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Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America
$18.00 Add to cartA newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid’s best-sellin- Author: Reid, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0300224656
- Language: English
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Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation
$12.95 Add to cartIn 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, leading an expedition of five ships and over 270 men, set sail from Spain in search of the Spice Islands. Three years later, one ship returned to port with just 18 men. Ma… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Travel, Adventure
- Author: Pigafetta, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 28 1994
- ISBN10: 0486280993
- Language: English
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Great Maps: The World’s Masterpieces Explored and Explained
$38.00 Add to cartA superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world!
From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and maps of the moon, this captivating maps book is a must-… [more below]- Series: DK Great
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1465424636
- Language: English
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A Flag Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of National Symbols
$18.99 Add to cartCombining keen analysis of current events with world history, Tim Marshall, author of the New York Times bestseller Prisoners of Geography, provides “an entertaining whistle-stop tour of world flags” … [more below]
- Series: Politics of Place #2
- Author: Marshall, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1501168347
- Language: English
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Oslo
$14.95 Read moreWinner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Play
Winner of the 2017 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play
Winner of the 2017 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
“Oslo is a wonderful a
- Author: Rogers, J. T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 09, 2017
- ISBN10: 1559365560
- Language: English
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To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
$19.99 Add to cartA deeply researched international history and “exemplary study” (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great … [more below]
- Author: Zelikow, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1538764687
- Language: English
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Historic Battlefields in 500 Walks
$27.99 Read moreTour hundreds of historic battlefields across the world with this captivating guide to exploring the sites where empires rose and fell.
Stretching across the millennia from prehistoric times to the 20- Series: 500 Walks
- Author: Fallon, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1667200496
- Language: English
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
$14.99 Read moreIbn Battutah – ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
He did not return t- Author: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1909621471
- Language: English
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The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present
$19.99 Add to cartHermits have thrived in every major historical era, geography, culture, and society – from antiquity to the present, East and West, in deserts, forests,
and mountains, depicted in art, literature, and
- Author: Rodriguez, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736866508
- Language: English
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The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan After the Americans Left
$26.00 Read moreThe first account of the new Taliban–showing who they are, what they want, and how they differ from their predecessors
A Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Book of 2023 Since the fall of Kabul in 2021, the- Author: Abbas, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300267886
- Language: English
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The Book of This Day in History
$16.98 Add to cartGo through the year, day by day, to discover the variety of events that took place on that day. This fun, informative read will entertain you throughout the year (Leap Day included)!
- Hundreds of events
- Series: Book of
- Author: Publications International Ltd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: May 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640301925
- Language: English
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
$18.99 Add to cartFrom The Three Stooges to Seinfeld, Born to Kvetch is a smart and witty portrait of Yiddish and its relationship to both Jewish culture and American life.
“An earthy romp through the lingua franca of J
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Wex, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0061132179
- Language: English
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Inside Terrorism
$28.95 Read moreBruce Hoffman’s Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition of his classic text, Ho
- Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
- Author: Hoffman, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0231174772
- Language: English
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Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time
$19.95 Read moreA wide-ranging and incisive collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, addressing the urgent questions of this tumultuous moment.
In these informative interviews, conducted for Truthout by C.J. Polych
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599050
- Language: English
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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
$19.00 Add to cartMark Kurlansky’s first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy–with recipes throughout.
According t- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1632863839
- Language: English
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Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
$19.99 Add to cartThe defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is it avoidable? And if it happens, is the outcome already inevitable?
China and America are world powers … [more below]- Author: Mahbubani, Kishore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1541768140
- Language: English
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
$22.99 Add to cartThe Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt, from c. 700,000 BC to AD 311. Following the story from the Egyptians’ prehistoric origins to their conquest by the P… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 525
- Publish Date: February 19 2004
- ISBN10: 0192804588
- Language: English
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Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program
$40.00 Add to cartNorth Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this country–one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years–progress fro
- Author: Hecker, Siegfried S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1503634450
- Language: English
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The Feminism Book
$19.99 Add to cartAre you born a woman_x2026_ or do you become one? Can men ever truly be feminists? And do we still need feminism in the 21st century?
This book answers these questions and many more, exploring the str- Series: Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0744051576
- Language: English
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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man’s Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
$25.48 Add to cartNow part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa–and the terr
- Author: Lindqvist, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1565843592
- Language: English
