Category - History
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Jews Don't Count
PaperbackOriginal price $10.99 - Original price $10.99Original price $10.99$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /North American Edition of the UK Bestseller How identity politics failed one particular identity. 'a must read and if you think YOU don't need to r...
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In Defense of the Eighties
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /Growing up in the eighties meant you might have participated in confusing fashion trends, mixed your own music, and generally lived in a more caref...
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Knock, Knock: In Pursuit of a Grand Unified Theory of Humour
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The first mainstream history of humour. Hilarious and well-researched, this book from household name William Hartston, a presenter, author and jour...
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Strange USA: Historical Oddities, Roadside Rarities, Unique Eats, and Amazing Americans
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Strangeness abounds in every corner of the United States--read all about it in this entertaining compendium of real-life stories! Americans may thi...
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bil...
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Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller! A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander- Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a...
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Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /National Geographic author Michael Farquhar uncovers an instance of bad luck, epic misfortune, and unadulterated mayhem tied to every day of the ye...
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From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre! Based on Sayr...
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I Love(ish) New York City: Tales of City Life
HardcoverOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A humorous and relatable look into the joys and pitfalls of living in New York City. There is no city quite like New York City, for better or worse...
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The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /New York Times BestsellerA hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture, from comedian and journalist Charlie Berens, creator of the viral come...
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencin...
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No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of a League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own--one of the most beloved baseball movies of all time--developed from an unherald...
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The People You Meet in Hell: A Troubling Almanac of the Very Worst Humans in History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /True crime monsters, historic jerks, and Earth's lowest of the low get their due There's no rest for the wicked! Darkly hilarious and deeply satisf...
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On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The hilarious, irreverent guide to world history you never knew you needed, featuring 366 profanity-filled tales of triumph and terror, science and...
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Comics and Cognition: Toward a Multimodal Cognitive Poetics
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Comics and Cognition develops an analytical approach to multimodal communication in comics through insights from embodied cognitive science, especi...
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Mirth, Medicine and the Military: A Vietnam Survivor's Memoir with Poetic license
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99Original price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99Current price $39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /I am writing this memoir to clarify my role in creating the little ASH unit(Army Surgical Hospital) that I built at the III Corps 5th Special Force...
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Our West Berlin: Storybook From The Island
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Our West Berlin! The beloved urban island where bars and pubs were open all night so the locals could plot the revolution! Where beer was cheap and...
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Alexandra Petri's Us History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“Satire at the highest level.… [A] godsend of a book.” —Amy Fusselman, Washington Post A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra...
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The Rest Is History: From Ancient Rome to Ronald Reagan--History's Most Curious Questions, Answered
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This entertaining companion to the massively popular history podcast tackles everything from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of th...
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Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /Satire, irony and humour have long been features of Persian literature's rich tradition, taking various forms from the coarse and obscene to the su...
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Likes to Walk Outside
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencin...
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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - A rollicking history of England's kings and queens from Arthur to Elizabeth I, a tale of power, glory, and exc...
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Awesome Sh*t My Drill Sergeant Said: Wit and Wisdom from America's Finest
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The official tie-in book to the wildly popular Facebook page, featuring brand-new crazy, off-the-wall, outrageously funny, and downright "awesome" ...
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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catast
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A detailed guide to surviving history's most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to making it off the Titanic alive History is the most ...
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