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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
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
$29.95 Add to cartThe Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spa
- Author: Todorov, Tzvetan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0806131373
- Language: English
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The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
$55.25 Add to cartWell before the Industrial Revolution, Europe developed the superior military potential and expertise that enabled her to dominate the world for the next two centuries. In this attractively illustrate… [more below]
- Author: Parker, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 1996
- ISBN10: 0521479584
- Language: English
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Library: An Unquiet History
$24.99 Add to cartThrough the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB vision
- Author: Battles, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351459
- Language: English
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Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
$29.00 Add to cartThe much-anticipated definitive account of China’s Great Famine
An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China’s Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s an- Author: Jisheng, Yang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533997
- Language: English
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most cru- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531331
- Language: English
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Why the West Rules–For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal about the Future
$28.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book for 2011
Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, r- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312611692
- Language: English
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Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World
$23.99 Add to cartGlobal refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitarian list of imagined “basic needs,” has changed littl… [more below]
- Author: Collier, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0190659157
- Language: English
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Te Abraza Con Todo Fervor Revolucionario: Epistolario de Un Tiempo 1947-1967
$22.95 Read moreLa primera edición de las cartas del Che Guevara, la mayorÃa nunca antes publicadas en inglés.
“El Che no era solamente un intelectual, era el ser humano más completo de nuestra época.” — Jean- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1925756394
- Language: Spanish
