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Regional & National History
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Palestine : Matters of Truth and Justice€27.99
This book compellingly argues that Palestine is not simply a dilemma awaiting creative policy solutions, but a problem requiring the application of justice.
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The Will to See : Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope€17.99
Over the past fifty years, renowned public intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy has reported extensively on human rights abuses around the world.
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And There Was Light : Abraham Lincoln and the American Experiment€41.99
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. In him we can see the possibilities of the presidency as well as its limitations.
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Palestine : A Four Thousand Year History€17.99
This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history.
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After the Fall : The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made€11.99
To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted - a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed.
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Collapse : The Fall of the Soviet Union€20.00
In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations.
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The North American Indian. The Complete Portfolios€24.99
At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious, he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out.
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Worn : A People's History of Clothing€24.99
Exploring the social, economic and environmental impact of our most personal possessions, Worn looks beyond care labels to show how clothes reveal the truth about what we really care about.
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The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan : A Chronicle Foretold€13.99
The NATO occupation of Afghanistan is over, and a balance-sheet can be drawn.
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Empireland : How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain€16.99
EMPIRE explains why there are millions of Britons living worldwide. EMPIRE explains Brexit and the feeling that we are exceptional. EMPIRE explains our distrust of cleverness. EMPIRE explains Britain's particular brand of racism. . .