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“charles emmerson”

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  • 1913

    In Search of the World Before the Great War

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features -- last summers in grand aristocratic residences -- or its most destructive ones: the unresolved ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Crucible

    The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chanceIn Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Future History of the Arctic

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition, the remaking of global trade ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    Crucible

    The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924

    by Charles Emmerson ...
    Narrated by Charles Emmerson ...

    Unabridged

    25 hours 13 min

    The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chanceIn Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world.In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with ... Read more

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  • The Story of China

    The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream

    by Michael Wood ...
    A single-volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its significance today.Michael Wood has traveled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.The Story of China explores the Middle ... Read more

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  • The Looting Machine

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    A searing exposé of the global web of traders, bankers, middlemen, despots, and corporate raiders pillaging Africa’s vast natural wealth.**“A brave, defiant book.” —**The New York TimesAfrica is the world’s poorest continent and yet, arguably, its richest. Its abundance of natural resources has attracted foreign oilmen, oligarchs, and jet-setting executives, as well as local despots and militiamen ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Birth of the West

    Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

    by Paul Collins ...
    The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Read more

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  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War I.“A rich and provocative book, evocative and heartbreaking.” — AtlanticThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Soccernomics (2026 World Cup Edition)

    Why European Men and American Women Usually Win—and American Men Don’t (Yet)

    by Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski ...
    **Updated 2026 World Cup Edition In this modern classic, a leading sportswriter and an acclaimed sports economist apply high-powered analytical tools to everyday soccer topics.“Soccernomics is the most intelligent book ever written about soccer.” ―San Francisco Chronicle**Why do clubs almost always lose money—and does it mean some will disappear? Why doesn’t America dominate the sport ... Read more

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  • Conquering The Pacific

    An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    The true story of a colorful and momentous 16th-century voyage, and of the Black mariner whose accomplishment was almost lost to history.It was a voyage of epic scope. In a Spanish plot to break Portugal's trade monopoly with the fabled Orient, four ships set sail from a hidden Mexican port. The smallest of them was guided by Black seaman Lope Martín, one of the most qualified pilots of the era. ... Read more

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    The radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller that destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change.We have long been taught that humanity’s relationship with energy is one of progress, with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear—until at some future point everything will be replaced by “green” energy. But the long-held ... Read more

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