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Across Five Aprilsby Irene HuntISBN 0425102416 (0-425-10241-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Across Five Aprils'Book summary:The unforgettable story of young Jethro Creighton who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War by the Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly. An impressive book both as a historically authentic Civil War novel and as a beautifully written family story University of Chicago Center for Children s Books. [via]
Augustusby Pat SouthernISBN 0415166314 (0-415-16631-4)
Hardcover, Routledge
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The Babylonians: An Introductionby Gwendolyn LeickISBN 0415253152 (0-415-25315-2)
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Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshimaby Diana PrestonISBN 0425207897 (0-425-20789-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima'Book summary:In 1898, Marie Curie first described a phenomenon she called "radioactivity." A half-century later, two physicists would stand before dawn in the New Mexico desert, slathering themselves with sunscreen-and fearing that the imminent test detonation might ignite Earth's atmosphere in a cataclysmic chain reaction and transform our planet into a burning star.[via]
This is the epic story of Curie's quest to unlock the secrets of the material world; of the scientists-Rutherford, Bohr, Einstein, Oppenheimer-who built upon her work; of the day the first weapon of mass destruction dropped on Hiroshima, bringing both sudden terror and sudden peace, and of the new era of global uncertainty that emerged in its wake. With the clarity of great science writing, the vividness of historical narrative and the insight of biography, Before the Fallout is an unforgettable and sweeping account of the scientific discovery that changed the world.More editions of Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima:
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The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of Englandby J. A. SharpeISBN 0415926920 (0-415-92692-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bewitching of Anne Gunter: A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England'Book summary:In 1604, 20-year-old Anne Gunter was bewitched: she foamed at the mouth, contorted wildly in her bedchamber, went into trances. Her garters and bodices were perpetually unlacing themselves. Her signature symptom was to vomit pins and "she voided some pins downwards as well by her water or otherwise.." Popular history at its best, "The Bewitching of Anne Gunter" opens a fascinating window onto the past. It's a tale of controlling fathers, willful daughters, nosy neighbors, power relations between peasants and gentry, and village life in early-modern Europe. Above all it's an original and revealing story of one young woman's experience with the greatly misunderstood phenomenon of witchcraft. James Sharpe is Professor of History at York University and the author of "Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in" "Early Modern History" and other works of social history.
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The Black Artsby Richard CavendishISBN 0399500359 (0-399-50035-9)
Softcover, Perigee
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Arts'Book summary:Minimal shelfwear w/scuffed edges. No markings. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. [via]
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The Bonesetter's Daughterby Amy TanISBN 0399146857 (0-399-14685-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'Book summary:At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In these documents the elderly matriarch, born in China in 1916, has set down a record of her birth and family history, determined to keep the facts from vanishing as her mind deteriorates.
A San Francisco career woman who makes her living by ghostwriting self-help books, Ruth has little idea of her mother's past or true identity. What's more, their relationship has tended to be an angry one. Still, Ruth recognizes the onset of LuLing's decline--along with her own remorse over past rancor--and hires a translator to decipher the packets. She also resolves to "ask her mother to tell her about her life. For once, she would ask. She would listen. She would sit down and not be in a hurry or have anything else to do."
Framed at either end by Ruth's chapters, the central portion of The Bonesetter's Daughter takes place in China in the remote, mountainous region where anthropologists discovered Peking Man in the 1920s. Here superstition and tradition rule over a succession of tiny villages. And here LuLing grows up under the watchful eye of her hideously scarred nursemaid, Precious Auntie. As she makes clear, it's not an enviable setting:
I noticed the ripe stench of a pig pasture, the pockmarked land dug up by dragon-bone dream-seekers, the holes in the walls, the mud by the wells, the dustiness of the unpaved roads. I saw how all the women we passed, young and old, had the same bland face, sleepy eyes that were mirrors of their sleepy minds.
Nor is rural isolation the worst of it. LuLing's family, a clan of ink makers, believes itself cursed by its connection to a local doctor, who cooks up his potions and remedies from human bones. And indeed, a great deal of bad luck befalls the narrator and her sister GaoLing before they can finally engineer their escape from China. Along the way, familial squabbles erupt around every corner, particularly among mothers, daughters, and sisters. And as she did in her earlier The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses these conflicts to explore the intricate dynamic that exists between first-generation Americans and their immigrant elders. --Victoria Jenkins [via] 
Brendan the Navigatorby Jean FritzISBN 0399233261 (0-399-23326-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793by J. H. PowellISBN 0405024711 (0-405-02471-1)
Hardcover, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
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Builders of the Bay Colonyby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0404147410 (0-404-14741-0)
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Capitalism and the Historiansby F.A. HayekISBN 0415313287 (0-415-31328-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Capitalism and the Historians'Book summary:A book that will disturb the sleep of a good many scholars" Max Eastman
F. A. Hayek's Introduction lays the groundwork for this study of the rise of the factory system in Great Britain. It also examines why historians have been so critical of capitalism and the factory system. The subsequent essays discuss why intellectuals have usually been antagonistic to capitalism and what effect these historical misconceptions have had on the world's attitude toward business enterprise.
* Papers by distinguished British, American and European economic historians including T. S. Ashton, L. M. Hacker and Bertrand de Jouvenel
* Actual case studies of the English factory system and the English factory worker support the theoretical material. [via]More editions of Capitalism and the Historians:
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Childhood in the Middle Agesby Shulamith Shahar, Chaya GalaiISBN 0415073294 (0-415-07329-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Childhood in the Middle Ages'Book summary:Was there really no concept of childhood in mediaeval Europe? Did parents erect defence mechanisms against attachment to their children because of the high mortality rate? In this wide-ranging study Shulamith Shahar considers these questions, as well as images of childhood, attitudes towards children, and the concept of the stages of childhood in mediaeval culture, from the nobility to the peasantry. In doing so, she confronts and criticizes the theories developed by Philippe Aries. Based on a wide variety of sources throughout Western Europe, "Childhood in the Middle Ages" describes and analyzes the material and emotional investment by parents in their children and the ways in which they were raised and educated throughout mediaeval society. It deals with attitudes to procreation, childbirth and nursing, family life, and relations between parents and children, ranging from great devotion to abandonment and infanticide. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics in the fields of social and cultural history. [via]
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Climate, History and the Modern Worldby H.H. LambISBN 0415127351 (0-415-12735-1)
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The Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empireby Michael GrantISBN 041517323X (0-415-17323-X)
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Companion to British Historyby Charles Arnold-BakerISBN 0415185831 (0-415-18583-1)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark TwainISBN 0396086861 (0-396-08686-1)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Churchby Malachi MartinISBN 0399126651 (0-399-12665-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church'Book summary:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church_ by the late traditionalist Roman Catholic priest Father Malachi Martin is a fascinating account of the history of the church progressing from the earliest beginnings to Constantine's eventual relationship with the church during the reign of Pope Silvester I up until the post Vatican II popes and Pope John Paul II. [via]
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Dee Goong Anby Robert Hans Van GulikISBN 0405078757 (0-405-07875-7)
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Don't You Know There's a War onby LingemanISBN 0399503595 (0-399-50359-5)
Softcover, Book World Promotions
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Druid Timeby Jack HollandISBN 0396087965 (0-396-08796-5)
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Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odysseyby Joe StaritaISBN 0425151328 (0-425-15132-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Edward II:the Pliant King: The Pliant Kingby Harold Frederick HutchisonISBN 0413269507 (0-413-26950-7)
Hardcover, Eyre & Spottiswoode
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Egyptianby Mika Toimi WaltariISBN 0425037215 (0-425-03721-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Egyptian'Book summary:First published in the United States in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other novel published that year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world s history: the Egypt of the 14th century B.C.E., when pharaohs and gods contended with the near-collapse of history s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to become personal physician to Pharaoh Akhnaton.[via]
European Society, 1500-1700by Henry KamenISBN 0415090849 (0-415-09084-9)
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Everyday Life of the Aztecs;by Warwick BrayISBN 0399200533 (0-399-20053-3)
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Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyuby Jomo KenyattaISBN 0404146767 (0-404-14676-7)
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Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organisationby Marc BlochISBN 0415039185 (0-415-03918-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organisation'Book summary:Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding. The author treats feudalism as a vitalising force in European society. He surveys the social and economic conditions in which feudalism developed; he sees the structures of kinship which underlay the formal relationships of vassal and overlord. For Bloch these relationships are mutual as much as coercive, the product of a dangerous and uncertain world. His insights into the lives of the nobility and the clergy and his deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe, are profound and memorable. [via]
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Feudal Society: The Growth and Ties of Dependenceby Marc BlochISBN 0415039169 (0-415-03916-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feudal Society: The Growth and Ties of Dependence'Book summary:Feudal Society is the masterpiece of one of the greatest historians of the century. Marc Bloch's supreme achievement was to recreate the vivid and complex world of Western Europe from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries. For Bloch history was a living organism, and to write of it was an endless process of creative evolution and of growing understanding. The author treats feudalism as a vitalising force in European society. He surveys the social and economic conditions in which feudalism developed; he sees the structures of kinship which underlay the formal relationships of vassal and overlord. For Bloch these relationships are mutual as much as coercive, the product of a dangerous and uncertain world. His insights into the lives of the nobility and the clergy and his deep understanding of the processes at work in medieval Europe, are profound and memorable. [via]
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Five Stages of Greek Religionby Gilbert MurrayISBN 0404145779 (0-404-14577-9)
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From Vienna to Versaillesby L. C. B. SeamanISBN 0415027594 (0-415-02759-4)
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Greece in the Making, 1200-479 Bcby Robin OsborneISBN 041503583X (0-415-03583-X)
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High Treasonby Robert J. GrodenISBN 0425123448 (0-425-12344-8)
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Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denialby Greg Mitchell, Robert Jay LiftonISBN 0399140727 (0-399-14072-7)
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A History of the Medieval Church, 590-1500by Margaret DeaneslyISBN 0416168302 (0-416-16830-2)
Hardcover, Methuen
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History of the Medieval Church, Five Ninety to Fifby Margaret DeaneslyISBN 0415039592 (0-415-03959-2)
Softcover, Methuen
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Imperial Eyes : Studies in Travel Writing and Transculturizationby Mary L. PrattISBN 041502675X (0-415-02675-X)
Hardcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturationby Mary Louise PrattISBN 0415060958 (0-415-06095-8)
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An Indian Dynasty: The Story of the Nehru-Gandhi Familyby Tariq AliISBN 0399130748 (0-399-13074-8)
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An Introduction To Book Historyby Alistair McCleery, David FinkelsteinISBN 0415314437 (0-415-31443-7)
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Jesse James : The Man and the Mythby Marley BrantISBN 042516005X (0-425-16005-X)
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King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 0415081254 (0-415-08125-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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King Learby ArdenISBN 041502692X (0-415-02692-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear was written at Shakespeare's most prolific period, a time in which he rapidly composed Hamlest, Othello, and Macbeth. I believe, without a moments hesitation, that King Lear is his greatest work, and probably the greatest play ever written. [via]
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The Legend of Pope Joan : In Search of the Truthby Peter StanfordISBN 042517347X (0-425-17347-X)
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Lewis and Clarkby George SullivanISBN 0439095530 (0-439-09553-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis and Clark'Book summary:Recounts the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness, placing it in its historical context. [via]
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A Little Princessby Frances Hodgson Burnett, Tasha TudorISBN 0397306938 (0-397-30693-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Little Princess'Book summary:Sara Crewe seemed just like a real princess... When Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's London boarding school, she seems just like a real little princess. She wears beautiful clothes, has gracious manners, and tells the most wonderful stories. Then one day, Sara suddenly becomes penniless. Now she must wear rags, sleep in the school's dreary attic, and work for her living. Sara is all alone, but keeps telling herself that she can still be a princess inside, if only she tries hard enough. [via]
Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangersby Robert M. UtleyISBN 0425190129 (0-425-19012-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War Iby Laurence D. LaforeISBN 0397472420 (0-397-47242-0)
Softcover, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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The Longest War : The Iran-Iraq Military Conflictby Dilip HiroISBN 0415904072 (0-415-90407-2)
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0415026962 (0-415-02696-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605 to 1606. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale/Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Marcus Aureliusby Anthony R. BirleyISBN 0415171253 (0-415-17125-3)
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Matchlock Gunby Walter D. Edmonds, Paul LantzISBN 0399219110 (0-399-21911-0)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Modern Historiography: An Introductionby Michael BentleyISBN 0415202671 (0-415-20267-1)
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Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europeby Lyndal RoperISBN 0415105811 (0-415-10581-1)
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Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clarkby Daniel B. BotkinISBN 0399522425 (0-399-52242-5)
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The Poverty of Historicismby Karl Raimund PopperISBN 0415278465 (0-415-27846-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poverty of Historicism'Book summary:On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.'
A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.' Short and beautifully written, it has inspired generations of readers, intellectuals and policy makers. One of the most important books on the social sciences since the Second World War, it is a searing insight into the ideas of this great thinker. [via]More editions of The Poverty of Historicism:
The Prodigious Builders: Notes toward a Natural History of Architecture with Special Regard to Those Species That Are Traditionally Neglected or Downright Ignoredby Bernard RudofskyISBN 0436437309 (0-436-43730-9)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg
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Promised Landby Mary AntinISBN 0405128185 (0-405-12818-5)
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Queen's Own Foolby Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris, Cyhthia Von BuhlerISBN 0399233806 (0-399-23380-6)
Hardcover, Philomel Books
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The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jewsby Steven BirminghamISBN 0425080749 (0-425-08074-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews'Book summary:THE REST OF US is the third panel of Stephen Birmingham's Jewish triptych (OUR CROWD and THE GRANDEES)--the story of Eastern European Jews who, between 1882 and 1915, thronged into New York to escape the pogroms of czarist Russia.
From Ellis Island, these immigrants poured into the Lower East Side. To established German Jews, this horde was an embarassment and a burden. But the Russians had a passion to succeed and soon they stood on their own.
They made it in an astonishingly short time--from the pushcarts of Hester Street to the Grand Concourse and on to the manicured lawns of Scarsdale and Beverly Hills, "from Poland to polo in one generation." [via]
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Riding the Railsby Errol Lincoln UysISBN 0415945755 (0-415-94575-5)
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The Roman Army, 31 Bc-Ad 337: A Sourcebookby Brian CampbellISBN 0415071739 (0-415-07173-9)
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Royal Road to Fotheringayby Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Eleanor Hibbert, Jean PlaidISBN 0399107118 (0-399-10711-8)
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The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskionby Jean DoresseISBN 0404046460 (0-404-04646-0)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Communityby Christopher M. AndrewISBN 0434021105 (0-434-02110-5)
Hardcover, Heinemann
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Secret War in Shanghai: An Untold Story of Espionage, Intrigue, and Treason in World War IIby Bernard WassersteinISBN 0395985374 (0-395-98537-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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A Short History of Ethics; A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Centuryby A. MacIntyreISBN 0415287499 (0-415-28749-9)
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Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greeceby Andrew DalbyISBN 0415156572 (0-415-15657-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece'Book summary:Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil - four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture - were already well known 4,000 years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighbouring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character. This social history of Greek food begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. This study seeks to demonstrate the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods. [via]
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The Social History of Art: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Agesby Arnold HauserISBN 041519945X (0-415-19945-X)
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The Social History of Art: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticismby Arnold HauserISBN 0415199476 (0-415-19947-6)
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Time and Chanceby Sharon Kay PenmanISBN 0399147853 (0-399-14785-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Chance'Book summary:The Sunne in Splendour confirmed Sharon Kay Penman's place in the upper echelons of historical fiction, combining a breathtaking panoply of the past with an acute psychological observation of her characters. Time and Chance is the second part of her planned trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, beginning in the glory years of their reign. Penman conjures for us an astonishing era in which Henry battles with the Welsh and the French king, appoints Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury, and, by taking a mistress, makes a bitter enemy of his wife.
Readers know the scalpel-like precision of Penman's character building from her earlier work, and the emotional lives of Henry and the troubled Eleanor are powerfully realized. As in the first book of the sequence, When Christ and His Saints Slept, conflict is ever the driving force. Henry and Eleanor's remarkable partnership was proving highly fecund, both politically, and physically, as Eleanor gave birth to five sons and three daughters, laying to rest her reputation as a barren queen and founding a dynasty that was to last three centuries. But auguries of trouble ahead were apparent: war with the Welsh; acrimonious battles with Eleanor's first husband, King Louis VII of France. But the truly destabilizing factor was Henry's decision to appoint his friend and confidant Thomas Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury. Henry had assumed that the worldly, ambitious Becket would be the perfect ally, and was devastated when the new archbishop cast off his own worldly past as he embraced his role as Defender of the Faith, swapping dissolution for piety.
As Penman vividly demonstrates, Henry saw Becket's action as a humiliating betrayal. One of the most famous murders in history followed, with further conflict in the kingdom caused by Henry's liaison with the daughter of a baron. In bedding Rosamund Clifford, Henry put his marriage and even his kingship at risk. As always, Penman handles her research lightly; the personal drama is the engine of her narrative, with each fresh scandal and intrigue delivered with a beguiling combination of relish and restraint. She is assured in her detailing of the political and ecclesiastical clashes of the court, but it is Henry II who strides her novel like a colossus--just as he did the kingdom he ruled. --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Too Long a Sacrifice: Life and Death in Northern Ireland since 1969by Jack HollandISBN 0396079342 (0-396-07934-2)
Hardcover, Dodd, Mead
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Tragedy of Macbethby William Shakespeare, A. P. RiemerISBN 0424000814 (0-424-00081-4)
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A Traveller in Italyby H. V. MortonISBN 0396080464 (0-396-08046-4)
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Understanding Media; The Extension of Manby M. McLuhanISBN 0415253977 (0-415-25397-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media; The Extension of Man'Book summary:When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril. [via]
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Varities of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Natureby William JamesISBN 0415278090 (0-415-27809-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Varities of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature'Book summary:"I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by--or takes place in--the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance--indeed, respect--the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. [via]
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Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day Warby Michael MacLearISBN 0423005804 (0-423-00580-4)
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The Viking Sagaby Peter Ludwig BrentISBN 0399115218 (0-399-11521-8)
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The Way of the Samuraiby Werner Forman, Richard StorryISBN 0399120130 (0-399-12013-0)
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William Rufusby Frank BarlowISBN 0413281701 (0-413-28170-1)
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Women, Work, and Familyby Joan W. Scott, Louise A. TillyISBN 0415902622 (0-415-90262-2)
Softcover, Routledge Kegan & Paul
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Women, Work, and Familyby Louise A. Tilly, Joan Wallach ScottISBN 0416016812 (0-416-01681-2)
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The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drugby Bennett Alan Weinberg, Bonnie K. BealerISBN 0415927234 (0-415-92723-4)
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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?by Jean Fritz, Dyanne Disalvo-RyanISBN 0399227865 (0-399-22786-5)
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