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The Local School
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Although many view schools, colleges, and universities as the primary places from which we attain an education, opportunities for education surro...
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The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Does climate change cause conflict? Did it cause the Syrian uprising? Some policymakers and academics have made this claim, but is it true? This ...
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Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpos...
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Aztecs: An Interpretation
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's accou...
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Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political ...
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The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book...
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The Silk Road: A New History
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The Silk Road is as iconic in world history as the Colossus of Rhodes or the Suez Canal. But what was it, exactly? It conjures up a hazy image of...
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Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Chinese Communist intelligen...
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Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleas...
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On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /With over thirty years of experience writing about Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal ...
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The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the De...
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Winning the War of Words: Essays on Zionism and Israel
PaperbackOriginal price $8.05 - Original price $8.05Original price $8.05$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /From the United Nations to the media, and from academia to international NGOs, the attacks on Israel's legitimacy as the nation-state of the Jewi...
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In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Isra...
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Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“Thoughtful, probing…a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern...
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America...
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Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /With unique access to Chinese leaders at all levels of the party and government, best-selling author David M. Lampton tells the story of China’s ...
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China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A global future in the history of a single villageAfter a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lit...
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A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
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 New York Times Notable Book of 2016 One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, Publishers Weekly One of the Best Books of 2016, NPRWinner of the...
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The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2019 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020 “An urgent book.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times During a centur...
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How China Sees the World: Han-Centrism and the Balance of Power in International Politics
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Han-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate right to a...
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Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Operation Protective Edge, Israel's seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million dis...
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Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle clas...
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The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sancti...
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The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Abdullah Öcalan actively led the Kurdish liberation struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978 until his abduction on February 1...
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