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Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
$18.99 Add to cartUnfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroe… [more below]
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1568584784
- Language: English
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Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
$20.00 Add to cartThe raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to powe… [more below]
- Author: Dawisha, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476795207
- Language: English
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History of New Zealand: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Land of the Long White Cloud, from the Polynesians Through the Māori Mu
$24.99 Add to cartDid you know New Zealand was the first country to offer universal suffrage?
Many people today only started dreaming of visiting New Zealand after discovering it was the beautiful filming place of the L
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: August 17 2023
- ISBN10: 163716873X
- Language: English
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Caesar’s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar’s Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
$17.95 Add to cartStephen Dando-Collins paints a vivid and definitive portrait of daily life in the Tenth Legion as he follows Caesar and his men along the blood-soaked fringes of the Empire. This unprecedented regimen… [more below]
- Author: Dando-Collins, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0471686131
- Language: English
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Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy
$32.99 Add to cartOn the 100th anniversary of the Titanic‘s sinking, a prominent Titanic researcher offers a final chance to see the ship before it disappears forever
The Titanic was the biggest, most luxurious passenge
- Author: Pellegrino, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0470873876
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
$21.99 Add to cartIn The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes, one of the nation’s most-respected economic commentators, offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. She traces the mounting agony of the New Deale
- Author: Shlaes, Amity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0060936428
- Language: English
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Citizen of the World: Soon-Young and the U.N.
$29.95 Add to cartAs a North Korean refugee, Soon-Young Yoon understood from an early age that people’s destinies are connected to international events. This book is a collection of her reflections as a feminist who ha
- Author: Yoon, Soon-Young
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1954786719
- Language: English
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Selected Works of José Carlos Mariátegui
$18.00 Add to cartJos Carlos Mari tegui was born in Moquegua, Peru, to a poor mestizo family on July 14, 1894. Considered by many to be the father of Latin American Communism, he is celebrated for being the first pers
- Author: Noakes, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: February 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1087951690
- Language: English
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The Navalny case: Conspiracy to serve foreign policy
$21.99 Add to cartWas Navalny deliberately poisoned? Does the evidence we have justify sanctions against Russia? Was the recording with the KGB agent a set-up? Is Navalny really the “main opponent of Vladimir Putin”? D… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 2315011345
- Language: English
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Putin’s Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
$21.99 Add to cartA searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from the bravest of Russian journalists (The New York Times)
Hailed as a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness (New States- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0805082506
- Language: English
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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
$32.00 Read moreThe meaning of our concern for mortal remains–from antiquity through the twentieth century
The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beas- Author: Laqueur, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180938
- Language: English
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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
$21.99 Add to cart“Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring…A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting account.” —Kirkus Review
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061702625
- Language: English
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Artist’s Path in 500 Walks: Follow the Inspired Footsteps of William Shakespeare, Frida Kahlo, Otis Redding, and More
$27.99 Add to cartFind inspiration on the trails that influenced hundreds of artists, musicians, and writers from around the world.
Step onto the trails in The Artist’s Path in 500 Walks, which takes readers around the- Series: 500 Walks
- Author: Stathers, Kath
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1645172457
- Language: English
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The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing
$28.00 Read moreNational Outdoor Book Award Winner for Outdoor Literature
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Cod—the irresistible story of the science, history, art, and culture of the least efficient way- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1635573076
- Language: English
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Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
$30.28 Add to cart
“Remarkable and hopeful . . . a deeply honest and intense
” Shehadeh’s] books are maps, painstakingly pieced together, of regions lost to senseless division, to bad choices, and to lies.”
—The Nation- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972913
- Language: English
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After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
$24.00 Add to cartTamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this m
- Author: Darwin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596916028
- Language: English
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The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World
$17.99 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Times (UK) and Sunday Times
From Putin, Trump, and Bolsonaro to Erdoğan, Orb疣, and Xi, an intimate look at the rise of stron- Author: Rachman, Gideon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1635424054
- Language: English
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A History of Ideas: The Most Intriguing, Relevant and Helpful Concepts from the Story of Humanity
$32.99 Add to cartA collection of humanity’s most inspiring ideas throughout time, bringing perspective to the challenges and wonders of being alive.
This is an unusual sort of history book: a history of ideas – and no
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1912891964
- Language: English
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Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
$26.99 Add to cart- Author: Gordon, Philip H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 125088991X
- Language: English
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
$21.99 Add to cartA bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as “a rattling good tale” (Wall Street Journal) and “popular history at its best” (Washington Post)
The- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0465023290
- Language: English
