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1984by George Orwell, Mike DeanISBN 0582777313 (0-582-77731-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: '1984'Book summary:Orwell's classic novel tells the story of a world where thoughts and actions are controlled by the all-seeing Big Brother. When Winston Smith rebels and searches for the truth he learns a painful lesson about his world and the people in it. Also a powerful film directed by Michael Radford. [via]
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideasby Isaiah BerlinISBN 0670109444 (0-670-10944-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas'Book summary:Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, he brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times, and in the process offers a powerful defence of variety in our visions of life. Roger Hausheer's introduction surveys Berlin's whole oeuvre, and the full bibliography of his pubication has been updated for this Pimlico edition. [via]
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The Age of Louis XIVby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671012150 (0-671-01215-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Age of Napoleonby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 067121988X (0-671-21988-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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All That Is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernityby Marshall BermanISBN 067124602X (0-671-24602-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All That Is Solid Melts into the Air: The Experience of Modernity'Book summary:"A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." Mervyn Jones, New Statesman.[via]The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new environments to replace the oldall have thrust us into a modern world of contradictions and ambiguities. In this fascinating book, Marshall Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
From a reinterpretation of Karl Marx to an incisive consideration of the impact of Robert Moses on modern urban living, Berman charts the progress of the twentieth-century experience. He concludes that adaptation to continual flux is possible and that therein lies our hope for achieving a truly modern society.
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Between Past and Futureby Hannah ArendtISBN 0670160253 (0-670-16025-3)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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The Cartoon History of the Universe: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Greatby Larry GonickISBN 0606226400 (0-606-22640-0)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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City of Godby AugustineISBN 0606310711 (0-606-31071-1)
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Civilization past & Presentby Walter WallbankISBN 0673181650 (0-673-18165-0)
Softcover, Scott, Foresman
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Civilization: Past and Presentby Alastair M. Taylor, WallbankISBN 0673388670 (0-673-38867-0)
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Civilization: Past and Presentby WallbankISBN 0673152367 (0-673-15236-7)
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The Civilizing Processby Norbert EliasISBN 0631196803 (0-631-19680-3)
Hardcover, B. Blackwell
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The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigationsby Johan Goudsblom, Norbert Elias, Stephen Mennell, Eric Dunning, Edmund JephcottISBN 0631221611 (0-631-22161-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilizationby Norbert Elias, Edmund JephcottISBN 0631192220 (0-631-19222-0)
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. MarxISBN 0671678817 (0-671-67881-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:Check out ngims Publishing's other illustrated literary classics. The vast majority of our books have original illustrations, free audiobook download link at the end of the book, navigable Table of Contents, and are fully formatted. Browse our library collection by typing in ngims or ngims plus the title you're looking for, e.g. ngims Gulliver's Travels. Free ebooks on the web are not organized for easy reading, littered with text errors and often have missing contents. You will not find another beautifully formatted classic literature ebook that is well-designed with amazing artworks and illustrations and a link to download free audiobook for a very low price like this one. The nominal price of this ebook covers the time and effort in formatting the materials and putting everything together in one place for your convenience. As a reader, you would want everything readily available at your fingertips because you many not have the time, interest or know where to look for your favorite book. The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The book contains Marx and Engels' Marxist theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism. FEATURES ? Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations [via]
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The Communist Manifestoby K. MarxISBN 0671443879 (0-671-44387-9)
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geographyby Kathleen NorrisISBN 0618127240 (0-618-12724-0)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dakota: A Spiritual Geography'Book summary:After 20 years of living in the "Great American Outback," as Newsweek magazine once designated the Dakotas, poet Kathleen Norris (The Cloister Walk) came to understand the fascinating ways that people become metaphors for the land they inhabit. When trying to understand the polarizing contradictions that exist in the Dakotas between "hospitality and insularity, change and inertia, stability and instability.... between hope and despair, between open hearts and closed minds," Norris draws a map. "We are at the point of transition between east and west in the United States," she explains, "geographically and psychically isolated from either coast, and unlike either the Midwest or the desert west."
Like Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge), Norris understands how the boundary between inner and outer scenery begins to blur when one is fully present in the landscape of their lives. As a result, she offers the geography lesson we all longed for in school. This is a poetic, noble, and often funny (see her discussion on the foreign concept of tofu) tribute to Dakota, including its Native Americans, Benedictine monks, ministers and churchgoers, wind-weathered farmers, and all its plain folks who live such complicated and simple lives. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0679423087 (0-679-42308-7)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the Bury Text, in a boxed set. Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper [via]More editions of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:
Democracy in Americaby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0606333649 (0-606-33364-9)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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The Discovery of the Greek Bronze Ageby J. Lesley FittonISBN 0674211898 (0-674-21189-8)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Entropy: A New World Viewby Jeremy RifkinISBN 0670297178 (0-670-29717-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Everything Is Illuminatedby Jonathan Safran FoerISBN 0618173870 (0-618-17387-0)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything Is Illuminated'Book summary:The simplest thing would be to describe Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex), and a flatulent mongrel dog named Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains or Latka from Taxi. Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by Safran Foer--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the shtetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex, creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.
If all this sounds a little daunting, don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer who combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship, and loss. --Travis Elborough, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Eyewitness to Historyby John CareyISBN 0674287509 (0-674-28750-9)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyewitness to History'Book summary:Civilization's most momentous events come vibrantly alive in this magnificent collection of over three hundred eyewitness accounts spanning twenty-four turbulent centuries--remarkable recollections of battles, atrocities, disasters, coronations, assassinations, and discoveries that shaped the course of history, all related in vivid detail by ovservers on the scene. [via]
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Foundation's Edgeby Isaac AsimovISBN 0606012303 (0-606-01230-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundation's Edge'Book summary:Now, 498 years after its founding, the Foundation seemed to be following the Seldon Plan perfectly. Too perfectly. Now an impossible planet -- with impossible powers -- threatens to upset the Seldon Plan for good unless two men, sworn enemies, can work together to save it!
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Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern Worldby Jack WeatherfordISBN 0609809644 (0-609-80964-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World'Book summary:The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols Great Taboo Genghis Khans homeland and forbidden burial sitetracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation of the world.
Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.
But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule. On every level and from any perspective, the scale and scope
of Genghis Khans accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination. Genghis Khan was an innovative leader, the first ruler in many conquered countries to put the power of law above his own power, encourage religious freedom, create public schools, grant diplomatic immunity, abolish torture, and institute free trade. The trade routes he created became lucrative pathways for commerce, but also for ideas, technologies, and expertise that transformed the way people lived. The Mongols introduced the first international paper currency and postal system and developed and spread revolutionary technologies like printing, the cannon, compass, and abacus. They took local foods and products like lemons, carrots, noodles, tea, rugs, playing cards, and pants and turned them into staples of life around the world. The Mongols were the architects of a new way of life at a pivotal time in history.
In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesnt just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made. [via]More editions of Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World:
George Orwell's 1984by Ralph A. RanaldISBN 067100719X (0-671-00719-X)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited
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Greek Religionby Walter BurkertISBN 0674362810 (0-674-36281-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Greek Religion: Archaic And Classicalby Walter Burkert, John RaffanISBN 0631156240 (0-631-15624-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greek Religion: Archaic And Classical'Book summary:This is the first major synthesis of Greek religion to appear for a generation. A clearly structured and readable survey for classical scholars and students, it will also be generally welcomed as the best modern account of any polytheistic religious system. The text builds up an impressive and coherent picture of the current state of knowledge about the religion of the ancient Greeks. [via]
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Groovy Greeksby Terry DearyISBN 059003152X (0-590-03152-X)
Softcover, Scholastic Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Groovy Greeks'Book summary:A fact-filled treasury on ancient Rome celebrates the lesser-known daily realities of the period, such as what the Britons used to make their hair spiky and why rich Romans needed vomitoriums. [via]
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Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 0679428011 (0-679-42801-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Heart of Darkness grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power.
Apparently a sailors yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz and discovers that the relative values of the civilized and the primitive are not what they seem. Heart of Darkness is a model of economic storytelling, an indictment of the inner and outer turmoil caused by the European imperial misadventure, and a piercing account of the fragility of the human soul. [via] 
Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilizationby Graham Hancock, Santha FaiiaISBN 0609804774 (0-609-80477-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A History of Ancient Egyptby Nicolas Grimal, Ian ShawISBN 0631193960 (0-631-19396-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louisby R.H.C. DavisISBN 0582494001 (0-582-49400-1)
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A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louisby R.I. Moore, R.H.C. Davis, Joanna HuntingtonISBN 058278462X (0-582-78462-X)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantiumby Philippe Aries, Georges Duby, Paul VeyneISBN 0674399757 (0-674-39975-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium'Book summary:First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slavesfrom concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning of virtue, and the separation of private and public spaces.
The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire. Using illuminating motifs, the authors weave a rich, colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide.
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A History of Private Life: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great Warby Michelle Perrot, Philippe Arier, Georges DubyISBN 0674400038 (0-674-40003-8)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War'Book summary:The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I--a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world. [via]
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A History of Private Life: III Passions of the Renaissanceby Roger Chartier, Arthurf GoldhammerISBN 067440002X (0-674-40002-X)
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A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval Worldby Georges Duby, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674400011 (0-674-40001-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World'Book summary:The second volume of "A History of Private Life" contains much rich and colourful detail culled from a considerable variety of sources. This "secret epic" aims to construct a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in different places in the 11th to the 15th centuries. [via]
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A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Timesby Antoine Prost, Gerard Vincent, Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0674400046 (0-674-40004-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times'Book summary:This fifth and final volume in an award-winning series charts the inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s. Nine historians present a picture of cultures in transition and in the process scrutinize a myriad of subjects - the sacrament of confession, volunteer hotlines, Nazi policies toward the family, the baby boom, evolving sexuality, the history of contraception, and ever-changing dress codes. They draw upon unexpected sources, including divorce hearing transcripts, personal ads, and little-known demographic and consumer data. Perhaps the most notable pattern to emerge is a polarizing of public and private realms. Productive labour shifts from the home to an impersonal public setting. Salaried or corporate employment replaces many independent, entrepreneurial jobs, and workers of all kinds aggressively pursue their leisure time. Zoning laws segregate industrial and commercial areas from residential neighbourhoods, which are no longer a supportive "theatre" of benign surveillance, gossip, and mutual concern, but an assemblage of aloof and anonymous individuals or families. Scattered with personal possessions and appliances, homes grow large by yesterday's standards and are marked by elaborate spatial subdivisions. Men and women are obsessed with health, fitness, diet and appearance as the body becomes the focal point of personal identity. In the search for sexual and individualistic fulfillment, romantic love becomes the foundation of marriage. Couples marry at an older age; families are smaller. The divorce rate rises, and with it the number of single-family households. Women, entering the work forces in unprecedented numbers, frequently function as both breadwinner and homemaker. The authors interrelate these patterns with the changing roles of state and religion in family matters, the socialization of education and elder care, the growth of feminism, the impact of media on private life, and the nature of secrecy. "Riddles of Identity in Modern Times" chronicles a period when the differentiation of life into public and private realms, once a luxury of the wealthy, gradually spread throughout the population. This final volume, differing from the French edition, portrays Italian, German and American family family life in the 20th century. The authors, Chiara Saraceno, Ingeborg Weber-Kellerman and Elaine Tyler May enlarge the European and Atlantic canvas that depicts the modern identity. [via]
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A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Dayby Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3d EarlISBN 0671201581 (0-671-20158-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A History of Western Societyby John P. McKay, John Buckler, Bennett D. HillISBN 061817060X (0-618-17060-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Western Society'Book summary:A bestseller in its field, A History of Western Society examines the lives of both historical figures and ordinary people, using an engaging, lively writing style to capture students' interest. The authors pay careful attention to traditional political and cultural developments, providing a balanced, well-rounded view of Western history as a whole. Designed to appeal to a more visual student body, the Seventh Edition devotes increased attention to cultural history. The text's photo and map programs have been enhanced, with a stronger relationship between the narrative and illustrations. Scholarly updates throughout the text include new information on Egyptian religion; a revised discussion of the polis and Greek democracy; new material on the origins of Christian sacraments; an expanded discussion on the Peace of God; a new exploration of the cultural consequences of the Crusades; updated scholarship on the Atlantic slave trade; and a revised discussion of nationalism. [via]
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Human Recordby Andrea, James H. OverfieldISBN 0618370412 (0-618-37041-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Human Record: Sources of Global History To 1700by Alfred J. Andrea, James H. OverfieldISBN 0618042458 (0-618-04245-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Lifeby Robert KeganISBN 0674445880 (0-674-44588-0)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warmingby Al GoreISBN 0670062715 (0-670-06271-5)
Hardcover, Viking Childrens Books
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Intellectuals in the Middle Agesby Jacques Le Goff, Teresa Lavender FaganISBN 0631185194 (0-631-18519-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Japan Encyclopediaby Louis Fr d ric, Kathe RothISBN 0674017536 (0-674-01753-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Japan Encyclopediaby Louis Frederic, Kathe Roth, Louis-FredericISBN 0674007700 (0-674-00770-0)
Hardcover, Belknap Pr
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Landscape and Memoryby Simon SchamaISBN 0679402551 (0-679-40255-1)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Lest Darkness Fall, to Bring the Lightby L. Sprague De Camp, David DrakeISBN 0671877364 (0-671-87736-4)
Softcover, Baen Books
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Lord of the Fliesby William GoldingISBN 0606001964 (0-606-00196-4)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Manhood at Harvard: William James and Othersby Kim TownsendISBN 0674548043 (0-674-54804-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Maya, the Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilizationby Charles Gallenkamp, Albuquerque MuseumISBN 0670803871 (0-670-80387-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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Middle Agesby Morris BishopISBN 061805703X (0-618-05703-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters With Meiji Japanby Robert A. RosenstoneISBN 067457642X (0-674-57642-X)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Mosquito Coastby Paul TherouxISBN 0618658963 (0-618-65896-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0679417397 (0-679-41739-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth centurys greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smiths desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual. [via]More editions of Nineteen Eighty-Four:
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mindby Julian JaynesISBN 0618057072 (0-618-05707-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Romeby Christopher ScarreISBN 0670864641 (0-670-86464-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Reformationby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671610503 (0-671-61050-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel Defoe, W.J. LintonISBN 0679428194 (0-679-42819-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Distinguished by its strong, pure style, and by a delight in factual precision, Robinson Crusoe is still the most compelling book we have from the Age of Exploration. The impact of Daniel Defoes prose on the development of English writing has often been compared to that of the King James Bible; and the power of this fable of human loneliness has been felt by readers of every age over the last three hundred years. [via]More editions of Robinson Crusoe:
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Roman Britainby T.W. Potter, British MuseumISBN 0674777654 (0-674-77765-4)
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Roman Society: A Social, Economic, and Cultural Historyby Henry Charles BorenISBN 0669178012 (0-669-17801-2)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Rome, the Biography of a Cityby Christopher HibbertISBN 0670801291 (0-670-80129-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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The Rotten Romansby Terry DearyISBN 0590738933 (0-590-73893-3)
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Secrets of the Lost Races: New Discoveries of Advanced Technology in Ancient Civilizationsby Rene NoorbergenISBN 0672522896 (0-672-52289-6)
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Sexuality in Greek and Roman Cultureby Marilyn B. SkinnerISBN 0631232346 (0-631-23234-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Shogunby James ClavellISBN 061301328X (0-613-01328-X)
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The Story of Civilization Pt. 1: The Life of Greeceby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671418009 (0-671-41800-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment 1300 to 1815by Barry S. Strauss, Thomas F. X. Noble, Duane J. OsheimISBN 0618102132 (0-618-10213-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment Since 1560by Thomas F. X. NobleISBN 0618432787 (0-618-43278-7)
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When We Were Young: A Baby-Boomer Yearbookby Rita Lang KleinfelderISBN 0671847473 (0-671-84747-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjectsby Bertrand Russell RussellISBN 0671203231 (0-671-20323-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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"I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue," Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man's mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as 1954.
The book has been edited, with Lord Russell's full approval and cooperation, by Professor Paul Edwards of the Philosophy Department of New York University. In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the highly controversial "Bertrand Russell Case" of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared "unfit" to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York.
Whether the reader shares or rejects Bertrand Russell's views, he will find this book an invigorating challenge to set notions, a masterly statement of a philosophical position, and a pure joy to read. [via]
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World Prehistory: A Brief Introductionby Brian M. FaganISBN 0673523721 (0-673-52372-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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