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Browse Books: History / Modern / 20th Century

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age By Reid Mitenbuler Cover Image
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer...
By Reid Mitenbuler
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century By J. Bradford DeLong Cover Image
Slouching Towards Utopia: An...
By J. Bradford DeLong
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent By Dipo Faloyin Cover Image
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on...
By Dipo Faloyin
This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City By Jesse Rifkin Cover Image
This Must Be the Place: Music,...
By Jesse Rifkin
The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series By Barbara W. Tuchman Cover Image
The Guns of August: The Outbreak...
By Barbara W. Tuchman
The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 (Dangerous Nation Trilogy #2) By Robert Kagan Cover Image
The Ghost at the Feast: America...
By Robert Kagan
Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football By John Eisenberg Cover Image
Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks...
By John Eisenberg
Einstein: His Life and Universe By Walter Isaacson Cover Image
Einstein: His Life and Universe (...
By Walter Isaacson
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation By Justice Malala Cover Image
The Plot to Save South Africa: The...
By Justice Malala
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe By Timothy Garton Ash Cover Image
Homelands: A Personal History of...
By Timothy Garton Ash
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine By Anne Applebaum Cover Image
Red Famine: Stalin's War on...
By Anne Applebaum
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia By Gary J. Bass Cover Image
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on...
By Gary J. Bass
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War By Deborah Cohen Cover Image
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial:...
By Deborah Cohen
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World By Karl Schlögel, Rodney Livingstone (Translator) Cover Image
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of...
By Karl Schlögel, Rodney Livingstone (Translator)
Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?: Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag By Craig Seligman Cover Image
Who Does That Bitch Think She Is...
By Craig Seligman
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 By Lawrence Wright Cover Image
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and...
By Lawrence Wright
Path Between The Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 By David McCullough Cover Image
Path Between The Seas: The...
By David McCullough
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War By Zhuqing Li Cover Image
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant...
By Zhuqing Li
The Rings of Saturn By W. G. Sebald, Michael Hulse (Translated by) Cover Image
The Rings of Saturn (Paperback)
By W. G. Sebald, Michael Hulse (Translated by)
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others By Sarah Bakewell Cover Image
At the Existentialist Café:...
By Sarah Bakewell

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