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The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterlooby Russell Frank WeigleyISBN 0253217075 (0-253-21707-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo'Book summary:"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." Gunther E. Rothenberg
"[A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." John Bayley, The London Review of Books
"What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of rational warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
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The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policyby Russell Frank WeigleyISBN 025328029X (0-253-28029-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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"A particularly timely account." Kansas City Times
"It reads easily but is not a popularized history... nor does the book become a history of battles.... Weigleys analyses and interpretations are searching, competent, and useful." Perspective
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Anglomania: A European Love Affairby Ian BurumaISBN 0375705368 (0-375-70536-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anglomania: A European Love Affair'Book summary:Voltaire, says Ian Buruma, was the ultimate Anglophile: liberal, humorous, enlightened, and ultimately humane. In that respect, he's not unlike Buruma himself, whose delightful Anglomania weaves a compelling story, from Voltaire onward, of the ways in which European exiles and émigrés have fallen under the spell of the intangible mix of snobbery, liberalism, xenophobia, and tolerance which make up the English character.
Buruma's roll call of Anglophiles is impressive. Wonderful sections on Voltaire are followed by chapters on Goethe's Bardolatry, a marvelously vivid account of frustrated revolutionary exiles in Victorian London (including Marx and Mazzini), and Theodor Herzl's vision of a Jewish state based on his admiration of the English aristocracy. The book concludes with sketches of two of the most influential Anglophiles of 20th-century English culture: Nikolaus Pevsner and Isaiah Berlin. But Buruma never loses sight of the darker side of national belonging, interweaving his own complex family history into the narrative, as well as some subtle and perceptive accounts of the state of the nation as Buruma views it from the office of The Spectator and the Conservative Party Conference in post-Thatcherite Britain. A marvelous book about belonging and Englishness: witty, erudite, subtle, and above all humane. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Army of the Caesarsby Michael GrantISBN 0297767119 (0-297-76711-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Arthur and Georgeby Julian BarnesISBN 030726310X (0-307-26310-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arthur and George'Book summary:A real tour de force from masterful author Julian Barnes is Arthur & George, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Late-Victorian Britain is brought to vivid life in the true story of the intersection of two lives: one an internationally famous author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the other, an obscure country lawyer, George Edalji, son of a Parsi Midlands vicar and a Scottish mother. They start out very differently. Arthur pursues a career in medicine before he discovers that he is really a writer; George, on his way to becoming a lawyer--near-sighted, timid and friendless--is victimized by locals because he is easy to scapegoat--a half-Indian in lily-white Great Wyrley.
The victimization of George takes the form of nasty letters, the theft of a school key, and finally, the accusation that he has mutilated animals. Meanwhile, Arthur is becoming more and more famous for creating Sherlock Holmes, whom he tries to kill off once and is forced to resurrect because of his fans' outcry. He marries, fathers two children and then, when his wife is invalided by consumption, falls madly in love for the first time with Jean Leckie.
The novel's style is smoothly revelatory. We slowly come to realize that George is half-Indian, that Arthur is the famous Doyle, that the woman he loves, chastely, is not his wife and, sadly, that George will not prevail over the forces ranged against him.
When George, desperate to resume his law career after imprisonment, sends Arthur the sad chronicle of his history, Arthur sees immediately that he could not be guilty and sets out to clear his name. This case of George's lifts Arthur from the slough of despond into which he has sunk after his wife, Touie, dies. He is guilt-ridden, constantly wondering if he was attentive enough, if she could possibly have known about Jean. Realizing the immense injustice George has suffered, he is shaken out of lethargy and, in Holmesian fashion, sets out to solve the case.
Julian Barnes is a gifted writer of enormous accomplishment. This novel is thoroughly engrossing, filled with Barnes's trademark themes of identity and love, longing and loss, and ultimately, an examination of man's inhumanity to man. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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Athenais: The Life of Louis Xiv's Mistress , the Real Queen of Franceby Lisa HiltonISBN 0316778516 (0-316-77851-6)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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As a lover, AthÈnaÔs risked the disgrace of adultery to conduct an affair that scandalized Europe. As a patron, she supported the leaders of the cultural renaissance, including MoliËre and Racine. As a mother, she was the ancestor of most of the royal houses of Europe. The greatest beauty of her day, she lived publicly and sensationally until bizarre accusations of witchcraft forced her from grace in the "Affair of the Poisons," a mystery that remains unsolved.
ATH`NA¦S is an informative and thrilling look at a true age of extremes and a woman who achieved the heights of power at a time when it was denied to most of her sex. [via]
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Athenais: The Real Queen of Franceby Lisa HiltonISBN 0316858781 (0-316-85878-1)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forestby Peter S. WellsISBN 0393326438 (0-393-32643-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Bismarck and the German Empireby Erich EyckISBN 0393002357 (0-393-00235-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Blitzkriegby Len DeightonISBN 0394510208 (0-394-51020-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin : Writers Running Wild in the Twentiesby Marion MeadeISBN 0385502427 (0-385-50242-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin : Writers Running Wild in the Twenties'Book summary:In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
Capturing the jazz rhythms and desperate gaiety that defined the era, Meade gives us Parker, Fitzgerald, Millay, and Ferber, traces the intersections of their lives, and describes the men (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, Harold Ross, and Robert Benchley) who influenced them, loved them, and sometimes betrayed them. Here are the social and literary triumphs (Parker's Round Table witticisms appeared almost daily in the newspapers and Ferber and Millay won Pulitzer Prizes) and inevitably the penances each paid: crumbled love affairs, abortions, depression, lost beauty, nervous breakdowns, and finally, overdoses and even madness.
These literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, living wholly in the moment. They kicked open the door for twentieth-century women writers and set a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom. Meade recreates the excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, a decade celebrated for cultural innovation--the birth of jazz, the beginning of modernism--and social and sexual liberation, bringing to light, as well, the anxiety and despair that lurked beneath the nonstop partying and outrageous behavior.
A vibrant mixture of literary scholarship, social history, and scandal, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN is a rich evocation of a period that will forever intrigue and captivate us. [via]More editions of Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin : Writers Running Wild in the Twenties:
Celtic Realmsby Myles Dillon, Nora Kershaw ChadwickISBN 0297995804 (0-297-99580-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The Celtic Worldby Barry W. CunliffeISBN 031209700X (0-312-09700-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Centennialby James A. MichenerISBN 039447970X (0-394-47970-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Centennial'Book summary:Pages clean and unmarked. Missing dust jacket. Shelf wear from time on shelf like you would see on a major chain. Prev. owner s name on first page. Immediate shipping. [via]
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Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuriesby Ramsay MacMullenISBN 0300080778 (0-300-08077-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries'Book summary:The slaughter of animals for religious feasts, the tinkling of bells to ward off evil during holy rites, the custom of dancing in religious services - these and many other pagan practices persisted in the Christian church for hundreds of years after Constantine proclaimed Christianity the one official religion of Rome. In this book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed. MacMullen explores the influences of paganism and Christianity upon each other. In a discussion of the different strengths of the two systems, he demonstrates that pagan beliefs were not eclipse or displaced by Christianity but persisted or were transformed. The victory of the Christian church, he explains, was one not of obliteration but of widening embrace and assimilation. This book also includes material on the Christian persecution of pagans over the centuries through methods that ranged from fines to crucifixion; the mixture of motives in conversion; the stubbornness of pagan resistance; the difficulty of satisfying the demands and expectations of new converts; and the degree of assimilation of Christianity to paganism. [via]
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The City of Falling Angelsby John BerendtISBN 0375435387 (0-375-43538-7)
Hardcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of Falling Angels'Book summary:Past Midnight: John Berendt on the Mysteries of Venice
Just as John Berendt's first book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, was settling into its remarkable four-year run on The New York Times bestseller list, he discovered a new city whose local mysteries and traditions were more than a match for Savannah, whose hothouse eccentricities he had celebrated in the first book. The new city was Venice, and he spent much of the last decade wandering through its canals and palazzos, seeking to understand a place that any native will tell you is easy to visit but hard to know. For travelers to Venice, whether by armchair or vaporetto, he has selected his 10 (actually 11) Books to Read on Venice. And he took the time to answer a few of our questions about his charming new book, The City of Falling Angels: Amazon.com: The lush, cloistered southern city of Savannah was the locale of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Venice, the setting for The City of Falling Angels, is vastly different. Was it the difference itself that drew you to Venice?
John Berendt: Savannah and Venice actually have quite a lot in common. Both are uniquely beautiful. Both are isolated geographically, culturally, and emotionally from the world outside. Venice sits in the middle of a lagoon; Savannah is surrounded by marshes, piney woods, and the ocean. Venetians think of themselves as Venetian first, Italian second; Savannahians rarely even venture forth as far as Atlanta or Charleston. So both cities offer a writer a rich context in which to set a story, and the stories provide readers a means of escape from their own environment into another world.
Amazon.com: I enjoyed your rather declarative author's note: that this is a work of nonfiction, and that you used everyone's real names. In your previous book you did use pseudonyms for some characters and you explained that you took a few small liberties in the service of the larger truth of the story. Why the change this time?
Berendt: When I wrote Midnight I thought I would do a few people the favor of changing their names for the sake of privacy. But when the book came out, several of the pseudonymous characters told me they wished I'd used their real names instead. So this time, no pseudonyms. As for the storytelling liberties I took in writing Midnight, they were minor and did not change the story, but my mention of it in the author's note caused some confusion, with the result that Midnight is sometimes referred to now as a novel, which it most certainly is not. Neither is The City of Falling Angels. In fact, I dispensed with the liberties this time and made it as close to the truth as I could get it.
Amazon.com: In The City of Falling Angels, a number of fascinating people serve as guides to the city, each with a different idea of the true nature of Venice. Who was your favorite?
Berendt: I don't have a favorite, but Count Girolamo Marcello is certainly a memorable, highly quotable commentator. "Everyone in Venice is acting," he told me. "Everyone plays a role, and the role changes. The key to understanding Venetians is rhythm, the rhythm of the lagoon, the water, the tides, the waves. It's like breathing. High water, high pressure: tense. Low water, low pressure: relaxed. The tide changes every six hours."
I nodded that I understood.
"How do you see a bridge?" he went on.
"Pardon me?" I asked, "A bridge?"
"Do you see a bridge as an obstacle--as just another set of steps to climb to get from one side of a canal to the other? We Venetians do not see bridges as obstacles. To us, bridges are transitions. We go over them very slowly. They are part of the rhythm. They are the links between two parts of a theater, like changes in scenery. Our role changes as we go over bridges. We cross from one reality ... to another reality. From one street ... to another street. From one setting ... to another setting."
Once I had absorbed that notion, Count Marcello continued: "Sunlight on a canal is reflected up through a window onto the ceiling, then from the ceiling onto a vase, and from the vase onto a glass. Which is the real sunlight? Which is the real reflection? What is true? What is not true? The answer is not so simple, because the truth can change. I can change. You can change. That is the Venice effect."
I was not terribly surprised when he later told me, "Venetians never tell the truth. We mean precisely the opposite of what we say."
Amazon.com: Now that you know Venice well enough to be a guide yourself, what would you say to a visitor looking for insight into the character of the city?
Berendt: Tourists generally shuffle along, on narrow streets so crowded as to be nearly impassable, between the major sights of St. Mark's Square, the Rialto Bridge, and the Accademia Museum. All you have to do is to step off these heavily traveled alleyways, and in a few moments you will find yourself in quiet, much emptier surroundings. This is more like the real Venice. Another thing to do is to go into the wine bars where Venetians stand around drinking and talking. They will very likely be speaking the Venetian dialect, so you won't be able to understand them, but you will get a sampling of the true Venetian ambiance enlivened by the pronounced sing-song rhythm of the language. I'd also suggest stopping someone in the street and asking for directions. Almost invariably, you will be rewarded with a genial smile and the instructions, Sempre diritto, meaning "Straight ahead." This will only leave you more confused, because when you attempt to follow a straight line, you will be confronted by more twists and turns and forks in the road than you thought possible, given the instructions. This is part of what Count Marcello described as "the Venice effect."
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The Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. AuelISBN 0375431802 (0-375-43180-2)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'Book summary:When her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the little girl is as good as gone until she is discovered by a group who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. This clan, left homeless by the same disaster, have little interest in the helpless girl who comes from the tribe they refer to as the "Others." Only their medicine woman sees in Ayla a fellow human, worthy of care. She painstakingly nurses her back to health--a decision that will forever alter the physical and emotional structure of the clan. Although this story takes place roughly 35,000 years ago, its cast of characters could easily slide into any modern tale. The members of the Neanderthal clan, ruled by traditions and taboos, find themselves challenged by this outsider, who represents the physically modern Cro-Magnons. And as Ayla begins to grow and mature, her natural tendencies emerge, putting her in the middle of a brutal and dangerous power struggle.
Although Jean Auel obviously takes certain liberties with the actions and motivations of all our ancestors, her extensive research into the Ice Age does shine through--especially in the detailed knowledge of plants and natural remedies used by the medicine woman and passed down to Ayla. Mostly, though, this first in the series of four is a wonderful story of survival. Ayla's personal evolution is a compelling and relevant tale. --Sara Nickerson [via]
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The Conquest of the Incasby John HemmingISBN 0333106830 (0-333-10683-0)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuryby Georges DubyISBN 0297766635 (0-297-76663-5)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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The English: A Social History, 1066-1945by Christopher HibbertISBN 0246121815 (0-246-12181-5)
Hardcover, Grafton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English: A Social History, 1066-1945'Book summary:A series of brilliantly organized vignettes make skillful use of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers, and the literature of every period to record the daily life of the English people from the Norman Conquest to the post-World War II period. 48 pages of photographs. [via]
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The English Reformationby A.G. DickensISBN 0271028688 (0-271-02868-8)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Faces and Masksby Eduardo GaleanoISBN 0393318060 (0-393-31806-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faces and Masks'Book summary:"From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the Age of Reagan, here is 'nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere... recounted in vivid prose.'"--The New Yorker
A unique and epic history, Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy is an outstanding Latin American eye view of the making of the New World. From its first English language publication in 1985 it has been recognized as a classic of political engagement, original research, and literary form. [via]More editions of Faces and Masks:
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From Colombus to Castroby E. WilliamsISBN 0233976566 (0-233-97656-6)
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From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969by Eric WilliamsISBN 0233961631 (0-233-96163-1)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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Gender and the Politics of Historyby Joan Wallach ScottISBN 0231118570 (0-231-11857-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender and the Politics of History'Book summary:Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a crucial interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis.
The revised edition -- in addition to providing a new generation of readers with access to a classic text in feminist theory and history -- reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In provocatively arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book.
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Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connectionsby Charles R. PellegrinoISBN 0380973103 (0-380-97310-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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God's Funeralby A. N. WilsonISBN 0345439597 (0-345-43959-7)
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The Great Republic : A History of Americaby Winston ChurchillISBN 0375754407 (0-375-75440-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Republic'Book summary:Drawn from uncollected speeches and articles as well as from the author's four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples, this anthology of the great statesman Winston Churchill's writings on American history highlights both its author's vigorous prose style and his commitment to the idea that the United States and the United Kingdom shared not only a common past but a common destiny.
As a young man, writes his namesake and grandson in his introduction, Churchill toured some of the battlefields of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, and it is in writing of these two epochs and the expansionist years between them that Churchill is strongest. Of particular interest are his remarks on the ideological origins of the colonial revolution in such documents as the Magna Carta and the teachings of the Puritan elders, although, as an eminently practical politician, Churchill gives attention to less lofty causes of dissent--for instance, the English crown's logistical difficulty in governing an overseas empire with ideas of governance and resources of its own. Churchill's reflections on the Second World War are also of much value, and he provides an insider's view of the defeat of Nazism and the birth of the cold war.
Devotees of Churchill's work will not find much new here, but readers approaching him for the first time will find this volume to be a fine introduction to Churchill's writing and thought. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phuby Bernard B. FallISBN 030681157X (0-306-81157-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouseby Hugh Redwald Trevor-RoperISBN 0394411048 (0-394-41104-8)
Hardcover, Knopf
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Hidden from History: Rediscovering Women in History from the 17th Century to the Presentby Sheila RowbothamISBN 0394494121 (0-394-49412-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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The History of Ancient Israelby Michael GrantISBN 0297783661 (0-297-78366-1)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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A History of Philosophyby Frederick J. CoplestonISBN 0385230338 (0-385-23033-8)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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A History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzscheby Frederick CoplestonISBN 0385470444 (0-385-47044-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche'Book summary:Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.
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Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was reduced to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress the wrong by writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement -- and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who went before and to those who came after him.
The result of Copleston's prodigious labors is a history of philosophy that is unlikely ever to be surpassed. Thought magazine summed up the general agreement among scholars and students alike when it reviewed Copleston's A History of Philosophy as "broad-minded and objective, comprehensive and scholarly, unified and well proportioned... We cannot recommend [it] too highly."More editions of A History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche:
History of Russiaby G. VernadskyISBN 0300002475 (0-300-00247-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Homophobia: A Historyby Byrne R. S. FoneISBN 0312420307 (0-312-42030-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Iberiaby James A. Michener, Robert VavraISBN 0394429826 (0-394-42982-6)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foodby Stewart Lee AllenISBN 0345440161 (0-345-44016-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food'Book summary:Lust, gluttony, pride, sloth, greed, blasphemy, and anger--the seven deadly sins have all been linked to food. Matching the food to the sin, Stewart Lee Allen's In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods offers a high-spirited look at the way foods over time have been forbidden, even criminalized, for their "evil" effects. Food has often been, shockingly, morally weighted, from the tomato, originally called the love apple and thought to excite lust; to the potato, whose popularity in Ireland led British Protestants to associate it with sloth; to foods like corn or bread whose use was once believed to delineate "lowness," thus inflaming class pride. Allen's approach to this incredible history also includes tales of personal journeys to, for example, a Mount Athos monastery, where a monk reveals the sign of Satan in an apple, and to San Francisco to investigate dog eating. If his history is sometimes too glancing and facetious, even beyond the sensible need to entertain, it is always fascinating.
The book also features "forbidden" menus--such as the one devoted to gluttony that includes an entire steer stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with a pig, stuffed with a chicken, and served with sausages--and quite doable and delicious recipes, such as a dynamite hot and sweet banana ketchup and Lo Han Jai, a mushroom-replete vegetarian feast. But the real focus is on the human response to a primal pleasure--eating--and the way people have sought to control it, in every society and every culture, through prohibition. It's quite a tale. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Industrial Revolution: 1760-1830by Thomas Southcliffe AshtonISBN 0313250413 (0-313-25041-3)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn And the Fate of the Plains Indiansby James WelchISBN 0393329399 (0-393-32939-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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This historic and personal work tells the Native American side of Custer's fabled attack, poignantly revealing how disastrous the encounter was for the "victors," the last great gathering of Plains Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull. [via]More editions of Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn And the Fate of the Plains Indians:
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore CooperISBN 0375757643 (0-375-75764-3)
Softcover, Modern Library
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Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800by Mary Beth NortonISBN 0316612510 (0-316-61251-0)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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Life and Death in Shanghaiby Nien ChengISBN 0246129484 (0-246-12948-4)
Hardcover, Grafton
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Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nationby David PriceISBN 0375415416 (0-375-41541-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Price offers a rare balanced view of the relationship between the settlers and the natives. He unravels the crucial role of Pocahontas, a young woman whose reality has been obscured by centuries of legend and misinformation (and, more recently, animation). He paints indelible portraits of Chief Powhatan, the aged monarch who came close to ending the colonys existence, and Captain John Smith, the former mercenary and slave, whose disdain for class distinctions infuriated many around himeven as his resourcefulness made him essential to the colonys success.
Love and Hate in Jamestown is a superb work of popular history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation. [via]More editions of Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation:
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazonby Robert WhitakerISBN 0385337205 (0-385-33720-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery and knowledge. From this extraordinary journey arose an unlikely love between one scientist and a beautiful Peruvian noblewoman. Victims of a tangled web of international politics, Jean Godin and Isabel Gramesóns destiny would ultimately unfold in the Amazons unforgiving jungles, and it would be Isabels quest to reunite with Jean after a calamitous twenty-year separation that would capture the imagination of all of eighteenth-century Europe. A remarkable testament to human endurance, female resourcefulness, and enduring love, Isabel Gramesóns survival remains unprecedented in the annals of Amazon exploration. [via]More editions of The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon:
Memory and the Mediterraneanby Fernand BraudelISBN 0375703993 (0-375-70399-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memory and the Mediterranean'Book summary:A previously unpublished work by one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century: the story of the Mediterranean in ancient times, from its geological beginnings to the great civilizations that flourished along its shores. Written in the late 1960sthe decade during which Fernand Braudel was also atwork on his monumental Civilization and Capitalismthe manuscript was set aside on the death of the authors longtime friend and editor, Albert Skira.
The magnificent text begins with the history of the Mediterranean seabed itselfthe layers of clay, sand, and limestone from which the Egyptians carved their ancient tombs and with which the megalithic temples in Malta were built. What follows is the epic story of how the Phoenicians, the Etruscans, the Greeks and Romans, and the great river civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt struggled and thrived in this demanding but gloriously beautiful world bordered and shaped by the Mediterranean.
With its extraordinary depth and range of knowledge, Braudels superb historyexpertly annotated to reflect recent archaeological discoveriesbrings to life as never before the beginnings of Western culture. [via]More editions of Memory and the Mediterranean:
Memory of Fire Vol. 2: Faces and Masksby Eduardo Galeano, Cedric BelfrageISBN 039455244X (0-394-55244-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datiniby Iris OrigoISBN 0374961492 (0-374-96149-2)
Hardcover, Octagon Books
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Napoleon and Wellingtonby Andrew RobertsISBN 0297646079 (0-297-64607-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Napoleon and Wellington'Book summary:On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused him of gross overconfidence, and massively underestimating the calibre of the British commander opposed to him. Andrew Roberts presents an original, highly revisionist view of the relationship between the two greatest captains of their age. Napoleon, who was born in the same year as Wellington - 1769 - fought Wellington by proxy years earlier in the Peninsula War, praising his ruthlessness in private while publicly deriding him as a mere 'sepoy general'. In contrast, Wellington publicly lauded Napoleon, saying that his presence on a battlefield was worth forty thousand men, but privately wrote long memoranda lambasting Napoleon's campaigning techniques. Although Wellington saved Napoleon from execution after Waterloo, Napoleon left money in his will to the man who had tried to assassinate Wellington. Wellington in turn amassed a series of Napoleonic trophies of his great victory, even sleeping with two of the Emperor's mistresses. The constantly changing relationship between these two nineteenth-century giants forms the basis of Andrew Roberts' compelling study in pride, rivalry, propaganda, nostalgia, and posthumous revenge. [via]
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New Testament Historyby Frederick Fyvie BruceISBN 0385025335 (0-385-02533-5)
Softcover, Doubleday
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991by Michael AzerradISBN 0316787531 (0-316-78753-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Presentby Michael B. OrenISBN 0393058263 (0-393-05826-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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This best-selling history is the first fully comprehensive history of Americas involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. As Niall Ferguson writes, If you think Americas entanglement in the Middle East began with Roosevelt and Truman, Michael Orens deeply researched and brilliantly written history will be a revelation to you, as it was to me. With its cast of fascinating charactersearnest missionaries, maverick converts, wide-eyed tourists, and even a nineteenth-century George BushPower, Faith, and Fantasy is not only a terrific read, it is also proof that you dont really understand an issue until you know its history. 68 black-and-white photographs, 4 maps [via]More editions of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present:
Queen Victoria:Her Life and Times: Her Life and Timesby Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham SmithISBN 0241022002 (0-241-02200-2)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Queen Victoria's Little Warsby Byron FarwellISBN 0393302350 (0-393-30235-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Queen Victoria, from Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consortby Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham SmithISBN 039448245X (0-394-48245-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Rasputin Fileby Edvard Radzinskii, Judson RosengrantISBN 0385489102 (0-385-48910-2)
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The Rasputin File : The Final Wordby Edvard Radzinsky, Judson RosengrantISBN 0385489099 (0-385-48909-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Ripples of Battle : How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Thinkby Victor Davis HansonISBN 0385504004 (0-385-50400-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Ripples of Battle: How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Thinkby Victor HansonISBN 0385721943 (0-385-72194-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Russian Rebels, 1600-1800by Paul AvrichISBN 0393008363 (0-393-00836-3)
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Seafaring Women : Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wivesby David CordinglyISBN 0375500413 (0-375-50041-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslaviaby Tim JudahISBN 0300085079 (0-300-08507-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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A Short History Of The Moviesby Bruce Kawin, Bruce F. KawinISBN 0321262328 (0-321-26232-8)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Short History Of The Movies'Book summary:The ninth edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition-scrupulously accurate in its details, up-to-date, free of jargon-that has made it the most widely adopted textbook for college courses in film history, and now includes a fresh look at "Persistence of Vision" and a new chapter on digital cinema. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the first movements captured on celluloid, to the early Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the "Hollywood Renaissance" of the 1960s and 1970s, to the pictures and their technology appearing in the multiplexes and living rooms of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship, recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic. [via]
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A Short History of the Moviesby Gerald Mast, Bruce F. KawinISBN 0321106032 (0-321-10603-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.s.navyby Ian W. TollISBN 0393058476 (0-393-05847-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Slaughter House Fiveby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0385333846 (0-385-33384-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Don't let the ease of reading fool you--Vonnegut's isn't a conventional, or simple, novel. He writes, "There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick, and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters..." Slaughterhouse-Five (taken from the name of the building where the POWs were held) is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch- 22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it a unique poignancy--and humor. [via]
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Centuryby Wing-Tsit Chan, David Johnson, Kwang-Ching Liu, Julia Ching, Theodore Debary, Richard Lufrano, David Mungello, Chester Tan, William Theodore De BaryISBN 023111270X (0-231-11270-X)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century'Book summary:For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic writings and historical documents of the Chinese themselves. Now in its second edition, revised and extended through Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin--era China, this classic volume remains unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, and thought in the world's largest nation. Award-winning China scholar Wm. Theodore de Bary -- who edited the first edition in 1960 -- and his coeditor Richard Lufrano have revised and updated the second volume of Sources to reflect the interactions of ideas, institutions, and historical events from the seventeenth century up to the present day.
Beginning with Qing civilization and continuing to contemporary times, volume II brings together key source texts from more than three centuries of Chinese history, with opening essays by noted China authorities providing context for readers not familiar with the period in question.
Here are just a few of the topics covered in this second volume of Sources of Chinese Tradition:
" Early Sino-Western contacts in the seventeenth century;
" Four centuries of Chinese reflections on differences between Eastern and Western civilizations;
" Nineteenth- and twentieth-century reform movements, with treatises on women's rights, modern science, and literary reform;
" Controversies over the place of Confucianism in modern Chinese society;
" The nationalist revolution -- including readings from Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek;
" The communist revolution -- with central writings by Mao Zedong;
" Works from contemporary China -- featuring political essays from Deng Xiaoping and dissidents including Wei Jingsheng.
With more than two hundred selections in lucid, readable translation by today's most renowned experts on Chinese language and civilization, Sources of Chinese Tradition will continue to be recognized as the standard for source readings on Chinese civilization, an indispensable learning tool for scholars and students of Asian civilizations.
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The Tale Of Genjiby Murasaki ShikibuISBN 0394483286 (0-394-48328-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Tale of Genji-Oneby L. MurasakiISBN 038509275X (0-385-09275-X)
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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Foundersby Bernard BailynISBN 0375713085 (0-375-71308-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The opening essay illuminates the central importance of Americas provincialism to the formation of a truly original political system. In the chapters following, he explores the ambiguities and achievements of Jeffersons career, Benjamin Franklins changing image and supple diplomacy, the circumstances and impact of the Federalist Papers, and the continuing influence of American constitutional thought throughout the Atlantic world. To Begin the World Anew enlivens our appreciation of how America came to be and deepens our understanding of the men who created it. [via]More editions of To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders:
Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandraby Peter Kurth, Peter ChristopherISBN 0316557889 (0-316-55788-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Up Frontby Bill Mauldin, Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0393050319 (0-393-05031-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Voltaire's Coconuts, Or, Anglomania in Europeby Ian BurumaISBN 0297643126 (0-297-64312-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Actby Great Britain, Edward Palmer ThompsonISBN 0394400119 (0-394-40011-9)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Wittgenstein's Viennaby A. Janik, Stephen Edelston ToulminISBN 0297765302 (0-297-76530-2)
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered Cityby Anonymous, Philip BoehmISBN 0312426119 (0-312-42611-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Women Sailors and Sailors' Womenby David CordinglyISBN 0375758720 (0-375-75872-0)
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