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The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers: Fighters' Memories of War and Survival

The Afterlives of Tamil Tigers: Fighters' Memories of...

Author: Giacomo Mantovan
ISBN: 9781836954552
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Through the testimonies of war, defeat, and survival from veterans of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...  Read More >>

Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend

Treasures on Earth: Buried Wealth in Landscape and Legend...

Author: Jeremy Harte
ISBN: 9781836391876
Format: Hardback
$34.99

Uncovers the deep folklore of Britain's buried riches, fears and desires.  Read More >>

Qaddafi: Beyond the Myth

Qaddafi: Beyond the Myth

Author: Ronald Bruce St John
ISBN: 9781836391869
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The dramatic life and death of Libya's eccentric leader.  Read More >>

Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions

Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects...

Author: Jelle Zeilinga de Boer ,  Donald Theodore Sanders
ISBN: 9780691283944
Format: Paperback
$34.99

On November 1, 1755 All Saints' Day a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city...  Read More >>

Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (20th Anniversary Edition)

Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of...

Author: Katherine McKittrick ,  Simone Browne
ISBN: 9781517921415
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The field-defining text for black geographies-now with a new foreword and afterword The initial publication of...  Read More >>

Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond

Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from...

Author: Millicent E. Brown
ISBN: 9781643366777
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Memories and insights of a lifelong social justice advocate as she searches for """"true"""" freedom as an African...  Read More >>

Ellen Savage and the Heroes of AHS Centaur: from the bestselling author of SISTER VIV and MARY PENFOLD

Ellen Savage and the Heroes of AHS Centaur: from the...

Author: Grantlee Kieza
ISBN: 9780733344107
Format: Paperback
$35.99

The extraordinary true story of courage under fire and survival during one of the deadliest wartime attacks on Australia...  Read More >>

Alterity and Human Evolution: Deep-Time and Multispecies Perspectives on Difference and Variation

Alterity and Human Evolution: Deep-Time and Multispecies...

Author: Oscar Moro Abadía ,  Martin Porr
ISBN: 9781836954644
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Engaging critically with concepts of race, species, and otherness, Alterity and Human Evolution contributes to current...  Read More >>

New Deal Archaeology in the West

New Deal Archaeology in the West

Author: Kelly J. Pool ,  Mark L. Howe
ISBN: 9781647693022
Format: Paperback
$80.99

The New Deal's effects on archaeology and cultural heritage in the American West  Read More >>

Florida's Lost Galleon: The Emanuel Point Shipwreck

Florida's Lost Galleon: The Emanuel Point Shipwreck...

Author: Roger C. Smith
ISBN: 9780813081625
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This book documents the groundbreaking discovery of a 1559 shipwreck from the fleet of Spanish explorer Tristán...  Read More >>

Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark

Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark...

Author: James Bailey
ISBN: 9781399764971
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A spiky and delicious new literary biography of the great twentieth-century writer Muriel Spark  Read More >>

The Gods Grow Quiet

The Gods Grow Quiet

Author: Susan Trott
ISBN: 9781996893098
Format: Paperback
$47.49

As Ice Age humanity struggles to survive, ancient alien watchers must decide whether to remain hidden or intervene...  Read More >>

Furious Harvests

Furious Harvests

Author: Alex Averbuch ,  Oksana Maksymchuk
ISBN: 9780674301061
Format: Paperback
$30.95

Furious Harvests, a collection of striking poetry by Alex Averbuch, explores existential questions that war raises:...  Read More >>

Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press

Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a...

Author: A. J. Bauer
ISBN: 9780231218368
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A. J. Bauer traces how decades of right-wing criticism of the “liberal media” reshaped US news culture and came...  Read More >>

Illegitimate Justice: How Locals Talk About International Criminal Courts

Illegitimate Justice: How Locals Talk About International...

Author: Izabela Steflja
ISBN: 9780228027287
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Drawing from extensive primary research in Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Kenya, Izabela Steflja shows...  Read More >>

Ten Days That Shook My World: Searching for My Father in War-Torn Ethiopia

Ten Days That Shook My World: Searching for My Father...

Author: Jonathan Wickham
ISBN: 9781592116768
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A powerful blend of WWII history and personal discovery, this memoir traces a son’s search for his father’s forgotten...  Read More >>

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian ""Harvard Miracle""

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the...

Author: Andrii Portnov
ISBN: 9780674304239
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian “Harvard Miracle” is the first English-language intellectual...  Read More >>

The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom

The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal...

Author: Sarah L. H. Gronningsater
ISBN: 9781512829709
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black...  Read More >>

Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century

Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism...

Author: Brent Cebul
ISBN: 9781512829716
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Today, the word ""neoliberal"" is used to describe an epochal shift toward market-oriented governance begun in the...  Read More >>

The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution

The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia...

Author: Aaron Sullivan
ISBN: 9781512829693
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Focusing on the British occupation of Philadelphia from 1777 to 1778, The Disaffected highlights the perspectives...  Read More >>

Out of Virginia: Black Americans' Search for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Liberia

Out of Virginia: Black Americans' Search for Freedom...

Author: Joseph P. Stinnett
ISBN: 9780813954684
Format: Paperback
$64.99

""This book tells the story of 172 Black men, women, and children from Lynchburg and surrounding counties in Virginia...  Read More >>

Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River

Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River

Author: Patrick Dearen
ISBN: 9780806196473
Format: Paperback
$50.99

The first book-length environmental study ever produced on this 926-mile Pecos River, this work combines a historical...  Read More >>

Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands

Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New...

Author: William S. Kiser
ISBN: 9780806196947
Format: Paperback
$57.99

By focusing on the activities of a standing army in a civilian setting, Kiser reshapes the history of the Southwest,...  Read More >>

Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism

Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism

Author: Elaine B. Richardson ,  Gwendolyn D. Pough
ISBN: 9780520409095
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism presents a dynamic and much-needed fresh analysis of Black gendering and...  Read More >>

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