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America As Seen by Its First Explorers: The Eyes of Discoveryby John BakelessISBN 0486260313 (0-486-26031-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Eraby E. Anthony RotundoISBN 0465001696 (0-465-00169-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Ancient European Costume and Fashionby Herbert NorrisISBN 0486407233 (0-486-40723-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Army Life in a Black Regimentby Thomas Wentworth HigginsonISBN 0486424820 (0-486-42482-0)
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Arthurian Romancesby Chretien De Troyes, D.D.R. OwenISBN 046087389X (0-460-87389-X)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthurian Romances'Book summary:Stella Cataloni, District Attorney, has never lost a case. She has convicted every criminal who crossed her doorstep - except the one who stole her family and marked her for life. Stella's parents died in afire when she was seventeen. She managed to rescue her brother but sustained appalling scars. Stella remembers little about that night of the fire and has no idea who caused it, but now she knows she must confront it. Her privatelife's a mess; she's divorcing her husband and falling in love with her divorce attorney; the least she can do is unravel her haunting past. But in doing so she puts her reputation at stake and her life in jeapardy. [via]
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The Battles That Changed Historyby Edward Gorey, Fletcher PrattISBN 048641129X (0-486-41129-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Battles That Changed History'Book summary:Profiles of 16 decisive struggles from ancient and modern times. Gripping accounts range from Alexander the Great's overthrow of the Persian empire in the 4th century BC to World War II's Battle of Midway. Pratt depicts the circumstances leading up to the decisive clashes, the personalities involved, and the historically important aftermath. 27 maps.[via]More editions of The Battles That Changed History:
Book Before Printingby David DiringerISBN 0486242439 (0-486-24243-9)
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The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographsby Ulrich KellerISBN 0486244083 (0-486-24408-3)
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The Cat of Bubastesby G. A. HentyISBN 0486423638 (0-486-42363-8)
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Celtic Myth & Legendby Charles SquireISBN 0486425118 (0-486-42511-8)
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A Century of Dishonor: The Classic Expose of the Plight of the Native Americansby Helen Hunt JacksonISBN 048642698X (0-486-42698-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Chronicle of the Popes: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Papacy over 2000 Yearsby Peter Maxwell-StuartISBN 0500017980 (0-500-01798-0)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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The Common Lawby Oliver W. HolmesISBN 0486267466 (0-486-26746-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Common Law'Book summary:Only paperback edition of great legal classic by noted Supreme Court Justice. Lucid, accessible coverage, from a historical perspective, of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, many other aspects of civil and criminal law. Indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, interested general readers.[via]More editions of The Common Law:
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The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao, Ghandhi, and Othersby Robert BlaisdellISBN 0486424650 (0-486-42465-0)
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Compendium Maleficarumby Francisco M. GuazzoISBN 048625738X (0-486-25738-X)
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The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egyptby Richard H. WilkinsonISBN 0500051208 (0-500-05120-8)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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Craftsman's Handbookby C.D. CenniniISBN 048620054X (0-486-20054-X)
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The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness of the Twentieth Centuryby Raymond Aron, Yair Reiner, Barbara Bray, Tony JudtISBN 0465004083 (0-465-00408-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:In this collection of essays written over a period of almost forty years, Raymond Aron explores the rise of nationalism in Europe through the two world wars and the subsequent disintegration of her empires. With a richness of detail and sweeping breadth of historical examples, he chronicles and analyzes the history of the opposite ideological extremes of Fascism and Marxism and their descent into totalitarianism via secular religiosity. Aron also examines French imperialism through the examples of Algeria and Indochina, as well as America's role as an "imperial republic" during and after World War II.Aron was never orthodox in his ideology; neither his republican political penchants nor his dialectical intellectual orientation ever gained the upper hand over his devotion to empirical reality. The result here is an intellectual history that seems less concerned about where it falls on the political spectrum than about getting it right.[via]More editions of The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness of the Twentieth Century:
The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969by Edmund WilsonISBN 049100463X (0-491-00463-X)
Hardcover, W. H. Allen
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Diary Of Samuel Pepys: Selected Passagesby Samuel PepysISBN 0486436675 (0-486-43667-5)
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Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlawby Mark SvenvoldISBN 0465083498 (0-465-08349-8)
Softcover, Basic Books
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The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generationby Tom EngelhardtISBN 0465019846 (0-465-01984-6)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Everyday Life in Ancient Egyptby Jon Ewbank Manchip White, Helen Nixon FairfieldISBN 048642510X (0-486-42510-X)
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Everyman and Medieval Miracle Playsby A.C. CawleyISBN 046087280X (0-460-87280-X)
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Everyman and Other Miracle and Morality PlaysISBN 0486287262 (0-486-28726-2)
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Find This BookBook summary:Everyman is the most durable of medieval morality plays, in which the central character, summoned by death, must face final judgment on the strength of his good deeds. The work is reprinted here along with 3 other medieval classics: the second shepherd's play, noah's flood, and hickscorner. All from standard texts [via]
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Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islandsby Edward J. LarsonISBN 0465038115 (0-465-03811-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evolution's Workshop: God and Science on the Galapagos Islands'Book summary:When Europeans first explored the Galapagos Islands, a rugged archipelago 650 miles off the coast of Ecuador, they were astounded by the forbidding landscape and the odd behavior of the animals and plants they found there. "The place is like a new creation," wrote ship captain George Anson, a nephew of the poet Lord Byron. "The birds and beasts do not get out of our way; the pelicans and sea-lions look in our faces as if we had no right to intrude on their solitude; the small birds are so tame that they hop upon our feet; and all this amidst volcanoes which are burning around us on either hand."
Others who followed, like the onetime sailor and writer Herman Melville, took a dimmer view, calling the place "evilly enchanted ground." Whatever the sentiment, the Galapagos attracted generations of scientists, who, following the example of Charles Darwin, traveled there to test theories of speciation, adaptation, migration, and selection. Their work in the field helped overturn the prevailing orthodoxies of special creation, writes Edward J. Larson in his vigorous history of the islands and their role in the development of modern biological science. Their work also changed the face of the islands themselves, as hundreds and thousands of plants and animals were killed or removed for collections far afield, with a single expedition taking more than 10,000 birds and skins.
Today, the islands face other threats, as tens of thousands of ecotourists travel there each year, disturbing sensitive environments, and as alien plant and animal species are introduced. Still, Larson notes at the close of his fine book, "the archipelago's ecosystem has proved surprisingly resilient in the past," and conservation measures may yet be found to preserve the islands' "age-old solitude." --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japanby F.H. KingISBN 0486436098 (0-486-43609-8)
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Global Brain: The Evolution of the Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Centuryby Howard K. BloomISBN 0471419192 (0-471-41919-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Global Brain: The Evolution of the Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century'Book summary:When did big-picture optimism become cool again? While not blind to potential problems and glitches, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang to the 21st Century confidently asserts that our networked culture is not only inevitable but essential for our species' survival and eventual migration into space. Author Howard Bloom, believed by many to be R. Buckminster Fuller's intellectual heir, takes the reader on a dizzying tour of the universe, from its original subatomic particle network to the unimaginable data-processing power of intergalactic communication. His writing is smart and snappy, moving with equal poise through the depiction of frenzied bacteria passing along information packets in the form of DNA and that of nomadic African tribespeople putting their heads together to find water for the next year. The reader is swept up in Bloom's vision of the power of mass minds and before long can't help seeing the similarities between ecosystems, street gangs and the Internet. Were Bloom not so learned and well. respected--over a third of his book is devoted to notes and references and luminaries from Lynn Margulis to Richard Metzger have lined up behind him--it would be tempting to dismiss him as a crank. His enthusiasm, the grand scale of his thinking and his transcendence of traditional academic disciplines can be daunting but the new outlook yielded to the persistent is simultaneously exciting and humbling. Bloom takes the old-school sci-fi dystopian vision of group thinking and turns it around--Global Brain predicts that our future's going to be less like the Borg and more like a great party. --Rob Lightner [via]
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A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times Together With Some Closely Related Subjectsby George Cameron StoneISBN 0486407268 (0-486-40726-8)
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Great Feuds in Science: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Everby Hal HellmanISBN 0471350664 (0-471-35066-4)
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The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873;: Including a Full and Complete Account of the Four Days' Draft Riot of 1863by Joel Tyler HeadleyISBN 0486227200 (0-486-22720-0)
Hardcover, Dover Publications
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Hamletby William ShakespeareISBN 0486272788 (0-486-27278-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literature. The story of Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, his tortured relationship with his mother, and his quest to avenge his father's murder at the hand of his brother Claudius has fascinated writers and audiences ever since it was written around 1600.
For many years interest focused on both Hamlet's inability to avenge his father's death, claiming that "the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", and, according to none other than Freud, his oedipal fixation with his mother. However, more recently critics have turned their attention to Hamlet's bold theatrical self-reflexivity (most famously reflected in the performance of "The Mousetrap"), its fascination with issues of theology and Renaissance humanism, and its dense, complex poetic language. What is so remarkable about the play is the way in which it tends to uncannily reflect the concerns of different epochs. As a result, Hamlet has been at different moments defined as a romantic rebel, an angst-ridden existentialist, a paralysed intellectual and an ambivalent New Man. Whatever subsequent generations make of Hamlet, they are unlikely to exhaust the possibilities of this most extraordinary play. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0460874772 (0-460-87477-2)
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Himmler's Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Raceby Christopher HaleISBN 0471262927 (0-471-26292-7)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Historic Costume in Pictures.by Braun and SchneiderISBN 048623150X (0-486-23150-X)
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A History of Jewelry 1100-1870by Joan EvansISBN 0486261220 (0-486-26122-0)
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History of the Idea of Progressby Robert NisbetISBN 0465030254 (0-465-03025-4)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the Idea of Progress'Book summary:Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. [via]
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Hoaxesby Curtis MacDougallISBN 0486204650 (0-486-20465-0)
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How The Pro-choice Movement Saved Americaby Cristina PageISBN 0465054897 (0-465-05489-7)
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How the Pro-choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, And the War on Sexby Cristina PageISBN 0465054900 (0-465-05490-0)
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Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growthby John B. BuryISBN 0486254216 (0-486-25421-6)
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The Imitation of Christby Thomas, Aloysius Croft, Harold BoltonISBN 0486431851 (0-486-43185-1)
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The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peruby Michael E. MoseleyISBN 0500050635 (0-500-05063-5)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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Incidents of Travel in Yucatanby John StephensISBN 0486209261 (0-486-20926-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Incidents of Travel in Yucatan'Book summary:[via]Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways, manners, dress, ceremonies, amusements all of which makes this a great travel book. Total in set: 127 engravings. 1 map.More editions of Incidents of Travel in Yucatan:
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The Koranby John Medows RodwellISBN 0486445690 (0-486-44569-0)
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Light Years and Time Travel: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination With Lightby Brian CleggISBN 0471211826 (0-471-21182-6)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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The Lost City: Discovering the Forgotten Virtues of Community in the Chicago of the 1950sby Alan EhrenhaltISBN 0465041922 (0-465-04192-2)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in Americaby Alan EhrenhaltISBN 0465041930 (0-465-04193-0)
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Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literatureby L. Sprague DecampISBN 0486226689 (0-486-22668-9)
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Magic and Mystery in Tibetby Alexandra David-NeelISBN 0486226824 (0-486-22682-4)
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Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendarby Duncan SteelISBN 0471298271 (0-471-29827-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar'Book summary:"A calendar is a tool," the historian of science E.J. Bickerman once observed, "which cannot be justified by either logic or astronomy."
Duncan Steel, an English space scientist, extends that argument in Marking Time, a broad-ranging history of the Western calendar--a chronological system that is logical after a fashion, but strangely flawed all the same. Steel begins his account by considering George Washington's dual birthday, which he celebrated as falling on February 11, 1731, but Americans celebrated as February 22, 1732. Both, Steel shows, are correct, the discrepancy owing to a later calendrical reform that parts of the world have yet to catch up to (so that Russia's October Revolution, by non-Russian standards, occurred in November). Steel examines the long history of attempts to give the calendar a basis in astronomical fact, shows how the advent of the railroad brought with it the need for a system of standardized mean time, examines the likeliest dates for the birth and death of Jesus, and plucks countless fascinating oddments from the historical record. He doesn't shy away from advancing controversial ideas, one being that the meridian time of Washington, D.C. may be a more useful world standard than that of Greenwich, England--and not merely for political reasons. Neither is he afraid to use sometimes difficult mathematics to prove his points, giving his book a depth that many other popular studies of the calendar lack.
With the dawning millennium, time is much on our minds. This is a book to satisfy idle curiosity, settle dinner-table arguments, and simply enjoy. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Memoirs of a Revolutionistby Peter KropotkinISBN 0486257452 (0-486-25745-2)
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Michelangeloby Christopher RyanISBN 0460879634 (0-460-87963-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Minoan and Mycenaean Artby Reynold Alleyne HigginsISBN 0500181845 (0-500-18184-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Moby Dickby Herman MelvilleISBN 0486432157 (0-486-43215-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:'Command the murderous chalices!...Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!'. So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of 'some unknown but still reasoning thing'. Uncowed by natural disasters, ill omens, even death, Ahab urges his ship towards 'the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale'. [via]
My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick DouglassISBN 0486224570 (0-486-22457-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Mycenaeansby William TaylourISBN 0500021031 (0-500-02103-1)
Hardcover, Thames and Hudson
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truthby Sojourner Truth, Olive GilbertISBN 048629899X (0-486-29899-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth'Book summary:This inspiring memoir, first published in 1850, recounts the struggles of a distinguished African-American abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Sojourner Truth tells of her life in slavery, her self-liberation, and her travels across America in pursuit of racial and sexual equality. Essential reading for students of American history. [via]
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The New Dealers' War: FDR & the War Within World War IIby Thomas FlemingISBN 0465024653 (0-465-02465-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Dealers' War: FDR & the War Within World War II'Book summary:Always fiercely contested on matters of domestic policy, Franklin Roosevelt faced even more opposition when it came to international relations. His first two terms in office coincided with the rise of a powerful isolationist movement that urged the government not to involve itself in foreign entanglements. That movement, coupled with strongly anti-British sentiment that owed much to America's large Irish and German populations, hampered Roosevelt's efforts to set the nation on the side of England when it became apparent in the late 1930s that a European war loomed.
To placate his opposition, Thomas Fleming charges in The New Dealers' War, Roosevelt promised "that he would never send American soldiers to fight beyond America's shores." Yet, Fleming continues, on December 4, 1941, the Chicago Tribune revealed the existence of elaborate war plans involving the landing of an American force 5 million strong in Europe by 1943. The revelation gave isolationists fits, of course, but their criticism was effectively silenced three days later when a Japanese force attacked Hawaii. In declaring war on Japan and its allies, Roosevelt's New Deal administration imposed what Fleming considers to have been an unreasonable demand for the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. That demand, he believes, compromised internal resistance to the enemy regimes. Its prosecution also legitimized the use of what Fleming calls "hateful tactics" such as the bombing of civilian targets and the use of nuclear weapons.
Fleming's revisionist study will be of greatest interest to those already inclined to the view that Franklin Roosevelt tricked his country into fighting Fascism. Other readers may take issue with his ad hominem, ideological arguments. Either way, his provocative thesis is sure to promote debate. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Pagan Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Ageby Barry RafteryISBN 0500050724 (0-500-05072-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Path to Romeby Hilaire BellocISBN 048644001X (0-486-44001-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Puritanism and Liberty: Being the Army Debatesby William Clarke, A.S. WoodhouseISBN 0460872060 (0-460-87206-0)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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A Reverence for Woodby E. SloaneISBN 0486433943 (0-486-43394-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Revolution Betrayedby Leon Trotsky, Max EastmanISBN 0486433986 (0-486-43398-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive Historyby John Lewis GaddisISBN 0471289116 (0-471-28911-6)
Hardcover, Wiley
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 0486421228 (0-486-42122-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:An irresistible blend of romance, intrigue, and suspense, this timeless historical adventure recalls the terror following the French Revolution, when mobs ruled the streets of Paris and hundreds of royals were condemned to face the guillotine daily. The only hope of many was a courageous leader who spirited aristocrats across the Channel to England and safety.[via]More editions of The Scarlet Pimpernel:
Short Account of the History of Mathematicsby W. W. BallISBN 0486206300 (0-486-20630-0)
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A Short History of the Chinese Peopleby L.C. GoodrichISBN 048642488X (0-486-42488-X)
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Siddharthaby Hermann Hesse, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486404374 (0-486-40437-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siddhartha'Book summary:With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. Steeped in the tenets of both psychoanalysis and Eastern mysticism, Siddhartha presents an original view of man and culture, and the arduous process of self-discovery that leads to reconciliation, harmony, and peace. [via]
Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945by Margaret Collins WeitzISBN 0471196983 (0-471-19698-3)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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A Source Book in Theatrical Historyby Alois Maria NaglerISBN 0486205150 (0-486-20515-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Style in Historyby Peter GayISBN 0465083048 (0-465-08304-8)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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Symposium and Phaedrusby Plato, Benjamin JowettISBN 0486277984 (0-486-27798-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Symposium and Phaedrus'Book summary:Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into mystical and aesthetic aspects of Platonic doctrine. Symposium attempts to find the ultimate manifestation of the love that controls the world, leading to mystic union with eternal and supercosmic beauty. Phaedrus discusses the psychology of love, resulting in the concept of the familiar Platonic "forms" as objects of transcendental emotion.[via]More editions of Symposium and Phaedrus:
The Vikings and Americaby Erik WahlgrenISBN 0500021090 (0-500-02109-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War IIby Peter PadfieldISBN 0471249459 (0-471-24945-9)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Women of the Rajby Margaret MacMillanISBN 0500014205 (0-500-01420-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Women's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspectiveby Elizabeth Cady StantonISBN 048642491X (0-486-42491-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Women's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective'Book summary:[via]Book-by-book examination of the Bible by pioneer in women's rights movement places events in their historical context, interprets passages as both allegory and fact, and compares them with myths of other cultures. In the tradition of radical individualism, Stanton's attack on religious orthodoxy represents a political treatise rather than a scholarly work.More editions of The Women's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective:
The World of King Arthurby Christopher SnyderISBN 0500051046 (0-500-05104-6)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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