World
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Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – “A rich, penetrating, and moving portrayal of Arab-Jewish hostility, told in human terms.”–Newsday
Now expanded and updated – “The best and most comprehensive work ther… [more below]- Author: Shipler, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0553447513
- Language: English
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The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History
$19.99 Add to cartAs seen on PBS’s American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom.
“The genius of Hanson’s fascinati- Author: Hanson, Thor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097405
- Language: English
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When China Attacks: A Warning to America
$29.99 Add to cartWhen China Attacks is a fire bell in the night–a warning about a war that we are already losing. It offers a frightening, and well-founded, blow-by-blow account of what might happen next.
China pose- Author: Newsham, Grant
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1684513650
- Language: English
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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
$32.00 Read moreThe creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Ro… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1610397215
- Language: English
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A History of Tea: The Life and Times of the World’s Favorite Beverage
$14.99 Add to cartAs the world’s most popular beverage, tea has fascinated us, awakened us, motivated us, and calmed us for well over two thousand years.
A History of Tea tells the compelling story of the rise of tea i- Author: Martin, Laura C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0804851123
- Language: English
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Wall and the Gate
$34.99 Add to cartFrom renowned human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, an unprecedented exploration of the struggle for human rights in Israel’s courts
A farmer from a village in the occupied West Bank, cut off from his ol- Author: Sfard, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1250860644
- Language: English
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
$32.50 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The “lively” (The New Yorker), “convincing” (Forbes), and “riveting pick-me-up we all need right now” (People) that proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that ou- Author: Bregman, Rutger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0316418536
- Language: English
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Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn
$21.95 Add to cartMeticulously researched while reading like a fast-paced thriller, this explosive new book details the way the Israel lobby deployed charges of anti-Semitism to destroy Jeremy Corbyn’s bid for power as
- Author: Winstanley, Asa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193810
- Language: English
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Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots
$18.00 Add to cart“This book is a tour de force.” –Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James Suzm- Author: Suzman, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0525561773
- Language: English
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What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom
$28.00 Read moreThe first major book on the new Iranian revolution
‘A document of real optimism.’ Guardian On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next w- Author: Azizi, Arash
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 086154711X
- Language: English
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The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
$28.95 Add to cartToday’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a glo
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0231193742
- Language: English
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It’s a Continent: Unravelling Africa’s History One Country at a Time
$21.99 Read more‘. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It’
- Author: Ukata, Chinny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1529376785
- Language: English
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The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time: Decoding History’s Unsolved Mysteries
$15.95 Read moreMaster storyteller Brad Meltzer counts down and decodes the world’s top 10 most intriguing conspiracies stories.
Wanted: the truth. In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 grea- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1523512369
- Language: English
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
$19.99 Add to cart*NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
A Toronto Star Bestselling Book of the Year “Witty and entertaining.”–Sarah Knight “Laugh-out-loud.”–Steve Brusatte AN EXHILARATING JOURNEY THROUGH THE MOST CREATIV- Author: Phillips, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1335936637
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$31.18 Read moreThis surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world.
In License to Travel, Patr- Author: Bixby, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 520375858
- Language: English
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Diary of an Invasion
$25.00 Read moreOne of the most important Ukrainian voices throughout the Russian invasion, the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees collects his searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.
This journal of th
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052811
- Language: English
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Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pi
- Author: Finkelstein, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1939293715
- Language: English
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Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea’s Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
$16.99 Add to cart“Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today.” –Martin Uden, Former British Amba… [more below]
- Author: Tudor, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0804846391
- Language: English
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
$22.00 Add to cartDividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 13 1996
- ISBN10: 0679730052
- Language: English
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Religiones del Mundo (World Religions): Cultos, Ideas Y Creencias
$25.00 Read moreLa historia y doctrina de las principales religiones del mundo explicada de forma sencilla y clara.
Descubre los principios y fundamentos de las religiones universales y otros cultos minoritarios, su- Series: DK Compact Culture Guides
- Author: Bowker, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 074406435X
- Language: Spanish
