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About Faceby David H. Hackworth, Julie ShermanISBN 0671526928 (0-671-52692-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'About Face'Book summary:From Library Journal: Authentic combat leaders--the real warriors--are apt to be professional misfits, especially off the battlefield. In this book America's most decorated living soldier tells his life story in formidable detail with outstanding battlefield realism. Colonel Hackworth left the Army and went into exile over the conduct of the Vietnam War. Like all good autobiographies, his often tells more than he intended. This is as earnest and self-revealing as Anthony B. Herbert's Herbert: The Making of a Soldier (LJ 9/1/82), but less laconic. A rousing good book which will be useful to military professionals as well. Military Book Club main selection. - Raymond L. Puffer, U.S. Air Force History Prog., Los Angeles Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. [via]
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About Face/the Odyssey of an American Warriorby David H. Hackworth, Julie ShermanISBN 0671695347 (0-671-69534-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970by Thomas P. HughesISBN 0670814784 (0-670-81478-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877by John A. GarratyISBN 0673991970 (0-673-99197-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877'Book summary:The American Nations pedagogical mission is to show readers how history connects to the experiences and expectations that mark their lives. The authors pursue that mission through a variety of distinctive features, including an innovative art program and provocative chapter-opening questions and essays to engage readers.
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Anna and the King of Siamby Margaret LandonISBN 0671810316 (0-671-81031-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna and the King of Siam'Book summary:"Anna and the King of Siam" is a wonderful blend of old-fashioned fiction writing and the meticulously researched true story of the young English woman who was the tutor to the children of King Mongkut of Siam during the 1860s. Her most important pupil was the prince who would become Thailand's most progressive king. It was Anna who taught him about Abraham Lincoln and the Western ideals which would later influence his reign and the transformation of Thailand from a feudal state to a modern progressive society. [via]
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Familyby Miep Gies, Alison Leslie GoldISBN 0671662341 (0-671-66234-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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It seems as if we are never far from Miep's thoughts....Yours, Anne
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here at last is Miep's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims.
From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty. [via]
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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexby Anne FrankISBN 055356983X (0-553-56983-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex'Book summary:Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel. Here, too, are portions of the diary originally withheld from publication by her father. By turns fantastical, rebellious, touching, funny, and heartbreaking, these writings reveal the astonishing range of Anne Frank's wisdom and imagination--as well as her indomitable love of life. Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex is a testaments to this determined young woman's extraordinary genius and to the persistent strength of the creative spirit. [via]More editions of Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex:
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Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century Americaby Fred Wasserman, Molly McGarryISBN 0670864013 (0-670-86401-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:During the 1994 Stonewall 25 celebrations--commemorating the riots that began the gay liberation movement--the New York Public Library sponsored a hugely popular exhibit of gay and lesbian history entitled "Becoming Visible." Exhibit curators Fred Wasserman and Molly McGarry have created an impressive book based on that collection, not only a major contribution to gay and cultural studies, but vital reading for anyone interested in American history. Rather then present a strictly historical narrative, Becoming Visible arranges its material in loose categories--Stonewall, Social Worlds, Organizing--that provide a frame yet allow for graceful, informative, and resonant overlapping. The book is centered on post-Stonewall gay and lesbian life, but Wasserman and McGarry supply readers with a wide range of illustrative archival material--from advertisements for 1920s drag balls to the covers of 1950s lesbian pulp novels, from photos of turn-of-the-century all-women social clubs to 1940s gay male "physique" magazines. And while Becoming Visible is filled with hundreds of photos, prints, posters, and flyers--many printed for the first time--its extensive text is well researched, highly informative, and beautifully written. --Michael Bronski [via]
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Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russiaby W. Bruce LincolnISBN 0670875686 (0-670-87568-6)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia'Book summary:This slim volume tackles an overwhelming subject: 1,000 years of Russian achievements in the arts, from medieval ikons to the novels of Tolstoy to the films of Eisenstein. Much has been written about the subject over the years, but Lincoln poses himself a slightly different task: to depict not so much the history of Russian arts as the history of the country's "artistic experience," including the "social and political forces" that shaped artistic creation. Author of such histories as Romanovs and Nicholas I, Lincoln ably provides the context such a task requires. Unfortunately, Lincoln's purple prose can sometimes be distracting. No one ever seems to merely wear a medal, they wear it "proudly"; a building is not simply painted turquoise when it can be "brilliant" turquoise. Here, for instance, is Lincoln on the music of Rimsky-Korsakov: "Oceans churned, storms thundered, the sun sparkled in wintry forests, and in the new warmth of spring nightingales sang and golden fish leaped from crystal streams." Overall, however, Lincoln's marriage of history and the arts is a happy one, demonstrating how the peculiarly Russian tension between East and West and between politics and the arts helped produce artistic works that were both uniquely beautiful and uniquely Russian. [via]
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A Biblical History of Israelby V. Philips Long, Iain W. Provan, Tremper Longman, Philips V. LongISBN 0664220908 (0-664-22090-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russiaby Adam Bruno UlamISBN 0674078306 (0-674-07830-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0670194646 (0-670-19464-6)
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Confessions of Nat Turnerby William StyronISBN 055326916X (0-553-26916-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confessions of Nat Turner'Book summary:In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery...
The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is narrated by Nat himself as he lingers in jail through the cold autumnal days before his execution. The compelling story ranges over the whole of Nat's Life, reaching its inevitable and shattering climax that bloody day in August.
The Confessions of Nat Turner is not only a masterpiece of storytelling; is also reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, Willie Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations--and hopes--which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who held his people in bondage.
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Copenhagenby Michael FraynISBN 0573627525 (0-573-62752-5)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Copenhagen'Book summary:For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are not only incomprehensible but inhuman. The popular image of the men who made the bomb is of dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their way towards a weapon whose devastating power they could not even imagine. But in his Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen, Michael Frayn shows us that these men were passionate, philosophical, and all too human, even though one of the three historical figures in his drama, Werner Heisenberg, was the head of the Nazis' effort to develop a nuclear weapon. The play's other two characters, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his wife, Margrethe, are involved with Heisenberg in an after-death analysis of an actual meeting that has long puzzled historians. In 1941, the German scientist visited Bohr, his old mentor and long-time friend, in Copenhagen. After a brief discussion in the Bohrs' home, the two men went for a short walk. What they discussed on that walk, and its implications for both scientists, have long been a mystery, even though both scientists gave (conflicting) accounts in later years.
Frayn's cunning conceit is to use the scientific underpinnings of atomic physics, from Schrödinger's famous cat to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, to explore how an individual's point of view renders attempts to discover the ultimate truth of any human interaction fundamentally impossible. To Margrethe, Heisenberg was always an untrustworthy student, eager to steal from her husband's knowledge. To Bohr, Heisenberg was a brilliant if irresponsible foster son, whose lack of moral compass was part of his genius. As for Heisenberg, the man who could have built the bomb but somehow failed to, his dilemma is at the heart of the play's conflict. Frayn's clever dramatic structure, which returns repeatedly to particular scenes from different points of view, allows several possible theories as to what his motives could have been. This isn't the first play to successfully merge the worlds of science and theater (one is inevitably reminded of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Hapgood), but it's certainly one of the most dramatically successful. --John Longenbaugh [via]
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The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thoughtby Thomas S. KuhnISBN 0674171039 (0-674-17103-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought'Book summary:For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Mr. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man's concept of his relation to the universe and to God.
The book begins with a description of the first scientific cosmology developed by the Greeks. Mr. Kuhn thus prepares the way for a continuing analysis of the relation between theory and observation and belief. He describes the many functions--astronomical, scientific, and nonscientific--of the Greek concept of the universe, concentrating especially on the religious implications. He then treats the intellectual, social, and economic developments which nurtured Copernicus' break with traditional astronomy. Although many of these developments, including scholastic criticism of Aristotle's theory of motion and the Renaissance revival of Neoplatonism, lie entirely outside of astronomy, they increased the flexibility of the astronomer's imagination. That new flexibility is apparent in the work of Copernicus, whose DE REVOLUTIONIBUS ORBIUM CAELESTIUM is discussed in detail both for its own significance and as a representative scientific innovation.
With a final analysis of Copernicus' life work--its reception and its contribution to a new scientific concept of the universe--Mr. Kuhn illuminates both the researches that finally made the heliocentric arrangement work, and the achievements in physics and metaphysics that made the planetary earth an integral part of Newtonian science. These are the developments that once again provided man with a coherent and self-consistent conception of the universe and of his own place in it.
This is a book for any reader interested in the evolution of ideas and, in particular, in the curious interplay of hypothesis and experiment which is the essence of modern science. Says James Bryant Conant in his Foreword: "Professor Kuhn's handling of the subject merits attention, for... he points the way to the road which must be followed if science is to be assimilated into the culture of our times."
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Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre Dumas, Lowell BlairISBN 0553213504 (0-553-21350-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Count of Monte Cristo'Book summary:Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d'If -- doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue and paints a vision of France -- a dazzling, dueling, exuberant France -- that has become immortal. [via]
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Coup D'Etatby Edward LuttwakISBN 0674175476 (0-674-17547-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Cross and the Crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformationby Richard FletcherISBN 0670032719 (0-670-03271-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisisby Graham T. AllisonISBN 0673394123 (0-673-39412-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis'Book summary:Introduction to International Relations: Perspectives and Themes, 2/ Each chapter builds up an understanding of the different ways of looking at the world. From liberalism through to green politics, it examines how different perspectives have developed, who has influenced them the most and what position they represent on the key issues in global politics. The clarity of presentation allows students to rapidly develop a theoretical framework and to apply this knowledge widely as a way of understanding both more advanced theoretical texts and events in world politics. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 2/e [via]
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Europe in the Sixteenth Centuryby George L. Mosse, H. G. Koenigsberger, G.Q. BowlerISBN 0582046157 (0-582-04615-7)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Europe in the Sixteenth Century'Book summary:The completely revised and updated version of this famous book examines sixteenth-century Europe as a complex but interconnected whole and explores the various political structures of the age. Central to the book, is the Reformation and the religious and intellectual movements that fuelled it. A strength of the book remains the space it devotes to the town-life in the sixteenth century, and to the economic background of political change. An entirely new chapter on 'Social Life', however, now takes account of the new work on demographic history, on attitudes to women and the family, and on the impact of education, disease and war. [via]
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Europe in the Sixteenth Centuryby Koenig, George L. Mosse, G.Q. BowlerISBN 0582418631 (0-582-41863-1)
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The Faber Book of Reportageby John CareyISBN 0571137164 (0-571-13716-4)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighthby William Shakespeare, Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. LamarISBN 0671479326 (0-671-47932-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Feudal Kingdom of England, 1042-1216by Frank BarlowISBN 0582381177 (0-582-38117-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Pub Co
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From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307by M.T. ClanchyISBN 0631168575 (0-631-16857-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Questby T. Z. LavineISBN 0553251619 (0-553-25161-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscapeby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0671888250 (0-671-88825-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape'Book summary:An analysis of America's national landscape argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a man-made landscape that ignores nature and human needs. [via]
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The Gypsiesby Angus M. FraserISBN 0631196056 (0-631-19605-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gypsies'Book summary:Since their appearance in the Balkans over nine centuries ago, the Gypsies have doggedly refused to fall in with conventional settled life. When, in the fifteenth century, they knocked at the gates of western Europe in the guise of pilgrims, they aroused intense curiosity as well as suspicion, and theories proliferated about their provenance. They remain a people whose culture and customs are beset with misunderstanding. This book describes their history. The story opens with an investigation into Gypsy origins, using the evidence of language and culture to identify their Indian ancestry. The author then traces the Gypsy migration through the Middle East, Europe and the world. They became renowned for their metal-working, music, fortune-telling, healing and horse-dealing. But right from the start they outraged latent prejudices in the settled populations they moved among. Governments sought to bring them to heel and they were harassed, outlawed, hunted down and banished. In what is now Rumania they were enslaved from the fourteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century; in 1725 the Prussians made the Gypsies into legal vermin and decreed that they could be hanged without trial; in Spain, in 1749 all Gypsies were rounded up, to be set to forced labour; in Switzerland, from 1926 to 1973, a respectable children's charity practised institutionalized abduction. Persecution reached its apogee when the Nazis embarked on outright genocide: in this forgotten holocaust perhaps half a million Gypsies lost their lives. The ethnic tensions in today's Europe mean that the pattern of antagonism continues. And yet this is in many ways a story of achievement. For the Gypsies managed, with no literate tradition, no state and no national identity, to preserve a distinctive heritage over centuries of vicissitude. How and why they did so are the twin themes of this book. [via]
Helter Skelterby Vincent BugliosiISBN 0553278290 (0-553-27829-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Helter Skelter'Book summary:The story behind the Manson killings explains how Charles Manson was able to make his ""family"" murder for him, chronicles the investigation and court trial that brought him to justice, and provides a new afterword that looks at where the killers are today. Reprint. [via]
Henry IVby William ShakespeareISBN 0671421948 (0-671-42194-8)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry IV'Book summary:Written in 1598, hard on the heels of the massive popular success of Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part Two takes up where the first part finished, and completes Shakespeare's portrayal of the troubled reign of Henry IV. Rebellion has apparently been quelled, but dissension still permeates the country, and Henry is disillusioned, sick and dying. After the pace and comedy of Part One., Part Two is a much more subdued and gloomy affair. The tone is set by the early appearance of Falstaff, who relishes the possibilities of easy picking in the face of more civil unrest with his sinister quip that "I will turn diseases to commodity".
The drama focuses on Henry IV's difficult relationship with his son Prince Hal, and the latter's gradual emergence as a charismatic sovereign. In the process he sheds his image as a prodigal wastrel dramatised in the first half of Part One, assuming the title of King Henry V in the closing scenes of Part Two. Perhaps the most poignant moment of the whole play remains Henry's cold-blooded rejection of Falstaff, his surrogate father for much of Part One. "I know thee not, old man" he tells the crushed Falstaff as he assumes the royal crown, preparing the audience for the type of monarch they will see in Shakeseare's subsequent dramatisation of English history, Henry V. --Jerry Brotton [via]
Henry IV. Part 2by William ShakespeareISBN 055321294X (0-553-21294-X)
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A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Womenby CottISBN 0671250698 (0-671-25069-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Heritage of Her Own: Toward a New Social History of American Womenby Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck, CottISBN 067125068X (0-671-25068-X)
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Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thoughtby Alister E. McGrathISBN 0631208445 (0-631-20844-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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A History of Ancient Israel and Judahby J. Maxwell Miller, John Haralson HayesISBN 066421262X (0-664-21262-X)
Hardcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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A History of Prussiaby H.W. KochISBN 0582481899 (0-582-48189-9)
Hardcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Prussia'Book summary:In little more than two centuries Prussia rose from medieval obscurity and the devastation of the Thirty Years War to become the dominant power of continental Europe. Her rulers rose from Electors to Kings, and from Kings to Emperors. It is a dramatic story, and H. W. Koch fills a major gap in English-language literature with this comprehensive account. It traces the origins and rise of the Prussian state from the thirteenth century to the causes and consequences of its incorporation into the German Empire.
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Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871by Adam ZamoyskiISBN 0670892718 (0-670-89271-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Iliad and Odyssey Gift Setby HomerISBN 0670779644 (0-670-77964-4)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iliad and Odyssey Gift Set'Book summary:This is a boxed gift edition of Fagles's two widely acclaimed translations of Homer.
The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time, but to call it a war story does not begin to describe the emotional sweep of its action and characters: Achilles, Helen, Hector, and other heroes of Greek myth and history in the 10th and final year of the Greek siege of Troy. The Odyssey is, quite simply, the story of Odysseus, who wants to go home. But Poseidon, god of oceans, doesn't want him to make it back across the wine-dark sea to his wife, Penelope, son, Telemachus, and their high-roofed home at Ithaca. The story is told in easy-going, beautiful poetry; the characters speak naturally, the action happens briskly. Even the gods come across as real people, despite the divine powers they exercise constantly. Both works have been hailed by scholars and the public for the powerful language that brings clashing, pulsing life to these ancient masterpieces. [via]
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Interrogations : The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945by Richard OveryISBN 0670030082 (0-670-03008-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Kama Sutra: The Rules of Love and Erotic Practiceby Vatsyayana, Manuela Dunn-Mascetti, Manuela Dunn MascettiISBN 060960726X (0-609-60726-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The King Must Dieby Mary RenaultISBN 0553260650 (0-553-26065-0)
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The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism, 1850-1983by Bernard PorterISBN 0582493870 (0-582-49387-0)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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The Lion's Share: A Short History of British Imperialism, 1850-1995by Bernard PorterISBN 0582089433 (0-582-08943-3)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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The Lion's Share: A Short History Of British Imperialism, 1850-2004by Bernard PorterISBN 0582772524 (0-582-77252-4)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Lusitaniaby Colin SimpsonISBN 0582127076 (0-582-12707-6)
Hardcover, Longman
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Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolutionby Richard BrownISBN 0669197556 (0-669-19755-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Making of Modern Japanby Kenneth B. PyleISBN 0669200204 (0-669-20020-4)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914-1918by W. Bruce LincolnISBN 0671557092 (0-671-55709-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Pastwatchby Orson Scott CardISBN 0606117245 (0-606-11724-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States Since 1865by Howard P. Chudacoff, Thomas G. Paterson, David M. Katzman, David W. Blight, Paul D. Escott, Mary Beth Norton, William M. TuttleISBN 0618005528 (0-618-00552-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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A People and a Nation : A History of the United States: Volume One: To 1877by Mary Beth Norton, David M. Katzman, David W. Blight, Howard P. ChudacoffISBN 0618391762 (0-618-39176-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States To 1877by Mary NortonISBN 061800551X (0-618-00551-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Practice of Historyby G.R. Elton, Richard J. EvansISBN 0631229809 (0-631-22980-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Practice of History'Book summary:The new edition of G. R. Elton's classic work is a wide-ranging, succinct and practical introduction for all students and general readers of history. It makes a major contribution to the question "what is history?". [via]
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Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustineby Nels M. BailkeyISBN 0669110191 (0-669-11019-1)
Softcover, D.C. Heath
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Readings in Ancient History: Thought and Experience from Gilgamesh to St. Augustineby Richard Lim, Nels M. BailkeyISBN 0618133836 (0-618-13383-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cryby Mildred D. TaylorISBN 0590982079 (0-590-98207-9)
Softcover, Scholastic
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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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The Scarlet Letterby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0582421764 (0-582-42176-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0671510118 (0-671-51011-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - The Scarlet Letter: ISBN 0671724673 (0-671-72467-3)
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Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Loveby Elizabeth Stevens PrioleauISBN 0670031666 (0-670-03166-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Seeing and Believing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavensby Richard PanekISBN 0670876283 (0-670-87628-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivorsby James HornfischerISBN 0553803905 (0-553-80390-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Shogunby James ClavellISBN 061301328X (0-613-01328-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shogun'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A narrative of conflicting cultures, loyalties, motivations, and traditions in early 17th-century Japan, involving the power-hungry Lord Toranaga, the Lady Mariko, and the ambitious Englishman, Blackthorne. [via]
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Since 1865 Vol. 2 : People and a Nation: A History of the United Statesby Mary Beth NortonISBN 0618391770 (0-618-39177-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Tales from the Secret Annexby Anne FrankISBN 0553586386 (0-553-58638-6)
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Hiding from the Nazis in the Secret Annex of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Annes story, however. This book rounds out the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.
Newly translated, complete, and restored to the original order in which Anne herself wrote them in her notebook, Tales from the Secret Annex is a collection of Anne Franks lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel, Cadys Life. [via]More editions of Tales from the Secret Annex:
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This Sceptred Isleby Christopher LeeISBN 0563383844 (0-563-38384-4)
Hardcover, Bbc Pubns
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War and Remembranceby Herman WoukISBN 0671672886 (0-671-67288-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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War, Peace, and All That Jazzby Joy HakimISBN 0613552016 (0-613-55201-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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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)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment To 1715by Thomas F. X. NobleISBN 0618432779 (0-618-43277-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Woman Who Laughed at God : The Untold History of the Jewish Peopleby Jonathan KirschISBN 0670030090 (0-670-03009-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Who Laughed at God : The Untold History of the Jewish People'Book summary:Jonathan Kirsch wants to answer the question, "Who is a Jew?" and in The Woman Who Laughed at God, he comes to some gracious, broad-minded conclusions. Kirsch rejects definitions of Judaism based on "a set of commandments literally written in stone." Instead, he offers stories of chutzpah through the ages, beginning with Abraham (who argued with God) and Sarah (who laughed at Him), demonstrating that "Judaism has been defined by generation upon generation of courageous men and women who felt both inspired and empowered to reimagine and reinvent what it means to be a Jew." Kirsch argues by telling stories--of Maccabee freedom fighters, of ecstatic mystics, of kibbutzers who feasted on "kosher pigs." Although his essential point--that diversity, not orthodoxy, is the hallmark of true Judaism--is not a new one, it still bears repeating. Kirsch, author of the bestselling The Harlot by the Side of the Road, writes with such flair, ranging over a wide variety of characters, that his lively style elevates his conventional premise. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experienceby Joseph HollidayISBN 067125538X (0-671-25538-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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