower to impoverished nation, post-communist Russia has become one of the most corrupt regimes in the world. Paul Klebnikov pieces together the previous decade in Russian history, sh… [more below]
- Author: Klebnikov, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0156013304
- Language: English
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Earthopolis: A Biography of Our Urban Planet
$37.00 Add to cart- Author: Nightingale, Carl H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 814
- Publish Date: June 09 2022
- ISBN10: 110842452X
- Language: English
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Musical Revolutions: How the Sounds of the Western World Changed
$35.00 Read moreFrom the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining moments in musical history–classical and jazz–all of which forever altered Western culture
“A fascinati- Author: Isacoff, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0525658637
- Language: English
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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
$33.00 Add to cartYang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.
As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the h- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829704
- Language: English
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The Great Journeys in History
$18.95 Read moreFerdinand Magellan, Genghis Khan, Thor Heyerdahl, Amelia Earhart, and Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travelers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing
- Author: Hanbury-Tenison, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0500287031
- Language: English
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Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity
$23.95 Read moreThe gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #94
- Author: Scheidel, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0691216738
- Language: English
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization
$21.99 Read moreEverything you should know–but PC professors won’t teach–about Western heritage.
Western civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of huma- Series: Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback)
- Author: Esolen, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1596980591
- Language: English
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This Arab Life: A Generation’s Journey into Silence
$22.65 Add to cartThis Arab Life is an intimate and honest exploration of a rising Arab generation’s descent into silence. Personal and panoramic, granular and sweeping, the book offers a raw account of the unremitting
- Author: Ghandour, Amal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1954805268
- Language: English
