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A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
$19.99 Add to cartFrom a New York Times bestselling historian, the “truly revelatory” (Wall Street Journal) story of how the alphabet ordered our world
A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of alphabetization
- Author: Flanders, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1541601165
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters
$18.00 Add to cartThe walking dead from 15 centuries haunt this compendium of ghostly visitations through the ages, exploring the history of our fascination with zombies and other restless souls.
Since ancient times,- Author: Bruce, Scott G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27, 2016
- ISBN10: 0143107682
- Language: English
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The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State
$21.00 Add to cartThis is a book about China’s grand strategy and its future as an ambitious, declining, and dangerous rival power. Once the darling of U.S. statesmen, corporate elites, and academics, the People’s Repu… [more below]
- Author: Blumenthal, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: December 28 2020
- ISBN10: 084475031X
- Language: English
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The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade
$39.99 Add to cartIn her earlier work, The History of the Ancient World, Susan Wise Bauer wrote of the rise of kingship based on might. But in the years between the fourth and twelfth centuries, rulers had to find new
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0393059758
- Language: English
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
$25.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure,… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0345308239
- Language: English
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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro
$7.95 Add to cartClassic collection of black history and trivia
First published in 1934 and revised in 1962, this book gathers journalist and historian Joel Augustus Rogers’ columns from the syndicated newspaper featur
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0960229477
- Language: English
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Lying about Hitler
$19.99 Add to cartIn ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of histo… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0465021530
- Language: English
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Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland
$41.25 Add to cartCompellingly written and evenhanded in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. Mr. McKittrick and Mr. McVea… [more below]
- Author: McKittrick, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 18 2002
- ISBN10: 1561310700
- Language: English
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The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$35.00 Read moreFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations
Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply&#- Author: Pirie, Fernanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617940
- Language: English
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Putin
$40.00 Read moreThe first comprehensive, fully up-to-date biography of Vladimir Putin, woven into the tumultuous saga of Russia over the last sixty years
Vladimir Putin is the world’s most dangerous man. Alone among- Author: Short, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1627793666
- Language: English
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Southeast Asia: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe eleven countries of Southeast Asia are diverse in every way, from the ethnicities and religions of their residents to their political systems and levels of prosperity. These nations–Myanmar, Thai… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Rush, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0190248769
- Language: English
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Strategy: A History
$40.99 Add to cartSelected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013
In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world’s leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of st- Author: Freedman, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: October 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0199325154
- Language: English
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
$45.99 Add to cartFrom the beginning of history to the present, a sweep of the world’s oceans and seas and how they have shaped the course of civilization.
From the author of the acclaimed The Great Sea, (“Magnificent- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1088
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 0199934983
- Language: English
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
$25.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse sch… [more below]
- Author: Marcuse, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0807014176
- Language: English
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The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
$22.95 Add to cart“The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe.”–Kimber… [more below]
- Author: Beydoun, Khaled A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0520402693
- Language: English
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Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
$22.00 Add to cartThe story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Se
- Author: McGreevy, John T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066040
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914
$35.00 Add to cartIt began as a small, slow, and unadorned sailing vessel–in a word, ordinary. Later, it was a weary workhorse in the age of steam. But the story of the Edwin Fox reveals how an everyday merchant ship … [more below]
- Author: Cothran, Boyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1469676559
- Language: English
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The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
$24.99 Add to cartLarry Gonick’s celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious scholarship and a masterpiece of popular literature. P… [more below]
- Series: Cartoon History of the Earth (Paperback) #03
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2002
- ISBN10: 0393324036
- Language: English
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Israel: A History
$25.99 Add to cart“The most comprehensive account of Israeli history yet published.” — The Sunday Telegraph
“An epic history . . . a picture of an Israel that persevered and prevailed, that was determined to survive an
- Author: Gilbert, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: September 23 2008
- ISBN10: 0688123635
- Language: English
