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The Boleyn Women

The Boleyn Women

Elizabeth Norton

Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History

Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History

Studs Terkel & Ronald J. Grele

On the Move: A Life

On the Move: A Life

Desks: With Plans and Complete Instructions for Building Seven Classic Desks

Desks: With Plans and Complete Instructions for Building Seven ...

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The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

The Last Peasant War: Violence and Revolution in Twentieth-Century ...

Jakub S. Beneš

The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism

The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World

David Van Reybrouck

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made ...

Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe

Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere ...

Anna Brickhouse

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply ...

Peter S. Goodman

Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind

Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind

Johann Gottfried Herder

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World

Marc-William Palen

America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance With Foreign Dictators

America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance With Foreign ...

Jacob Heilbrunn

British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World: Entrepreneurs and Evangelicals, 1756-1840

British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World: Entrepreneurs ...

Roshan Allpress

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne'er-Do-Wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, ...

The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made ...

A Mystery From the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap

A Mystery From the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap

The Luther Myth: The Image of Martin Luther From Religious Reformer to Völkisch Icon

The Luther Myth: The Image of Martin Luther From Religious Reformer ...

Patrick Hayden-Roy

Resonances Against Fascism: Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds From Kurt Weill to Black Lives Matter

Resonances Against Fascism: Modernist and Avant-Garde Sounds ...

Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America

Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America

Benjamin L. Alpers

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

A History of Fake Things on the Internet

A History of Fake Things on the Internet

Walter Scheirer

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry ...

Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

Feminist Lives: Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners of War During the Second World War

Jewish Soldiers in Nazi Captivity: American and British Prisoners ...

Yorai Linenberg

The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrialization: A Political and Cultural History

The British Miner in the Age of De-Industrializat[..] A Political ...

In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950

In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950

Enlightened Oxford: The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth-Century Britain and Beyond

Enlightened Oxford: The University and the Cultural and Political ...

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the ...

Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

Safe Haven: The United Kingdom's Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice

Safe Haven: The United Kingdom's Investigations Into Nazi Collaborators ...

Jon Silverman & Robert Sherwood

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, ...

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968

The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential ...

Luke A. Nichter

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power ...

Wolfram Eilenberger

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic ...

Nicholas Radburn

The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half ...

Jonathan Sperber

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient ...

Simon Winchester

The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America

The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern ...

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep ...

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey ...

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples From Destruction

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's ...

The Oxford History of World War II

The Oxford History of World War II

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth ...

J. Bradford DeLong

The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World ...

The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything

The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist ...

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern ...

Nicholas Mulder

Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations ...

The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Water for Gotham: A History

Water for Gotham: A History

Gerard T. Koeppel

Shakespeare and Terrorism

Shakespeare and Terrorism

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

Fernando Cervantes

Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View

Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Simon Winchester

Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain

Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain

A History of the American People

A History of the American People

James Truslow Adams

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, ...

A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It

A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat ...

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition

Mark Lawrence Schrad

The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas

The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas

Robert Zaretsky

Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of Knowledge

Hernando Colon's New World of Books: Toward a Cartography of ...

Jose Maria Perez Fernandez & Edward Wilson-Lee

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams

The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable ...

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present