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The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic-From Constantine to Dante A.D. 325-1300by Will DurantISBN 156731015X (1-56731-015-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Age of Reason Beginsby Will DurantISBN 1567310184 (1-56731-018-4)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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Before the Deluge: A Portrait of Berlin in the 1920sby Otto FriedrichISBN 0880640545 (0-88064-054-5)
Softcover, Fromm Intl
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The Black Deathby P. ZieglerISBN 0862998387 (0-86299-838-7)
Hardcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Death'Book summary:'as exciting and readable an account as you could wish' -- The Guardian
The major study of the origins, progress and economic and social effects of the plague throughout Europe in the 14th century. [via]
Civilizationby Kenneth ClarkISBN 0844666203 (0-8446-6620-3)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Coming of the Third Reichby Richard EvansISBN 1594200041 (1-59420-004-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming of the Third Reich'Book summary:This title unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill and compassion, Evans recreates a country torn apart by overwhelming economic, political and social blows: World War I, Versailles, hyperinflation and the Great Depression. One by one these blows ruined or pushed aside almost everything admirable about Germany, leaving the way clear for a truly horrifying ideology to take command. [via]
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Destruction of the European Jewsby Raul HilbergISBN 0841909105 (0-8419-0910-5)
Softcover, Holmes & Meier Pub
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Dungeon Fire and Swordby John J. RobinsonISBN 0871316579 (0-87131-657-9)
Hardcover, M Evans & Co
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El Principe / the Princeby Nicolas MaquiaveloISBN 8420639567 (84-206-3956-7)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Elie Wiesel's Nightby Harold BloomISBN 0791059243 (0-7910-5924-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elie Wiesel's Night'Book summary:An important work on the Holocaust by a concentration camp survivor.
The title, Elie Wiesels Night, part of Chelsea House Publishers Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Elie Wiesels Night through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Elie Wiesel, a chronology of the authors life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. [via]
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Europe: 1815-1914by Gordon A. CraigISBN 0030891949 (0-03-089194-9)
Softcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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Europe Since 1815by Gordon Alexander CraigISBN 0030846994 (0-03-084699-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Timeby John KellyISBN 0060006927 (0-06-000692-7)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time'Book summary:A book chronicling one of the worst human disasters in recorded history really has no business being entertaining. But John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a page-turner despite its grim subject matter and graphic detail. Credit Kelly's animated prose and uncanny ability to drop his reader smack in the middle of the 14th century, as a heretofore unknown menace stalks Eurasia from "from the China Sea to the sleepy fishing villages of coastal Portugal [producing] suffering and death on a scale that, even after two world wars and twenty-seven million AIDS deaths worldwide, remains astonishing." Take Kelly's vivid description of London in the fall of 1348: "A nighttime walk across Medieval London would probably take only twenty minutes or so, but traversing the daytime city was a different matter.... Imagine a shopping mall where everyone shouts, no one washes, front teeth are uncommon and the shopping music is provided by the slaughterhouse up the road." Yikes, and that's before just about everything with a pulse starts dying and piling up in the streets, reducing the population of Europe by anywhere from a third to 60 percent in a few short years. In addition to taking readers on a walking tour through plague-ravaged Europe, Kelly heaps on the ancillary information and every last bit of it is captivating. We get a thorough breakdown of the three types of plagues that prey on humans; a detailed account of how the plague traveled from nation to nation (initially by boat via flea-infested rats); how floods (and the appalling hygiene of medieval people) made Europe so susceptible to the disease; how the plague triggered a new social hierarchy favouring women and the proletariat but also sparked vicious anti-Semitism; and especially, how the plague forever changed the way people viewed the church. Engrossing, accessible, and brimming with first-hand accounts drawn from the Middle Ages, The Great Mortality illuminates and inspires. History just doesn't get better than that. --Kim Hughes [via]
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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror & Faith in 1605by Antonia FraserISBN 0753814013 (0-7538-1401-3)
Hardcover, Phoenix
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Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companionby Jared DiamondISBN 1586638637 (1-58663-863-7)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs, and Steel Reader's Companion'Book summary:Scholar and professor Jared Diamond made a huge splash with this fascinating but controversial book, which argues that geography and environment have almost singlehandedly determined the course of human history. Dig deeper into his contentions with the information inside this invaluable reader's handbook:- Why did Europe colonize Africa and Asia rather than the other way around?
- Why is geography the most important factor in human history?
- How has the rest of the scientific community received Diamond's theory?
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Hanes Cymruby DaviesISBN 0713990112 (0-7139-9011-2)
Hardcover, A. Lane
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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)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Private Life: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times'Book summary:Drawing on myriad sources, this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve renowned historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experiences throughout the Middle Ages. "An important book".--Library Journal. [via]
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A History of Walesby John DaviesISBN 0713990988 (0-7139-9098-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Wales'Book summary:This is a translation from Welsh of "Hannes Cymru". It traces the history of Wales from the earliest times to the present day, from the first Welshman at Ffynnan Bueno to the miners' strike, from the Red Lady of Paviland to the establishment of the Welsh TV channel, from the end of the ice age to the general election of 1987. [via]
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Livesby Alan BullockISBN 0006863744 (0-00-686374-4)
Hardcover, Fontana Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives'Book summary:Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by chapter, often paragraph by paragraph, as Bullock has done...a triumph of organization, lucidity and perspective.' John Campbell, The Times 'Compulsive reading. The sweep is broad and the information concisely conveyed without any sign of pedantry...a titanic narrative history.' Zara Steiner, Financial Times 'An astonishing feat of organization, brilliantly illuminating the tragic history of the twentieth century.' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'If you knew nothing about the twentieth century and were allowed one book to bone up on it, this would have to be it.' Alex Campbell, Daily Mail [via]
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A Holocaust Readerby Lucy DawidowiczISBN 0874412366 (0-87441-236-6)
Softcover, Behrman House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Holocaust Reader'Book summary:This book is a collection of documents about the destruction and martyrdom of the European Jews under German occupation during World War II. [via]
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Inside the Third Reichby Albert SpeerISBN 002037500X (0-02-037500-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside the Third Reich'Book summary:From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their 1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues to provide one of the most detailed and fascinating portrayals of life within Hitler's inner circles, the rise and fall of the third German empire, and of Hitler himself.
Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. Speer's recollections of both duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic, imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. Throughout, Inside the Third Reich remains true to its author's intentions. With compelling insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's holding unrestricted power in his hands." -- Bertina Loeffler [via]
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Jeanne D'Arcby Regine PernoudISBN 2020059754 (2-02-005975-4)
Softcover, Seuil
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jeanne D'Arc'Book summary:Cette guerre dura cent ans. Elle faillit faire de la France une terre anglaise. En 1429, alors que les Anglais sont aux portes d'Orléans, une voix venue des cieux se fait entendre, non au roi de France mais à une petite paysanne de Domrémy, Jeanne. Une mission lui incombe : sauver la France. Cette pieuse jeune fille met désormais sa vie au service de son roi et de son pays. Elle prend la tête de l'armée et sauve Orléans ; elle permet au roi d'être sacré et d'affermir ainsi son pouvoir. Trahie, livrée aux Anglais, jugée par les tribunaux ecclésiastiques pour sorcellerie, elle est brûlée vive à Rouen. Celle qui réussit à redonner du courage à tout un peuple entrait dans la légende nationale.
Dans un ouvrage didactique, enrichi de nombreuses illustrations et de biographies annexes, les auteurs nous font redécouvrir de manière très vivante l'histoire exceptionnelle de cette jeune femme devenue l'héroïne la plus populaire de France. --Gaëtane Guillo [via]
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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnessesby Regine PernoudISBN 0812812603 (0-8128-1260-3)
Softcover, Scarborough House
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empireby David RemnickISBN 0679751254 (0-679-75125-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire'Book summary:David Remnick was Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post between 1988 and 1991 and later a staffer at the New Yorker. While with The Post he covered events the emergence of perestroika, the taking of power by democrats, the failed Communist counter-coup of August 1991 and beyond. His gripping personal account of that historic period is filled with vivid sketches of people. He writes with passion of the twofold nature of the crimes of Stalinist communism--"murder and the unending assault against memory." His powerful literary style is suggested in the title, the mausoleum holding Lenin's body being a central image in his book for the construction and maintenance of the dead culture of communism. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. [via]
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Life in a Medieval Cityby Frances Gies, Joseph and Francis GiesISBN 0815203454 (0-8152-0345-4)
Hardcover, Apollo Editions
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Machiavelli: Il Principeby Brian RichardsonISBN 0719007429 (0-7190-0742-9)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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MacHiavelli's the Prince: Text and Commentaryby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0812005244 (0-8120-0524-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reasonby Michel FoucaultISBN 067972110X (0-679-72110-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Pragueby Timothy Garton AshISBN 0679740481 (0-679-74048-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague'Book summary:The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of its victory -- or sitting in at the meetings of an unlikely coalition of bohemian intellectuals and Catholic clerics orchestrating the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Garton Ash writes with enormous sympathy and power.In this book -- now with a new Afterword by the author -- Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989 and whose after-effects will resonate for years to come. [via]
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Medieval World: Europe 1100-1350by Friedrich HeerISBN 1566491975 (1-56649-197-5)
Softcover, Welcome Rain
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval World: Europe 1100-1350'Book summary:History of medieval Europe, translated from German by Janet Sondheimer. [via]
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Mein Kampfby Adolf Hitler, James MurphyISBN 1593640064 (1-59364-006-4)
Hardcover, Liberty Bell Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mein Kampf'Book summary:The angry ranting of an obscure, small-party politician, the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume, which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler's childhood, the "betrayal" of Germany in World War I, the desire for revenge against France, the need for lebensraum for the German people, and the means by which the National Socialist party can gain power. It also includes Hitler's racist agenda and his glorification of the "Aryan" race. The few outside the Nazi party who read it dismissed it as nonsense, not believing that anyone could--or would--carry out its radical, terrorist programs. As Hitler and the Nazis gained power, first party members and then the general public were pressured to buy the book. By the time Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933, the book stood atop the German bestseller lists. Had the book been taken seriously when it was first published, perhaps the 20th century would have been very different.
Beyond the anger, hatred, bigotry, and self-aggrandizing, Mein Kampf is saddled with tortured prose, meandering narrative, and tangled metaphors (one person was described as "a thorn in the eyes of venal officials"). That said, it is an incredibly important book. It is foolish to think that the Holocaust could not happen again, especially if World War II and its horrors are forgotten. As an Amazon.com reader has pointed out, "If you want to learn about why the Holocaust happened, you can't avoid reading the words of the man who was most responsible for it happening." Mein Kampf, therefore, must be read as a reminder that evil can all too easily grow. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Mein Kampf: My Struggleby Adolf HitlerISBN 1410102033 (1-4101-0203-3)
Softcover, Fredonia Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mein Kampf: My Struggle'Book summary:Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-26 and sold between eight and nine million copies in German during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being widely translated. It is the most notorious political tract of the twentieth century. This translation by James Murphy (who worked in Goebbels's Ministry of propaganda from 1934 to 1938) is considered standard.
Mein Kampf remains necessary reading for those who seek to understand the Holocaust, for students of totalitarian psychology and for all those who care to safeguard democracy. [via]
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Mein Kampf: My Struggle Unexpurgated Edition, Two Volumes in One a Retrospect/The National Socialist Movementby Adolf HitlerISBN 817224164X (81-7224-164-X)
Softcover, Laurier Books Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mein Kampf: My Struggle Unexpurgated Edition, Two Volumes in One a Retrospect/The National Socialist Movement'Book summary:The angry ranting of an obscure, small-party politician, the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume, which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler's childhood, the "betrayal" of Germany in World War I, the desire for revenge against France, the need for lebensraum for the German people, and the means by which the National Socialist party can gain power. It also includes Hitler's racist agenda and his glorification of the "Aryan" race. The few outside the Nazi party who read it dismissed it as nonsense, not believing that anyone could--or would--carry out its radical, terrorist programs. As Hitler and the Nazis gained power, first party members and then the general public were pressured to buy the book. By the time Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933, the book stood atop the German bestseller lists. Had the book been taken seriously when it was first published, perhaps the 20th century would have been very different.
Beyond the anger, hatred, bigotry, and self-aggrandizing, Mein Kampf is saddled with tortured prose, meandering narrative, and tangled metaphors (one person was described as "a thorn in the eyes of venal officials"). That said, it is an incredibly important book. It is foolish to think that the Holocaust could not happen again, especially if World War II and its horrors are forgotten. As an Amazon.com reader has pointed out, "If you want to learn about why the Holocaust happened, you can't avoid reading the words of the man who was most responsible for it happening." Mein Kampf, therefore, must be read as a reminder that evil can all too easily grow. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Mein Kampf: Unexpurgated Edition, Two Volumes in One A Retrospect, the National Socialist Movementby Adolf HitlerISBN 0913022101 (0-913022-10-1)
Hardcover, C P A Book Pub
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Middle Agesby Morris BishopISBN 0828104875 (0-8281-0487-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middle Ages'Book summary:An historical summary of the middle ages. [via]
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Niccolo Machiavelli's the Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Gerald Lee RatliffISBN 0812035364 (0-8120-3536-4)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Niccolo Machiavelli's the Prince'Book summary:Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. [via]
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The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuriesby Carlo Ginzburg, Anne TedeschiISBN 0801843863 (0-8018-4386-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'Book summary:Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to protect their villages and harvests. If they won, the harvest would be good, if they lost, there would be famine. The inquisitors tried to fit them into their pre-existing images of the witches sabbat. The result of this cultural clash which lasted over a century, was the slow metamorphosis of the benandanti into their enemies the witches. Carlo Ginzburg shows clearly how this transformation of the popular notion of witchcraft was manipulated by the Inquisitors, and disseminated all over Europe and even to the New World. The peasants fragmented and confused testimony reaches us with great immediacy, enabling us to identify a level of popular belief which constitutes a valuable witness for the reconstruction of the peasant way of thinking of this age.
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The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940by William L. ShirerISBN 1841581224 (1-84158-122-4)
Softcover, Birlinn, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940'Book summary:As European correspondent for a number of American newspapers during the 1930s, William L. Shirer witnessed at first hand many of the pivotal events in the buildup to World War II. At the Nuremberg rallies, when Hitler roared through the streets celebrating his newly-won domination of Germany, Shirer was there. In Munich, as Chamberlain abandoned the Czechs, Shirer was there. In Vienna during the night of the Anschluss, in Berlin, when Hitler loosed his Blitzkrieg on Poland and began the war, Shirer was there. Through articles, broadcasts and translations of Hitler's speeches, Shirer tirelessly tried to warn the world of the terrible evil that was growing in Germany. The Nightmare Years, a No. I bestseller when first published in America in 1984, is not only the fascinating eyewitness account of this cataclysmic decade, but also the more personal story of a young American caught in tense and desperate times, struggling to survive and provide a life for himself and his family as the world lurched inexorably towards war.
'More than any conventional history book, Shirer's memoirs let a reader relive history' -People 'A superb journalist. ..Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. ..An unusually fine book' -Time 'No one ever did more to explain the rise of the Nazis' -Barbara Tuchman 'An outstanding achievement of journalistic history; indeed it is the best kind of accurate and absorbing history' -Washington Post REVIEWS 'Reporting at its best. ..A highly readable, absorbing story of a fascinating man and a dangerous decade. ..A deeply personal account of living with history as it's being made -an absorbing narrative' -Houston Chronicle 'More than any conventional history book, Shirer's memoirs let a reader relive history' -People 'A superb journalist. ..Shirer was close enough to Hitler to feel the Nazi leader's messianic personal force. ..An unusually fine book' -Time 'No one ever did more to explain the rise of the Nazis' -Barbara Tuchman 'An outstanding achievement of journalistic history; indeed it is the best kind of accurate and absorbing history' -Washington Post [via]More editions of The Nightmare Years, 1930-1940:
Old Regime and the French Revolutionby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0844619736 (0-8446-1973-6)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Catharsby Stephen O'SheaISBN 0802776175 (0-8027-7617-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars'Book summary:Jongleurs performing troubadour poetry in fields and groves frequently dominate our images of Medieval Southern France. While the 12th century reveled in songs of deferred pleasure and adulterous fulfillment, the 13th, as Stephen O'Shea makes clear, took a marked turn toward the violent and intolerant. The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's crusade against--and ultimate annihilation of--the Albigenses, or Cathars, a group of heretical Christians who thrived in what is now the Languedoc region of Southern France. The Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened the authority of the church. The world, they maintained, was not created by a benevolent God. Rather, it was the creation of a force of darkness, immanent in all things. They considered worldly authority a fraud, and authority based on some divine sanction, such as claimed by the church, outright hypocrisy. Innocent III, resolved to eradicate the Cathar threat to church authority, recruited the military powers of France, eager to expand their territory to the south. Together, they systematically exterminated the Cathars and their supporters in a series of crusades between 1209 and 1229. The Dominican-led Inquisition that ensued built upon this momentum of intolerance and tormented Europe for centuries to come.
A journalist and translator, Stephen O'Shea relocated to Southern France for two years in order to complete his research. He writes clearly and with evident passion for his subject. Intended for the general reader, The Perfect Heresy includes historical background and explanations without interrupting the narrative flow; there is also an annotated bibliography to facilitate further reading. O'Shea's examination of the Cathars sheds important new light on Medieval France as well as on the timelessness of religious intolerance. --Bertina Loeffler Sedlack [via]
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The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Catharsby Stephen O'SheaISBN 0802713505 (0-8027-1350-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Spectacular Death of the Medieval Cathars'Book summary:Jongleurs performing troubadour poetry in fields and groves frequently dominate our images of Medieval Southern France. While the 12th century reveled in songs of deferred pleasure and adulterous fulfillment, the 13th, as Stephen O'Shea makes clear, took a marked turn toward the violent and intolerant. The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Medieval Cathars chronicles the Roman Catholic Church's crusade against--and ultimate annihilation of--the Albigenses, or Cathars, a group of heretical Christians who thrived in what is now the Languedoc region of Southern France. The Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened the authority of the church. The world, they maintained, was not created by a benevolent God. Rather, it was the creation of a force of darkness, immanent in all things. They considered worldly authority a fraud, and authority based on some divine sanction, such as claimed by the church, outright hypocrisy. Innocent III, resolved to eradicate the Cathar threat to church authority, recruited the military powers of France, eager to expand their territory to the south. Together, they systematically exterminated the Cathars and their supporters in a series of crusades between 1209 and 1229. The Dominican-led Inquisition that ensued built upon this momentum of intolerance and tormented Europe for centuries to come.
A journalist and translator, Stephen O'Shea relocated to Southern France for two years in order to complete his research. He writes clearly and with evident passion for his subject. Intended for the general reader, The Perfect Heresy includes historical background and explanations without interrupting the narrative flow; there is also an annotated bibliography to facilitate further reading. O'Shea's examination of the Cathars sheds important new light on Medieval France as well as on the timelessness of religious intolerance. --Bertina Loeffler Sedlack [via]
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Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European Cityby Peter DemetzISBN 0809016095 (0-8090-1609-5)
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 142181174X (1-4218-1174-X)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:"The Prince" has long been both praised and reviled for its message of moral relativism, and political expediency. Although a large part is devoted to the mechanics of gaining and staying in power, Machiavelli's end purpose is to maintain a just and stable government. He is not ambiguous in stating his belief that committing a small cruelty to avert a larger is not only justifiable, but required of a just ruler. Machiavelli gives a vivid portrayal of his world in the chaos and tumult of early 16th century Florence, Italy and Europe. He uses both his contemporary political situation, and that of the classical period to illustrate his precepts of statecraft. [via]
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The Princeby Dominic Baker-Smith, Niccolo Machiavelli, W.K. MarriottISBN 0679410449 (0-679-41044-9)
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That Machiavellis name has become synonymous with cold-eyed political calculation only heightens the intrinsic fascination of The Princethe worlds preeminent how-to manual on the art of getting and keeping power, and one of the literary landmarks of the Italian Renaissance. Written in a vigorous, straightforward style that reflects its authors realism, this treatise on states, statecraft, and the ideal ruler is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how human society actually works. [via]More editions of The Prince:
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Prince And Other Writingsby Niccolo Machiavelli, Wayne A. RebhornISBN 1593080603 (1-59308-060-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince And Other Writings'Book summary:[via]The Prince and Other Writings, by Niccolo Machiavelli, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.One of historys greatest political philosophers, Niccolò Machiavelli is notorious for his treatise The Prince, which has become a cornerstone of modern political theory. Written in 1513 and published in 1532, after Machivellis death, The Prince immediately provoked controversy that has continued unabated to this day.
Defining human nature as inherently selfish, Machiavelli proposes that social conflict and violence are natural phenomena that help determine the ablest, most versatile form of government. Asserting that idealism has no place in the political arena, The Prince primarily addresses a monarchs difficulties in retaining authority. Considered the first expression of political realism, it has often been accused of advocating a political philosophy in which the end justifies the means. Indeed the emphasis in The Prince on practical success, at the expense even of traditional moral values, earned Machiavelli a reputation for ruthlessness, deception, and cruelty. Many scholars contend, however, that the authors pragmatic views of ethics and politics reflected the realities of his time, as exemplified by the Medici family of Florence.
Debates about Machiavellis theories are as lively today as they were 450 years ago, but no one questions the importance of his fundamental contribution to Western political thought. This newly translated edition also includes Machiavellis Letter to Francesco Vettori, The Life of Castruccio Castracani, and excerpts from the Discourses on Livy.
Wayne A. Rebhorn, Celanese Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas, has authored numerous studies of Renaissance European literature. His Foxes and Lions: Machiavellis Confidence Men won the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Modern Language Association of America in 1990.More editions of Prince And Other Writings:
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Prince Maachiavelliby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0882950533 (0-88295-053-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince Maachiavelli'Book summary:What makes this well-annotated translation stand out from others is an insightful introduction by editor Thomas G. Bergin--especially helpful for achieving a better understanding of the times and the political scene in which Machiavelli worked, lived, and wrote. Also included are a list of important dates in Machiavelli's life, an index of proper names in the text and notes, and a selected bibliography. [via]
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The Prospect Before Herby Olwen HuftonISBN 0679768181 (0-679-76818-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe'Book summary:The great insight of social history is that the record of the lives of Great Men offers a skewed vision of human experience. Similarly women's history seeks to address the unbalanced written record of humanity. Olwen Hufton, the author of several previous studies concerned with women and the history of ideas, has crafted a descriptive history of the lives of a wide variety of women over the 300-year period from 1500 to 1800. Her work is neither an act of prescription nor a narrative written as a means to empowerment. Rather, the details testify to the inequality of women's lives. Hufton seeks no single representative woman whose story conveys the experience of women writ large, but instead offers appropriately complicated interpretations of the diverse women she discusses. [via]
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The Reformation of the Sixteenth Centuryby Roland H. Bainton, Jaroslav Jan PelikanISBN 0807013013 (0-8070-1301-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century'Book summary:Bainton presents the many strands that made up the Reformation in a single, brilliantly coherent account. He discusses the background for Luther's irreparable breach with the Church and its ramifications for 16th Century Europe, giving thorough accounts of the Diet of Worms, the institution of the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome, and William the Silent's struggle for Dutch independence. [via]
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The Renaissance: A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304-1576 A.D.by Will DurantISBN 1567310168 (1-56731-016-8)
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000by Paul M. KennedyISBN 0679720197 (0-679-72019-7)
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The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity Ad 200-1000by Peter BrownISBN 1577180925 (1-57718-092-5)
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Ageby Modris EksteinsISBN 0886192005 (0-88619-200-5)
Hardcover, Lester & Orpen Dennys
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The Roman Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 156849503X (1-56849-503-X)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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Rubicon: The Last Years Of The Roman Republicby Tom HollandISBN 1400078970 (1-4000-7897-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rubicon: The Last Years Of The Roman Republic'Book summary:In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Hollands enthralling account tells the story of Caesars generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition. [via]
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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern Worldby Arthur HermanISBN 1841152765 (1-84115-276-5)
Softcover, Fourth Estate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World'Book summary:'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, Guardian A dramatic and intriguing history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Arthur Herman argues that Scotland's turbulent history, from William Wallace to the Presbyterian Lords of the Covenant, laid the foundations for 'the Scottish miracle'. Within one hundred years, the nation that began the eighteenth century dominated by the harsh and repressive Scottish Kirk had evolved into Europe's most literate society, producing an idea of modernity that has shaped much of civilisation as we know it. He follows the lives and work of thinkers such as Adam Smith and David Hume, writers such as Burns and Boswell, as well as architects, technicians and inventors, and traces their legacy into the twentieth century. Written with wit, erudition and clarity, The Scottish Enlightenment claims the Scots' rightful place in the history of the western world. [via]
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Spandau: The Secret Diariesby Albert SpeerISBN 0002167638 (0-00-216763-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spandau: The Secret Diaries'Book summary:He served as Hitler's architect, the undisputed master of the German war machine, and the one responsible for conscripted foreign labor in the Third Reich. And, when Albert Speer was captured and sentenced at Nuremberg--after becoming the only defendant to plead guilty--he started keeping this secret diary, much of it on toilet paper. After 20 years of imprisonment, he found 25,000 of the smuggled pages waiting for him, and from those entries he shaped this deeply powerful document. "Albert Speer's book is a deeply moving document. It is also of extraordinary political and psychological interest...a must for anyone interested in psychological motivation of political action and the problem of guilt and repentance. But, beyond this it is so fascinatingly written that I could not put it down before I finished it." --Erich Fromm.[via]
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Sparknotes Nightby Elie WeiselISBN 1586633988 (1-58663-398-8)
Softcover, Spark Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparknotes Night'Book summary:Get your "A" in gear!
They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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Story of Civilizationby Will DurantISBN 1567310230 (1-56731-023-0)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Story of Civilization'Book summary:Complete 11 volume set of Will and Aerial The Story of Civilization plus two additional books 13 volumes total [via]
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Survival in Auschwitzby Primo LeviISBN 0020291922 (0-02-029192-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Survival in Auschwitz'Book summary:Survival in Auschwitz is a mostly straightforward narrative, beginning with Primo Levi's deportation from Turin, Italy, to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland in 1943. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in the camp. Even Levi's most graphic descriptions of the horrors he witnessed and endured there are marked by a restraint and wit that not only gives readers access to his experience, but confronts them with it in stark ethical and emotional terms: "[A]t dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundred other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something to eat today?" --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanityby Primo LeviISBN 0020343000 (0-02-034300-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity'Book summary:Survival in Auschwitz is a mostly straightforward narrative, beginning with Primo Levi's deportation from Turin, Italy, to the concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland in 1943. Levi, then a 25-year-old chemist, spent 10 months in the camp. Even Levi's most graphic descriptions of the horrors he witnessed and endured there are marked by a restraint and wit that not only gives readers access to his experience, but confronts them with it in stark ethical and emotional terms: "[A]t dawn the barbed wire was full of children's washing hung out in the wind to dry. Nor did they forget the diapers, the toys, the cushions and the hundred other small things which mothers remember and which children always need. Would you not do the same? If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him something to eat today?" --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Third Reich: A New Historyby Michael BurleighISBN 080909326X (0-8090-9326-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Third Reich: A New History'Book summary:Humans have a fascination with evil. We long to identify it, quantify it, and understand it. To this end, newspapers frequently splash photographs of murderers with the caption "The face of evil." Heading most lists of the 20th century's most evil people would be Adolf Hitler, but, as Michael Burleigh's tour de force makes clear, evil is not always as cut-and-dried as we would like. The Nazis could not have come to power and committed Germany to a policy of war and genocide without the tacit consent of the German people. This makes Germany as a whole responsible for the crimes committed in its name, but it is clearly wrong to label every German as evil. Through his painstaking research and direct prose, Burleigh slowly builds up a picture of a people desperate for identity and economic prosperity, who, bit by bit, closed off their conscience as the price of their dreams. There was no one cathartic moment when Germany, under the Third Reich, lapsed from goodness into badness; rather, there was an incremental realignment of a collective morality. Burleigh's explanation of this phenomenon is so simple, yet so obviously right, that you can only wonder that it didn't become the generally accepted currency years ago.
Instead of viewing Nazi Germany in purely social, political, and economic terms--though he doesn't ignore these spheres--Burleigh wraps them all into a picture of a country gripped in a religious, messianic fervor, and that which had previously felt inexplicable suddenly seems clear. If you want the nitty-gritty details of the Second World War and the genocide, they are here, retold as well as, if not better than, many of the other histories of this period. But it's Burleigh's take on the people of Germany that makes this book so special. Above all, with similar genocidal wars currently being fought in Kosovo, Rwanda, and Iraq, it makes you think, "Would I be able to resist becoming complicit in such regimes?" This is a must for every 20th-century historian. --John Crace, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Presentby Philippe AriesISBN 0801817625 (0-8018-1762-5)
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Zimmermann Telegramby Barbara W. TuchmanISBN 0026203200 (0-02-620320-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Zimmermann Telegram'Book summary:In the dark winter of 1917, as World War I was deadlocked, Britain knew that Europe could be saved only if the United States joined the war. But President Wilson remained unshakable in his neutrality. Then, with a single stroke, the tool to propel America into the war came into a quiet British office. One of countless messages intercepted by the crack team of British decoders, the Zimmermann telegram was a top-secret message from Berlin inviting Mexico to join Japan in an invasion of the United States: Mexico would recover her lost American territories while keeping the U.S. occupied on her side of the Atlantic. How Britain managed to inform America of Germany's plan without revealing that the German codes had been broken makes for an incredible, true story of espionage, intrigue, and international politics as only Barbara W. Tuchman could tell it. [via]
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Armas, germenes y acero/ Guns, Germs and Steelby Jared DiamondISBN 848306667X (84-8306-667-X)
Hardcover, Debate Editorial
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Hitler IIby Ian KershawISBN 8483074524 (84-8307-452-4)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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Homenaje a Catalunaby Iosu PeralesISBN 848845581X (84-88455-81-X)
Softcover, LA Llevir S L Virus Editorial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homenaje a Cataluna'Book summary:Cuando en julio de 1936 se produce el levantamiento armado fascista contra la Republica espanola, George Orwel decide viajar a Espana para trabajar inicialmente como periodista; pero las circunstancias le llevaran a enrolarse en las milicias del POUM. Como miliciana luchara en el frente de Aragon y sera gravemente herido en la garganta, toma parte en los sucesos de Mayo del 37 en Barcelona; y, como sus companeros del POUM, sufrira persecucion por parte de los estalinistas del PSUC y se vera obligado a huir de Espana, atravesando la frontera como simple turista. En 1938, cuando aun no habia llegado a su fin la guerra civil, escribe Homeaje a Cataluna, donde relata sus experiencias en la Revolucion espanola. [via]
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De Principatibus: Le Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Giorgio Inglese, Jean-Louis Fournel, Jean-Claude ZancariniISBN 2130505309 (2-13-050530-9)
Hardcover, Presses universitaires de France
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› Find signed collectible books: 'De Principatibus: Le Prince'Book summary:Dédié à Laurent de Médicis, Le Prince est une oeuvre nourrie par l'expérience d'ambassadeur de son auteur. Machiavel y définit les fins du gouvernement : sur le plan extérieur, maintenir à tout prix son emprise sur les territoires conquis ; sur le plan intérieur, se donner les moyens de rester au pouvoir. Parce que les hommes sont égoïstes, le prince n'est pas tenu d'être moral. Il doit être craint en évitant de se faire haïr par le peuple.
La réduction de Machiavel au machiavélisme est cependant trop simpliste. On peut même lire Le Prince comme une des premières oeuvres de science politique, l'auteur ne cherchant qu'à décrire les mécanismes du pouvoir, à la manière du physicien qui détermine les lois de la gravitation. Rousseau ou encore Spinoza ont même pensé que Le Prince s'adressait en vérité au peuple pour l'avertir des stratégies utilisées par les tyrans.
Oeuvre géniale dans son ambiguïté, Le Prince peut donc être lu soit comme un traité de gouvernement à l'usage du despote, soit comme un ouvrage de science, voire comme une critique déguisée du despotisme. --Paul Klein [via]
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En evoquant Wagner: La Musique Comme Mensonge Et Comme Veriteby Francis PagnonISBN 2851841300 (2-85184-130-0)
Hardcover, Editions Champ libre
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Il Principeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 8817120375 (88-17-12037-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Principe'Book summary:Con un saggio di Raymond Aron su "Machiavelli e Marx". Introduzione e cronologia di Franco Melotti, note di Ettore Janni e un glossario ideologico 16mo pp. 222 broch [via]
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