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Martin Heidegger: The Man Who Took Being Too Seriously

In late May 1933, students and professors gathered in Freiburg to hear their new rector speak. The swastika hung over the university, books by Jewish and “un-German” authors were already burning in German squares, and Martin Heidegger, freshly joined to the Nazi Party, stepped forward to tell them that the “self-assertion” of the German university and the destiny of the German people belonged to the same historic mission. He spoke the language of fate and renewal, not footnotes. The man who had asked philosophy to confront anxiety, finitude, and the question of Being now wrapped those themes around a regime that promised rebirth through obedience.

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<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">One family’s fight to survive, and remember, in a land that won’t let go of hope.</h4>
Abdalhadi Alijla's unflinching work moves beyond headlines to examine the lived reality of ordinary Gazans—not as statistics, but as human beings navigating a world where fear has become the only constant.
Through a mosaic of personal testimonies, social analysis, and quiet observation, Fearful in Gazatraces how decades of blockade, conflict, and isolation have reshaped the very fabric of daily life. Parents calculating the safest route to a bakery. Children who have learned to distinguish between the sounds of different drones. Young people weighing dreams against checkpoints. Alijla, a Gazan scholar, does not write from a distance. He writes from within—bearing witness to a society where fear is not an emotion but an architecture: political, economic, psychological. And yet, amid the rubble, he finds flickers of resilience, dark humor, and the stubborn refusal to stop hoping.
This is Alijla at his most essential: a meditation on survival, dignity, and the human cost of unresolved conflict. Fearful in Gaza asks not whether fear can be defeated, but how people find the strength to wake up anyway.
This print edition presents the complete, unabridged text in a beautifully designed format made to last.
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A rare, ground-level portrait of Gaza by a scholar who has lived its reality
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Essential reading for understanding the psychological and social toll of protracted conflict
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Timely, humane, and devastating—for readers of Palestinian voices and critical journalism
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A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf or the perfect gift for anyone who refuses to reduce a people to a headline.
<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">About the author</h4>
Abdalhadi Alijla, PhD, is a Palestinian-Swedish political scientist, author, and advocate for social justice. He is the author of Trust in Divided Societies, co-editor of Rebel Governance in the Middle East, and a senior fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative. A scholar of governance and democracy, he has worked across Europe and the Middle East. In 2025, Alijla lost his mother and over fifty relatives during the genocide in Gaza. Fearful in Gaza is his reckoning, his tribute, and his call to remember.

Fearful in Gaza

<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">The woman the world adored. The voice she never got to share.</h4>
From the acclaimed author of The Elvis Diaries comes a hauntingly intimate work of creative fiction, tracing the imagined inner world of Hollywood's most iconic and misunderstood star: Marilyn Monroe. This is not a biography, but something more daring—a whispered confession from beyond the grave.
Spanning 1933 to her untimely death in 1962, the novel unfolds through fictional diary entries that give voice to Norma Jeane's transformation into the mythic Marilyn. From childhood trauma and orphanages to early marriage, exploitation, and the relentless pressures of fame, the diary captures her insecurities, wit, dreams, and downward spirals with aching honesty. Malone's Marilyn is at once clear-eyed and conflicted—yearning for love, tormented by abandonment, and caught between the desire for visibility and the need for refuge. As her fame grows, so too does her loneliness, and the diary becomes a quiet cry against the machinery of stardom.
This is Malone at his most tender and searching: a reimagined confessional that blends fact and fiction to startling effect, allowing Marilyn to speak with a complexity that history so often denied her. The voice shimmers with wit and sorrow, revealing a woman grappling with her past, her identity, and a world that wanted her body but never her whole self.
This edition presents the complete, unabridged text in a beautifully designed format made to last.
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A centenary tribute to one of the twentieth century's most enduring figures—timed for Monroe's 2026 centennial
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Essential reading for fans of epistolary fiction, Hollywood history, and richly drawn psychological portraits
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From an author praised for capturing the voices of icons in The Elvis Diaries and beyond
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Paperback &amp; Hardcover: Beautifully designed print editions presenting the complete, unabridged text made to last.
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Ebook: DRM-free EPUB compatible with Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and all major e-readers.
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Audiobook: Professionally narrated, complete and unabridged, available on all major audiobook platforms.
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A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf—or the perfect gift for anyone who has ever wondered what Marilyn might have whispered if given the chance.
<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">About the author</h4>
Aubrey Malone is an Irish writer known for his imaginative blend of biography and fiction, with a particular focus on iconic cultural figures. His previous work, The Elvis Diaries, was praised for its poignant insight and inventive narrative voice. In The Marilyn Diaries, Malone once again gives voice to a legend, capturing the fragile humanity behind the fame.

The Marilyn Diaries

<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">A secret pact. A continent in fear. A relentless fight to remember.</h4>
Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent exposes the clandestine machinery of fear that united South America's military dictatorships in the 1970s and '80s, tracing how intelligence networks coordinated across borders to hunt down political exiles, turning supposed refuge into peril and entire nations into surveillance zones.
Drawing on archival breakthroughs and the stories of emblematic victims, Francesca Lessa and Sebastián Santana Camargo illuminate not only the reach of these regimes' transnational terror but also the quiet, unyielding courage of families, lawyers, and investigators who refused to let the disappeared vanish from memory. Brought into English by Alejandro Reyes and enriched by Santana Camargo's haunting illustrations, this edition of the acclaimed Plan Cóndor project marries forensic historical research with intimate human testimony to deliver a stark, resonant narrative of repression, resistance, and the long, stubborn pursuit of justice.
This is history as witness: a chilling account of how dictators learned to collaborate across borders—and how ordinary people fought back with nothing but memory and determination.
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Based on groundbreaking archival research, revealing the full scope of Operation Condor's cross-border coordination
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Told through the stories of victims and survivors, ensuring that statistics become faces and names
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Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand state terror, resistance, and the ongoing struggle for accountability
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Paperback &amp; Hardcover: Beautifully designed print editions presenting the complete, unabridged text made to last, featuring Santana Camargo's haunting illustrations.
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Ebook: DRM-free EPUB compatible with Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and all major e-readers.
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Audiobook: Professionally narrated, complete and unabridged, available on all major audiobook platforms.
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A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf, your device, or your ears or the perfect gift for anyone who believes that to remember is the first act of justice.
<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">About the Author</h4>
Francesca Lessa is a leading scholar of human rights and state violence in Latin America, driven by a profound commitment to justice and memory. Associate Professor in International Relations of the Americas at University College London, she has spent more than a decade documenting the transnational terror networks behind Operation Condor, blending archival investigation with testimony from survivors and families to illuminate how ordinary people confront extraordinary violence. This book continues the groundbreaking work she first published in Spanish, bringing English-language readers a powerful account shaped by evidence, empathy, and moral clarity. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an MA from SOAS, and a BA from Royal Holloway, University of London.
<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">About the Illustrator</h4>
Sebastián Santana Camargo is an award-winning Uruguayan visual artist, illustrator, and activist whose work often explores themes of memory, state violence, and collective resistance. His striking imagery has accompanied human-rights initiatives across the Southern Cone, bridging visual language with historical truth. In this book, his illustrations serve as a kind of visual testimony, conjuring shadows of the disappeared and echoing the silences that haunt the continent’s past. His art does not merely accompany the text; it deepens its emotional resonance and preserves stories that refusal alone could never erase.
<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">About the Translator</h4>
Alejandro Reyes is a seasoned translator and editor with a deep background in Latin American history, politics, and literature. Known for his nuanced ear and his ability to carry tone and emotional weight across languages, he brings clarity and sensitivity to Lessa’s prose. Reyes honors the original text’s precision while making its urgency and humanity vivid for English-speaking readers. His work helps ensure that the voices, memories, and truths at the heart of this story reach a wider world, where their lessons are as necessary as ever.

Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent

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<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">The man who changed the world and the empire he built, simply told.</h4>
Julius Caesar, one of history's most iconic and controversial figures, is renowned for his military conquests, political prowess, and the legacy of the Roman Empire. Yet his life remains complex and multi-faceted, marked by both extraordinary achievements and turbulent conflicts.
In Simply Caesar, historians J. David Markham and Matthew Zarzeczny provide an accessible and engaging guide to Caesar's remarkable life, demystifying the man behind the legend and offering a fresh perspective on his influence in shaping Western history. From the Rubicon to the Ides of March, from the conquest of Gaul to the affair with Cleopatra, this book strips away the myth and reveals the brilliant, ruthless, and endlessly fascinating strategist who never stopped reaching for more.
This is history at its most readable: a portrait of ambition, power, and the price of greatness. Simply Caesar proves that the best stories are not invented—they are lived.
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An accessible introduction to one of history's most complex figures—perfect for newcomers and enthusiasts alike
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Explores Caesar's military genius, political innovations, and enduring legacy in shaping Western civilization
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Written by two internationally recognized historians who know how to tell a story without sacrificing accuracy
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Available in multiple formats:
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Paperback &amp; Hardcover: Beautifully designed print editions presenting the complete, unabridged text made to last.
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Ebook: DRM-free EPUB compatible with Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, and all major e-readers.
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Audiobook: Professionally narrated, complete and unabridged, available on all major audiobook platforms.
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A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf, your device, or your ears or the perfect gift for anyone who wants to meet the man behind the legend.
<h4 style="text-align: center; color: #222222;">About the Authors</h4>
J. David Markham is an internationally recognized scholar and writer and the president of the International Napoleonic Society. He has written, edited, and/or contributed to ten books on Napoleon, including Napoleon for Dummies and The Road to St Helena: Napoleon after Waterloo. He has appeared in television documentaries, lectured at conferences and museums around the world, and co-created with Cameron Reilly the popular "Napoleon 101" podcast. In 2014, he was appointed a Knight in the Order of the French Academic Palms, France's highest civilian-only award. He has also been awarded the INS Legion of Merit and the Napoleonic Historical Society Colonel John H. Etling Scholar Award, the highest academic recognition for the two groups.
Matthew D. Zarzeczny is a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society and an adjunct instructor at Ashland University, Kent State University at Stark, and John Carroll University. He has written widely on Napoleon Bonaparte and is the author of Meteors That Enlighten the Earth: Napoleon and the Cult of Great Men and the founder of the popular website <a style="text-align: center; color: #222222;" href="https://www.historyandheadlines.com/">www.historyandheadlines.com</a>.
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Simply Caesar

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Martin Heidegger: The Man Who Took Being Too Seriously
In late May 1933, students and professors gathered in Freiburg to hear their new rector speak. The swastika hung over the university, books by Jewish and “un-German” authors were already burning in German squares, and Martin Heidegger, freshly joined to the Nazi Party, stepped forward to tell them that the “self-assertion” of the German university and the destiny of the German people belonged to the same historic mission. He spoke the language of fate and renewal, not footnotes. The man who had asked philosophy to confront anxiety, finitude, and the question of Being now wrapped those themes around a regime that promised rebirth through obedience.
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