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  • Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

    by Zhuqing Li ...
    **A BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024“Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the ‘bamboo curtain.’” —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book ReviewSisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.**Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • Women of the Titanic Disaster

    Sylvia Caldwell was onboard the Titanic when it sank in 1912. As one of the disaster's survivors, she took it upon herself to write an account of what happened in the event's aftermath. Women of the Titanic Disaster details Sylvia Caldwell's journey immediately following the sinking of the Titanic, and it gives us a fresh perspective on this historic event. With a foreword by Julie Hedgepeth ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Conquest of Cool

    Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

    by Thomas Frank ...
    While the youth counterculture remains the most evocative and best-remembered symbol of the cultural ferment of the 1960s, the revolution that shook American business during those boom years has gone largely unremarked. In this fascinating and revealing study, Thomas Frank shows how the youthful revolutionaries were joined—and even anticipated —by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Collapse

    The Fall of the Soviet Union

    A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demiseIn 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement

    by G. C. Peden ...
    Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for military defeats in 1940? In this new account of appeasement, G. C. Peden addresses these questions and provides a comparative analysis of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The End of Empires and a World Remade

    A Global History of Decolonization

    A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

    Series series The Political Economy of Human Rights
    Volume one of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.First published in 1979, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s two-volume work, The Political Economy of Human Rights, is a devastating analysis of the United States government’s suppression of human rights and support of authoritarianism in Asia, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sabotage

    The Mafia, Mao and the Death of the Queen Elizabeth

    by Brian Izzard ...
    On 9 January 1972, the mighty Queen Elizabeth, then the largest liner in the world, caught fire in Hong Kong harbour. Watched by millions around the world, she burned live on television, including on Britain's children's programme Blue Peter. Since her retirement in 1968, she had been a tourist attraction in Florida, before her owners went bankrupt and she was sold to become the floating Seawise ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Year of Peril

    America in 1942

    A fascinating chronicle of how the character of American society revealed itself under the duress of World War IIThe Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on the brink of defeat and was beginning ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Sexuality in Europe

    A Twentieth-Century History

    by Dagmar Herzog ...
    Series Book 45 - New Approaches to European History
    This original book brings a fascinating and accessible account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise of European Islam. Although the twentieth century is often called 'the century of sex' and seen as an era of increasing liberalization, Dagmar Herzog instead emphasizes the complexities and contradictions in sexual ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • No Sacrifice Too Great

    The 1st Infantry Division in World War II

    Series series American Military Experience
    The U.S. 1st Infantry Division (1st ID), familiarly known as the Big Red One, adapted to dynamic battlefield conditions throughout the course of its deployment during World War II by innovating and altering behavior, including tactics, techniques, and procedures. Both the Division’s leaders and soldiers accomplished this by thinking critically about their experiences in combat and wasting little ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Endpapers

    A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

    “A powerfully told story of family, honor, love, and truth . . . the beautiful and haunting stories told in this book transcend policy and politics.” —Beto O’RourkeA literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author’s grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed “perhaps the twentieth century’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stealth

    The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft

    On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually undetectable. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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

    A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right’s embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban.Why do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orbán’s illiberal ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease

    In the 1950s, ninety-five percent of patients with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of lymph tissue which afflicts young adults, died. Today most are cured, due mainly to the efforts of Dr. Henry Kaplan. Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease explores the life of this multifaceted, internationally known radiation oncologist, called a "saint" by some, a "malignant son of a bitch" by others. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • DER FÜHRER

    Hitler’s Rise To Power

    by Konrad Heiden ...
    Konrad Heiden, the son of a union organizer, was born in Munich, Germany, on 7th August 1901. While at the University of Munich he led protests against Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). The historian, Richard Overy, has pointed out: "Heiden was a young socialist student in Munich when he first saw Hitler speak. It was 1923, the year of inflation and political ... Read more

    $3.29 USD

  • Budapest 1900

    A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture

    by John Lukacs ...
    A distinguished historian and Budapest native offers a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers.Budapest, like Paris and Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation at the end of the nineteenth century. In terms of population growth, material expansion, and cultural exuberance, it was among the foremost metropolitan centers of the world, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sand and Steel

    The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France

    Peter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle of the Bulge, Snow and Steel, which Richard Overy has called the "standard history of this climactic confrontation in the West." Sand and Steel gives us D-Day, arguably the greatest and most consequential military operation of modern times, beginning with the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Only in Asheville

    An Eclectic History

    A unique blend of visionaries, risk takers and creative souls lends energy to Asheville's historic streets. Today, bohemian street performers, funky shops, exquisite art galleries, restaurants and craft breweries blend in among some of the most revered vintage architecture in the country. Discover quirky figures like a "nun" named Sister Bad Habit, who entertains passengers on the LaZoom bus; the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violence and Crime in Latin America

    Representations and Politics

    According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.Written by ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Michael Collins

    A Biography

    When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.'In August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true – Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a shocking political assassination.So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Food

    Anthropologist Steve Striffler begins this book in a poultry processing plant, drawing on his own experiences there as a worker. He also reports on the way chickens are raised today and how they are consumed. What he discovers about America’s favorite meat is not just unpleasant but a powerful indictment of our industrial food system. The process of bringing chicken to our dinner tables is ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Doomed Horse Soldiers of Bataan

    The Incredible Stand of the 26th Cavalry

    This is the story of the last mounted American troops to see action in battle, when, in late 1941, six-hundred men and their horses held off the Japanese invasion of Luzon in the Philippines just long enough to allow General Douglas MacArthur's forces to withdraw to Bataan. The 26th continued to fight on horseback until late February 1942 when, tragically, they were ordered dismounted and their ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Mountaintop

    by Katori Hall ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his mind? He is not a man, but I am a man.The night before his assassination, King retires to room 306 in the now-famous Lorraine Motel after giving ... Read more

    $12.99 USD