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Adolf Hitlerby John TolandISBN 0385420536 (0-385-42053-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adolf Hitler'Book summary:A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is "the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read... a marvel of fact."--Newsweek
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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detectionby James West Davidson, Mark H. LytleISBN 0072294264 (0-07-229426-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Fact : The Art of Historical Detection'Book summary:For more than twenty years, "After the Fact" has been a popular and best-selling approach to guiding students through American History and the methods used to generate it. In fifteen dramatic episodes that move chronologically through American history, this book examines such topics as oral evidence, photographs, ecological data, films and television programs, church and town records, census data, and novels. [via]
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- After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0072294272 (0-07-229427-2)
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0070156093 (0-07-015609-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0070156115 (0-07-015611-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0072818522 (0-07-281852-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill - After the Fact : The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0072294264 (0-07-229426-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Education
- After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection: ISBN 0072294272 (0-07-229427-2)
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After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detectionby Mark Hamilton Lytle, James West DavidsonISBN 0070156107 (0-07-015610-7)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection'Book summary:Volume 1 of a 2-volume work that uses 15 dramatic episodes in American history to show students how historians go about the business of interpreting the past. It discusses historical methods within the context of an historical narrative so that students may learn about American history at the same time as seeing how historians use a variety of evidence (diaries, letters, photographs and records) and methods to explain the past. [via]
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The American Revolution: A Historyby Gordon S. WoodISBN 1842126806 (1-84212-680-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Revolution: A History'Book summary:Gordon S. Wood's The American Revolution, part of the Modern Library Chronicles series, is an erudite, concise summary of the events and circumstances surrounding the seminal conflict, both physical and philosophical, in American history. The Modern Library Chronicles are accessible-but-serious works of scholarship, meant to serve as introductions (or refresher courses) on large subjects for interested readers. The American Revolution is an excellent case in point. Wood deftly describes seeds of the Revolution, most notably disgruntlement on the colonists' part brought about by increasingly maladroit and fiscally punishing British policies. He then follows the course of actual warfare and its aftermath, most interestingly the fraught, bitter battle to draw a governing blueprint for the new country.
Wood breaks little new interpretive ground himself, here, but as a synthesizer (and amiable, skillful narrator/guide) he stands on high ground. --H. O'Billovitch [via]
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklinby Gordon S. WoodISBN 159420019X (1-59420-019-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin'Book summary:From "the preeminent historian of the Revolution" (Jonathan Yardley), a groundbreaking study, many years in the making, of Benjamin Franklin the man, Benjamin Franklin the myth, and the roots of American character.
Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-improver who was so very American that he is known by us all as the first American.
The problem with this beloved notion of Franklin's quintessential Americanness, Gordon Wood shows us in this marvelous, revelatory book, is that it's simply not true. And it blinds us to the no less admirable or important but far more interesting man Franklin really was and leaves us powerless to make sense of the most crucial events of his life. Indeed, thinking of Franklin as the last American would be less of a hindrance to understanding many crucial aspects of his life-his preoccupation with becoming a gentleman; his longtime loyalty to the Crown and burning ambition to be a player in the British Empire's power structure; the personal character of his conversion to revolutionary; his reasons for writing the Autobiography; his controversies with John and Samuel Adams and with Congress; his love of Europe and conflicted sense of national identity; the fact that his death was greeted by mass mourning in France and widely ignored in America.
But Franklin did become the Revolution's necessary man, Wood shows, second behind George Washington. Why was his importance so denigrated in his own lifetime and his image so distorted ever since? Ironically, Franklin's diplomacy in France, which was essential to American victory, was the cause of the suspicion that clouded his good name at home-and also the stage on which the "first American" persona made its debut. The consolidation of this mirage of Franklin would await the early nineteenth century, though, when the mask he created in his posthumously published Autobiography proved to be the model the citizens of a striving young democracy needed.
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin is a landmark work, a magnificent fresh vision of Franklin's life and reputation, filled with profound insights into the Revolution and into the emergence of America's idea of itself. [via]More editions of The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin:
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The Book of the City of Ladiesby Christine, Rosalind Brown-GrantISBN 0140446893 (0-14-044689-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the City of Ladies'Book summary:Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtuesReason, Rectitude and Justiceappear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. The Book of the City of Ladies provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.[via]More editions of The Book of the City of Ladies:
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold : The History of a Lesbian Communityby Elizabeth L. Kennedy, Madeline D. DavisISBN 0140235507 (0-14-023550-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Boswell's London Journal: 1762-1763by Frederick A. PottleISBN 0300057350 (0-300-05735-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boswell's London Journal: 1762-1763'Book summary:In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London. This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Ackroyd, which discusses Boswell's life and achievement. [via]
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Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763by James Boswell, Frederick A. Pottle, Peter AckroydISBN 0300093012 (0-300-09301-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763'Book summary:In 1762 James Boswell, then twenty-two years old, left Edinburgh for London. The famous Journal he kept during the next nine months is an intimate account of his encounters with the high-life and the low-life in London. Frank and confessional as a personal portrait of the young Boswell, the Journal is also revealing as a vivid portrayal of life in eighteenth-century London. This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Ackroyd, which discusses Boswell's life and achievement. [via]
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The City of Ladiesby Christine De Pizan, Rosalind Brown-GrantISBN 0143037544 (0-14-303754-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angelesby Mike Davis, Robert MorrowISBN 1844675688 (1-84467-568-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles'Book summary:This new edition of Mike Daviss visionary work gives an update on Los Angeles as the city hits the 21st century.
No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide- ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.
In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel Westa city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.
In this new edition, Davis provides a dazzling update on the city's current status.
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The Civil Warby Bruce CattonISBN 0070102651 (0-07-010265-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Civilization Before Greece and Romeby H.W.F. SaggsISBN 0300050313 (0-300-05031-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization Before Greece and Rome'Book summary:For many centuries it was accepted that civilization began with the Greeks and Romans. During the last two hundred years, however, archaeological discoveries in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Syria, Anatolia, Iran, and the Indus Valley have revealed that rich cultures existed in these regions some two thousand years before the Greco-Roman era. In this fascinating work, H.W.F Saggs presents a wide-ranging survey of the more notable achievements of these societies, showing how much the ancient peoples of the Near and Middle East have influenced the patterns of our daily lives. Saggs discussesthe the invention of writing, tracing it from the earliest pictograms (designed for account-keeping) to the Phoenician alphabet, the source of the Greek and all European alphabets. He investigates teh curricula, teaching methods, and values of the schools from which scribes graduated. Analyzing the provisions of some of the law codes, he illustrates the operation of international law and the international trade that it made possible. Saggs highlights the creative ways that these ancient peoples used their natural resources, describing the vast works in stone created by the Egyptians, the development of technology in bronze and iron, and the introduction of useful plants into regions outside their natural habitat. In chapters on mathematics, astronomy, and medicine, he offers interesting explanations about how modern calculations of time derive from the ancient world, how the Egyptians practiced scientific surgery, and how the Babylonians used algebra. The book concludes with a discussion of ancient religion, showing its evolution from the most primitive forms toward monotheism. [via]
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Conquering Familyby Thomas Bertram CostainISBN 0385040881 (0-385-04088-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conquering Family'Book summary:Thomas B. Costain's four-volume history of the Plantagenets begins with THE CONQUERING FAMILY and the conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, closing with the reign of John in 1216.
The troubled period after the Norman Conquest, when the foundations of government were hammered out between monarch and people, comes to life through Costain's storytelling skill and historical imagination.
"Brilliant, swift-moving, full of action, rich in color." (B-O-M-C News) [via]
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriorsby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0385479662 (0-385-47966-2)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors'Book summary:On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages; both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie. [via]
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766by Fred AndersonISBN 0375706364 (0-375-70636-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766'Book summary:Histories of the American Revolution tend to start in 1763, the end of the Seven Year's War, a worldwide struggle for empire that pitted France against England in North America, Europe, and Asia. Fred Anderson, who teaches history at the University of Colorado, takes the story back a decade and explains the significance of the conflict in American history. Demonstrating that independence was not inevitable or even at first desired by the colonists, he shows how removal of the threat from France was essential before Americans could develop their own concepts of democratic government and defy their imperial British protectors. Of great interest is the importance of Native Americans in the conflict. Both the French and English had Indian allies; France's defeat ended a diplomatic system in which Indian nations, especially the 300-year-old Iroquois League, held the balance between the colonial powers. In a fast-paced narrative, Anderson moves with confidence and ease from the forests of Ohio and battlefields along the St. Lawrence to London's House of Commons and the palaces of Europe. He makes complex economic, social, and diplomatic patterns accessible and easy to understand. Using a vast body of research, he takes the time to paint the players as living personalities, from George III and George Washington to a host of supporting characters. The book's usefulness and clarity are enhanced by a hundred landscapes, portraits, maps, and charts taken from contemporary sources. Crucible of War is political and military history at its best; it never flags and is a pleasure to read. --John Stevenson [via]
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- Crucible of War : The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766: ISBN 0375406425 (0-375-40642-5)
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Crusadesby Zoe Oldenbourg, Anne CarterISBN 1842122231 (1-84212-223-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crusades'Book summary:The Crusades, as Zoe Oldenbourg describes them, were not simply a religious phenomenon, nor were they motivated by pure aggression. They were the result of an emotional climate which led people from all walks of life - rich and poor, saints and sinners - to leave their homes and follow the unattainable ideal of a heavenly Jerusalem here on earth. Zoe Oldenbourg evokes the whole structure of feudal society and reveals the remarkable vitality and ingenuity of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, one of the more sophisticated achievements of the Middle Ages. Peopled with the great personalities behind the Crusades - Bohemond, Tancred, Peter the Hermit, Godfrey of Bouillon, Richard the Lionheart and Saladin. [via]
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A.D. 1000: A World on the Brink of Apocalypseby Richard ErdoesISBN 1569751579 (1-56975-157-9)
Softcover, Ulysses Pr
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Denying the Holocaustby Deborah E. LipstadtISBN 0029192358 (0-02-919235-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Denying the Holocaust'Book summary:For years, those who claimed that the death of six million Jews in Nazi concentration camps was nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy, were treated as harmless cranks. But over the past decade, they have begun to gain a hearing in respectable arenas. In this text, a social and intellectual history of Holocaust denial, Lipstadt shows how, despite thousands of living witnesses and vast amounts of documentary evidence, this idea has become an international movement, with organized chapters, "independent" research centres and official publications that promote a "revisionist" view of recent history. [via]
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The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europeby James ChambersISBN 0304321885 (0-304-32188-5)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organizationby Marc Bloch, L.A. ManyonISBN 0226059790 (0-226-05979-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organization'Book summary:"Few have set themselves to the formidable task of reconstructing and analyzing a whole human environment; fewer still have succeeded. Bloch dared to do this and was successful; therein lies the enduring achievement of Feudal Society."Charles Garside, Yale Review[via]More editions of Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organization:
Feudal Society: The Growth of Ties of Dependenceby Marc Bloch, L.A. ManyonISBN 0226059782 (0-226-05978-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The First Elizabethby Carolly EricksonISBN 031216842X (0-312-16842-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First Elizabeth'Book summary:In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe.[via]
With the special skill for which she is acclaimed, Carolly Erickson electrifies the senses as she evokes with total fidelity the brilliant colors of Elizabethan clothing and jewelry, the texture of tapestries, and even the close, perfumed air of castle rooms. Erickson demonstrates her extraordinary ability to discern and bring to life psychological and physical reality.More editions of The First Elizabeth:
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The First World Warby Hew StrachanISBN 0143035185 (0-14-303518-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First World War'Book summary:Hew Strachan's The First World War Vol I: A Call to Arms counteracts the argument that of the two world wars in the 20th century, it is usually only the second that is thought of as "global"--spanning from the Pacific to Normandy as Hollywood continues to remind us, from the River Plate to Scapa Flow as naval buffs will recall. By contrast the First World War is often assumed to be a European war, literally bogged down in the Somme and the Dardanelles. But as Hew Strachan argues in this magisterial and wide-ranging book we would do better to use the German phrase, "weltkrieg" to describe the conflicts of 1914-18 as well. The Call to Arms is the latest in a long line of Strachan's distinguished and subtle works of military history at its best: his recent The Politics of the British Army is particularly good. A Call to Arms covers the war in every part of the globe--chapters on Turkey, Africa and Japan sit alongside sections devoted to the Western and Eastern fronts. And Strachan shows too that the war was global not just in its geography, but also in its outcome. The entente powers had better access to international finance than their foes; the war accelerated religious and tribal nationalism in the old colonial empires; industrial mobilisation fuelled the growth of heavy industry in 'undeveloped' parts of the world. This is a big book--1,000 pages plus, and it is only the first of three volumes. It needs time and attentive reading to absorb the range of its scholarship and the originality of its arguments. But anyone wanting to understand how and why the First World War, as one French writer put it in 1914, extended "to the whole universe" must read this book.--Miles Taylor [via]
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Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific Warby William ManchesterISBN 0316501115 (0-316-50111-5)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War'Book summary:The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his "brothers"). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. "The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book." --William L. Shirer [via]
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Heloise & Abelard: A New Biographyby James BurgeISBN 0060816139 (0-06-081613-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heloise & Abelard: A New Biography'Book summary:New Revelations about One of the Greatest Romances in History
Peter Abelard was arguably the greatest poet, philosopher, and religious teacher in all of twelfth-century Europe. In an age when women were rarely educated, Heloise was his most gifted young student. Their private tutoring sessions inevitably turned to passion, and their moments apart were spent writing love letters. Astoundingly, a few years ago a young scholar identified 113 new love letters between the pair which, combined with the latest scholarship, present us with the richest telling yet of the couple's clandestine passion -- a story that is erotic, poignant, and at times even funny.
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Hero With A Thousand Facesby Joseph CampbellISBN 1567311202 (1-56731-120-2)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hero With A Thousand Faces'Book summary:Originally written by Campbell in the '40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas' inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary. And while our own life's journey must always be ended alone, the travel is undertaken in the company not only of immediate loved ones and primal passion, but of the heroes and heroines -- and myth-cycles -- that have preceded us. [via]
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History: A Very Short Introductionby John H. ArnoldISBN 019285352X (0-19-285352-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History: A Very Short Introduction'Book summary:There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's addition to Oxford's popular Very Short Introductions series is a stimulating essay about how people study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and then explores the ways in which these questions have been answered in the past. Such key concepts as causation, interpretation, and periodization are introduced by way of concrete examples of how historians work, thus giving the reader a sense of the excitement implicit in discovering the past--and ourselves.
The aim throughout History: A Very Short Introduction is to discuss theories of history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than delve into specific periods. This is a book that will appeal to all students and general readers with an interest in history or historiography.
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Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable. [via]More editions of History: A Very Short Introduction:
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsby Adam SmithISBN 0198281846 (0-19-828184-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Editionby Adam Smith, Kathryn SutherlandISBN 0192835467 (0-19-283546-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition'Book summary:While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, the Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, and tempered his celebration of a self-regulating market with a darker vision of the dehumanizing potential of a profit-oriented society. Smith did not write an economics textbook, but rather a panoramic narrative about the struggle for individual liberty and general prosperity in history.
This edition includes generous selections from all five books of the Wealth of Nations. It also provides full notes and a commentary that places Smith's work within a rich interdisciplinary context. [via]More editions of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition:
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations/2 Volumes in 1by Adam SmithISBN 0226763749 (0-226-76374-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations/2 Volumes in 1'Book summary:Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is the point of departure for all subsequent economic thought. Smith's theories of capital accumulation, growth, and secular change, among others, continue to be influential in modern economics.[via]
This reprint of Edwin Cannan's definitive 1904 edition of The Wealth of Nations includes Cannan's famous introduction, notes, and a full index, as well as a new preface written especially for this edition by the distinguished economist George J. Stigler. Mr. Stigler's preface will be of value for anyone wishing to see the contemporary relevance of Adam Smith's thought.More editions of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations/2 Volumes in 1:
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World Historyby Richard Shenkman, George J. McKeonISBN 0060922559 (0-06-092255-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Life in the English Country Houseby Mark GirourardISBN 0140054065 (0-14-005406-5)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in the English Country House'Book summary:The English country house has flourished over the centuries because of its ability to adapt to the changes in English society. This book is an account of the ways in which the upper-class life style were reflected in the houses in which the wealthy and powerful lived. First published in 1978, this is a history of the English country house from the point of view of its owners and users. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the world of Evelyn Waugh, the author also discusses and illustrates how the life of the upper classes shaped their country hosues, how they entertained and were served, how they ran the country and their estates and how they reconciled personal privacy and public display. [via]
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural Historyby Mark GirouardISBN 0300058705 (0-300-05870-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda And the Road to 9/11by Lawrence WrightISBN 037541486X (0-375-41486-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda And the Road to 9/11'Book summary:A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wrights remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States.
The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri; the FBIs counterterrorism chief, John ONeill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal.
As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden . . . the birth of al-Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole . . . ONeills heroic efforts to track al-Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers . . . Prince Turkis transformation from bin Ladens ally to his enemy . . . the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al-Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; ONeills high-wire act in balancing his all-consuming career with his equally entangling personal lifehe was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others existenceand the nitty-gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies.
Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat. [via]More editions of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda And the Road to 9/11:
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Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biographyby Chester BrownISBN 1894937899 (1-894937-89-9)
Softcover, Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography'Book summary:The life story of Louis Riel has been told in almost every form imaginable, from traditional historical fiction (Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched Wood People) to punk rock (Thee Headcoats' "Louie Riel"). Chester Brown's Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography introduces the Métis rebel to yet another medium: the graphic novel. Brown covers the Riel tale from the arrival of Canadian surveyors in the territory that would become Manitoba to Riel's martyr's death on a Regina gallows. Brown tells a highly subjective version of the story but provides maps, plenty of footnotes, and an extensive bibliography, making accessing the historical record very easy.
Riel is Canada's most famous folk hero, and only a country like Canada could turn someone like him into a national icon. He was a religious zealot, a probable lunatic, a tormented, charismatic despot with a good but hopeless cause. His memory is usually defiled by complacency; Canadian nationalists like to bandy his name about, but the social ills that drove him to rebellion continue to fester. It is to Brown's credit that he resists the temptation to present Riel as an unimpeachable hero, or to pretend that Riel's legacy has become part of the Canadian state.
The drawings in Louis Riel are impeccable. Brown notes in his introduction that his work is commonly compared to that of Tintin creator Hergé, and he cites Little Orphan Annie as a primary influence for this book. Both are abundantly evident here, combined with a feeling that Brown is illustrating a minimalist political play, staged under Brecht's dramatic principles. Landscape and period detail take a back seat to character and caricature: Riel is stout and taciturn; Gabriel Dumont, his deputy, is stouter yet and oozes righteous violence; Sir John A. MacDonald is given the small head of a moron and a huge gin-guzzler's schnozz. Brown's weakness is his use of language; his dialogue pushes the plot along and gets the story told, but there is no snap or sparkle to it. Readers with no special affinity for the artwork will probably find the book flat, but those who are immediately drawn to his illustrations will find Louis Riel a visually stunning and pleasingly accessible take on the old Riel tale. --Jack Illingworth [via]
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A Man on the Moonby Andrew ChaikinISBN 0140272011 (0-14-027201-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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What follows are thrilling accounts of such remarkable experiences as the rush of a liftoff, the heart-stopping touchdown on the moon, the final hurdle of re-entry, competition for a seat on a moon flight, the tragic spacecraft fire, and the search for clues to the origin of the solar system on the slopes of lunar mountains.
"I've been there. Chaikin took me back."--Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 astronaut [via] 
A Medieval Miscellanyby Judith HerrinISBN 029782483X (0-297-82483-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500by Henrietta LeyserISBN 0312212798 (0-312-21279-8)
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Meditationsby Marcus AureliusISBN 1853264865 (1-85326-486-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Meditations'Book summary:The "Meditations" of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions, unjust thoughts and indulgence, man could acquire virtue and live at one with nature. [via]
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Spiritual Teachings And Reflectionsby Watkins, Alan JacobsISBN 1842931202 (1-84293-120-2)
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The Oxford History of the French Revolutionby William DoyleISBN 019925298X (0-19-925298-X)
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Penguin Atlas of Modern Historyby Colin McEvedyISBN 0140511539 (0-14-051153-9)
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Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translationby Plutarch, Arthur Hugh CloughISBN 0375756779 (0-375-75677-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translation'Book summary:Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition. [via]More editions of Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translation:
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The Protestant Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Capitalism and Other Writingsby Peter R. Baehr, Max Weber, Gordon C. WellsISBN 0140439218 (0-14-043921-8)
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Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalismby Max WeberISBN 0043310699 (0-04-331069-9)
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The Red Badge of Courageby Stephen CraneISBN 1853260843 (1-85326-084-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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Although the exact battle is never identified, Crane based this story of a soldiers experiences during the American Civil War on the 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville. Many veterans, both Union and Confederate, praised the books accurate representation of war, and critics consider its stylistic strength the mark of a literary classic.
This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a little-known section entitled The Veteran, which depicts Henry Fleming as an old man discussing his experiences in the Civil War with his grandson. Additionally, a glossary and readers notes are provided to help the reader understand the language of 19th century America. [via]
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The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community With a Retrospective Essayby William H. McNeillISBN 0226561410 (0-226-56141-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Russia Under the Old Regimeby Richard PipesISBN 0140247688 (0-14-024768-8)
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The Second World Warby Martin GilbertISBN 029779616X (0-297-79616-X)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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A Social History of Englandby Asa BriggsISBN 0140074929 (0-14-007492-9)
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A Social History of England: From the Ice Age to the Channel Tunnelby Asa BriggsISBN 029783262X (0-297-83262-X)
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Twenty Years at Hull-Houseby Jane Addams, Norah HamiltonISBN 0252061071 (0-252-06107-1)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twenty Years at Hull-House'Book summary:While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else.
Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Twenty Years at Hull-House : With Autobiographical Notesby Jane Addams, Ruth Sidel, Norah HamiltonISBN 0141180994 (0-14-118099-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Their pale faces were dominated by that most unlovely of human expressions, the cunning and shrewdness of the bargain-hunter who starves if he cannot make a successful trade, and yet the final impression was not of ragged, tawdry clothing nor of pinched and sallow faces, but of myriads of hands, empty, pathetic, nerveless, and workworn, showing white in the uncertain light of the street, and clutching forward for food which was already unfit to eat.
This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S. On September 18, 1889, Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Starr moved into the second floor of a rundown mansion in Chicago's West Side. From the outset, they imagined Hull-House as a "center for a higher civic and social life" in the industrial districts of the city. Addams, Starr, and several like-minded individuals lived and worked among the poor, establishing (among other things) art classes, discussion groups, cooperatives, a kindergarten, a coffee house, a lending library, and a gymnasium. In a time when many well-to-do Americans were beginning to feel threatened by immigrants, Hull-House embraced them, showed them the true meaning of democracy, and served as a center for philanthropic efforts throughout Chicago.
Hull-House also provided an outlet for the energies of the first generation of female college graduates, who were educated for work yet prevented from doing it. In some respects, however, Addams's impressive work, often hailed by historians as "revolutionary," was nothing of the sort. She embraced the sexual stereotypes of her day, and, though she was clearly an independent woman, soothed public fears by acting primarily in the traditional roles of nurturer and caregiver. Hull-House was a rousing success, and it inspired others to follow in Addams's footsteps.
Though Twenty Years at Hull-House is meant to be an autobiography, it is Hull-House itself that stands in the spotlight. Addams devotes the first third of the book to her upbringing and influences, but the remainder focuses on the organization she built--and the benefits accruing to those who work with the poor as well as to the poor themselves. At times Addams's prose is difficult to follow, but her ideals and her actions are truly inspiring. A classic work of history--and a model for today's would-be philanthropists. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Conventby Mary LavenISBN 0142004014 (0-14-200401-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Voyage of the Beagleby Charles DarwinISBN 0385027672 (0-385-02767-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researchesby Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Janet Browne, E. J. BrowneISBN 014043268X (0-14-043268-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal of Researches'Book summary:"The Voyage of the Beagle" is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to "The Origin of Species". This "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Brown and Michael Neve. When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here reprinted in a shortened form, shows a naturalist making patient observations concerning geology, natural history, people, places and events. Volcanoes in the Galapagos, the Gossamer spider of Patagonia and the Australasian coral reefs - all are to be found in these extraordinary writings. The insights made here were to set in motion the intellectual currents that led to the theory of evolution, and the most controversial book of the "Victorian age: The Origin of Species". This volume reprints Charles Darwin's journal in a shortened form. In their introduction Janet Brown and Michael Neve provide a background to Darwin's thought and work, and this edition also includes notes, maps, appendices and an essay on scientific geology and the Bible by Robert FitzRoy, Darwin's friend and Captain of the Beagle. Charles Darwin (1809-82), a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. The advent of "On the Origin of Species" by means of natural selection in 1859 challenged and contradicted all contemporary biological and religious beliefs. If you enjoyed "The Voyage of the Beagle", you might enjoy Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", also available in "Penguin Classics". [via]
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The Voyage of the Beagle: Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the Worldby Charles DarwinISBN 0375756809 (0-375-75680-9)
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We Interrupt This Broadcast: Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of Princess Dianaby Joe GarnerISBN 1570713286 (1-57071-328-6)
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We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Attacks of September 11by Joe GarnerISBN 1570719748 (1-57071-974-8)
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We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of John F. Kennedy Jr.by Joe GarnerISBN 1570715351 (1-57071-535-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of John F. Kennedy Jr.'Book summary:Beginning with the explosion of the dirigible Hindenburg in 1937, this book and double-CD collection of audio broadcasts recalls a series of dramatic events so urgent that they interrupted scheduled broadcasting in America. The text of this package includes capsule explanations of such events as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the death of Elvis, accompanied by dramatic black-and-white stock photos. Introduced by the sonorous voice of TV journalist Bill Kurtis, the recordings of the news broadcasts revive the panic and thrill of some of the defining moments (mostly American) of the 20th century. This updated second edition includes three new events: the impeachment of President Clinton, the tragic shootings at Columbine High School, and the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. in an airplane crash. New recordings from the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, the Apollo 13 mission, and the Munich Olympics tragedy have also been added.
We Interrupt This Broadcast offers, in some ways, a strange view of the past. News that interrupts broadcasts is always sensational and usually tragic. Of the 41 recordings, only five or so don't involve assassinations, explosions, death, or defeat. Furthermore, only the deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana represent the female side of modern events. Nevertheless, these recordings will fascinate many listeners too young to have heard the original broadcasts, and those who were alive at the time might enjoy hearing them again in all their crackling, nostalgic glory. --Maria Dolan [via]
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannanby Adam Smith, Andrew S. SkinnerISBN 0140436154 (0-14-043615-4)
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The Wealth of Nations/Books I-IIIby Adam Smith, Andrew S. SkinnerISBN 0140432086 (0-14-043208-6)
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By pin-pointing the 'division of labour' as a major explanation of economic growth, Adam Smith laid the foundations of economic theory in general and of 'classical' economics in particular. But Andrew Skinner shows in his introduction to this edition that the real sophistication of The Wealth of Nations lies less in its overall picture of a vast analytical system - a capitalist economy - in which all the parts can be seen simultaneously interacting with each other. Moreover, he stresses that Smith's view of society was mot a merely economic one, and that The Wealth of Nations is for from being an apologia for unregulated business enterprise: Smith was at pains to show that economic advance can have undesirable social consequences, and that labour which is economically unproductive can be beneficial to society at large. [via]More editions of The Wealth of Nations/Books I-III:
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawaby Sledge, Eugene B., Jr., Paul FussellISBN 0195067142 (0-19-506714-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa'Book summary:In his own book, Wartime, Paul Fussell called With the Old Breed "one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war." John Keegan referred to it in The Second World War as "one of the most arresting documents in war literature." And Studs Terkel was so fascinated with the story he interviewed its author for his book, "The Good War." What has made E.B. Sledge's memoir of his experience fighting in the South Pacific during World War II so devastatingly powerful is its sheer honest simplicity and compassion.
Now including a new introduction by Paul Fussell, With the Old Breed presents a stirring, personal account of the vitality and bravery of the Marines in the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923 and raised on riding, hunting, fishing, and a respect for history and legendary heroes such as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene Bondurant Sledge (later called "Sledgehammer" by his Marine Corps buddies) joined the Marines the year after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and from 1943 to 1946 endured the events recorded in this book. In those years, he passed, often painfully, from innocence to experience.
Sledge enlisted out of patriotism, idealism, and youthful courage, but once he landed on the beach at Peleliu, it was purely a struggle for survival. Based on the notes he kept on slips of paper tucked secretly away in his New Testament, he simply and directly recalls those long months, mincing no words and sparing no pain. The reality of battle meant unbearable heat, deafening gunfire, unimaginable brutality and cruelty, the stench of death, and, above all, constant fear. Sledge still has nightmares about "the bloody, muddy month of May on Okinawa." But, as he also tellingly reveals, the bonds of friendship formed then will never be severed.
Sledge's honesty and compassion for the other marines, even complete strangers, sets him apart as a memoirist of war. Read as sobering history or as high adventure, With the Old Breed is a moving chronicle of action and courage. [via]More editions of With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa:
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Meditacionesby Marco AurelioISBN 8424934970 (84-249-3497-0)
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Meditaciones / Meditationsby Marco AurelioISBN 8420636746 (84-206-3674-6)
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