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  • Ultralearning

    Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

    Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Notes on Resistance

    Noam Chomsky dissects the multiple crises facing humankind and the planet; and provides a road map for resistance.In this completely original set of interviews between the legendary duo of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian, the two confront topics such as the pandemic, the wealth gap (made worse because of the pandemic), climate destruction, the increasing power of the corporate owned media, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Illegitimate Authority

    Facing the Challenges of Our Time

    A 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. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky addresses the rapid deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. He examines the crumbling social fabric and fractures of the Biden era, including ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Devil's Chessboard

    Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

    by David Talbot ...
    An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dickens's England

    by R E Pritchard ...
    Dickens's England was a time of unprecedented energy and change which laid the foundations of our own modern society. There was a new world coming into being: new towns, new machines, new and revolutionary ideas, new songs and dances, music-halls and popular novels, as well as new wealth for the smug middle classes. For others, however, there was poverty, struggle and hard labour. Dickens's ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science and Technology in World History

    An Introduction

    Arguably the best general history of science and technology ever published.Tracing the relationship between science and technology from the dawn of civilization to the early twenty-first century, James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn’s bestselling book argues that technology as “applied science” emerged relatively recently, as industry and governments began funding scientific research that would ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The World

    A Brief Introduction

    by Richard Haass ...
    The New York Times bestseller“A clear and concise account of the history, diplomacy, economics, and societal forces that have molded the modern global system.” —Foreign AffairsAn invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert and non-expert alike, navigate a time in which many of our biggest challenges come from the world beyond ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lost to Time

    Unforgettable Stories That History Forgot

    “A splendid book, full of fascinating, well-told tales . . . a diverse and bafflingly overlooked collection of historical curiosities” (Booklist, starred review).“The only thing new in the world,” said Harry S. Truman, “is the history you don’t know.” In this fresh and fascinating collection of historical vignettes, National Book Award–winning author Martin W. Sandler restores to memory important ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Wine

    How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World

    A fascinating and approachable deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry.Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history of Britain’s surprising role in creating the wine industries of Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. Here, historian Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre bridges the genres of global commodity history and imperial history, presenting provocative new research in an ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Criminal History of Mankind

    by Colin Wilson ...
    This “immensely stimulating story of true crime down the ages” tells the history of human violence, from Peking Man to the Mafia (The Times, London).This landmark work offers a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence. Its sweep is broad, its research meticulous and detailed. Colin Wilson explores the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians and the mass ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fastest Game in the World

    Hockey and the Globalization of Sports

    Series Book 6 - Sport in World History
    The untold story of hockey's deep roots from different regions of the world, and its global, cultural impact.Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, the sport has drawn from different cultures and crossed boundaries––between Canada and the United States, across the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cooking Gene

    A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South: A James Beard Award Winner

    2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Birth of Britain (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

    A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: Volume 1

    Series series Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
    The Birth of Britain is the first volume of A History of the English Speaking Peoples, the immensely popular and eminently readable four-volume work by Winston Churchill. A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the development of the legal and political institutions of the English. Indeed, Churchill celebrates ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us (Shortest History)

    Series Book 0 - Shortest History
    **A complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events“Baker introduces us not only to the history of our species and our planet, but the history of our vast universe.”—from the foreword by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars**In this thrilling history, David ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction, within two generations of their bloody conquests, the Mongols evolved from conquerors ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tracing Old Norse Cosmology: The world tree, middle earth and the sun in archaeological perspectives

    The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail by a vast number of scholars. They have long relied on the rich and varied Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages, but a growing body of material culture from pagan Scandinavia has ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • King and Emperor

    A New Life of Charlemagne

    Series series 20190823
    "King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history."—The Wall Street JournalCharles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to rule an empire. Driven by unremitting physical energy and intellectual curiosity, he was a man of many parts, a warlord and conqueror, a judge who promised "for each their law and justice," ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Pathogenesis

    A History of the World in Eight Plagues

    A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs“Superbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific and historical research, and his confident authorial voice is sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman.”—The Times (U.K. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sapiens and Homo Deus: The E-book Collection

    A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow

    Sapiens and Homo Deus: The E-book Collection has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Caucasus

    A History

    by James Forsyth ...
    A fascinating new survey of the Caucasus which provides a unified narrative history of this complex and turbulent region at the borderlands of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, from prehistory to the present. For thousands of years the Caucasus has formed a hub of intersecting routes of migration, invasion, trade and culture and a geographical bridge between Europe and Asia, subject to recurring ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Running the World

    The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power

    Never before in the history of mankind have so few people had so much power over so many. The people at the top of the American national security establishment, the President and his principal advisors, the core team at the helm of the National Security Council, are without question the most powerful committee in the history of the world. Yet, in many respects, they are among the least understood ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?

    The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization

    by Andrew Lawler ...
    Veteran journalist Andrew Lawler delivers a “fascinating and delightful…globetrotting tour” (Wall Street Journal) with the animal that has been most crucial to the spread of civilization—the chicken.In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic adventure, veteran reporter Andrew Lawler “opens a window on civilization, evolution, capitalism, and ethics” (New York) with a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 一位大陸作家的文革記憶──訣別史達林模式及其他

    by 李冰封 ...
    本書是從一九七九年至今的作者散文隨筆集。全書分七個部分:一、痛定思痛憶往事;二、閱讀心得與偶感;三、教育警鐘;四、序跋選粹;五、遊蹤心影;六、藝海拾貝;七、生活情趣,紀述了關於歷史、懷念人物與反右派和文化大革命有關的文章。真實的反應了大陸一些飽受滄桑的知識份子對現實狀況獨具一格的觀察與思考 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Bradshaws of Harniss

    THE BRADSHAWS OF HARNISS is a classic Cape Cod tale - of a peppery old Cape Codder called back into the saddle because his grandson has gone to war... Seldom, if ever before, has Joe Lincoln fastened upon a more likely plot or a more appealing group of characters. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD