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Series: Mercury 1968 in Canada A Year and Its Legacies Paperback Michael Hawes 9780776636597 $39.95 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

Au Canada, 1968 fut une année extraordinaire, distincte de toutes les autres en raison de son rythme d’activités frénétique et de leurs incidences sur le développement d’une nouvelle conscience nationale au sein de la population canadienne. L’année a été marquée par des décisions lourdes et contestées au Canada et à l’extérieur du pays, et dont les effets considérables ont eu une portée historique. 1968 a vu l’émergence d’un grand nombre d’événements et de phénomènes : la trudeaumanie et la naissance du Parti Québécois; l’articulation d’un nou... + Read More
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Series: A Short History of Humanity A New History of Old Europe Hardcover Johannes Krause 9780593229422 $36.00 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

A radical retelling of humanity’s restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary science of archaeogenetics.In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future. Krause is a pioneer in the revolutionary new science of archaeogenetics, archaeology augmented by revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, which has allowed scientists to uncover a new version of human history reaching b... + Read More
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Series: America at War World War I through the Tabloids Paperback Vincent Rospond 9780989692663 $42.00 HISTORY May 25, 2021

The first world war as seen in the US through gazettes and newspapers. At home and abroad. New and not usually found pictures and illustrations.Containing more than two-hundred and fifty photos and drawings, this volume examines the early months of the US entry into the first world war, what was shown and how it was shown – in the US and the allies around the world. Many of these photos have not seen the light of day for many decades. Each section is accompanied by a description and background to place the photos in context.
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Series: An Illustrated Brief History of Chinese Arts and Crafts History - Aesthetics - Invention Paperback Shang Gang 9781602201774 $24.95 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021
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Series: As Radical as Reality Itself Marxism and Tradition Paperback Neil Davidson 9781608466030 $30.50 HISTORY Jun 20, 2017

Praise for How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?:"I was frankly pole-axed by this magnificent book. Davidson resets the entire debate on the character of revolutions: bourgeois, democratic, and socialist. He's sending me, at least, back to the library."—Mike Davis, author of Planet of SlumsIn this book of essays Neil Davidson examines Marxism's relationship to previously existing traditions (the Enlightenment), as well as the precise boundaries of the Marxist tradition itself. With characteristic clarity and insight, he argues that ... + Read More
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Series: Blood Washing Blood Afghanistan's Hundred-Year War Paperback Phil Halton 9781459746640 $29.99 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

A clear-eyed view of the conflict in Afghanistan and its century-deep roots.The war in Afghanistan has consumed vast amounts of blood and treasure, causing the Western powers to seek an exit without achieving victory. Seemingly never-ending, the conflict has become synonymous with a number of issues — global jihad, rampant tribalism, and the narcotics trade — but even though they are cited as the causes of the conflict, they are in fact symptoms.Rather than beginning after 9/11 or with the Soviet “invasion” in 1979, the current conflict in Afgh... + Read More
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Series: Central America's Forgotten History Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration Hardcover Aviva Chomsky 9780807056486 $35.95 HISTORY Apr 20, 2021

Restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today.At the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty, corruption, and violence in search of asylum in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” She outlines how we often fail to remember the circumstances and ongoing effects... + Read More
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Series: Challenging China Smart Strategies for Dealing with China in the Xi Jinping Era Hardcover Sam Kaplan 9780804854320 $24.95 HISTORY Apr 06, 2021

Expertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage.This book provides a fascinating insider's look at how China is changing rapidly today, how these changes pose grave risks to the rest of the world, and how the U.S. and its allies can best address these challenges. Trade wars and U.S. presidents may come and go, but the fundamental dynamics of the U.S.-China relationship will remain in place f... + Read More
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Series: Churchill's Band of Brothers WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals Hardcover Damien Lewis 9780806541365 $36.00 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

Award-winning war reporter and internationally bestselling military historian Damien Lewis explores one of WWII’s most remarkable Special Forces missions during the Normandy landings on D-Day—and the extraordinary hunt that followed to take down a cadre of fugitive SS and Gestapo war criminals.On the night of June 13th, 1944, a twelve-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objective: hit German forces deep behind the lines, cutting the rail-tracks linking Central France to the northern coastline. In a country crawling with enemy tr... + Read More
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Series: Colfax The Longest, Wickedest Street in America Paperback Jonny Barber 9781917895118 $35.00 HISTORY Apr 15, 2021

Experience the history and lore of one the most famous, certainly most infamous, and dearly beloved streets in America—Colorado’s own Colfax Avenue. Colfax Avenue. The mere name conjures images of neon, motels, 24-hour diners, skyscrapers, whiskey bottles, cigarette butts, people from every walk of life, all of it culminating in the upward undulation of the Rocky Mountains. It's a road like no other, distilled into its purest form. Along the sidewalks of Colfax, the city hangs in balance between the desolation of the high plains to the east... + Read More
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Series: Covered with Night A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America Hardcover Nicole Eustace 9781631495878 $38.95 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

Library Journal • “Books and Authors to Know: Titles to Watch 2021” An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching implications for the definition of justice from early America to today. On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal inve... + Read More
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Series: Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures Paperback Moira Dann 9781771513487 $20.00 HISTORY Apr 20, 2021

Told in 21 objects—including furnishings, artwork, and tools—this approachable museum guide takes readers into the family history, local lore, and oddities of one of Victoria's most famous landmarks.Craigdarroch Castle, built by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir for his wife, Joan, and their family, was completed in 1890. Following Joan's death, the castle was put up for sale in 1908, and later housed a military hospital and the nascent University of Victoria.Since 1979 the castle has operated as a museum and is one of the top tourist attractions in t... + Read More
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Series: Down the Warpath to the Cedars Indians' First Battles in the Revolution Hardcover Mark R. Anderson 9780806168593 $47.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2021

In May 1776 more than two hundred Indian warriors descended the St. Lawrence River to attack Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In just three days’ fighting, the Native Americans and their British and Canadian allies forced the American fort to surrender and ambushed a fatally delayed relief column. In Down the Warpath to the Cedars, author Mark R. Anderson flips the usual perspective on this early engagement and focuses on its Native participants—their motivations, battlefield conduct, and the event’s impact in their world. In... + Read More
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Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History Dragonslayer The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich Hardcover Jay Lockenour 9781501754593 $44.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Apr 15, 2021

In this fascinating biography of the infamous ideologue Erich Ludendorff, Jay Lockenour complicates the classic depiction of this German World War I hero. Erich Ludendorff created for himself a persona that secured his place as one of the most prominent (and despicable) Germans of the twentieth century. With boundless energy and an obsession with detail, Ludendorff ascended to power and solidified a stable, public position among Germany's most influential. Between 1914 and his death in 1937, he was a war hero, a dictator, a right-wing activist,... + Read More
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Series: Erasmus Studies Erasmus on Literature His ‘Ratio' or ‘System' of 1518-1519 Paperback Anthony Grafton 9781487522100 $39.95 HISTORY Apr 28, 2021

Nothing captures Erasmus’ most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in – and thereby make or remake – worlds of thought, feeling, and action more than the Ratio verae theologiae (‘A System of True Theology’). First published separately in 1518 and 1519, it also appears in the preliminaries to the New Testament in Erasmus’ revised 1519 edition. This handy Ratio or compendious ‘System’ gives advice on how to interpret complex texts and develop persuasive arguments. Its lessons are applied to the canonical Scriptures as source, and to ever... + Read More
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Series: Exhuming Franco Spain's Second Transition Paperback Sebastiaan Faber 9780826501738 $20.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2021

What is left of Francisco Franco's legacy in Spain today? Franco ruled Spain as a military dictator from 1939 until his death in 1975. In October 2019, his remains were removed from the massive national monument in which they had been buried for forty-four years. For some, the exhumation confirmed that Spain has long been a modern, consolidated democracy. The reality is more complicated. In fact, the country is still deeply affected—and divided—by the dictatorial legacies of Francoism. In one short volume, Exhuming Franco covers all major facet... + Read More
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Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography Flights from Fassberg How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace Hardcover Colonel Wolfgang W. E. Samuel 9781496833648 $36.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2021

Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.), interweaves his story and that of his family with the larger history of World War II and the postwar world through a moving recollection and exploration of Fassberg, a small town in Germany few have heard of and fewer remember. Created in 1933 by the Hitler regime to train German aircrews, Fassberg hosted Samuel’s father in 1944–45 as an officer in the German air force. As fate and Germany's collapse chased young Wolfgang, Fassberg later became his home as a postwar refugee, frightened, traum... + Read More
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Series: Flourishing and Free More Stories of Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island Paperback Haley Healey 9781772033533 $9.95 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

An inspiring and eye-opening collection of true stories about fourteen women who blazed their own trails in life and contributed in a fundamental way to the history of Vancouver Island and the surrounding islands.In this fascinating follow-up to On Their Own Terms, author Haley Healey chronicles the lives of a whole new crop of resilient, hard-working, rule-breaking, diverse women who lived on and around Vancouver Island. Flourishing and Free introduces readers to Sylvia Stark (1839–1944), who was born into slavery in Missouri and went on to be... + Read More
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Series: Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871 Paperback Adam Zamoyski 9781474615211 $34.99 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life.Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our modern world, and into the instincts that inspired its most generous and most murderous impulses. It explains how the Enlightenment dislodged Christianity from its central position in the life of European societies and how man's quest for ecstasy and transcendence flooded into areas such as the ... + Read More
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Series: Homewaters A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound Hardcover David B. Williams 9780295748603 $44.90 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Apr 24, 2021

Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region?s ecological complexities.Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend and betwe... + Read More
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Series: Imperfect Union A Father’s Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg Paperback Chuck Raasch 9780811739863 $31.95 HISTORY Apr 15, 2021

On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action. His father, Sam, a New York Times correspondent, was already on his way to Gettysburg when he learned of his son’s wounding but had to wait until the guns went silent before seeking out his son, who had died at the town’s poorhouse. Sitting next to his dead boy, Sam Wilkeson then wrote one of the greatest battlefield dispatches in American history. This vivid exploration of one of Gettysburg’s mo... + Read More
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Series: In This Place Together A Palestinian's Journey to Collective Liberation Hardcover Penina Eilberg-Schwartz 9780807046821 $35.95 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

A narrative meditation on joint nonviolence, opening a window to the questions of power, multiple narratives, and imagination that touch on struggles for justice everywhere.As a Palestinian youth, Sulaiman Khatib encountered the occupation in his village and attempted to fight back, stabbing an Israeli. Imprisoned at the age of 14, he began a process of political and spiritual transformation still unfolding today. In a book he asked Penina Eilberg-Schwartz, an American Jew, to write, and based on years of conversation between them, Khatib share... + Read More
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Series: In the Waves My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine Paperback Rachel Lance 9781524744175 $24.00 HISTORY Apr 06, 2021

Now in paperback, a thrilling tale of science, adventure, and a historical mystery: how an inventive female scientist cracked the case of the first successful—and disastrous—submarine attack.On the night of February 17, 1864, a tiny Confederate submarine, the H.L. Hunley, made its way toward the USS Housatonic just outside the Charleston harbor. Within a matter of hours, the Union ship’s stern was blown open in a spray of wood planks. The explosion sank the ship, killing many of its crew. And the submarine, the first ever to be successful in co... + Read More
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Series: Israel A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth Hardcover Noa Tishby 9781982144937 $36.99 HISTORY Apr 06, 2021

“This is not your Bubbie’s history book.” —Bill Maher, host of Real Time with Bill Maher ?“A fascinating—and very moving—book that should be read by anyone for whom Israel is a mystery.” —Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network A personal, spirited, and concise chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most fascinating countries in the world—Israel.Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot button issue and a thorny topic of deba... + Read More
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Series: Ladies Can't Climb Ladders The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women Paperback Jane Robinson 9781784163990 $21.99 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

TELEGRAPH: TOP 50 BOOKS OF 2020It is a myth that the First World War liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It should have marked a social revolution, opening the doors of the traditional professions to women who had worked so hard during the War, and welcoming them inside as equals.But what really happened? Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of pioneering women forging careers in the fields of medicine, law, academia, architecture, eng... + Read More
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Series: Capstone Classics Letters from a Stoic The Ancient Classic Hardcover Seneca 9781119751359 $15.99 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

Throughout the centuries, Seneca has been admired as one of the greatest writers of antiquity. He has a way of expressing Stoic philosophy that makes it seem just as relevant to life today as it was two thousand years ago. Seneca taught that we should remain grounded in the present moment by being fully aware of the impermanence of life. In being clear-sighted and dealing with adversity head-on, it’s possible to live a life of meaning and contentment in the here and now, truly enjoying nature, art, friends and loved ones. The rise and rise in p... + Read More
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Series: Louis L'Amour's Wild West An Illustrated Celebration of America's Favorite Writer of Westerns Paperback Bruce Wexler 9781510760127 $26.99 HISTORY Apr 20, 2021

Join beloved Western author Louis L'Amour (320 million books sold) in the beautiful and bold American West. Louis L’Amour, one of American’s most beloved Western writers, wrote over 100 novels in a thirty-year career. With over 320 million books sold, he is one of the most popular writers ever to put pen to paper. His novels were written in a clean flowing style and featured highly detailed Western settings, weapons, and equipment, a result of his research and firsthand observations from his North Dakota childhood. Now Bruce Wexler brings Louis... + Read More
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Series: Mining Country A people's history of Canada's mines and miners Paperback John Sandlos 9781459413535 $29.95 HISTORY Sep 07, 2021

Mining has a significant presence in every part of Canada — from east to west coasts to the far north. This book tells the stories of the people and companies who pushed mining into new territories, created new towns and generated jobs by the thousands. It highlights the experiences of those who lived and worked in mining towns across the country, as well as the rise of major mining companies and the emergence of Toronto and Vancouver as centres of global mining finance. It also addresses the effects mining has had on Indigenous communities and... + Read More
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Series: More Bad Days in History The Delightfully Dismal, Day-by-Day Saga of Ignominy, Idiocy, and Incompetence Continues Hardcover Michael Farquhar 9781426221460 $34.00 HISTORY Apr 06, 2021

In these gleefully gloomy pages, you'll find a politically smeared George Washington, a cranky Colonel Sanders, a homicidal Saint Olga of Kiev, a cuckolded Napoleon, a flame-censored Steinbeck, a treacherous Douglas MacArthur, a weeping Einstein, an exasperated Charles Dickens, a humiliated King Henry II, and a faux-contrite Ted Kennedy. And that's just in July!From the decadent palaces of ancient Rome to the modern Halls of Congress, this illuminating (sometimes disturbing) narrative features an almost endless array of misbehavior, amusing mis... + Read More
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Series: Murder at the Mission A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West Hardcover Blaine Harden 9780525561668 $40.00 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent “alternative facts” in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would become the Oregon Trail. Dr. Marcus Whitman and Reverend Henry Spalding were headed to present-day Washington state and Idaho, where they aimed to convert mem... + Read More
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Series: Names of New York Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names Hardcover Joshua Jelly-Schapiro 9781524748920 $29.00 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

From the co-editor of the award-winning Nonstop Metropolis—a fascinating journey into the past, present, and future of New York City through its place-names and the stories they containDrawing on his background in cultural geography, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro excavates the wealth of stories that are embedded in New York City’s place-names and uses them to illuminate the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place. He traces the ways in which the native Lenape, the Dutch settlers, the British invaders, and successive waves of immigran... + Read More
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Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book No Common Ground Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice Hardcover Karen L. Cox 9781469662671 $32.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and ... + Read More
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Series: Nuclear Folly A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis Hardcover Serhii Plokhy 9780393540819 $47.00 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making... + Read More
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Series: Oak Island: The 200-year Search for Treasure and Truth Paperback John Bell 9781459506725 $0.00 HISTORY Apr 06, 2021

For more than two hundred years, treasure hunters have dug and drilled into the depths of Nova Scoti'?s Oak Island. They have documented a deep man-made money pit and a complex set of connecting flood tunnels. They have found relics and quantities of coconut fibres brought from the Caribbean. But no treasure has yet been found.There are multiple theories to explain what is buried on the island, who did it and why. There are compelling explanations involving the Vikings, the Aztecs, Spanish conquistadors with treasure to hide, the notorious pira... + Read More
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Series: Once Upon a Time in Iraq Paperback James Bluemel 9781785944574 $21.99 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

’Brings home the full enormity of the Iraq war’ - Simon Jenkins, The GuardianWhen troops invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime, most people expected an easy victory. Instead, the gamble we took was a grave mistake, and its ramifications continue to reverberate through the lives of millions, in Iraq and the West. As we gain more distance from those events, it can be argued that many of the issues facing us today - the rise of the Islamic State, increased Islamic terrorism, intensified violence in the Middle East, mass migration,... + Read More
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Series: Our War How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War Paperback Christopher Somerville 9781474617635 $19.99 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war also, victory might not have come in 1945' DAILY TELEGRAPHIn this powerful and moving narrative, Christopher Somerville skilfully links personal testimonies to present an epic which embraces comedy and tragedy, pride and degradation, close comradeship and stark racial prejudice, devotion to the benign Mother Country and a burning desire to see the back of her. Many of the veterans had never previously talked of their experiences... + Read More
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Series: Global South Asia Outcaste Bombay City Making and the Politics of the Poor Paperback Juned Shaikh 9780295748504 $45.00 HISTORY Grade (US) from 17 Apr 25, 2021

Over the course of the twentieth century, Bombay?s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, caste distinctions played a pivotal role in determining who was excluded from the city?s economic transformations. Labor historian Juned Shaikh documents the symbiosis between industrial capitalism and the caste sy... + Read More
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Series: Pilgrimage Hardcover Peter Stanford 9780500252413 $45.95 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

A thought-provoking reflection on the practice and history of pilgrimage, and a compelling exploration of its relevance today.Pilgrimage, a global ritual embraced by nearly all faiths, is one of civilization’s most enduring traditions. In this compelling book, author and journalist Peter Stanford reflects on the reasons people have walked along the same sacred paths through the ages. Through this history, Stanford explores how the experiences of the first pilgrims to Jerusalem, Mecca, and Santiago de Compostela compare to the millions of people... + Read More
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Series: Pirates Then & Now Notorious Outlaws of the Sea Hardcover Michael Fleeman 9781951274627 $26.99 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

Who doesn't love pirates? From Captain Hook to Captain Jack Sparrow, Blackbeard to Black Bart, these pistol-packing, cutlass-flashing, bandana-topped outlaws of the high seas have stirred the imagination for hundreds of years with their adventurous spirit, their love of rum, fighting, plunder, and the way they growl "ARRRR." This richly illustrated book invites readers to cruise the Caribbean and prowl the Spanish Main. Pirates is a colorful and insightful exploration of real-life buccaneers, corsairs and privateers, spirited women pirates, oft... + Read More
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Series: Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip's War (LOA #337) Hardcover Lisa Brooks 9781598536737 $60.00 HISTORY May 25, 2021

For the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower’s arrival, a landmark collection of firsthand accounts charting the history of the English newcomers and their fateful encounters with the region’s native peoplesFor centuries the story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower has been told and retold—the landing at Plymouth Rock and the first Thanksgiving, and the decades that followed, as the colonists struggled to build an enduring and righteous community in the New World wilderness. But the place where the Plymouth colonists settled was no wilderness: it ... + Read More
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Series: Porn Work Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism Paperback Heather Berg 9781469661926 $30.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis... + Read More
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Series: Saving My Enemy How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Lives Hardcover Bob Welch 9781684510337 $32.99 HISTORY Apr 27, 2021

Saving My Enemy is a “Band of Brothers” sequel like no other. Guilt nearly killed one of the celebrated “Band of Brothers” members, Sgt. Don Malarkey. He was a hero for his service in World War II, especially in the Battle of the Bulge, yet he came to the brink of suicide, haunted by the memories of the German soldiers he killed. Across the ocean, Fritz Engelbert was shackled in shame for having been a pawn of Hitler--he too had fought in the Battle of the Bulge--but for the Germans. He could not find peace. Saving My Enemy is the touching ... + Read More
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Series: Studies in Social Medicine Sick and Tired An Intimate History of Fatigue Paperback Emily K. Abel 9781469663340 $26.95 HISTORY Apr 12, 2021

Medicine finally has discovered fatigue. Recent articles about various diseases conclude that fatigue has been underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and undertreated. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities have also ignored the phenomenon. As a result, we know little about what it means to live with this condition, especially given its diverse symptoms and causes. Emily K. Abel offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by her own experiences as a cancer survivor. Abel reveals how the limits of... + Read More
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Series: UTP Insights Sovereignty The Biography of a Claim Hardcover Peter Russell 9781487509095 $29.95 HISTORY Apr 10, 2021

Peter H. Russell presents an accessible, historically-informed biography of the sovereignty claim, explores its limitations as well as ways of transcending them through the division of powers found within federal states.To be effective, sovereignty must be secured through force or consent by those living in a territory, and accepted externally by other sovereign states. To be legitimate, the sovereignty claim must have the consent of its people and accord with international human rights. In Sovereignty: The Biography of a Claim, Peter H. Russel... + Read More
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Series: Stalin's War A New History of World War II Hardcover Sean McMeekin 9781541672796 $50.00 HISTORY Apr 20, 2021

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin.... + Read More
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Series: Stampede Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike Hardcover Brian Castner 9780771018695 $35.00 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them (and their pack animals) died in the attempt.The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well-timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. Within weeks, tens of thousands of them ... + Read More
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Series: Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos Book 1, 1999-2009 Globalization, Human Rights, Religion, War, and the Age of the Internet Paperback Mark Edelman Boren 9781644210369 $23.95 HISTORY Aug 03, 2021

The first all-encompassing history of today’s global student activism movement.Student resistance in the first decade of the 21st century was the single most powerful liberating force around the globe during those years. Challenging governments—in a few cases, overturning governments—at a time when representational democracies appeared weak and authoritarian regimes were on the rise. In Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos, Book 1, Mark Boren goes continent by continent, country by country, to show us the contours of the new frontlines of res... + Read More
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Series: Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos Book 2, 2010-Now Social Media, Womens Rights, and the Rise of Activism in a Time of Nationalism, Mass Migrations, and Climate Change Paperback Mark Edelman Boren 9781644211267 $24.95 HISTORY Aug 03, 2021

The stirring history of global student activism during the second decade of the 21st century—up to and including the Black Lives Matter movement and the extraordinary events of 2020.Student resistance in the second decade of the 21st century has increased in both quantity and quality, supercharged by social media, to the point where it has become the single most powerful force for change in the world today, embodying the hopes of hundreds of millions of citizens to finally address climate change, the condition of women and other major issues. S... + Read More
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Series: The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast Paperback Matthew Betts 9781487587949 $59.95 HISTORY Apr 22, 2021

The first comprehensive look at the archaeological history of the Atlantic Northeast, this book presents the archaeology of the region from the earliest Indigenous occupation to the first centuries of European occupation.Filling a notable gap in North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across the region. Spanning from the earliest Indigenous occupation of the ar... + Read More
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Series: The Art of Business How the Chinese Got Rich Paperback Greg Clydesdale 9781472139757 $26.99 HISTORY Apr 13, 2021

When we look at Chinese history for a guide to business, we commonly reach for Sun Tzu's The Art of War, but that is a military text. It focuses on an enemy, not a trading partner, and it certainly doesn't mention customers and their role in strategy.To come to terms with Chinese commerce, we don't need to know the Art of War. We need to know the art of business. This book explains Chinese business in history: its practices, values and achievements. As we explore business through time, we discover the strategies which enabled Chinese merchants ... + Read More