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The Red Lie: A Story of Family, Betrayal, and My Escape from China

The Red Lie: A Story of Family, Betrayal, and My Escape...

Author: Hua Foley
ISBN: 9781538194683
Format: Hardback
$61.99

The Red Lie gives the reader a powerful insight into how totalitarian states operate and how brainwashing works...  Read More >>

The Football Game That Changed America: How the NFL Created a National Holiday

The Football Game That Changed America: How the NFL...

Author: Dennis Deninger ,  Chris Fowler, ESPN/ABC Sports commentator
ISBN: 9781538196786
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The Football Game That Changed America is the first book to chronicle the entire history of the Super Bowl and examine...  Read More >>

Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports

Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World...

Author: Mark Jacob ,  Matthew Jacob
ISBN: 9781538181454
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The Harlem Globetrotters weren’t from Harlem, and they didn’t start out as globetrotters. Globetrotter is the fascinating...  Read More >>

Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese Independence

Where Every Ghost Has a Name: A Memoir of Taiwanese...

Author: Kim Liao
ISBN: 9781538194058
Format: Hardback
$61.99

Where Every Ghost Has a Name offers readers a gripping tale of Taiwan's road to democracy through the lens of one...  Read More >>

The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present

The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian...

Author: Allen James Fromherz
ISBN: 9780520398559
Format: Hardback
$49.95

This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized...  Read More >>

Lies that Kill: A Citizen's Guide to Disinformation

Lies that Kill: A Citizen's Guide to Disinformation...

Author: Elaine Kamarck ,  Darrell M. West, Darrell M. West
ISBN: 9780815740728
Format: Hardback
$46.99

Lies that Kill takes readers inside the world of disinformation campaigns to show concerned citizens how to recognize...  Read More >>

Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class Movement in Central Pennsylvania

Class-Conscious Coal Miners: The Emergence of a Working-Class...

Author: Alan J. Singer
ISBN: 9781438497723
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Multifaceted study of Pennsylvania's coal miners during the post-World War One era.  Read More >>

Hopelessly Alien: The Italian Immigration Experience in Chicago Heights

Hopelessly Alien: The Italian Immigration Experience...

Author: Louis Corsino
ISBN: 9781438497617
Format: Paperback
$92.27

An in-depth sociological investigation of ""hope"" as it applies to the Italian immigrant experience in the blue-collar...  Read More >>

Between Care and Justice: The Passions as Social Resource

Between Care and Justice: The Passions as Social Resource...

Author: Elena Pulcini ,  Silvia Benso
ISBN: 9781438497877
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments...  Read More >>

Mental Health Resilience: The Social Context of Coping with Mental Illness

Mental Health Resilience: The Social Context of Coping...

Author: Abigail Gosselin
ISBN: 9781438497815
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Examines the forms of support, resources, and opportunities a person with mental illness requires to have the resilience...  Read More >>

The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los Angeles

The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary...

Author: Michael Docherty
ISBN: 9781438497129
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility,...  Read More >>

Women in Science

Women in Science

Author: H. J. Mozans
ISBN: 9798891139718
Format: Hardback
$390.69

This book by H. J. Mozans (the pen name of John Augustine Zahm) highlights the remarkable contributions of women...  Read More >>

Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China

Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in...

Author: Kate Merkel-Hess
ISBN: 9780226834306
Format: Hardback
$74.95

Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives, concubines, and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Vegas Concierge: Sex Trafficking, Hip Hop, and Corruption in America

Vegas Concierge: Sex Trafficking, Hip Hop, and Corruption...

Author: Brian Joseph
ISBN: 9781538171691
Format: Hardback
$58.99

Vegas Concierge is the story of how the biggest sex trafficking investigation in Las Vegas history came crashing...  Read More >>

Marina Abramovic: Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places: Signed edition

Marina Abramovic: Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places:...

Author: Marina Abramovic
ISBN: 9783791377681
Format: Hardback
$205.00

Now available in a limited, slipcased edition of three hundred copies signed by the artist. Never before published,...  Read More >>

Manchester Minds: A University History of Ideas

Manchester Minds: A University History of Ideas

Author: Stuart Jones
ISBN: 9781526176325
Format: Hardback
$56.99

Publishing to mark the University of Manchester's bicentenary, this book is packed with compelling stories about...  Read More >>

Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick's Alchemy Studios

Star Trek Discovery: The Art of Glenn Hetrick's Alchemy...

Author: Joe Nazzaro
ISBN: 9781803366425
Format: Hardback
$79.99

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The Philosophy Book

The Philosophy Book

Author: DK
ISBN: 9780744091960
Format: Hardback
$73.89

""Examines more than one hundred ideas that have had a significant impact on the history and development of philosophy""--...  Read More >>

SCOTLAND YARD

SCOTLAND YARD

Author: READ SIMON
ISBN: 9781639366392
Format: Book
$92.40

A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases....  Read More >>

Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve

Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve...

Author: Alison Fragale
ISBN: 9780385549141
Format: Hardback
$76.56

A practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks, and strategies to help secure...  Read More >>

Upworthy - GOOD PEOPLE: Stories From the Best of Humanity

Upworthy - GOOD PEOPLE: Stories From the Best of Humanity...

Author: Gabriel Reilich ,  Lucia Knell
ISBN: 9781426223464
Format: Hardback
$52.99

""This ... collection of first-person tales from Upworthy will provide comfort and inspiration to anyone who could...  Read More >>

Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left, and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York

Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost...

Author: Jonathan Butler
ISBN: 9781531508159
Format: Hardback
$92.27

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ENGLISH CHEMIST

ENGLISH CHEMIST

Author: MILLS JESSICA
ISBN: 9781639367085
Format: Book
$73.79

The controversial story of one of the twentieth century's most famed scientists, Rosalind Franklin, who discovered...  Read More >>

HABITS OF A PEACEMAKER

HABITS OF A PEACEMAKER

Author: COLLIS STEVEN T
ISBN: 9781639932979
Format: Book
$71.25

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WORLD SHE EDITED

WORLD SHE EDITED

Author: READING AMY
ISBN: 9781328595911
Format: Book
$92.40

A lively and intimate biography of trailblazing and era-defining New Yorker editor Katharine S. White, who helped...  Read More >>

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