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Adam of the Roadby Elizabeth Gray, Robert LawsonISBN 0142406597 (0-14-240659-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam of the Road'Book summary:Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout thirteenthcentury England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when Nick is stolen and his father disappears, Adam suddenly finds himself alone. He searches the same roads he traveled with his father, meeting various people along the way. But will Adam ever find his father and dog and end his desperate search?[via]More editions of Adam of the Road:
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbusby Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0316584789 (0-316-58478-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Arabs in Historyby Bernard LewisISBN 0192803107 (0-19-280310-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arabs in History'Book summary:This account of the history of the Arabs, from pre-Islamic times to the present day, considers Arabic culture, society and politics, as well as the place of the Arabs in human history. In this new edition of an established work, Professor Lewis examines the key issues of Arab development - their identity, the national revival which cemented the creation of the Islamic state, and the social and economic pressures that destroyed the Arab kingdom and created the Islamic empire. Similarly, he analyzes the forces which contributed to that empire's eventual decline: political break-up, economic decay and extravagance, invasions and the impact of the West. For, Lewis argues, Western inventions have shattered the traditional economic structure, and demand a social, political and cultural readjustment that is still to be made. Bernard Lewis has also written "The Emergence of Modern Turkey" and "The Muslim Discovery of Europe". [via]
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Art Culture and Cuisineby Phyllis Pray BoberISBN 0226062546 (0-226-06254-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art Culture and Cuisine'Book summary:In Art, Culture, and Cuisine, Phyllis Pray Bober examines cooking through an assortment of recipes as well as the dual lens of archaeology and art history. Believing that the unity of a culture extends across all forms of expression, Bober seeks to understand the minds and hearts of those who practiced cookery or consumed it as reflected in the visual art of the time.[via]
Bober draws on archaeology and art history to examine prehistoric eating customs in ancient Turkey; traditions of the great civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome; and rituals of the Middle Ages. Both elegant and entertaining, Art, Culture, and Cuisine reveals cuisine and dining's place at the heart of cultural, religious, and social activities that have shaped Western sensibilities.More editions of Art Culture and Cuisine:
Art, Culture and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomyby Phyllis Pray BoberISBN 0226062538 (0-226-06253-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Ascent of Manby Jacob BronowskiISBN 0316109339 (0-316-10933-9)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ascent of Man'Book summary:1973 7th printing hardcover with dust jacket as shown. Book and jacket in Fine condition. This is NOT a Book Club Edition. Jacket has new archival jacket cover. Original price $17.50 [via]
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Boadicea's Chariot: The Warrior Queensby Antonia FraserISBN 0297794868 (0-297-79486-8)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800by Fernand BraudelISBN 0297995952 (0-297-99595-2)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Commentariorvm: Libri VII De Bello Gallico Sum A. Hirti Supplementoby CaesarISBN 0198146027 (0-19-814602-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, Gareth Stedman Jones, K. MarxISBN 0140447571 (0-14-044757-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:[via]The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.
The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of political systems that still dominate countless lives and continuing to ignite violent debate about class and capitalism today.
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The Communist Manifestoby David McLellan, Friedrich Engels, Samuel Moore, K. MarxISBN 0192829548 (0-19-282954-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Communist Manifesto'Book summary:"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. [via]
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Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faithby Norman CohnISBN 0300065515 (0-300-06551-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico: 1517-1521by Bernal Diaz Del CastilloISBN 030681319X (0-306-81319-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico: 1517-1521'Book summary:Bernal Díaz del Castillo(14951584) served under Cortés through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative, one of only four extant firsthand accounts, is both an invaluable hirstorical document and a spectacular epic. He was with Cortés when the latter sank the ships, thus committing the small band of conquistadors irrevocably to the Conquest; he was privy to the counsels of the leaders and was at hand when Montezuma was made a prisoner in his own palace. Bernal Díaz fought in over a hundred battles and skirmishes against an enemy who made living sacrifices of their prisoners. These things he saw and recorded in a bold blunt voice whose immediacy, in Maudslays classic translation, reaches across the centuries to invite readers to witness for themselves the horrors and wonders of the initial, apocalyptic clash between two great civilizations.[via]More editions of The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico: 1517-1521:
Disraeliby Robert BlakeISBN 0198329032 (0-19-832903-2)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.
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The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980by David B. AbernethyISBN 0300093144 (0-300-09314-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The End of the European Era, 1890 to the Presentby Felix GilbertISBN 0297004247 (0-297-00424-7)
Softcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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English History 1914-1945by A. J. P. TaylorISBN 0198217153 (0-19-821715-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English History, 1914-1945'Book summary:Beginning on August 4, 1914, the day Britain entered the "Great War," this book guides us through three decades of unparalleled upheaval and change in Britain that eventually lead to the defeat of Japan in 1945--a momentous event that marked the end of the Second World War. Twin themes of international conflict and mass unemployment in England predominate. And besides a full account of foreign and domestic politics that were enacted to deal with them, Taylor pays particular attention to the impact of events on everyday lives. It is an essential work from one of the finest historians of the twentieth century--a book that no one interested in British affairs will want to be without. [via]
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- English History 1914-1945: ISBN 0192801406 (0-19-280140-6)
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - English History 1914-1945: ISBN 0195003047 (0-19-500304-7)
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Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three American Soldiers Who Fought Itby Al SantoliISBN 0345322797 (0-345-32279-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The First World Warby Hew StrachanISBN 0143035185 (0-14-303518-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The First World War'Book summary:Hew Strachan's The First World War Vol I: A Call to Arms counteracts the argument that of the two world wars in the 20th century, it is usually only the second that is thought of as "global"--spanning from the Pacific to Normandy as Hollywood continues to remind us, from the River Plate to Scapa Flow as naval buffs will recall. By contrast the First World War is often assumed to be a European war, literally bogged down in the Somme and the Dardanelles. But as Hew Strachan argues in this magisterial and wide-ranging book we would do better to use the German phrase, "weltkrieg" to describe the conflicts of 1914-18 as well. The Call to Arms is the latest in a long line of Strachan's distinguished and subtle works of military history at its best: his recent The Politics of the British Army is particularly good. A Call to Arms covers the war in every part of the globe--chapters on Turkey, Africa and Japan sit alongside sections devoted to the Western and Eastern fronts. And Strachan shows too that the war was global not just in its geography, but also in its outcome. The entente powers had better access to international finance than their foes; the war accelerated religious and tribal nationalism in the old colonial empires; industrial mobilisation fuelled the growth of heavy industry in 'undeveloped' parts of the world. This is a big book--1,000 pages plus, and it is only the first of three volumes. It needs time and attentive reading to absorb the range of its scholarship and the originality of its arguments. But anyone wanting to understand how and why the First World War, as one French writer put it in 1914, extended "to the whole universe" must read this book.--Miles Taylor [via]
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Food in Historyby Reay TannahillISBN 0140469214 (0-14-046921-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food in History'Book summary:Spanning over half a million years, this describes the world history of food and the way in which food has influenced the whole course of human development. [via]
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The French Revolution: A Historyby Thomas CarlyleISBN 0192818430 (0-19-281843-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Gallic Warby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192835823 (0-19-283582-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gallic War'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
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The Great War and Modern Memoryby Paul FussellISBN 0195133323 (0-19-513332-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great War and Modern Memory'Book summary:The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning.
For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds. [via]More editions of The Great War and Modern Memory:
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A History of the Vikingsby Gwyn JonesISBN 0192801341 (0-19-280134-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Vikings'Book summary:The history of the Viking peoples and kingdoms, from their half-glimpsed origins and legendary prehistory to the triumphs of Canute, is as exciting a story as has ever been told. Professor Jones's classic work incorporates all the latest research. [via]
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Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Centuryby Jonathan GloverISBN 0300087152 (0-300-08715-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century'Book summary:In Humanity, English ethicist Jonathan Glover begins with the now commonplace observation that the last 100 years were perhaps the most brutal in all history. But the problem wasn't that human nature suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse: "It is a myth that barbarism is unique to the twentieth century: the whole of human history includes wars, massacres, and every kind of torture and cruelty," he writes. Technology has made a huge difference, but psychology has remained the same--and this is what Glover seeks to examine, through discussions of Nietzsche, the My Lai atrocity in Vietnam, Hiroshima, tribal genocide in Rwanda, Stalinism, Nazism, and so on.
There is much history here, but Humanity is fundamentally a book of philosophy. In his first chapter, for instance, Glover announces his goal "to replace the thin, mechanical psychology of the Enlightenment with something more complex, something closer to reality." But he also seeks "to defend the Enlightenment hope of a world that is more peaceful and more humane, the hope that by understanding more about ourselves we can do something to create a world with less misery." The result is an odd combination of darkness and light--darkness because the subject matter of the 20th century's moral failings is so bleak, light because of Glover's earnest optimism, which insists that "keeping the past alive may help to prevent atrocities." He cites Stalin's bracing comment, made while signing death warrants: "Who's going to remember all this riff-raff in ten or twenty years' time? No one." At one level, Humanity is a book of remembrance. But it's more than that: it's also an attempt to understand what it is in the human mind that makes moral disaster always loom--and a prayer that this aspect of our psychology might be better controlled. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Illustrated Odysseyby Homer, Tim Mercer, E. V. RieuISBN 0283985887 (0-283-98588-7)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Illustrated Odyssey'Book summary:The most famous book in mythology, 251 pages of pure Grecian culture, gorgeous pictures of Greece, pottery, gods and goddesses throughout the book, easy read. [via]
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In the Land of Israelby Amos Oz, Maurie Goldberg-BarturaISBN 0156481146 (0-15-648114-6)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Land of Israel'Book summary:Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s and spoke with many people about the past, present, and future of his country. What he found is memorably set down here. New Authors Note and Postscript; map. Translated by Maurie Goldberg-Bartura. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of In the Land of Israel:
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Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophyby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, T.M. KnoxISBN 0198249918 (0-19-824991-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to the Lectures on the History of Philosophy'Book summary:This new translation of the first volume of Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy includes material not available to Haldane and Simson when they made their translation nearly 100 years ago. Indispensable for the student of Hegel, it can also serve as an introduction to Hegel's conception of philosophy for the general reader. [via]
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Last Stand!: Famous Battles Against the Oddsby Bryan PerrettISBN 0304350559 (0-304-35055-9)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The Odysseyby Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, E. V. RieuISBN 0140449116 (0-14-044911-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:Robert Fagles's translation is a jaw-droppingly beautiful rendering of Homer's Odyssey, the most accessible and enthralling epic of classical Greece. Fagles captures the rapid and direct language of the original Greek, while telling the story of Odysseus in lyrics that ring with a clear, energetic voice. The story itself has never seemed more dynamic, the action more compelling, nor the descriptions so brilliant in detail. It is often said that every age demands its own translation of the classics. Fagles's work is a triumph because he has not merely provided a contemporary version of Homer's classic poem, but has located the right language for the timeless character of this great tale. Fagles brings the Odyssey so near, one wonders if the Hollywood adaption can be far behind. This is a terrific book. [via]
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The Odysseyby Geraldine McCaughrean, Victor G. AmbrusISBN 0192741837 (0-19-274183-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey'Book summary:The story of Odysseus is told in this first installment of a four-volume series using lively, modern language to bring ancient myths to life for contemporary young readers. [via]
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The Odyssey of Homerby Barbara Leonie Picard, Joan Kiddell-MonroeISBN 0192741462 (0-19-274146-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:A collection of Homer's famous stories from "The Odyssey", retold for children. [via]
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The Odyssey of Homerby Bernard Knox, T. E. LawrenceISBN 0195068181 (0-19-506818-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Odyssey of Homer'Book summary:Colonel T.E. Lawrence was one of the most flamboyant figures of his era, known throughout the Western world as Lawrence of Arabia. Glory-seeking yet self-effacing, this soldier, archaeologist, spy, and scholar was a war hero whom Winston Churchill called "one of the greatest men of our time." Less well known were his abilities as historian and author, which won him the admiration of such writers as Ezra Pound, W.H. Auden, and Robert Graves.
While stationed on a desolate R.A.F. outpost on the fringes of the Karachi desert in India, Lawrence began his acclaimed translation of The Odyssey. He devoted himself to the project for four years, and during that time he came to feel that he was uniquely suited to the task. "I have hunted wild boars and watched wild lions," he wrote. "Built boats and killed many men. So I have odd knowledges that qualify me to understand The Odyssey, and odd experiences that interpret it to me." Relying on an innate sense of language and truly gifted abilities at translation, Lawrence transformed Homer's Odyssey into mellifluous prose. The result was an overnight bestseller. The New York Herald Tribune hailed it "perhaps the most interesting translation of the world's most interesting book," and The New York Times called it "ruggedly and roughly masculine" and added that it "gives a vividness to the story beyond any other text familiar to us."
Lawrence breathes new life into the adventures of Odysseus, smoothing the reader's path through a fantastic array of monsters, temptresses, gods, and goddesses. For a generation of readers accustomed to verse translations of Homer, this bold and vivid prose version is well worth rediscovery. [via]More editions of The Odyssey of Homer:
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The Odyssey World Classicby HomerISBN 0192815423 (0-19-281542-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Origins of Totalitarianismby Hannah ArendtISBN 0156701537 (0-15-670153-7)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of Totalitarianism'Book summary:Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history
The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism in central and western Europe in the 1800s and continues with an examination of European colonial imperialism from 1884 to the outbreak of World War I. Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our timeNazi Germany and Stalinist Russiawhich she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination. [via]
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The Peloponnesian Warby Donald KaganISBN 0142004375 (0-14-200437-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Peloponnesian War'Book summary:[via]For three decades in the fifth century b.c. the ancient world was torn apart bya conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the worlds most respected classical, political, and military historians, here presents a new account of this vicious war of Greek against Greek, Athenian against Spartan. The Peloponnesian War is a magisterial work of history written for general readers, offering a fresh examination of a pivotal moment in Western civilization. With a lively, readable narrative that conveys a richly
detailed portrait of a vanished world while honoring its timeless relevance, The Peloponnesian War is a chronicle of the rise and fall of a great empire and of a dark time whose lessons still resonate today.More editions of The Peloponnesian War:
Present at the Creation, My Years in the State Departmentby Dean AchesonISBN 0241018668 (0-241-01866-8)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Numberby Ilan Stavans, Arthur Miller, Jacobo Timerman, Toby TalbotISBN 0299182444 (0-299-18244-4)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Rats, Lice and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, Deby Hans ZinsserISBN 0316988960 (0-316-98896-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rats, Lice and History: Being a Study in Biography, Which, After Twelve Preliminary Chapters Indispensable for the Preparation of the Lay Reader, De'Book summary:When Rats, Lice and History appeared in 1935, Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about historical events. Although he had published under a pseudonym, virtually all of his previous writings had dealt with infections and immunity and had appeared either in medical and scientific journals or in book format. Today he is best remembered as the author of Rats, Lice, and History, which gone through multiple editions and remains a masterpiece of science writing for a general readership.
To Zinsser, scientific research was high adventure and the investigation of infectious disease, a field of battle. Yet at the same time he maintained a love of literature and philosophy. His goal in Rats, Lice and History was to bring science, philosophy, and literature together to establish the importance of disease, and especially epidemic infectious disease, as a major force in human affairs. Zinsser cast his work as the "biography" of a disease. In his view, infectious disease simply represented an attempt of a living organism to survive. From a human perspective, an invading pathogen was abnormal; from the perspective of the pathogen it was perfectly normal.
This book is devoted to a discussion of the biology of typhus and history of typhus fever in human affairs. Zinsser begins by pointing out that the louse was the constant companion of human beings. Under certain conditionsto wash or to change clothinglice proliferated. The typhus pathogen was transmitted by rat fleas to human beings, who then transmitted it to other humans and in some strains from human to human.
Rats, Lice and History is a tour de force. It combines Zinsser's expertise in biology with his broad knowledge of the humanities
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The Reformationby Diarmaid MacCullochISBN 014303538X (0-14-303538-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reformation'Book summary:Diarmaid MacCulloch wrote what is widely considered to be the authoritative account of the Reformationa critical juncture in the history of Christianity. "It is impossible to understand modern Europe without understanding these sixteenth-century upheavals in Latin Christianity," he writes. "They represented the greatest fault line to appear in Christian culture since the Latin and Greek halves of the Roman Empire went their separate ways a thousand years before; they produced a house divided." The resulting split between the Catholics and Protestants still divides Christians throughout the Western world. It affects interpretations of the Bible, beliefs about baptisms, and event how much authority is given to religious leaders. The division even fuels an ongoing war. What makes MacCulloch's account rise above previous attempts to interpret the Reformation is the breadth of his research. Rather than limit his narrative to the actions of key theologians and leaders of the eraLuther, Zingli, Calvin, Loyola, Cranmer, Henry VIII and numerous popesMacCulloch sweeps his narrative across the culture, politics and lay people of Renaissance Western Europe. This broad brush approach touches upon many fascinating discussions surrounding the Reformation, including his belief that the Latin Church was probably not as "corrupt and ineffective" as Protestants tend to portray it. In fact, he asserts that it "generally satisfied the spiritual needs of the late medieval people." As a historical document, this 750-page narrative has all the key ingredients. MacCulloch, a professor of history as the Church of Oxford University, is an articulate and vibrant writer with a strong guiding intelligence. The structure is sensiblestarting with the main characters who influenced reforms, then spreading out to the regional concerns, and social intellectual themes of the era. He even fast forwards into American Christianityshowing how this historical era influences modern times. MacCulloch is a topnotch historianuncovering material and theories that will seem fresh and inspired to Reformation scholars as well as lay readers. --Gail Hudson [via]
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the Worldby Amir D. AczelISBN 0156007533 (0-15-600753-3)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World'Book summary:Sometimes it pays to be in the right place at the right time. Certainly the mariners in Amalfi in the twelfth century were. Here the compass was first invented and used in navigation, eventually helping to make Italians the world's greatest sailors.[via]
But the story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth. It begins in ancient China around the birth of Christ. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Emperor. This piece of metal suspended in water always pointed north and was put to excellent use in feng shui, the Chinese art of finding the right location. However, it was the Italians who unleashed the compass's formidable powers on ships at sea.
Throughout the ancient world, sailors navigated by wind, and stars, and the routes of migrating birds, but bad weather and winter storms impeded their travels. When the compass migrated to Italy, the modern world began: Venice, trade with the East, the Age of Discovery. The compass made it all possible, and this is its fascinating story.More editions of The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World:
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A Rumor of Warby Philip CaputoISBN 0345331222 (0-345-33122-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rumor of War'Book summary:The extraordinary betseller that provides a close-up look unlike any other, at the American experience in Vietnam. Powerful, vivid, compassionate, and heartbreaking, here is a very personal and yet universal grunt's-eye-view of the hopeless brutality and the ultimate, and seemingly endless horror where men and governments sacrificed their morality and the souls of their nation. [via]
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The Russiansby Hedrick SmithISBN 0345317467 (0-345-31746-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Russians'Book summary:Hedrick Smith has done what we all wish we could do: he has gone to Russia and spoken to the people. Over steaming samovars, in cramped flats, and on dirt-floors, he has spoken to peasants and bureaucrats, artists and officials. He has studied their customs and their governments and shares his fascinating insights and fresh perspectives with us. [via]
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Second World Warby John KeeganISBN 0143035738 (0-14-303573-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Second World War'Book summary:The best one-volume treatment available, The Second World War by John Keegan is an outstanding synthesis of an enormous amount of material on "the largest single event in human history." The book proceeds chronologically through the war, but chapters appearing at appropriate moments focus on particular themes, such as war production, occupation, bombing, resistance, and espionage. Keegan's ability to translate the war's grand strategies is impressive, and the battle descriptions are superb. Generals obviously play a key role in this narrative, but ordinary soldiers also receive proper credit, as do the often-overlooked merchant marines whose heroic efforts to supply Great Britain made the Allied victory possible. Keegan, author of the landmark book The Face of Battle, is without doubt one of our greatest military historians, and here his analytical powers and skilled writing are on full display. [via]
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Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtiusby Julius Caesar, Carolyn Hammond, Aulus HirtiusISBN 0192831208 (0-19-283120-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seven Commentaries on the Gallic War With an Eighth Commentary by Aulus Hirtius'Book summary:The Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an autobiographical account written by one of the most famous figures of European history. This new translation reflects the purity of Caesar's Latin while preserving the pace and flow of his momentous narrative of the conquest of Gaul and the first Roman invasions of Britain and Germany. Detailed notes, maps, a table of dates, and glossary make this the most useful edition available. [via]
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The Stones Of Veniceby John Ruskin, J. G. LinksISBN 030681286X (0-306-81286-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stones Of Venice'Book summary:John Ruskin, one of the most influential art critics of the 19th centruy, wrote more than half a million words on Venice. This is an abridged version of his opus, which still contains the essence of his original work, for those who would appreciate Venice, architecture and Ruskin's fine writing. [via]
Timelines of Warby David Brownstone, Irene M. FranckISBN 0316114472 (0-316-11447-2)
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An Unfinished History of the Worldby Hugh ThomasISBN 0333627997 (0-333-62799-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Unfinished History of the World'Book summary:Following the paths of Herodotus, Raleigh and H.G. Wells, this updated edition surveys the story of humankind, from the dawn of man to the hopes that will carry the world through the last years of the 20th century. The book won the National Book Award for History in 1980. Hugh Thomas also won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962 for his book, "The Spanish Civil War". [via]
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The Voyages of Odysseusby Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, E. V. RieuISBN 0146001516 (0-14-600151-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Voyages of Odysseus'Book summary:One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles. [via]
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip GourevitchISBN 0312243359 (0-312-24335-9)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda'Book summary:"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.
The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan [via]
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Western Civilizationby Jackson J. SpielvogelISBN 0314027955 (0-314-02795-5)
Softcover, West Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Western Civilization'Book summary:Comprehensive coverage of Western Civilization since 1550 includes Chapters 15-30 of the larger text. Begins with a 10-page preface summarizing the events leading up to this point in history. [via]
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Wide As the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspiredby Benson BobrickISBN 0142000590 (0-14-200059-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wide As the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired'Book summary:Benson Bobrick's Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired is a brisk and gripping work of history, religion, and literary criticism. Translation of the King James Bible took centuries to complete, and Bobrick provides colorful descriptions of the distinctive contributions of various translators who took part in the project, particularly John Wyclif in the 15th century and William Tyndale in the 16th century. (Tyndale, he points out, is the second most widely quoted writer, after Shakespeare, in the English language ["eat, drink, and be merry," is Tyndale's phrase; so is "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"].) Wide as the Waters interprets each translator's work according to its contemporary political context in England. The book's most dramatic passages are found in its account of Henry VIII's showdown with Rome, which resulted in (among other things) Tyndale's execution. Although Bobrick may overstate the singularity of the Bible's influence on the English Revolution (he asserts that the concepts of liberty and free will that guided revolutionaries who overthrew Charles I were primarily derived from the King James Bible), his argument is, at the very least, an effective and engaging reminder of Scripture's liberating power. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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A World Historyby William Hardy McNeillISBN 019511616X (0-19-511616-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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World History: The Human Odysseyby Jackson J. SpielvogelISBN 0314205616 (0-314-20561-6)
Hardcover, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill School Pub Co
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The World Revolution of Westernization: The Twentieth Century Global Perspectivesby Theodore H. Von LaueISBN 0195049071 (0-19-504907-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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