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1984by George Orwell, Mike DeanISBN 0582777313 (0-582-77731-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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All the King's Menby Robert Penn WarrenISBN 0553204548 (0-553-20454-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf? China Floats, Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class Warby Greg PalastISBN 0525949682 (0-525-94968-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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You wont find Palast in The New York Times (except its bestseller list), but you will read his reports on the hottest Web sites worldwide, hear him regularly on Air America and the Pacifica radio networks, and see his stories reappearing as the basis for Eminems hit video "Mosh," Michael Moores Fahrenheit 9/11, and sampled by a dozen of todays top platinum rock artists. [via]
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprusby Lawrence DurrellISBN 0571201555 (0-571-20155-5)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204: A Political Historyby Michael AngoldISBN 0582294681 (0-582-29468-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Hardcover, Longman - The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204: A Political History: ISBN 0582294681 (0-582-29468-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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China: Alive in the Bitter Seaby Fox ButterfieldISBN 0553345028 (0-553-34502-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Courtesan's Revenge: Harriette Wilson, the Woman Who Blackmailed the Kingby Frances WilsonISBN 0571205046 (0-571-20504-6)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Culpeper's Complete Herbalby Nicholas CulpeperISBN 0572002033 (0-572-00203-3)
Hardcover, Foulsham & Co Ltd
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The Dark Heart Of Italyby Tobias JonesISBN 0571205828 (0-571-20582-8)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Decline of the Ancient Worldby Arnold Hugh Martin JonesISBN 0582483093 (0-582-48309-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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Destruction and Reconstructionby Richard TaylorISBN 055329427X (0-553-29427-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Door in the Wallby Marguerite De AngeliISBN 0590409689 (0-590-40968-9)
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The Ern Malley Affairby Michael HeywardISBN 0571167810 (0-571-16781-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Escape from Warsawby Ian SerralierISBN 0590437151 (0-590-43715-1)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Europe 1780 to 1830by Franklin L. FordISBN 0582483468 (0-582-48346-8)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
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Europe 1780-1830by Franklin L. FordISBN 0582493927 (0-582-49392-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Europe in the 19th Century, 1830-1880by Harry HearderISBN 0582493854 (0-582-49385-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Europe in the Nineteenth Century, 1830-1880by H. HearderISBN 0582023890 (0-582-02389-0)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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Fly for Your Life: The Story of R.R. Stanford Tuck, D.S.O., D.F.C., and Two Barsby Larry ForresterISBN 0553203916 (0-553-20391-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Foxes of the Desertby Mervyn Savill, Paul CarellISBN 0553265911 (0-553-26591-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Francesco's Venice: The Dramatic History of the World's Most Beautiful Cityby Francesco Da Mosto, John ParkerISBN 0563521376 (0-563-52137-6)
Hardcover, BBC Worldwide
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The Frontiersmenby Allan W. EckertISBN 0553257994 (0-553-25799-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Genesis and the Mystery Confucius Couldn't Solveby Ethel R. Nelson, Richard E. BroadberryISBN 0570046351 (0-570-04635-1)
Softcover, Concordia Pub House
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels through a Country's Hidden Pastby Giles TremlettISBN 057122167X (0-571-22167-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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The Golden Gobletby Eloise Jarvis McGrawISBN 0590445529 (0-590-44552-9)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, David M. BevingtonISBN 0553212923 (0-553-21292-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:The "Annotated Shakespeare" series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world's greatest dramatist. One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. This fully annotated version of "Hamlet" makes the play completely accessible to readers in the 21st century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. In his introduction, Raffel offers important background on the origins and previous versions of the Hamlet story, along with an analysis of the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom meditates on the originality of Shakespeare's achievement. [via]
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Hamletby Julia Markus, Paul JordanISBN 0582097207 (0-582-09720-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:* Includes an informative, detailed and practical introduction to Shakespeare's life, times and language. * Supports the texts with useful notes. * Provides activities for before, during and after study. [via]
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Hannibalby Harold LambISBN 0523009011 (0-523-00901-1)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharerby Joseph ConradISBN 0553212141 (0-553-21214-1)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and the Secret Sharer'Book summary:Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer. [via]
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The History and Culture of Ancient Western Asia and Egyptby A. Bernard KnappISBN 0534106455 (0-534-10645-5)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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History of the British Secret Serviceby Richard DeaconISBN 0586051163 (0-586-05116-3)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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A History of the Christian Churchby Williston WalkerISBN 0567093700 (0-567-09370-0)
Hardcover, T. & T. Clark
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How Would You Survive As an Ancient Egyptian?by David Salariya, Jacqueline Morley, John JamesISBN 0531153037 (0-531-15303-7)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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How Would You Survive As an Ancient Egyptian?by Jacqueline MorleyISBN 0531143457 (0-531-14345-7)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther Kingby Ellen Levine, Anna RichISBN 059042582X (0-590-42582-X)
Softcover, Scholastic
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The Immortal Emperor: The Life and Legend of Constantine Palaiologos, Last Emperor of the Romansby Donald M. NicolISBN 0521894093 (0-521-89409-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World, 1780-1830by Christopher Alan BayleyISBN 0582494389 (0-582-49438-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Ireland: A Terrible Beautyby Leon Uris, Jill and Leon UrisISBN 0553027980 (0-553-02798-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Iron Coffinsby Herbert A. WernerISBN 0553233475 (0-553-23347-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Ishmaelby Daniel QuinnISBN 0553375407 (0-553-37540-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The Italian City Republicsby WaleyISBN 0582553881 (0-582-55388-1)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Ivan the Terribleby Henri TroyatISBN 0525242465 (0-525-24246-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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James, the Brother of Jesusby Robert H. EisenmanISBN 0571175732 (0-571-17573-2)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James, the Brother of Jesus'Book summary:In a work of detection based on a lifetime of research, a co-author of "The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered" identifies the "missing link" between Judaism and early Christianity as James the Just, the brother of Jesus. Professor Eisenman argues that, as the leader of all opposition groups in Jerusalem, James - a figure almost entirely marginalized in the New Testament - was the heir to Jesus and the true successor in Palestine to the movement we now call Christianity. [via]
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Jesus the Man: New Interpretation from the Dead Sea Scrollsby ThieringISBN 0552139505 (0-552-13950-5)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Koranby John Medows RodwellISBN 0553587528 (0-553-58752-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Lais of Marie De France.by Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante, MarieISBN 0525143408 (0-525-14340-8)
Hardcover, Dutton
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Lake in the Cloudsby Sara DonatiISBN 0553582798 (0-553-58279-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lake in the Clouds'Book summary:In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked chapter in our nations past--and in the life of the spirited Bonners--as their oldest daughter, the brave and beautiful Hannah, comes of age with a challenge that will change her forever. Masterfully told, this passionate story is a moving tribute to a resilient, adventurous family and a people poised at the brink of a new century.
It is the spring of 1802, and the village of Paradise is still reeling from the typhoid epidemic of the previous summer. Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bonner have lost their two-year-old son, Hannahs half brother Robbie, but they struggle on as always: the men in the forests, the twins Lily and Daniel in Elizabeths school, and Hannah as a doctor in training, apprenticed to Richard Todd. Hannah is descended from healers on both sides--one Scots grandmother and one Mohawk--and her reputation as a skilled healer in her own right is growing.
After a long night spent attending to a birth, Elizabeth and Hannah encounter an escaped slave hiding on the mountain. She calls herself Selah Voyager, and she is looking for Curiosity Freeman--a former slave herself, one of the villages wisest women and Elizabeths closest friend. The Bonners take Selah, desperately ill, to Lake in the Clouds to care for her, and with that simple act they are drawn into the secret life that Curiosity and Galileo Freeman and their grown children have been leading for almost ten years. The Bonners will do what they must to protect the Freemans, just as Hannah will protect her patient, who presents more than one kind of challenge. For a bounty hunter is afoot--Hannahs childhood friend and first love, Liam Kirby.
While Elizabeth and Nathaniel undertake a treacherous journey through the endless forests to bring Selah to safety in the north, Hannah embarks on a very different journey to New-York City, with two goals: to learn the secrets of vaccination against smallpox, a disease that threatens Paradise, and to find out what she can about Liams immediate past and what caused him to change so drastically from the boy she once loved. The obstacles she faces as a woman and a Mohawk make her confront questions long avoided about her place in the world.
Those questions follow her back to Paradise, where she finds that the medical miracle she brings with her will not cure prejudice or superstition, nor can it solve the problem of slavery. No sooner have the Bonners begun to rebound from their losses--old and new--than they find themselves confronted by more than one old enemy in a battle that will test the strength of their love for one another. Hannah faces the decision she has always dreaded: will she make a life for herself in a white world, or among her mothers people? [via]More editions of Lake in the Clouds:
The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworldby Christine WiltzISBN 0571199542 (0-571-19954-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Later Roman Britainby Stephen JohnsonISBN 0586083723 (0-586-08372-3)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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Louis XIVby Francois BlucheISBN 0531151123 (0-531-15112-3)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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Men from Earthby Malcolm McConnell, Buzz AldrinISBN 0553053744 (0-553-05374-4)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Mila 18by Leon UrisISBN 0553241605 (0-553-24160-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0553213113 (0-553-21311-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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Music at Courtby Christopher HogwoodISBN 0575028777 (0-575-02877-7)
Hardcover, David & Charles
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My Silent Warby Kim PhilbyISBN 0586028609 (0-586-02860-9)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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The Origins of the Second World War in Europeby P.M.H. BellISBN 0582304709 (0-582-30470-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Written in a lucid, accessible style, this is an indispensable guide to the complex origins of the Second World War.
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The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient Worldby Gerhard HermISBN 0575019034 (0-575-01903-4)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica, and the Masterpiece That Changed the Worldby Russell Martin, Pablo PicassoISBN 0525946802 (0-525-94680-2)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica, and the Masterpiece That Changed the World'Book summary:From the bestselling author of Beethoven's Hair comes a stirring narrative account of the bombing of the town that inspired one of the world's most celebrated and controversial works of art, the painting Guernica's profound impact on the politics and culture of the twentieth century, and the artist whose immense passion and artistic vision are unequaled in modern history.
On April 26, 1937, in the late afternoon of a busy market day in the Basque town of Gernika in northern Spain, the German Luftwaffe began the relentless bombing and machine-gunning of businesses, homes and villagers to test a new type of warfare waged from the air at the request of General Francisco Franco and his rebel forces. Three-and-a-half hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated. This act of terror and unspeakable cruelty the first intentional, large-scale attack against a nonmilitary target in modern warfare outraged the world, and compelled a Spanish painter to respond with artistic fury. Pablo Picasso, an expatriate living in Paris, reacted immediately to the devastation in his homeland by beginning work on the canvas that would become his testament against the horrors of war.
Guernica has become widely considered the greatest artwork of the twentieth century in the sixty-five years since its creation, and has been claimed as a powerful symbolic image first by the embattled government of Republican Spain and then, over time, by the international communist party, American artists opposing the war in Vietnam, international peace organizations, Basque separatists, survivors of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and people everywhere.
Weaving themes of conflict and redemption, doom and transcendence, and featuring some of the century's most memorable and infamous figures, including Adolf Hitler, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Orwell, Jackson Pollock, Lillian Hellman, and Picasso himself, Martin follows this renowned masterwork from its fevered creation through its journey across decades, from many countries of Europe to America and finally and triumphantly to Spain. Picasso's War is a book that vividly demonstrates how vital art is to human lives and how sometimes it even transfigures tragedy, a story that delivers an unforgettable portrait of an artistic genius whose visionary rendering of the terrible wounds of war still resonates profoundly today. [via]
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Pocahontas and the Strangersby Clyde Robert Bulla, Peter BurchardISBN 0590434810 (0-590-43481-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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Priestessesby Norma Lorre GoodrichISBN 0531151131 (0-531-15113-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Priestesses'Book summary:Drawing on the works of Joseph Campbell, Robert Graves, Sigmund Freud, Sir James Frazier and other scholars, as well as her own extensive research, Norma Lorre Goodrich brings to light the powerful yet neglected women--priestesses from Asia Minor to Ireland--who influenced the formation of western civilization. [via]
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The Protestant Reformationby Spitz, Lewis William, EdISBN 0570049938 (0-570-04993-8)
Softcover, Concordia Pub House
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The Protestant Reformation, 1517-1559by Lewis W. SpitzISBN 0570033209 (0-570-03320-9)
Softcover, Concordia Pub House
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Renaissanceby Andrew Graham-DixonISBN 0563383968 (0-563-38396-8)
Softcover, Bbc Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Renaissance'Book summary:After a thousand years of magic and mysticism, the Renaissance re-kindled the desire of mankind to understand themselves and the world around them. This volume examines the Renaissance, its myths, its pioneers and its remarkable legacy. [via]
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Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780sby Angus CalderISBN 0525190805 (0-525-19080-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Royal Heritage: The Story of Britain's Royal Builders and Collectorsby J. H. PlumbISBN 0563170824 (0-563-17082-4)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Royal Heritage: The Story of Britain's Royal Builders and Collectors'Book summary:Excellent condition, jacket lightly aged etc, pages crisp, clean, and flat with light wear to edges. A superb portrait of the history of British royal patronage of the arts. From royal buildings to the royal collection, this book reflects the taste and interests of successive royal builders and collectors. A lovely collection. (his) [via]
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Sarah Morton's Dayby Kate Waters, Russ KendallISBN 0590426346 (0-590-42634-6)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0553214020 (0-553-21402-0)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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Siddharthaby Hermann HesseISBN 0553208845 (0-553-20884-5)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Some say he's a sage. He was once a wandering shramana and, briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gautama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Born the son of a Brahman, Siddhartha was blessed in appearance, intelligence, and charisma. In order to find meaning in life, he discarded his promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic. Still, true happiness evaded him. Then a life of pleasure and titillation merely eroded away his spiritual gains until he was just like all the other "child people," dragged around by his desires. Like Hesse's other creations of struggling young men, Siddhartha has a good dose of European angst and stubborn individualism. His final epiphany challenges both the Buddhist and the Hindu ideals of enlightenment. Neither a practitioner nor a devotee, neither meditating nor reciting, Siddhartha comes to blend in with the world, resonating with the rhythms of nature, bending the reader's ear down to hear answers from the river. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Snow Treasureby Marie McSwiganISBN 0590425374 (0-590-42537-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snow Treasure'Book summary:[via]Based on a true story, Snow Treasure is a tale of heroism set in Norway during World War II. This amazing book, continuously in print since 1942, tells how brave schoolchildren outwitted the invading Nazis. To keep their country's gold out of Nazi hands, the children sledded thirteen tons of gold bricks down the mountain to a waiting ship. The appearance of innocent winter fun fooled the Nazis, and the gold was taken safely to America.
Beautiful illustrations perfectly capture the nostalgic tone and bring this thrilling adventure to life in an attractively priced gift edition.
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Sundiata: An Epic Of Old Maliby Djibril Tamsir Niane, G. D. PickettISBN 0582264758 (0-582-26475-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideasby Carroll W. PursellISBN 0585334013 (0-585-33401-3)
Softcover, MIT Press
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Tudor Rebellionsby Anthony Fletcher, Diarmaid MacCullochISBN 0582772850 (0-582-77285-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Whores in History: Prositution in Western Societyby Nickie RobertsISBN 0586200290 (0-586-20029-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Wizards of Langley: Inside the Cia's Directorate of Science and Technologyby Jeffrey T. RichelsonISBN 0585417571 (0-585-41757-1)
Softcover, Westview Press
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A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918by G. J. MeyerISBN 0553803549 (0-553-80354-9)
Hardcover, Delacorte Pr
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The Years of Rice and Saltby Kim Stanley RobinsonISBN 0553580078 (0-553-58007-8)
Softcover, Spectra
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Years of Rice and Salt'Book summary:Award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson delivers a thoughtful and powerful examination of cultures and the people who shape them. How might human history be different if 14th-century Europe was utterly wiped out by plague, and Islamic and Buddhist societies emerged as the world's dominant religious and political forces? The Years of Rice and Salt considers this question through the stories of individuals who experience and influence various crucial periods in the seven centuries that follow. The credible alternate history that Robinson constructs becomes the framework for a tapestry of ideas about philosophy, science, theology, and politics.
At the heart of the story are fundamental questions: what is the purpose of life and death? Are we eternal? Do our choices matter? The particular achievement of this book is that it weaves these threads into a story that is both intellectually and emotionally engaging. This is a highly recommended, challenging, and ambitious work. --Roz Genessee [via]
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You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!: Disgusting Things You'd Rather Not Knowby David Stewart, David AntramISBN 0531162060 (0-531-16206-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Publishing
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