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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 Ethiopian Bible: A journey through scriptures
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"The Ethiopian Bible: A Journey Through Scriptures" by Jonah Synder is a profound exploration of the rich tapestry of religious wisdom embedded in ...
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Deep Ellum and Central Track: The Other Side of Dallas/Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged
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 new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graff...
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Explore accounts of Oklahoma's Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.The Free...
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, an...
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Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Prince Albert Victor, known to his family as 'Eddy', was the eldest child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. This is the story of Prince Eddy'...
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Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Things I'll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine ...
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La Cristiada: The Mexican People's War for Religious Liberty
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In a world filled with constant religious intolerance and strife, it is easy to overlook a little known twentieth-century religious war that was fo...
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Sign Language Among North American Indians
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Used throughout the world since earliest times as a common means of communication, sign language was particularly well developed among the Plains...
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Notes From Diverse Reads This riveting conversation among journalists, historians, poets, novelists, essayists and photographers lends a Technic...
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Samurai: A Concise History
HardcoverOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of th...
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The Sioux in South Dakota History
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Taken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern American Indian life. The political and social ramifications of land he...
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Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests fr...
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The Star and the Scepter: A Diplomatic History of Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter retraces and...
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Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ...
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Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History
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 compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic worldWhen Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis conten...
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A remarkable account of Britain's last stand in Kenya. This is imperial history at its very best."—John Hope Franklin In "a gripping narrative t...
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Life, Death, and Community in Cairo's City of the Dead
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /THE CITY OF THE DEAD is a mysterious area of Cairo that many Egyptians are aware of but not intimately connected too. This book provides a histor...
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Native North America
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifac...
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Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey's descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing s...
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Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called "Coyote Warriors"--among them a Mandan/...
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The History of Starved Rock
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The History of Starved Rock provides a wonderful overview of the famous site in Utica, Illinois, from when European explorers first viewed the bl...
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Peoples of the Inland Sea: Native Americans and Newcomers in the Great Lakes Region, 1600-1870
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Diverse in their languages and customs, the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes region-the Miamis, Ho-Chunks, Potawatomis, Ojibwas, and ma...
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Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this m...
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