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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
by Ross E. Dunn

ISBN 0520067436 (0-520-06743-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr

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Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times. [via]
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The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages/Volumes 2 and 3
by Thomas Bulfinch

ISBN 0451627997 (0-451-62799-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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mythology [via]
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0671009761 (0-671-00976-1)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by Kevin Phillips

ISBN 067003486X (0-670-03486-X)
Hardcover, Viking Pr

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Anatomy of Revolution
by Clarence Crane Brinton

ISBN 0394700449 (0-394-70044-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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A comparative history of the English, American, French and Russian revolutions. Bibliographical appendix, index. [via]
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The Book of Margery Kempe: A New Translation, Contexts, Criticism
by Lynn Staley, Margery Kempe

ISBN 0393976394 (0-393-97639-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle English as possible, without sounding archaic.
Kempe's work is accompanied by an introduction, a map of medieval England, a Kempe lexicon, and explanatory annotations.

"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminate The Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpts from The Constitutions of Thomas Arundel, Meditations on the Life of Christ, The Shewings of Julian of Norwich, The Book of Saint Bride, and The Life of Marie d'Oignies by Jacques de Vitry.

"Criticism" includes nine varied interpretations of the autobiography, written by Clarissa W. Atkinson, Lynn Staley, Karma Lochrie, David Aers, Kathleen Ashley, Gail McMurray Gibson, Sarah Beckwith, Caroline Walker Bynum, and Nicholas Watson.

A Selected Bibliography is also included. [via]
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Buddha
by Karen Armstrong

ISBN 0670891932 (0-670-89193-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Books on Buddhism may overflow the shelves, but the life story of the Buddha himself has remained obscure despite over 2,500 years of influence on millions of people around the world. In an attempt to rectify this, and to make the Buddha and Buddhism accessible to Westerners, the beloved scholar and author of such sweeping religious studies as A History of God has written a readable, sophisticated, and somewhat unconventional biography of one of the most influential people of all time. Buddha himself fought against the cult of personality, and the Buddhist scriptures were faithful, giving few details of his life and personality. Karen Armstrong mines these early scriptures, as well as later biographies, then fleshes the story out with an explanation of the cultural landscape of the 6th century B.C., creating a deft blend of biography, history, philosophy, and mythology.
At the age of 29, Siddhartha Gautama walked away from the insulated pleasure palace that had been his home and joined a growing force of wandering monks searching for spiritual enlightenment during an age of upheaval. Armstrong traces Gautama's journey through yoga and asceticism and grounds it in the varied religious teachings of the time. In many parts of the world during this so-called axial age, new religions were developing as a response to growing urbanization and market forces. Yet each shared a common impulse--they placed faith increasingly on the individual who was to seek inner depth rather than magical control. Taoism and Confucianism, Hinduism, monotheism in the Middle East and Iran, and Greek rationalism were all emerging as Gautama made his determined way towards enlightenment under the boddhi tree and during the next 45 years that he spent teaching along the banks of the Ganges. Armstrong, in her intelligent and clarifying style, is quick to point out the Buddha's relevance to our own time of transition, struggle, and spiritual void in both his approach--which was based on skepticism and empiricism--and his teachings.
Despite the lack of typical historical documentation, Armstrong has written a rich and revealing description of both a unique time in history and an unusual man. Buddha is a terrific primer for those interested in the origins and fundamentals of Buddhism. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Bulfinch's Mythology
by Bulfinch

ISBN 0440308453 (0-440-30845-3)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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Tomas Bulfinch's wonderful and accessible retelling of the myths of classical antiquity and the fables of the age of chivalry has been renowned for almost 150 years as a rich panorama of gods, goddesses, and heroes, of crusading knights in the Holy Land and outlaw archers in Sherwood Forest.

With an introduction by the eminent historian Michael Grant, the selections resented here offer lively versions of the legends of the Trojan War and the epic homeward voyage of Ulysses, the story of King Richard the LionHearted, and the tales of Robin Hood.

During his distinguished career, Michael Grant has been a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; professor of humanities at Edinburgh University; vice- chancellor of the University of Khartoum; and president and vice-chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast. Among his many books are Myths of the Greeks and Romans, Founders of the Western World: A History of Greece and Rome, and Greeks and Romans: A Social History. Bulfinch's Mythology is also available from Random House as an unabridged Modern Library book. [via]
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Complete Texts
by Thomas Bulfinch

ISBN 051722688X (0-517-22688-X)
Hardcover, Gramercy

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. [via]
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Bulfinch's Mythology Vol. 2 : The Age of Chivalry and the Legends of Charlemagne
by Thomas Bulfinch, Norma Lorre Goodrich

ISBN 0452011531 (0-452-01153-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The classic collection of myths and legendary lore. All major periods of mythology are covered, from Greek and Roman ages to King Arthur. [via]
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Charles Dickens' a Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

ISBN 0671006118 (0-671-00611-8)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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Charlie Wilson's War
by George Crile

ISBN 0613998057 (0-613-99805-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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City
by David Macaulay

ISBN 0395349222 (0-395-34922-2)
Softcover, Walter Lorraine

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Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.
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Complete Mythology
by Thomas Bulfinch

ISBN 060056293X (0-600-56293-X)
Hardcover, Spring Publications, Incorporated

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HARDCOVER w/dust cover. Exactly as shown (view my customers provided images). Illustrated edition. 1979/Crown Publishing. Library binding. From Private Collection. Pristine Condition. [via]
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon

ISBN 0440318793 (0-440-31879-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis

ISBN 0553562738 (0-553-56273-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Connie Willis labored five years on this story of a history student in 2048 who is transported to an English village in the 14th century. The student arrives mistakenly on the eve of the onset of the Black Plague. Her dealings with a family of "contemps" in 1348 and with her historian cohorts lead to complications as the book unfolds into a surprisingly dark, deep conclusion. The book, which won Hugo and Nebula Awards, draws upon Willis' understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit. [via]
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Eight Men Out: The Black Socks and the 1919 World Series
by Eliot Asinof

ISBN 0613180720 (0-613-18072-0)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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The End of the European Era: 1890 To the Present
by Felix Gilbert, David Clay Large, Felis Gilbert

ISBN 0393976424 (0-393-97642-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Since its first publication over thirty years ago, The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present has offered students a concise and authoritative historical narrative of the events that shaped twentieth-century Europe.
The Fifth Edition retains these strengths while embracing recent developments and current research. The text covers a century of rapid and tumultuous change, from increased population and migration in the early 1900s through the ongoing unrest in the Balkans. [via]
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Enigma: The Battle for the Code
by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore

ISBN 0471490350 (0-471-49035-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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ACCLAIM FOR ENIGMA
CRACKING STUFF&VIVID AND HITHERTO UNKNOWN DETAILS. Sunday Times (London)
IN A CROWD OF BOOKS DEALING WITH THE ALLIED BREAKING OF THE WORLD WAR II CIPHER MACHINE ENIGMA, HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE HAS SCORED A SCOOP. Washington Post
Winston Churchill called the cracking of the German Enigma Code the secret weapon that won the war. Now, for the first time, noted British journalist Hugh-Sebag-Montefiore reveals the complete story of the breaking of the code by the Alliesthe breaking that played a crucial role in the outcome of World War II.
This fascinating account relates the never-before-told, hair-raising stories of the heroic British and American sailors, spies, and secret agents who faced death in order to capture vital codebooks from sinking ships and snatch them from under the noses of Nazi officials. Sebag-Montefiore also relates new details about the genesis of the code, little-known facts about how the Poles first cracked the Luftwaffes version of the code (and then passed it along to the British), and the feverish activities at Bletchley Park, Based in part on documents recently unearthed from American and British archivesincluding previously confidential government filesand in part on unforgettable, firsthand accounts of surviving witnesses, Enigma unearths the stunning truth about the brilliant piece of decryption that changed history.
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Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72
by Hunter S. Thompson

ISBN 0446313645 (0-446-31364-5)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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With the same drug-addled alacrity and jaundiced wit that made Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a hilarious hit, Hunter S. Thompson turns his savage eye and gonzo heart to the repellent and seductive race for President. He deconstructs the 1972 campaigns of idealist George McGovern and political hack Richard Nixon, ending up with a political vision that is eerily prophetic. A classic! [via]
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The First World War: An Illustrated History
by A. J. P. Taylor

ISBN 0399502602 (0-399-50260-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne, Gallipoli, the Balkans and the War at Sea to the offensives of 1918 and the state of Europe after the war. Containing photographs and maps, this an essential history of the war that 'cut deep into the consciousness of modern man'. [via]
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The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
by Charles Kaiser

ISBN 0395657814 (0-395-65781-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon, Rosemary Williams

ISBN 0528810146 (0-528-81014-6)
Hardcover, Rand McNally

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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by William H. Prescott

ISBN 0394604717 (0-394-60471-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Mexico History [via]
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IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
by Edwin Black

ISBN 0609808990 (0-609-80899-0)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr

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In an Antique Land
by Amitav Ghosh

ISBN 039458368X (0-394-58368-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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As he searches for information about the life of an Indian slave in twelfth-century Egypt, the author, a Hindu, comes face to face with the Muslim world and culture of modern Egypt, in a narrative that juxtaposes ancient history and modern travelogue. [via]
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In Search of History
by Theodore Harold White

ISBN 0446346578 (0-446-34657-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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London
by Edward Rutherfurd

ISBN 0449002632 (0-449-00263-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Edward Rutherfurd belongs to the James Michener school: he writes big, sprawling history-by- the-pound. His novel, London, stretches two millennia all the way from Roman times to the present. The author places his vignettes at the most dramatic moments of that city's history, leaping from Caesar's invasion to the Norman Conquest to the Great Fire to (of course) the Blitz, with many stops in between. London is ambitious, and students of English history will eat it up. The author doesn't skimp on historical detail, and that's a signal pleasure of the book. Ultimately, though, the structure of the novel determines the lion's share of its success. Rutherfurd is a good storyteller and each vignette makes for a good story; however, he has given himself the inevitable task of beginning what amounts to a new book every 40 pages or so. Just as one begins to warm to the characters, they are hurried off the stage. You can't read London without a scorecardbut that's part of the fun. [via]
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Man Who Made Ireland
by Tim Coogan

ISBN 0517139731 (0-517-13973-1)
Softcover, Random House Value Pub

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Marriage, A History: From Obedience To Intimacy Or How Love Conquered Marriage
by Stephanie Coontz

ISBN 067003407X (0-670-03407-X)
Hardcover, Viking Pr

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Marriage today is held up as a blissful haven of love and friendship, sex and stability. We long for the gold standard, the traditional marriage but marriage turns out to have a checkered past-the "traditional marriage" was evanescent. This real look at what people think of as "traditional" finally explains why so many married people are so unsatisfied.
In this groundbreaking book, award-winning historian Stephanie Coontz takes us on an eye- opening journey from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the sexual torments of Victorian lovers to the current debates over the meaning and future of marriage. She provides the definitive story of marriages evolution from the arranged unions common since the dawn of civilization into the intimate, sexually fulfilling but volatile relationships of today.
For most of our history, marriage was not a relationship based on mutual love between a breadwinning husband and an at-home wife, but an institution devoted to acquiring wealth, power, and property. Picking a mate on the basis of something as irrational as love would have been considered absurd. Only in the nineteenth century did marriage move to the center of peoples emotional lives, when the wife became the "angel of the home" and the husband the "provider." Yet these Victorian ideals contain the seeds of todays marriage crisis. As people began to expect romance and intimacy in their marriages, their unions became more fragile. The postwar era of the 1950s ushered in a brief "Golden Age" of marriage-the Ozzie and Harriet years-but the same advances in birth control, increased individual autonomy, and womens equality that made marriage more satisfying than it had been in the past also undermined its stability.
Marriage has changed more in the last thirty years than in the previous five thousand, and few of the old "rules" for marriage still apply. In the courts, the op-ed pieces, and at the dinner table, battles rage over what marriage means, why people do it, and who can do it. Marriage, a History is the one book you need to understand not only the vicissitudes of modern marriage but also gay marriage, "living together" and divorce. Stephanie Coontz shatters dozens of myths about the past and future of married life and shows us why marriage, though more fragile today, can be more rewarding than ever before. [via]
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
by Simon Garfield

ISBN 0571201970 (0-571-20197-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber

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Mauve? Not the butchest of colours perhaps; you might be forgiven for wondering whether, if a Longitude-style book had to be written about hues, Red, Blue or Yellow might not be the place to start instead. But Garfield has chosen his colour well: mauve and its 19th-century inventor William Perkin constitute a fascinating story. This book convincingly argues that Perkin's invention of this chemical dye became a major turning point in the history of Western science and industry. Purple had always been a royal colour, in part because it was so difficult (and hence expensive) to achieve a good shade out of the animal, mineral or plant raw materials from which all dyes were derived; it took 17,000 dried and crushed cactus insects to make one ounce of cochineal. Perkin found a cheap way to produce a synthetic purple; he made a fortune and prompted a craze for the colour in the fashion industry of his day. But more than this, Garfield argues, he kick-started chemistry from being a gentleman-amateur pastime into becoming the major world industry it is today. Mauve (the Victorians pronounced it "morv", apparently) really did change the world. Just as Perkins's colour was something wholly new, Garfield's Mauve represents a new sort of book, a more varied synthesis than the run-of-the-mill animal, mineral or plant books. In part it is a biography, in part a social and cultural history, and partly it is a meditation on the roles chemistry (and colour) play in our world. It even manages to function as a primer in inorganic chemistry. Garfield achieves this last without being either baffling or condescending; he breaks us in gently to the subject of, for instance, benzene rings by relating Friedrich Kekule's 1858 dream, dozing in front of the fire, "gambolling atoms in snake-like motion, one of the snakes had seized hold of its own tail: his benzene structure consisted of six carbon atoms, each attached to a hydrogen atom C6H6". The model for this integration of chemistry into everyday life is taken from the period itself--at one point we're told that "William Perkins Jnr wrote again, enquiring about the atomic structures of various synthetic perfumes and wishing his father a happy birthday". Presumably in that order. Garfield's book draws you into this world of dyes and dyers; the reader emerges a little mauver than when they started. --Adam Roberts [via]
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Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945
by William Allen

ISBN 0531056333 (0-531-05633-3)
Softcover, Franklin Watts

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Allen's study of the rise and fall of Nazism in Germany chooses to concentrate on a single small town in Saxony, to see in detail "how a civilised democracy could be plunged into a nihilistic dictatorship". A work of "microhistory", this text is comparable perhaps with Montaillou in its readability. [via]
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Leonardo Da Vinci, Jean Paul Richter

ISBN 0486225720 (0-486-22572-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Volume 2 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardos versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates, plus faithful reproductions of more than 500 additional drawings.
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Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
by Pamela Taylor

ISBN 0452258464 (0-452-25846-4)
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Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
by Frances Amelia Yates

ISBN 0415254094 (0-415-25409-4)
Softcover, Routledge

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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0451527097 (0-451-52709-7)
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Solzhenitsyn's first book, this economical, relentless novel is one of the most forceful artistic indictments of political oppression in the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The simply told story of a typical, grueling day of the titular character's life in a labor camp in Siberia, is a modern classic of Russian literature and quickly cemented Solzhenitsyn's international reputation upon publication in 1962. It is painfully apparent that Solzhenitsyn himself spent time in the gulags--he was imprisoned for nearly a decade as punishment for making derogatory statements about Stalin in a letter to a friend. [via]
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
by Ralph Parker, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

ISBN 0451523105 (0-451-52310-5)
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A graphic picture of life in a Stalinist work camp. [via]
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Pegasus Bridge
by Stephen Ambrose

ISBN 0671671561 (0-671-67156-1)
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In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed the German defense forces and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day, the turning point of World War II. This gripping account of it by acclaimed author Stephen Ambrose brings to life a daring mission so crucial that, had it been unsuccessful, the entire Normandy invasion might have failed. Ambrose traces each step of the preparations over many months to the minute-by-minute excitement of the hand-to-hand confrontations on the bridge. This is a story of heroism and cowardice, kindness and brutality -- the stuff of all great adventures. [via]
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Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
by Stephen E. Ambrose

ISBN 0671523740 (0-671-52374-0)
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Russia and the West: Under Lenin and Stalin
by George Frost Kennan

ISBN 0451624602 (0-451-62460-2)
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The Russian Revolution
by Richard E. Pipes

ISBN 0394502418 (0-394-50241-8)
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The Saxon and Norman Kings
by Christopher N. L. Brooke

ISBN 0631231315 (0-631-23131-5)
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Selected Works of Frances Yates
by Frances A. Yates

ISBN 0415220432 (0-415-22043-2)
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The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, Frances Yates revolutionised the study of the history of art, science and ideas. She demonstrated that ideas and practices once considered marginal such as hermeticism and alchemy were actually at the forefront of the renaissance mind. Yates was a pioneer in her emphasis on visual culture and many of her works are richly illustrated with the iconography of symbolism of occult philosophy. Her magisterial studies address subjects as diverse as: Shakespeares last plays late medieval tapestry Italian renaissance philosophy the Rosicrucians For forty years of her life Frances Yates was associated with the Warburg Institute. Awarded a DBE for services to renaissance studies in 1977, she was a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. This set provides immediate access to the work of this most important of late twentieth century philosophers. Volumes are also available individually. The Valois Tapestries 0415-22044-0 This extensively illustrated volume presents the extravagant tapestries of the Uffizi as documents, subtly woven into the fabric of cultural and political history. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition 0415-22045-9 Giordano Bruno, perhaps the best-known philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, is here, for the first time, placed within the context of the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition. Yates explores how Renaissance Hermeticism stimulated new attitudes towards the cosmos and towards working with cosmic forces. Bruno emerges as a Hermetic Philosopher and magician with an unorthodox religious message. Even his support of Copernicus is associated with solar magic. This revolutionary reinterpretation profoundly affects our understanding of Bruno and of his death at the stake. The Art of Memory 0415-22046-7 Trained memory was of first importance in the ancient world before printing and paper for taking notes or writing down lectures were available. An art rose in response to this need which relied on architecture and could depend on faculties of intense visual memorization. In this volume, Yates traces this art of memory from Simonides through Aquinas to the Renaissance and the growth of scientific method. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 0415-22047-5 The Rosicrucian Enlightenment is an enthralling reconstruction of an important yet largely forgotten phase in European thought. A stage between the Renaissance and the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment was a striving for spiritual illumination as well as an attempt to advance scientific and intellectual knowledge. This book is the definitive work on the origins of Rosicrucian thought and its influence on politics and great thinkers in seventeenth-century Europe. Frances Yates focuses on the short-lived reign of Frederick, Elector Palatine, and his wife, the daughter of James I, as Winter King and Queen of Bohemia showing that this brief period was a Hermetic golden age, inspired by the Rosicrucian movement. The reconstruction of this phase of European history takes Rosicruianism beyond occult studies and makes it a concern for serious historical enquiry. The intellectual giants of this era, including Francis Bacon, Descartes and Newton, are seen here in new contexts that provide fresh insight into their thought. Among the many other personages and themes discussed are John Dee, Robert Boyles Invisible College, and the rise of the Royal Society and of Freemasonry. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century 0415-22048-3 In this volume, Frances Yates attends to the political dimension of Renaissance thought. She examines the images and symbolism of religion and monarchy, especially in relation to the myth of Astraea. As well as being essential reading for historians of the Renaissance period, the book is of fundamental importance for students of the literature of the Elizabethan period. Frances Yates shows how Spensers Fairie Queene E grew out of the Accession Day Tilts and the imagery deployed in them, and demonstrates that Shakespeares preoccupation with Monarchy, with a rule of justice and purity as opposed to the forces of evil, grew out of the contemporary preoccupation with a religious imperial theme. The book as a whole forms a unity - an approach to history through imagery - and includes many illustrations, which are in themselves historical documents. Shakespeares Last Plays: A New Approach 0415-22049-1 Drawing together many years of research on Renaissance symbolism and the Hermetic tradition, Frances Yates tackles Shakespearean problems, with startlingly original results. Her approach makes possible a new interpretation of Cymbeline, relating its imagery to the revival of Tudor mythology the influence of the Tudor imperial reform and religious toleration in Henry VIII the role of magic in the last plays whose magical-mystical atmosphere is compared with that of the Rosicrucian movement in Germany with which it is suggested that Shakespeare was in sympathy Ben Jonsons attitude to Shakespeare. The book connects closely with Astraea and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment and it suggests entirely new and exciting routes into the understanding of Shakespeares attitude to the religious problems of his age. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age 0415-220505 A central theme of this book is the history of Christian Cabala, the Christian interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition. It was believed that when God gave the Law to Moses, he also gave a revelation of the secret meaning of the Law. This esoteric tradition was interpreted in a Christian sense by Pico della Mirandola, the founder of Christian Cabala, with which he associated Hermeticism. Part I discusses the occult philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation, showing its wide influence and reactions against it as magic. Part II traces the influence of the occult philosophy on major Elizabethan writers such as Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare. A major theme throughout the book is the importance of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 in spreading Cabalist notions among Christians. The presence of Jewish influence in the Elizabethan age is hinted at, and the return of the Jews to England in the reign of Charles II is seen as the culmination of trends linking Albion with Jerusalem, even in the Elizabethan age. This is discussed in Part III. The book uses Frances Yatess other works on the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition, whilst attempting a new presentation of Christian Cabala. In her study of the imagery with which the poets express occult philosophy, she draws on her work Astraea E on the Elizabethan imperial reform. Lull & Bruno (Collected essays) 0415-22051-3 The essays collected here reprint the first sketches, dating from 1939 to 1960, which were to form Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. They contain much material not used in that book, however, and they also look forward to what became The Art of Memory. Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution (Collected essays) 0415-22052-1 This book brings together Frances Yatess research on Italian subjects, drawn from all periods of her long and distinguished career. Beginning with an account of how she first became involved with Italian cultural and intellectual history, the essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, some taking up and adding to themes explored in her books, others breaking new ground. Included are articles on aspects of Giordano Bruno, teachers of Italian in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, Shakespeare and the Platonic tradition, and a fourteenth century treatise on artificial memory, as well as essays on Paolo Sarpi, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and on the Hebrew teachers of Pico della Mirandola and other philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance 0415-22239-7 This volume comprises Yatess papers and reviews on topics concerning England, France, the Netherlands and Germany during the epoch of the Renaissance and Reformation. The essays are drawn from all periods of Yatess long career and cover a wide range of subjects: English allegorical portraiture in the Elizabethan age Yatess early and late contributions on Shakespeare, Jonson, John Dee and Francis Bacon English Protestant attitudes to religious images and to martyrdom French drama Theocratic and apocalyptic politics European influence of printing and of Erasmus, Cornelius Agrippa, Copernicus and Newton. Also included is a selection from Yatess notes on her early publications and first acquaintance with the Warburg Institute as well as a brief autobiographical account of her early life. A full list of her writings completes the book and rounds out the picture of a remarkable historian. [via]
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The Source
by James A. Michener

ISBN 0449211479 (0-449-21147-9)
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South: The Endurance Expedition
by Ernest Shackleton

ISBN 0451198808 (0-451-19880-8)
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In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a death-grip, crushing their craft, and marooning 28 men on a ploar ice floe.
In an epic struggle of man versus the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a harrowing quest for survival over some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world. Icy, tempestuous seas full of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, unending brutal cold, and ever-looming starvation are their mortal foes as Shackleton and his men struggle to stay alive.
What happened to those brave men forever stands as a testament to their strength of will and the power of human endurance.
This is their story, as told by the man who led them.
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Spycatcher
by Peter Wright, Paul Greengrass

ISBN 0440201322 (0-440-20132-2)
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From Publishers Weekly The British government's efforts to block publication of Peter Wright's Spycatcher: Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Agent climaxed in a sensational trial in Australia in 1986 that cast a shadow of disrepute on the British legal system, the Official Secrets Act and the government itself. The author of this engrossing, suspenseful account is the Australian attorney who represented Wright and his would-be Australian publisher. Excerpts from the trial testimony reveal that Turnbull uncovered mendacity, hypocrisy and cynicism at the highest levels of the British government, principally during his cross-examination of Sir Robert Armstrong, cabinet secretary and adviser on intelligence matters. In 1987 the High Court at Canberra dismissed the case and ordered the Thatcher government to reimburse legal costs to Wright and Heinemann Publishers Australia. Turnbull calls the Britishers' conduct in the affair "quite disgraceful" and adds that the experience "galvanized my determination to see Australia rid herself of its sic remaining constitutional links with England." Illustrated. 40,000 first printing; author tour. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. [via]
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Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer
by Peter Wright

ISBN 0517014378 (0-517-01437-8)
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Peter Wright was a key figure in British Intelligence for nearly 25 years. This is a memoir that recounts his extraordinary carrer in that wilderness of mirrors, the world of espionage. It is uncensored, remarkably candid, and enormously revealing about t [via]
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Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century
by Graham Robb

ISBN 0393326497 (0-393-32649-7)
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"A brilliant work of social archaeology....A major historical contribution."Adam Goodheart, The New York Times Book Review
The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay culture, and it was recognized throughout Europe and America. Graham Robb, brilliant biographer of Balzac, Hugo, and Rimbaud, examines how homosexuals were treated by society and finds a tale of surprising tolerance. He describes the lives of gay men and women: how they discovered their sexuality and accepted or disguised it; how they came out; how they made contact with like-minded people. He also includes a fascinating investigation of the encrypted homosexuality of such famous nineteenth-century sleuths as Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes himself (with glances forward in time to Batman and J. Edgar Hoover). Finally, Strangers addresses crucial questions of gay culture, including the riddle of its relationship to religion: Why were homosexuals created with feelings that the Creator supposedly condemns? This is a landmark work, full of tolerant wisdom, fresh research, and surprises.
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens, Wilson, A. N. (AFT), Frederick Busch

ISBN 0451530578 (0-451-53057-8)
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Against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Dickens unfolds a masterpiece of drama, adventure, and courage featuring Charles Darnay, a man falsely accused of treason. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the dissolute, yet noble Sydney Carton. Brilliantly plotted, the novel culminates in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine. [via]
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Timeline
by Michael Crichton

ISBN 061333633X (0-613-33633-X)
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When you step into a time machine, fax yourself through a "quantum foam wormhole," and step out in feudal France circa 1357, be very, very afraid. If you aren't strapped back in precisely 37 hours after your visit begins, you'll miss the quantum bus back to 1999 and be stranded in a civil war, caught between crafty abbots, mad lords, and peasant bandits all eager to cut your throat. You'll also have to dodge catapults that hurl sizzling pitch over castle battlements. On the social front, you should avoid provoking "the butcher of Crecy" or Sir Oliver may lop your head off with a swoosh of his broadsword or cage and immerse you in "Milady's Bath," a brackish dungeon pit into which live rats are tossed now and then for prisoners to eat.
This is the plight of the heroes of Timeline, Michael Crichton's thriller. They're historians in 1999 employed by a tech billionaire-genius with more than a few of Bill Gates's most unlovable quirks. Like the entrepreneur in Crichton's Jurassic Park, Doniger plans a theme park featuring artifacts from a lost world revived via cutting-edge science. When the project's chief historian sends a distress call to 1999 from 1357, the boss man doesn't tell the younger historians the risks they'll face trying to save him. At first, the interplay between eras is clever, but Timeline swiftly becomes a swashbuckling old-fashioned adventure, with just a dash of science and time paradox in the mix. Most of the cool facts are about the Middle Ages, and Crichton marvelously brings the past to life without ever letting the pulse-pounding action slow down. At one point, a time-tripper tries to enter the Chapel of Green Death. Unfortunately, its custodian, a crazed giant with terrible teeth and a bad case of lice, soon has her head on a block. "She saw a shadow move across the grass as he raised his ax into the air." I dare you not to turn the page!
Through the narrative can be glimpsed the glowing bones of the movie that may be made from Timeline and the cutting-edge computer game that should hit the market in 2000. Expect many clashing swords and chase scenes through secret castle passages. But the book stands alone, tall and scary as a knight in armor shining with blood. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Treason by the Book
by Jonathan D. Spence

ISBN 0670892920 (0-670-89292-0)
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What most Europeans--and Americans for that matter--know of 18th-century China could easily be written on the back of the hand. But that need be no barrier to enjoying Treason by the Book, the latest offering from US Sinophile and Yale history academic, Jonathan Spence. The book starts with a letter written by unknown dissident sin 1728 urging General Yue Zhonqi, commander of the Sichuan province, to lead a rebellion against Emperor Yongzheng. Knowing which side his bread was buttered, General Yue declined the offer and reported the existence of the letter to the emperor, who in turn instituted a ruthless investigation into its origins. After a lengthy process involving intimidation of witnesses, torture, deception, isolation and insinuation, a man named Zeng Jing was correctly identified as the leader of the dissidents. So far so normal for the Qing dynasty. But it is what happened next that lifts this story above the ordinary. Rather than opting for the obvious course of action--executing the rebels in the most unpleasant way imaginable--the emperor entered into a prolonged and intimate correspondence with Zeng Jing, who ultimately came to realise that he had made a mistake about the Emperor, whereupon he was promptly pardoned. Furthermore, the Emperor then had the entire correspondence, including the original letter, published and distributed throughout China. Even by today's standards, or perhaps that should read especially by today's standards, this was an extraordinary and unprecedented act of liberalism from a regime associated with formality, rigidity and autocracy. That so much documentary evidence still remains is in itself remarkable. The Emperor ordered the correspondence to be kept in his archive and it has managed to survive countless political and ideological upheavals to the present day and in Spence's hand it doesn't just become a compelling narrative but a metaphor for the power of books to change lives. Unfortunately for Zeng Jing, this power was short lived. When Yongzheng died in 1736, his successor Qianlong promptly ripped up the pardon and had Zeng Jing sentenced to death. For the rest of us, the power is--quite literally--in our own hands.--John Crace [via]
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Washington Goes to War
by David Brinkley

ISBN 0394510259 (0-394-51025-9)
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Though it is today the hub of international affairs and government, Washington, D.C. was once little more than a small Southern town that happened to host our nationally elected officials. Award-winning journalist David Brinkley remembers what it was like--how Washington awoke from its slumber and found itself with a war on its hands. Washington had to print the paper, alphabetize the bureaucracies, host the parties, pitch the propaganda, write the laws, launch the drives, draft the boys, hire the "government girls," and engage in an often hilarious administrative war of words, wit, and even wisdom.From the Paperback edition. [via]
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Western Europe in the Middle Ages 300-1475
by Brian Tierney, Sidney Painter

ISBN 0394318595 (0-394-31859-5)
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Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1475: Formerly Entitled a History of the Middle Ages, 284-1500
by Brian Tierney, Sidney Painter

ISBN 0394321804 (0-394-32180-4)
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What Ifs? Of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
by Antony Beevor, Robert Cowley

ISBN 0425198189 (0-425-19818-9)
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What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
by Robert Cowley, Antony Beevor, Robert Dallek, John Lukacs, Jay Winik, Calebert Carr

ISBN 0399150919 (0-399-15091-9)
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An all-American collection of essays on the pivotal moments in our nation's history by award-winning historians, the third in the bestselling series.

The "what if" concept is one of the most original and engaging on the current history bookshelf. The essays are chock-full of provocative ideas; they are as accessible to the general reader as they are to the scholar; and they are the perfect gift for the dedicated history buff on anyone's list.

In this new collection of never-before-published essays, our brightest historians speculate about some of America's more intriguing crossroads. Some irresistible highlights include: Caleb Carr (The Alienist) on America had there been no Revolution; Tom Wicker on the first time a vice president, John Tyler, succeeded a deceased president and its surprising ramifications; Jay Winik (April 1865) on the havoc that might have resulted if Booth had succeeded in his plan to assassinate Johnson and Seward as well as Lincoln; Antony Beevor (The Fall of Berlin 1945) on the possibility of Eisenhower's capture of Berlin before the Soviets' arrival there in 1945; and Robert Dallek (the upcoming An Unfinished Life about John F. Kennedy) on one of the most agonizing American "what if"s of all: what might have happened if JFK hadn't been assassinated. [via]
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Who Wrote the Bible?
by Richard Elliott Friedman

ISBN 0671631616 (0-671-63161-6)
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The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars, 1290-1329
by Rene Weis

ISBN 0670881627 (0-670-88162-7)
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