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The 100 Most Important Events in Christian Historyby Randy Petersen, J. Stephen Lang, A. Kenneth CurtisISBN 0800756444 (0-8007-5644-4)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History'Book summary:Brush up on the people, places, and events every Christian should know about with this fascinating, accessible guide. Ideal for pastors and speakers. [via]
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1912by James ChaceISBN 0743273559 (0-7432-7355-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark TwainISBN 0743487575 (0-7434-8757-5)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:Originally intended as a sequel to his immensely popular Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stands on its own as one of America's most important and beloved literary classics.
For generations, young and old alike have delighted in the unforgettable adventures of runaways Huck Finn and Jim, a slave. In vivid, often gripping prose, Twain brings to fife both the beauty and the folly of preCivil War life along the Mississippifrom the radiant dawn on the river to Huck's terrifying encounters with his father, as well as the outrageous antics of the King and the Duke and Tom Sawyer's outlandish plans to free Jim. Told from Huck's point of view, Huckleberry Finn is also the powerful story of a boy's journey toward adulthood.
In the finest work of his distinguished career, Steven Kellogg has created eighteen stunning pictures that capture Twain's timeless blend of humor and suspense. This is truly an edition that readers of all ages will want to return to again and again.
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Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0701112565 (0-7011-1256-5)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0766607208 (0-7666-0720-8)
Hardcover, Modern Pub - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 079109426X (0-7910-9426-X)
Hardcover, Facts on File - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 068145475X (0-681-45475-X)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0762405414 (0-7624-0541-4)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Gary Paulsen, Mark TwainISBN 0689831390 (0-689-83139-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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Africa in History: Themes and Outlinesby Basil DavidsonISBN 0684826674 (0-684-82667-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Africa in History: Themes and Outlines'Book summary:Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization," applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work presents the inner growth of Africa and its worldwide significance, the internal dynamic of its old civilizations and their links with Asia, Europe and America, as well as the development of specific areas, tribes and cultures. From accounts of the days of the green Sahara and the great iron age, the earliest Portuguese colonization, the coming of slavery and the subsequent legacy of violence and mistrust, the growth of Islam in the north and the cults of the Congo, the sophistication of art and architecture, and the pattern behind social and tribal mores, the entire picture of the continent emerges. This revised edition reflects the recent astonishing changes in South Africa, including the release of Nelson Mandela. [via]
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Akenfield:Portrait of an English Village: Portrait of an English Villageby Ronald BlytheISBN 0713901004 (0-7139-0100-4)
Hardcover, Allen Lane The Penguin P.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Akenfield:Portrait of an English Village: Portrait of an English Village'Book summary:This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers and the fascinating and personal recollections of, among others, the local schoolteacher, doctor, blacksmith, saddler, district nurse and magistrate. Providing insights into farming, education, welfare, class, religion and death, Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has, in many ways, disappeared. [via]
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Andersonvilleby MacKinlay KantorISBN 0690003293 (0-690-00329-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Andersonville'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. [via]
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68by Taylor BranchISBN 0684857138 (0-684-85713-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68'Book summary:One of the greatest of American stories has found its great chronicler in Taylor Branch. Beginning with Parting the Waters in 1988, followed 10 years later by Pillar of Fire, and closing now with At Canaan's Edge, Branch has given the short life of Martin Luther King Jr. and the nonviolent revolution he led the epic treatment they deserve. The three books of Branch's America in the King Years trilogy are lyrical and dramatic, social history as much as biography, woven from the ever more complex strands of King's movement, with portraits of figures like Lyndon Johnson, Bob Moses, J. Edgar Hoover, and Diane Nash as compelling as that of his central character.
King's movement may have been nonviolent, but his times were not, and each of Branch's volumes ends with an assassination: JFK, then Malcolm X, and finally King's murder in Memphis. We know that's where At Canaan's Edge is headed, but it starts with King's last great national success, the marches for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. Once again, the violent response to nonviolent protest brought national attention and support to King's cause, and within months his sometime ally Lyndon Johnson was able to push through the Voting Rights Act. But alongside those events, forces were gathering that would pull King's movement apart and threaten his national leadership. The day after Selma's "Bloody Sunday," the first U.S. combat troops arrived in South Vietnam, while five days after the signing of the Voting Rights Act, the Watts riots began in Los Angeles. As the escalating carnage in Vietnam and the frustrating pace of reform at home drove many in the movement, most notably Stokely Carmichael, away from nonviolence, King kept to his most cherished principle and followed where its logic took him: to war protests that broke his alliance with Johnson and to a widening battle against poverty in the North as well as the South that caused both critics and allies to declare his movement unfocused and irrelevant.
Branch knows that you can't tell King's story without following these many threads, and he spends nearly as much time in Johnson's war councils as he does in the equally fractious meetings of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Branch's knotty, allusive style can be challenging, but it vividly evokes the density of those days and the countless demands on King's manic stoicism. The whirlwind finally slows in the book's final pages for a bittersweet tour through King's last hours at the Lorraine Motel--King horsing around with his brother and friends and calling his mother (in between visits to his mistresses), Jesse Jackson rehearsing movement singers, an FBI agent watching through binoculars from across the street--that complete his work of humanizing a great man forever in danger of flattening into an icon. --Tom Nissley
Timeline of a Trilogy
Taylor Branch's America in the King Years series is both a biography of Martin Luther King and a history of his age. No timeline can do justice to its wide cast of characters and its intricate web of incident, but here are some of the highlights, which might be useful as a scorecard to the trilogy's nearly 3,000 pages.
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 May: At age 25, King gives his first sermon as pastor-designate of Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. 1954 May: French surrender to Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu. Unanimous Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board outlaws segregated public education. December: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott, which King is drafted to lead. 1955 October: King spends his first night in jail, following his participation in an Atlanta sit-in. 1960 February: Four students attempting to integrate a Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter spark a national sit-in movement.
April: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is founded.
November: Election of President John F. KennedyMay: The Freedom Rides begin, drawing violent responses as they challenge segregation throughout the South. King supports the riders during an overnight siege in Montgomery. 1961 July: SNCC worker Bob Moses arrives for his first summer of voter registration in rural Mississippi.
August: East German soldiers seal off West Berlin behind the Berlin Wall.March: J. Edgar Hoover authorizes the bugging of Stanley Levinson, King's closest white advisor. 1962 September: James Meredith integrates the University of Mississippi under massive federal protection. April: King, imprisoned for demonstrating in Birmingham, writes the "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
May: Images of police violence against marching children in Birmingham rivet the country.
August: King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before hundreds of thousands at the March on Washington.
September: The Ku Klux Klan bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church kills four young girls.1963 June: Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers assassinated.
November: President Kennedy assassinated.
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 November: Lyndon Johnson, in his first speech before Congress as president, promises to push through Kennedy's proposed civil rights bill. March: King meets Malcolm X for the only time during Senate filibuster of civil rights legislation.
June: King joins St. Augustine, Florida, movement after months of protests and Klan violence.
October: King awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and campaigns for Johnson's reelection.
November: Hoover calls King "the most notorious liar in the country" and the FBI sends King an anonymous "suicide package" containing scandalous surveillance tapes.1964 January: Johnson announces his "War on Poverty."
March: Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam following conflict with its leader, Elijah Muhammad.
June: Hundreds of volunteers arrive in the South for SNCC's Freedom Summer, three of whom are soon murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
July: Johnson signs Civil Rights Act outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
August: Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizing military force in Vietnam. Democratic National Convention rebuffs the request by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to be seated in favor of all-white state delegation.
November: Johnson wins a landslide reelection.January: King's first visit to Selma, Alabama, where mass meetings and demonstrations will build through the winter. 1965 February: Malcolm X speaks in Selma in support of movement, three weeks before his assassination in New York by Nation of Islam members. 
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 March: Voting rights movement in Selma peaks with "Bloody Sunday" police attacks and, two weeks later, a successful march of thousands to Montgomery.
August: King rebuffed by Los Angeles officials when he attempts to advocate reforms after the Watts riots.March: First U.S. combat troops arrive in South Vietnam. Johnson's "We Shall Overcome" speech makes his most direct embrace of the civil rights movement.
May: Vietnam "teach-in" protest in Berkeley attracts 30,000.
June: Influential federal Moynihan Report describes the "pathologies" of black family structure.
August: Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act. Five days later, the Watts riots begin in Los Angeles.January: King moves his family into a Chicago slum apartment to mark his first sustained movement in a Northern city.
June: King and Stokely Carmichael continue James Meredith's March Against Fear after Meredith is shot and wounded. Carmichael gives his first "black power" speech.
July: King's marches for fair housing in Chicago face bombs, bricks, and "white power" shouts.1966 February: Operation Rolling Thunder, massive U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, begins.
May: Stokely Carmichael wins the presidency of SNCC and quickly turns the organization away from nonviolence.
October: National Organization for Women founded, modeled after black civil rights groups.April: King's speech against the Vietnam War at New York's Riverside Church raises a storm of criticism
December: King announces plans for major campaign against poverty in Washington, D.C., for 1968.1967 May: Huey Newton leads Black Panthers in armed demonstration in California state assembly.
June: Johnson nominates former NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.
July: Riots in Newark and Detroit.
October: Massive mobilization against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C.March: King joins strike of Memphis sanitation workers.
April: King gives his "Mountaintop" speech in Memphis. A day later, he is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel.1968 January: In Tet Offensive, Communist guerillas stage a surprise coordinated attack across South Vietnam.
March: Johnson cites divisions in the country over the war for his decision not to seek reelection in 1968.More editions of At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68:
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Babyloniansby British Museum, Henry W. F. SaggsISBN 0714121827 (0-7141-2182-7)
Hardcover, Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press
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The Battle Of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- And Western Civilizationby Barry S. StraussISBN 0743244516 (0-7432-4451-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War IIby Stephen BudianskyISBN 0743217349 (0-7432-1734-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II'Book summary:On December 3, 1941, officers of the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Unit decoded a message sent from Tokyo to the Japanese embassy in Washington, ordering embassy staff to destroy its code books and other sensitive material. This, the officers determined, meant that Japan was preparing to break off diplomatic relations with the United States and go to war. When, they could not say; to gain a precise date, they would have had to break the Japanese naval codes. Therein, writes Stephen Budiansky in Battle of Wits, lay the rub: "Since mid-1939, America had not read a single message in the main Japanese naval code on the same day it had been sent. For most of the period from June 1, 1939, to December 7, 1941, the [U.S.] Navy was working on naval messages that were months, or even over a year old."
For all their lack of preparedness and occasional inefficiencies, and for all the disdain with which some Allied ground commanders held the work of military intelligence, writes Budiansky, Allied cryptographers were of critical importance in determining the outcome of World War II. The decoding of Japanese and German encryption engines, for instance, helped the Allied navies gain victory in the battles of the Atlantic and Midway, while the translation of secret German railroad schedules allowed Winston Churchill to warn Josef Stalin that the German army was about to invade the Soviet Union--though Stalin refused to take the warning seriously. The codebreakers, in short, "averted disasters that would have been terrible setbacks to the Allied cause," and they almost certainly saved a considerable number of lives as they labored to crack such profound puzzles as Enigma and Purple.
Budiansky's narrative is strong on the science of cryptography--so much so that readers without a background in mathematics and logic may have trouble following the arcana of key squares, bigrams, and all the other trade secrets of cryptanalysis. Readers willing to brave matters technical, however, will find Budiansky's comprehensive account to be the best single book on the subject, and one well worth their attention. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Black Deathby Rosemary HorroxISBN 0719034981 (0-7190-3498-1)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Britannia: A History of Roman Britainby Sheppard FrereISBN 0710089163 (0-7100-8916-3)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Britannia: A History of Roman Britain'Book summary:xvi + 423pp, inc maps, cloth, jacket, 8vo [via]
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The Celtic Empire: The First Millenium of Celtic History, 1000 B.C -51 A.Dby Peter Berresford EllisISBN 0786709332 (0-7867-0933-2)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortionsby Lucy Hughes-HallettISBN 0747500932 (0-7475-0093-2)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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The Commandersby Bob WoodwardISBN 0743234758 (0-7432-3475-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Conduct Unbecomingby Randy ShiltsISBN 0788154168 (0-7881-5416-8)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Conduct Unbecoming'Book summary:An investigation of the situation of lesbians & gays in the military over the past three decades, revealing for the first time that some of the most celebrated soldiers in American history were homosexual. Five years of interviews with nearly 1,100 gay service people have uncovered stories of heroism, persecution, & increasing resistance while documenting the creation of a vast gay subculture within the armed forces. With thousand of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Shilts offers the first in-depth look at the fierce purges of gays in the military over the past 30 years. Best seller! [via]
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Constantine the Great: The Man and His Timesby Michael GrantISBN 0684195208 (0-684-19520-8)
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The Elizabeth Underworldby Gamini SalgadoISBN 0750943149 (0-7509-4314-9)
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Flames across the Border: 1813-1814by Pierre BertonISBN 0771012462 (0-7710-1246-2)
Softcover, McClelland and Stewart
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Grant Moves Southby Bruce CattonISBN 0785812644 (0-7858-1264-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grant Moves South'Book summary:From The Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Award - Part One of the classic Civil War study of Ulysses S. Grant that continues with GRANT TAKES COMMAND
Among the many generals created by the North in the early summer of 1861 was one named Ulysses S. Grant. Some of the other generals were more dashing, some were more learned, but none was a better fighter. It was Grant who in the next two years would move slowly, relentlessly down the Mississippi River, the very lifeline of the South, and would not stop until he had severed its entire length from the domain of his enemy. In GRANT MOVES SOUTH, Bruce Catton renders a dramatic and kaleidoscopic account of these years, during which Grant moved not only against Confederate armies but against obstacles and frustrations imposed by his own superiors.
Mr. Catton begins with Grant's first real Civil War assignment (he head left the army in disgrace seven years before), the command of the 21st Illinois Volunteers. He shows how Grant's simple, forceful manner made an orderly regiment out of a group of recalcitrant farmboys. During the subsequent move - to Cairo, to Belmont, Missouri and finally to the first major engagements at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Kentucky - this West Point officer grew ever more adept at training and leading his increasing forces of Volunteers, until they became "one of the great armies of America's history - the informal, individualistic, occasionally unmanageable, but finally victorious Army of the Tennessee."
Mr. Catton recounts such exciting, blow-by-blow accounts of the great battles at Belmont, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Chickasaw Bayou, Edward's Station and finally Vicksburg, that the reader feels he is participating, now as a member of the staff conferring with the General, now as a soldier on the front lines. And during the lulls between the battles the author describes Grant's often irritating relationships with men like Halleck and McClernand; his solution of the thorny problem posed by Blacks who kept pouring into his camps asking for protection; and his difficulties with Jesse Grant, who often tried to take commercial advantage of his son's power.
GRANT MOVES SOUTH is not only the chronological account of a series of battles which freed the Mississippi for the Union; it is also the story of a man's personal development. It describes Grant's progress from a reluctant but dedicated soldier to a forceful general, conscious of his own worth and confident of his future. [via]
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0791093050 (0-7910-9305-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
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A History Of American Lawby Lawrence Meir FriedmanISBN 0684869888 (0-684-86988-8)
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Now completely revised and updated, this groundbreaking work incorporates new material regarding slavery, criminal justice, and twentieth-century law. For laymen and students alike, this remains the only comprehensive authoritative history of American law. [via]
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Homosexuals in History: A Study of Ambivalence in Society, Literature, and the Artsby A. L. RowseISBN 0786704233 (0-7867-0423-3)
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An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of -1by Paul J. NahinISBN 0691127980 (0-691-12798-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Imaginary Tale: The Story of the Square Root of -1'Book summary:At the very beginning of his book on i, the square root of minus one, Paul Nahin warns his readers: "An Imaginary Tale has a very strong historical component to it, but that does not mean it is a mathematical lightweight. But don't read too much into that either. It is *not* a scholarly tome meant to be read only by some mythical, elite group.... Large chunks of this book can, in fact, be read and understood by a high school senior who has paid attention to his or her teachers in the standard fare of pre-college courses. Still, it will be most accessible to the million or so who each year complete a college course in freshman calculus.... But when I need to do an integral, let me assure you I have not fallen to my knees in dumbstruck horror. And neither should you."
Nahin is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire; he has also written a number of science fiction short stories. His style is far more lively and humane than a mathematics textbook while covering much of the same ground. Readers will end up with a good sense for the mathematics of i and for its applications in physics and engineering. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstoneby Martin DugardISBN 0767910745 (0-7679-1074-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Italiansby Luigi BarziniISBN 0684825007 (0-684-82500-7)
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battlesby Anthony SwoffordISBN 0743287215 (0-7432-8721-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People Andits Historyby Joseph TelushkinISBN 0688085067 (0-688-08506-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People Andits History'Book summary:In 1988, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin undertook a mission to heal "Jewish ignorance," an affliction whose symptoms include the ability to name the three components of the Trinity, coupled with an inability to explain mitzvah. Telushkin's contribution to the cure is his wide-ranging, entertaining Jewish Literacy. First published in 1991, Jewish Literacy contains almost 350 entries on subjects ranging from the Ten Commandments to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Entries are numbered (for easy, encyclopedia-style reference) and organized topically (to smooth the experience of reading each page straight through). And the revised edition contains several new entries (including articles about the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the vice-presidential nomination of Joseph Lieberman) as well as numerous corrections, enlargements, and updates. One might expect Rabbi Telushkin's project of inspiring Jewish literacy to be overly earnest, but the author's understated wit adds considerable levity to most entries. The entry on "Sodom and Gomorrah," for instance, ends this way: "A number of years ago, some Israeli promoters of tourism suggested transforming the modern city of Sodom into a tourist haven with casinos, nightclubs, and even strip shows. The Chief Rabbinate in Israel sharply demurred, warning that there was nothing to prevent God from destroying the city a second time. The plan was dropped." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrathby Harold BloomISBN 0791082393 (0-7910-8239-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:Harold Bloom writes, "The Grapes of Wrath is a flawed but permanent American book." John Steinbeck's novel, still popular a half-century after its original publication, is the focus of this edition of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of the author, structural and thematic analysis, an index of themes and ideas, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all students of literature, presenting concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work. Also provided are multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters. [via]
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The Kite Runnerby Khaled HosseiniISBN 0747566992 (0-7475-6699-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kite Runner'Book summary:The Kite Runner of Khaled Hosseini's deeply moving fiction debut is an illiterate Afghan boy with an uncanny instinct for predicting exactly where a downed kite will land. Growing up in the city of Kabul in the early 1970s, Hassan was narrator Amir's closest friend even though the loyal 11-year-old with "a face like a Chinese doll" was the son of Amir's father's servant and a member of Afghanistan's despised Hazara minority. But in 1975, on the day of Kabul's annual kite-fighting tournament, something unspeakable happened between the two boys.
Narrated by Amir, a 40-year-old novelist living in California, The Kite Runner tells the gripping story of a boyhood friendship destroyed by jealousy, fear, and the kind of ruthless evil that transcends mere politics. Running parallel to this personal narrative of loss and redemption is the story of modern Afghanistan and of Amir's equally guilt-ridden relationship with the war-torn city of his birth. The first Afghan novel to be written in English, The Kite Runner begins in the final days of King Zahir Shah's 40-year reign and traces the country's fall from a secluded oasis to a tank-strewn battlefield controlled by the Russians and then the trigger-happy Taliban. When Amir returns to Kabul to rescue Hassan's orphaned child, the personal and the political get tangled together in a plot that is as suspenseful as it is taut with feeling.
The son of an Afghan diplomat whose family received political asylum in the United States in 1980, Hosseini combines the unflinching realism of a war correspondent with the satisfying emotional pull of master storytellers such as Rohinton Mistry. Like the kite that is its central image, the story line of this mesmerizing first novel occasionally dips and seems almost to dive to the ground. But Hosseini ultimately keeps everything airborne until his heartrending conclusion in an American picnic park. --Lisa Alward, Amazon.ca [via]
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Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rushby Pierre BertonISBN 0786713178 (0-7867-1317-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush'Book summary:In 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pierre Berton's exhilarating The Klondike Fever chronicles in all its splendid and astonishing folly. For the steamer Portland bore two tons of pure Klondike gold. And immediately, the stampede north to Alaska began. Easily as many as 100,000 adventurers, dreamers, and would-be miners from all over the world struck out for the remote, isolated gold fields in the Klondike Valley, most of them in total ignorance of the long, harsh Alaskan winters and the territory's indomitable terrain. Less than a third of that number would complete the enormously arduous mountain journey to their destination. Some would strike gold. Berton's story belongs less to the few who would make their fortunes than to the many swept up in the gold mania, to often unfortunate effects and tragic ends. It is a story of cold skies and avalanches, of con men and gamblers and dance hall girls, of sunken ships, of suicides, of dead horses and desperate men, of grizzly old miners and millionaires, of the land its exploitation and revenge. It is a story of the human capacity to dream, and to endure.[via]More editions of Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush:
Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899by Pierre BertonISBN 0771012845 (0-7710-1284-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Klondike : The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899'Book summary:After California, the Fraser River, and the Cariboo came the Klondike. In the winter of 1896-1897, when news leaked out that gold had been discovered in the tributaries of the Yukon River, a stampede was ignited that would draw thousands of men, women, and children from all over the continent on a frenzied, desperate quest for the yellow mother lode. Almost instantaneously, this mass movement of people, animals, and supplies to the arctic Eldorado led to the creation of towns and institutions in a boreal desert. Furthermore, it compelled the American and Canadian governments to define the borders between Alaska and the Yukon, and so heralded the building of a nation. In Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899, revised since its first publication in 1958, popular historian Pierre Berton tackles this momentous, topsy-turvy episode in Canadian and American history with a gusto that does his subject credit.
Berton introduces his readers to a cast of some pretty colourful characters, from all walks of life and of all dispositions. Among them are George Carmack and his Indian relatives, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charley, who first discovered gold in the Klondike. Father William Judge was a Jesuit missionary whose tireless efforts on behalf of those afflicted with typhoid, malaria, dysentery, and scurvy earned him the moniker of "The Saint of Dawson." "Soapy" Smith, the autocrat of Skagway, set up an extensive network of spies and confidence men throughout the north that prefigured the secret police systems established by the great dictators of the 20th century. "Swiftwater Bill" Gates was an abstainer who bathed in champagne, a bigamist who seduced his own teenage step-niece, and a lucky prospector who lost his fortunes even more quickly than he made them. Another prospector, "Big Alex" McDonald, the "King of the Klondike," acquired dozens of mining properties in his lust for land, but for him, gold was always just "trash." Silent Sam Bonnifield, the legendary gambler, opened the Bank Saloon. Belinda Mulroney, a coal-miner's daughter from Pennsylvania, made her fortune by her peerless and fearless entrepreneurial zest, and became the first woman mining manager in the North--and a countess to boot. And, of course, there's Sam Steele, the legendary superintendent of the Mounted Police, the "Lion of the Yukon," whose tight rein on the passes is credited with saving countless lives. But apart from the named dozens are the horrific yet inspiring stories of thousands of men and women who braved indescribable odds in their race to strike it rich, crossing glaciers, trudging through poisonous swamplands, climbing mountains, canoeing swirling rapids, succumbing to snow blindness, bitter cold, and starvation, falling into the snares of swindlers and the cheats, and facing their own greed and naïveté. The toll in human--and animal--life and limb was unprecedented in gold rush history.
This is great history told with unrestrained relish. Berton has written a valuable, comprehensive history of the last great gold rush, and added another important chapter to his series on nation-building, which includes The National Dream and The Last Spike. In addition to talking about the characters who made the Klondike and in turn were made or broken by it, he maps the perilous alternate routes: overland from Edmonton through the Peace River, the Ashcroft and Stikine Trails, the White and Chilkoot Passes, the "Rich Man's Route" along the Yukon River, and the "All-American Routes" over Alaska's Valdez and Malaspina Glaciers. He discusses the conflicts that arose between the Americans and Canadians, the distinct codes of ethics that prevailed on either side of the border, and how they influenced the atmosphere in the gold-rush cities. Berton sifts fact from fiction and mythmaking. He notes, for example, that Robert Service, the Yukon poet laureate, was never in the Klondike during the gold rush, as he was hobo-ing around Mexico at the time; he only came to the Yukon after it was all over. As an aid to the reader, Berton provides maps of the routes and discoveries, legends of the major characters, a chronology of significant events, and a comprehensive bibliography for those interested in studying the topic further. But even more than simply good history, Klondike is riveting storytelling. Berton's muscular prose is sure to keep the reader turning pages. --Diana Kuprel [via]
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The Last Knight : The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Eraby Norman F. CantorISBN 0743226887 (0-7432-2688-7)
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The Last Spike: The Great Railway, 1881-1885by Pierre BertonISBN 0771013272 (0-7710-1327-2)
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The Life and Death of a Druid Prince: The Story of an Archaeological Sensationby Anne Ross, Don RobinsISBN 0712625119 (0-7126-2511-9)
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London: The Biography of a Cityby Christopher HibbertISBN 0713910615 (0-7139-1061-5)
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London Monster Terror on Streetsby Jan BondesonISBN 0752425838 (0-7524-2583-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'London Monster Terror on Streets'Book summary:[via]Between 1788 and 1790 a bizarre serial attacker known as the London Monster assaulted more than 50 women. The farcical search for the monster culminated in the arrest and trial of a young Welshman named Rhynwick Williams, who despite good alibis, was condemned. This is a detailed account of the hunt for a psychopath that created one of the first media celebrities.More editions of London Monster Terror on Streets:
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Olreansby John BaileyISBN 0732911923 (0-7329-1192-3)
Hardcover, Pan Macmillan Australia
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The Lost Tombby Kent R. WeeksISBN 068815087X (0-688-15087-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Tomb'Book summary:Working for the American university in Cairo in 1988, Kent Weeks embarked on an archeological dig into KV5, the sparsely explored fifth tomb in the Valley of the Kings, burial ground of Egypt's major Pharaohs. In 1995, he discovered the T-shaped burial complex of Ramses II's 50 sons--arguably the most significant discovery since Howard Carter unearthed King Tut's tomb in 1922. Weeks's account of this historic event is filled with a sense of awe and wonder. "[I]n my imagination," he writes, recalling a vision of the statue of Osiris, god of the afterlife, "I could see the ancient funerals that took place three thousand years ago. I could hear ancient priests chanting prayers and shaking tambourines ... I could smell incense and feel priestly robes brush my arm as the funeral procession moved slowly past. For an instant I felt transported back in time: it was 1275 BCE and this was ancient Thebes."
Weeks also points out what his discovery may tell us about the powerful, redhaired pharoah who ruled ancient Egypt for 67 years (1279-1212 BC), including the possibility that he was the pharaoh of Exodus. He elaborates upon his profession's risks, from excavations in narrow, debris-filled and claustraphobic surroundings to working under the gunfire of terrorist attacks. And he reminds us that his discovery by no means brings Egyptology to a conclusion: "Every generation of Egyptologists asks different questions of its data and data are a finite resource. We will leave parts of KV5 undug so that archeologists of the future, armed with new questions and new excavation techniques, can seek new answers to old questions and to others we haven't even dreamed of." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Lost Tomb: This is His Incredible Story of KV5 and Its Excavationby Kent R. WeeksISBN 0688172245 (0-688-17224-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lost Tomb: This is His Incredible Story of KV5 and Its Excavation'Book summary:Working for the American university in Cairo in 1988, Kent Weeks embarked on an archeological dig into KV5, the sparsely explored fifth tomb in the Valley of the Kings, burial ground of Egypt's major Pharaohs. In 1995, he discovered the T-shaped burial complex of Ramses II's 50 sons--arguably the most significant discovery since Howard Carter unearthed King Tut's tomb in 1922. Weeks's account of this historic event is filled with a sense of awe and wonder. "[I]n my imagination," he writes, recalling a vision of the statue of Osiris, god of the afterlife, "I could see the ancient funerals that took place three thousand years ago. I could hear ancient priests chanting prayers and shaking tambourines ... I could smell incense and feel priestly robes brush my arm as the funeral procession moved slowly past. For an instant I felt transported back in time: it was 1275 BCE and this was ancient Thebes."
Weeks also points out what his discovery may tell us about the powerful, redhaired pharoah who ruled ancient Egypt for 67 years (1279-1212 BC), including the possibility that he was the pharaoh of Exodus. He elaborates upon his profession's risks, from excavations in narrow, debris-filled and claustraphobic surroundings to working under the gunfire of terrorist attacks. And he reminds us that his discovery by no means brings Egyptology to a conclusion: "Every generation of Egyptologists asks different questions of its data and data are a finite resource. We will leave parts of KV5 undug so that archeologists of the future, armed with new questions and new excavation techniques, can seek new answers to old questions and to others we haven't even dreamed of." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Marvel 1602by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Richard IsanoveISBN 0785123113 (0-7851-2311-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marvel 1602'Book summary:All's not well in the Marvel Universe in the year 1602 as strange storms are brewing and strange new powers are emerging! Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, Dr. Doom, Black Widow, Captain America, and more appear in the waning days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. As the world begins to change and enter into a new age, Gaiman weaves a thrilling mystery. How and why are these Marvel stars appearing nearly 400 years before they're supposed to? Collects Marvel 1602 #1-8. [via]
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Marvel 1602 HC Gaiman Coverby Neil Gaiman, Andy KubertISBN 0785125698 (0-7851-2569-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marvel 1602 HC Gaiman Cover'Book summary:All's not well in the Marvel Universe in the year 1602 as strange storms are brewing and strange new powers are emerging! Spider-Man, the X-Men, Nick Fury, Dr. Strange, Daredevil, Dr. Doom, Black Widow, Captain America, and more appear in the waning days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. As the world begins to change and enter into a new age, Gaiman weaves a thrilling mystery. How and why are these Marvel stars appearing nearly 400 years before they're supposed to? Collects Marvel 1602 #1-8. [via]
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Medieval Lifeby Andrew LangleyISBN 0756607043 (0-7566-0704-3)
Hardcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Life'Book summary:New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text!
The Middle Ages ran from the end of the Dark Ages to the Renaissance in the 15th century. This collection of superb photographs brings vividly to life rural and town life during that era - including the life of a peasant "tied to the soil," the power of the Church, and the rise of trade guilds. Starting with a description of the feudal system that existed in much of Europe, the book features artifacts, costumes, furniture, and building to illustrate daily medieval life. Discover the hardships of life on the land, as well as the magnificent tournaments of the royal court. Learn how food was prepared and served at a great banquet. See the illuminated chronicles kept by scholarly monks, and how master craftworkers used their skills to decorate the great cathedrals. Packed with fascinating facts, Medieval Life is a unique and compelling introduction to the people and culture of the Middle Ages. [via]More editions of Medieval Life:
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Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books - Medieval Life: ISBN 0789460386 (0-7894-6038-6)
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Montcalm and Wolfeby Francis ParkmanISBN 0760768358 (0-7607-6835-8)
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Montcalm and Wolfe: The French and Indian Warby Francis ParkmanISBN 068911527X (0-689-11527-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Mealby Margaret VisserISBN 0771087497 (0-7710-8749-7)
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The Official Military Atlas of the Civil Warby George B. Davis, U.s. War Dept, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. KirkleyISBN 0760750440 (0-7607-5044-0)
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Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Trumanby Merle MillerISBN 0785773363 (0-7857-7336-3)
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europeby Peter BurkeISBN 0704505967 (0-7045-0596-7)
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed Americaby Nicholas LemannISBN 0679733477 (0-679-73347-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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Queen Victoriaby Lytton StracheyISBN 0701160543 (0-7011-6054-3)
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Richard III and the Princes in the Towerby A.J. PollardISBN 0750903546 (0-7509-0354-6)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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The Roosevelts: An American Sagaby Peter Collier, David HorowitzISBN 068480140X (0-684-80140-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Roosevelts: An American Saga'Book summary:The Roosevelts is a brilliant and controversial account of twentieth-century American political culture as seen through the lens of its preeminent political dynasty. Peter Collier shows how Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, along with their descendants, scrambled to define the direction that American politics would take. The Oyster Bay clan, influenced by the flamboyant Teddy, was extroverted, eccentric, tradition-bound, and family-oriented. They represented an age of American innocence that would be replaced by Franklin's Hyde Park Roosevelts, who were aloof and cold yet individualistic and progressive.
Drawing on extensive interviews and brimming with trenchant anecdotes, this historical portrait casts new light on the pivotal events and personalities that shaped the Roosevelt legacy -- from Eleanor's often brutal relationship with her children and Theodore Jr.'s undoing in the 1924 New York gubernatorial race, to the heroism of Teddy's sons during both World Wars and FDR's loveless marriage.
The Roosevelts is history at its most penetrating, a crucial work that illuminates the foundations of contemporary, American politics. [via]
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The Rule of St. Benedictby Justin McCannISBN 0722076215 (0-7220-7621-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Shh! We're Writing the Constitutionby Jean Fritz, Tomie De PaolaISBN 0698116240 (0-698-11624-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Short History of World War IIby James L. StokesburyISBN 0688085873 (0-688-08587-3)
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A Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940's. Lucidly written and eminently readable, it is factual and accurate enough to satisfy professional historians. A Short History of World War II will appeal equally to the general reader, the veteran who fought in the War, and the student interested in understanding the contemporary political world.
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The Story of Philosophyby Bryan MageeISBN 078947994X (0-7894-7994-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Philosophy'Book summary:The unprecedented success of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fueled a worldwide explosion of interest in philosophy, yet there are few accessible introductions to this subject. Harnessing DK's unparalleled ability to make words and pictures work together, The Story of Thought simplifies a subject in which we all have interest, but which few find accessible. Bryan Magee, world-renowned philosopher and author makes The Story of Thought an easy pathway into the history of ideas and thinking. Features 30 key philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, and Nietzshe. Follows the best-selling format of the highly successful Sister Wendy's Story of Painting. [via]
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The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Isby William H. RehnquistISBN 0688086683 (0-688-08668-3)
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Sweets: A History of Temptationby Tim RichardsonISBN 075679692X (0-7567-9692-X)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christby Clive Prince, Lynn PicknettISBN 0684848910 (0-684-84891-0)
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In a remarkable achievement of historical detective work that is destined to become a classic, authors Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince delve into the mysterious world of the Freemasons, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and the occult to discover the truth behind an underground religion with roots in the first century that survives even today. Chronicling their fascinating quest for truth through time and space, the authors reveal an astonishing new view of the real motives and character of the founder of Christianity, as well as the actual historical -- and revelatory -- roles of John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene. Painstakingly researched and thoroughly documented, The Templar Revelation presents a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe, whose final chapter could shatter the foundation of the Christian Church. [via]
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Then and Nowby Stefania PerringISBN 0785811168 (0-7858-1116-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Then and Now'Book summary:History's most fascinating landmarks are brought to life in vivid see-through reconstructions in this richly illustrated series. In Then & Now, famous landmarks such as the Acropolis, the Coliseum, and the Tower of London are pictured as when just built and as they look now. [via]
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A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulgeby Charles B. MacDonaldISBN 0688151574 (0-688-15157-4)
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To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidentsby Society of American Historians, James M. McPherson, David RubelISBN 0789481561 (0-7894-8156-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents'Book summary:From the beginning, Americans have loved and hated their presidents, and memorialized them both for their achievements and their foibles. In this collection of essays, written by members of the prestigious Society of American Historians, we're gifted with a lively interpretive history of the 41 presidents to date with an emphasis on their dominant themes and achievements as influenced by their personalities and ideologies.
With the focus on presidential style, Joseph J. Ellis examines the ironies in Thomas Jefferson's ideals and actions, as well as his inveterate shyness (imagine a modern-day president who only spoke at his inauguration and presented all legislative proposals in writing). Robert Dallek discusses Lyndon B. Johnson's contradictions as evidenced in his significant domestic achievements and the terrible failure of the Vietnam War. And in the pieces on also-rans like Grant and Coolidge and the disgraced such as Nixon, these historians often use the benefit of hindsight and scholarship to focus on the more redeeming features of each man. The most recent president covered does not get off so lightly, however, as Evan Thomas devotes an inordinate amount of space to Bill Clinton's philandering and slams him with such adjectives as "calculating, shrewd and slovenly."
The book is packed with photographs, illustrations, inaugural addresses, and memorable quotes ("When Theodore attends a wedding, he wants to be the bride, and when he attends a funeral, he wants to be the corpse"). A light sense of humor is even displayed, as in a photograph of William Howard Taft's mammoth bathtub, specially built after the 355-pound man got stuck in an ordinary tub, and the story of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign captured in two campaign photos--one of a sexy, bare-chested JFK in his PT-109 and the other of a stiff Nixon in his Navy dress blues. It's also a treasure trove of presidential trivia--which presidents proposed to their wives on the first date? Who were the only three vice presidents to be successfully promoted by election? This is a terrific reference book--an informative, revealing, and fun way to learn about America's chosen few. --Lesley Reed [via]
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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilizationby Iain GatelyISBN 0756781345 (0-7567-8134-5)
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Westvikingby F. MowatISBN 0771065795 (0-7710-6579-5)
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When Longships Sailed : Vikings, A. D. 800-1100by Time-Life Books EditorsISBN 0783554540 (0-7835-5454-0)
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
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