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    The Age of Insecurity
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    The Age of Insecurity

    Finalist, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction Finalist, 2024 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn't...
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    Being in Being
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    Being in Being

    Being in Being contains three masterpieces by legendary Haida mythteller Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay. The shortest recounts the high points of the legend of his family. The second, Raven Travelling, is the longest and most complex version of the story...
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    Isle of Skye Jigsaw Puzzle
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    Isle of Skye Jigsaw Puzzle

    The isle of Skye is one of the most dramatically beautiful of all the Hebridean islands. At fifty miles long, it is also the largest of the Inner Hebrides and boasts a rich history and a huge range of wildlife. It is also a top destination for walkers...
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    The Iona Abbey Jigsaw Puzzle
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    The Iona Abbey Jigsaw Puzzle

    Iona is one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish Hebrides, and full of historical associations. It was here that St Columba came by boat in 563 from Ireland, bringing Christianity to Scotland and establishing a monastery that became one of the...
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    Pax Economica
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    Pax Economica

    Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counterhistory of an idea,...
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    Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence
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    Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence

    The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume...
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    Big Mall
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    Big Mall

    A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?Kate Black grew up in West Edmonton Mall - a mall on steroids, notorious for its indoor...
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    Royals on tour
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    Royals on tour

    Royals on Tour explores visits by European monarchs and princes to colonies, and by indigenous royals to Europe in the 1800s and early 1900s with case studies of travel by royals from Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium,...
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    Pox Romana
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    Pox Romana

    In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then,...
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    They Called It Peace
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    They Called It Peace

    Imperial conquest and colonisation depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these...
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    Against Erasure
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    Against Erasure

    A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian society prior to occupation.This book tells the story, in both English and Arabic, of a land full of people -...
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    The Charisma of World Revolution
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    The Charisma of World Revolution

    That the idea of world revolution was crucial for the Bolshevik leaders in the years following the 1917 revolution is a well-known fact. But what did the party's rank and file make of it? How did it resonate with the general population? And what can a...
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    Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution
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    Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution

    A history that reframes the Bolsheviks' unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917 The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia's governing authority but also the property order on which it stood. The upheaval...
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    It's All about the Land
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    It's All about the Land

    Rooted in ancestral spirit, knowledge, and law, It's All about the Land presents a passionate argument for Indigenous Resurgence as the pathway toward justice for Indigenous peoples.Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian...
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  • Let This Radicalize You Workbook
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    Let This Radicalize You Workbook

    This workbook is intended as an extension of our book Let This Radicalize You. It was created to feature resources that we couldn't fit in the book, including other helpful books, essays, wisdom from veteran organizers, and more.Educator and activist...
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    The Wine List
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    The Wine List

    Beyond geography and weather, wine reflects a specific time: technology, popular culture, stories, status, influencers, packaging, marketing, and creative trends all combine to contribute to how 'great' a wine is considered. This book...
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    Flight of the WASP
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    Flight of the WASP

    Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America's history.For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White...
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    Free Your Mind!
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    Free Your Mind!

    Between 1967 and 1970 Italian auteur Giovanni 'Tinto' Brass directed four feature films in London, each starring a woman as the main character.Exploring the political, cultural and sexual ideas of their time, often in a deliberate...
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    Superbook
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    Superbook

    THIS IS THE GUIDE TO CLASSIC SUPERHERO MOVIES YOU NEVER KNEW YOU NEEDED.If you mention the word 'superhero' these days, the mind is immediately bombarded by visions from the MCU, DCU and all the numerous phases, extended TV series and...
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    Lost Federations
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    Lost Federations

    SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE.We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early...
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    The Long Shadow of German Colonialism
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    The Long Shadow of German Colonialism

    From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most school textbooks.While debates are now common...
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    18
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    18

    A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction. This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish...
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    Shake it Up, Baby
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    Shake it Up, Baby

    When BEATLEMANIA seized the nation: Relive the Mayhem of 1963The Beatles broke up more than half a century ago, yet millions around the globe are still drawn to the legacy of four lads from Liverpool. It really shouldn't be like this. But, from...
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    The spatiality and temporality of urban violence
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    The spatiality and temporality of urban violence

    This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban' social relations. The book builds on the insight that...
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    The Land Carries Our Ancestors
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    The Land Carries Our Ancestors

    A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the landThe Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of today's most boldly innovative Native American artists...
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    State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France
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    State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France

    In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and its revolutionary bourgeoisie, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not...
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    Remilitarized Zone
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    Remilitarized Zone

    During World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan's civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. It did so for a simple reason:to impose the strenuous health standards necessary to control the venereal...
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    The History of the Republic of Turkey
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    The History of the Republic of Turkey

    A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkeythat gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey. The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were...
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    How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis
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    How We Outwitted and Survived the Nazis

    "Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror."-Library Journal(starred review)"[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman."-Publishers WeeklyIn World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husbandWacek...
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    Holy Food
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    Holy Food

    Does God have a recipe?"Holy Foodis a titanic feat of research and a fascinating exploration of American faith and culinary rites. Christina Ward is the perfect guide generous, wise, and ecumenical." -Adam Chandler, author ofDrive-Thru Dreams"Holy Food...
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    The Gerald Horne Reader
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    The Gerald Horne Reader

    I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Readeris a timely and essential collection of the many works of Professor Gerald Horne-a historian who has made an indelible impact on the study of US and international history.Horne approaches his study of history as a deeply...
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    Shadow Empires
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    Shadow Empires

    An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times.The world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins...
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    The Wisest Fool
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    The Wisest Fool

    James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind...
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    The Kings of Algiers
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    The Kings of Algiers

    A richly detailed history of the Bacris and the Busnachs, two renowned Jewish families whose influence and reputation shook the capitals of Europe and America.At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, the Bacri brothers and their nephew, Naphtali Busnach,...
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    Riambel
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    Riambel

    Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is starkly different from her own yet one which would...
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    Open Wounds
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    Open Wounds

    The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, the high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently reawakened to their...
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    Post-Imperial Possibilities
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    Post-Imperial Possibilities

    After the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally and economically? In Post-Imperial Possibilities, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper examine three large-scale, transcontinental...
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    War Paths
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    War Paths

    Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks the tumult of battle. As he recounts the military prowess of the clans surely the most feared...
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    Lady Sapiens
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    Lady Sapiens

    45,000 years ago, rare and precious statues of faceless women with hourglass figures, sturdy hips and generous breasts surfaced across Europe. Spanning thousands of years and nurturing many a fantasy, they are known as the prehistoric Venus figurines...
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    The Lost Supper
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    The Lost Supper

    In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Anthony Bourdain, and Mark Bittman, 'a surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines' (Kirkus) from Neolithic bread to ancient Roman fish sauce and why reviving the foods of the past is the key to...
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    Pacific Voyages
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    Pacific Voyages

    "Few artists are also historians, and few historians have the talent to illustrate the people and events they study. [Gordon Miller's] paintings of ships under sail, wrecked on a lee shore, in storms and in cities are luminous."-Pacific YachtingIn...
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    American Classicist
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    American Classicist

    A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world.Edith Hamilton (18671963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former...
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    To Her Credit
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    To Her Credit

    There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story as...
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    Amerasia
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    Amerasia

    A connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuumAmerica and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagination of Europe for well over a century after 1492...
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    Committed to Memory
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    Committed to Memory

    How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance.One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First...
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    Utopianism for a Dying Planet
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    Utopianism for a Dying Planet

    How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crisesIn the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound...
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    The 7 Deadly Myths
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    The 7 Deadly Myths

    A 2023Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Religion Category"With clarity and penetrating insight, Alex Ryvchin unravels the mystery of antisemitism... Mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the ethical fate of the human race." Isaac...
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    The Righteous of the Armenian Genocide
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    The Righteous of the Armenian Genocide

    This book tells the stories of the Muslims, Christians, Jews and others who made a courageous stand against the mass slaughter of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, the first modern genocide. Foreigners and Ottomans alike ran considerable risks to bear witness...
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History: specific events and topics