The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
By: Diana Darke
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A richly illustrated examination of the Ottoman Empire, 100 years since its dissolution, unraveling…
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1. The Architect's Apprentice
By: Elif Shafak
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the heigh… read more
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3. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
By: Bettany Hughes
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Hardcover
Istanbulexplores a city which stands as a gateway between the east and west, one of the indisputabl… read more
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4. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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5. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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6. The Book of the City of Ladies
By: Christine de Pizan , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-… read more
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7. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
By: Carol Anderson
3.67
Format: 208 pages,
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our cont… read more
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8. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
By: Cal Flyn
4.20
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
10. Clear
By: Carys Davies
3.92
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more
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11. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire
By: Emma Southon
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more
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12. The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
By: Diana Darke
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A richly illustrated examination of the Ottoman Empire, 100 years since its dissolution, unraveling… read more
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- nonfiction
13. The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
By: Marc David Baer
3.95
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West… read more
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14. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By: Caroline Dodds Pennock
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Ag… read more
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15. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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16. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
By: Noura Erakat
4.60
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-P… read more
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"International law can be accurately and fairly described as a derivative of a colonial order and therefore structurally detrimental to former colonies, peoples still under colonial domination and ind…"-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
"Israel's establishment in 1948 realized Jewish Zionist settler sovereignty in Palestine. And its acceptance as a UN member state normalized the sovereign exception, justifying the erasure of Palestin…"-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
"In light of the currently minimal protest at top diplomatic and multilateral levels, Israel, together with the United States, will continue to define its military practices as the new normal in asymm…"-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
17. Into Iraq
By: Michael Palin
4.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense o… read more
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18. Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
By: Ross Perlin
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary Ne… read more
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19. The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict
By: Andrew Pettegree
3.84
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone fo… read more
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20. The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft
By: Peter Bellerby
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Peter Bellerby's tale of learning how to fashion worlds-a journey through history, science, craft,… read more
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21. On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach
By: Doriane Lambelet Coleman
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening account of what the left and right get wrong about sex and gender—and how we can get… read more
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"The seeds of change were planted in the early 1990s when the NIH began requiring that both sexes participate in human research. But this initial effort fell short because the NIH didn't require resea…"-Doriane Lambelet Coleman, On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach
