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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King J...
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The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A New York Times Notable Book of 2014A Time Magazine Notable Book of 2014Olivia Laing's widely acclaimed account of how writers in the grip of al...
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Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennin...
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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Halley’s Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705,...
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Why We Quilt: Contemporary Makers Speak Out about the Power of Art, Activism, Community, and Creativity
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this tribute to today’s vibrant quilting community, prize-winning quilter and teacher Thomas Knauer showcases a stunning collection of quilts ...
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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /George R. Stewart’s classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the...
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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /“Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and th...
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The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was ...
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The World According to Color: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' unique and vibrant relationship with color.We ...
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A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /With America's current and ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor and the constant threat of the disappearance of the middle class, the ...
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Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as thei...
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $35.99 - Original price $35.99Original price $35.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this c...
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Love and Let Die: James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the Beatles and the Bond films—and what they tell u...
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Of Black Study
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /An exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledge Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who br...
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The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Named a best book of 2023 by the New Yorker and ...
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The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Read here the storied history of these United States. The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memo...
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A People's History of the United States, Volume II: The Civil War to the Present / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter.Like V...
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24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Have you ever wondered what it was like to live and work in Egypt, the most powerful kingdom of the ancient world? Spend a day with 24 Egyptians ...
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AA-1025: Memoirs of the Communist Infiltration into the Church
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Absorbing and compelling reading from beginning to end, AA -1025 Memoirs of the Communist Infiltration Into the Church is a must read for every C...
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Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929-September 3, 1939
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them t...
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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 fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney M...
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The Chalice and the Blade
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now with an updated epilogue celebrating the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking and increasingly relevant book. "May be the most significan...
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The Battle for Christmas
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Drawing on a wealth of research, this "fascinating" book (The New York Times Book Review) charts the invention of our c...
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The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Renowned historian Bernard Lewis charts the history of the Middle East over the last 2,000 years—from the birth of Christianity through the moder...
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