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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
$20.00 Add to cartThe Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was firs
- Author: Murray, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1472958055
- Language: English
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License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport
$19.95 Add to cartThis 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0520397894
- Language: English
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Summer of ’49
$18.99 Add to cart“Dazzling…A celebration of a vanished heroic age and a ‘simpler America’ ” —New York Times Book Review
David Halberstam’s classic chronicle of baseball’s most magnificent season, as seen through th
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0060884266
- Language: English
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Devil Dogs: King Company, Third Battalion, 5th Marines: From Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan
$35.00 Read moreAward-winning historian Saul David reveals the searing experience of the Devil Dogs of World War II and does for the U.S. Marines what Band of Brothers did for the 101st Airborne.
The “Devil Dogs” of- Author: David, Saul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 628
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361995
- Language: English
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Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy–Winner Take All
“A rollickingly well-written book, filled with fascinating, exciting, and alarming stories about the impact of the oil- Author: Maddow, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0525575480
- Language: English
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Slavery in the Arab World
$29.85 Add to cart“…A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today…”-Arab Book World
- Author: Gordon, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310239
- Language: English
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Ecological Imperialism
$26.00 Add to cartPeople of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world – North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are ea… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Crosby, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1107569877
- Language: English
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Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
$23.00 Add to cartIn this dazzling portrait of Rome’s first imperial dynasty, Tom Holland traces the astonishing century-long story of the rise and fall of the Julio-Claudians–Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, a… [more below]
- Author: Holland, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0345806727
- Language: English
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No Mission Is Impossible: The Death-Defying Missions of the Israeli Special Forces
$20.99 Add to cartA riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal’s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting oper
- Author: Bar-Zohar, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0062379003
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Democracy: 4,000 Years of Self-Government – A Retelling for Our Times
$15.95 Add to cartThis compact history unspools the tumultuous global story that began with democracy’s radical core idea: We can collaborate, as equals, to determine our own futures. Acclaimed political thinker John K… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Keane, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1615198962
- Language: English
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The Greeks: A Global History
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today
More than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the a- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1541618297
- Language: English
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Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition
$29.95 Add to cartA wide-ranging, comprehensive look at Russia and its leader . . . well written, well reported, and well organized.—The New York Times
With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself
- Author: Baker, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1597971227
- Language: English
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10 Things You Might Not Know about Nearly Everything: A Collection of Fascinating Historical, Scientific and Cultural Trivia about People, Places and
$22.95 Read more“Guaranteed to make you the smartest person in the room One problem: you can’t stop reading this clever, amazing assortment of upscale trivia.” –Bill Kurtis, cohost of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me … [more below]
- Author: Jacob, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1572842083
- Language: English
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The Blond Knight of Germany: A Biography Of…Erich Hartmann
$44.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
- Author: Toliver, Raymond F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 22 1986
- ISBN10: 0830681892
- Language: English
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
$25.99 Add to cartIn a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expos of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in The Impuni
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420315
- Language: English
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The Education of Henry Adams
$14.95 Add to cartAs a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences and expectations unique to America. A prompt bestselle… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Adams, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552363
- Language: English
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Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People, a lively tour through Japan, Korea, and China, exploring the intertwined cultures and often fraught history of these neighboring countries.
There is- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250114055
- Language: English
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Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War
$30.00 Read moreInitially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain quickly became the front of a new kind of war. It divided Europe from north to south for a staggering forty-five… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1615199640
- Language: English
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The World Crisis, 1911-1918
$41.00 Add to cartAs first lord of the admiralty and minister for war and air, Churchill stood resolute at the center of international affairs. In this classic account, he dramatically details how the tides of despair … [more below]
- Author: Churchill, Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743283430
- Language: English
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A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
$20.95 Add to cartHow the Treaty of Versailles is still influencing current events-with a new Foreword by Sir Harold Evans and a new Introduction by the author
For more than half a century, it has been widely recognized
- Author: Andelman, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1620459914
- Language: English
