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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbusby Charles C. MannISBN 1400032059 (1-4000-3205-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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About Time: Exploring the Gay Pastby Martin DubermanISBN 0914017136 (0-914017-13-6)
Hardcover, Gay Presses of New York
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African People in World Historyby John Henrik ClarkeISBN 0933121776 (0-933121-77-6)
Softcover, Black Classic Pr
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The Anatomy Of Fascismby Robert O. PaxtonISBN 1400033918 (1-4000-3391-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Anatomy of Fascism will have a lasting impact on our understanding of modern European history, just as Paxtons classic Vichy France redefined our vision of World War II. Based on a lifetime of research, this compelling and important book transforms our knowledge of fascism the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Ancient Rome: How It Affects You Todayby Richard J. Maybury, Rick Maybury, Bluestocking PressISBN 0942617223 (0-942617-22-3)
Softcover, Bluestocking Pr
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Ancient Rome: How It Affects You Todayby Rick MayburyISBN 0942617568 (0-942617-56-8)
Softcover, Bluestocking Pr
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And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War IIby Evelyn Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-GreenleeISBN 140003129X (1-4000-3129-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Art Of Warby Sun TzuISBN 0974201324 (0-9742013-2-4)
Softcover, Cloud Hands Inc
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The Art of War by Sun Tzuby Sun Tzu, Lionel GilesISBN 0976072696 (0-9760726-9-6)
Softcover, El Paso Norte Pr
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The Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the Worldby Sun TzuISBN 095788687X (0-9578868-7-X)
Softcover, Deodand Pub
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Augustus Caesars World: A Story of Ideas and Events from Bc 44 to 14 Adby Genevieve FosterISBN 0964380323 (0-9643803-2-3)
Softcover, Varsitybooks.Com
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Barnes Against the Blackout: Essays Against Interventionismby Harry E. BarnesISBN 0939484366 (0-939484-36-6)
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The Book of the City of Ladiesby Christine De Pizan, Jeffrey RichardsISBN 0892552301 (0-89255-230-1)
Softcover, Persea Books
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In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges and universities in America, from Columbia to Stanford. [via]More editions of The Book of the City of Ladies:
Borderlands of Western Civilization: A History of East Central Europeby Oscar Halecki, Andrew L. SimonISBN 096657348X (0-9665734-8-X)
Hardcover, Simon Pubns
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The British and American Women's Trade Union Leagues, 1890-1925: A Case Study of Feminism and Classby Robin Miller JacobyISBN 0926019686 (0-926019-68-6)
Hardcover, Carlson Pub
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Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotesby Richard KayISBN 0921149255 (0-921149-25-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr
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Call Me Womanby Ellen KuzwayoISBN 093321619X (0-933216-19-X)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Cambodia 1975-1982by Michael VickeryISBN 0896081893 (0-89608-189-3)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Chile's Free Market Miracle: A Second Lookby Joseph Collins, John LearISBN 0935028633 (0-935028-63-3)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Chronicle of the 20th Centuryby Clifton DanielISBN 0942191013 (0-942191-01-3)
Hardcover, Chronicle Publications
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The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric Historyby James M. BlautISBN 0898623480 (0-89862-348-0)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind/Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowdsby Charles MacKayISBN 0934380236 (0-934380-23-6)
Softcover, Traders Pr
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Das Kapitalby Karl MarxISBN 0895269317 (0-89526-931-7)
Softcover, Gateway Books
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Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economyby Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Serge L. LevitskyISBN 089526711X (0-89526-711-X)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Easy Steps to Profitable Grantwritingby Minnie HarringtonISBN 0965811115 (0-9658111-1-5)
Softcover, Harrington Assoc
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Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khanby Adam T. Kessler, Adam T. KellserISBN 0938644335 (0-938644-33-5)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Evolution of Civilizationsby Carroll GuigleyISBN 0913966576 (0-913966-57-6)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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Like the course, The Evolution of Civilizations is a comprehensive and perceptive look at the factors behind the rise and fall of civilizations.
Quigley defines a civilization as "a producing society with an instrument of expansion." A civilization's decline is not inevitable but occurs when its instrument of expansion is transformed into an institutionthat is, when social arrangements that meet real social needs are transformed into social institutions serving their own purposes regardless of real social needs.
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowdsby Charles MacKayISBN 0899665160 (0-89966-516-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books
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In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0. [via]
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Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World Warby Arthur PonsonbyISBN 0939484390 (0-939484-39-0)
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Fatal Impact: An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840by Alan MooreheadISBN 093518077X (0-935180-77-X)
Softcover, Booklines Hawaii Ltd
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The First Civilizationsby Giovanni CaselliISBN 0911745599 (0-911745-59-9)
Hardcover, School Specialty Publishing
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The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretationsby Frank A. Kafker, James Michael LauxISBN 0898745179 (0-89874-517-9)
Softcover, Krieger
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The Glory of Christendomby Warren H. CarrollISBN 0931888549 (0-931888-54-9)
Softcover, Christendom Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glory of Christendom'Book summary:This series is the only comprehensive narration of Western history written from the orthodox Catholic perspective still in print. How would a historical narrative read if the author began with these first principles: Truth exists; the Incarnation happened? This series is essential reading for those who consider the West worth defending.
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The God That Failedby Arthur Koestler, Norman Podhoretz, Richard H. CrossmanISBN 0895268671 (0-89526-867-1)
Hardcover, Regnery Publishing, Incorporated, An Eagle Publishing Company
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The God That Failed'Book summary:The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their own experiences, the authors illustrate the fate of leftism around the world. André Gide (France), Richard Wright (the United States), Ignazio Silone (Italy), Stephen Spender (England), Arthur Koestler (Germany), and Louis Fischer, an American foreign correspondent, all tell how their search for the betterment of humanity led them to communism, and the personal agony and revulsion which then caused them to reject it. David Engerman's new foreword to this central work of our time recounts the tumultuous events of the era, providing essential background. It also describes the book's origins and impact, the influence of communism in American intellectual life, and how the events described in The God That Failed continue to affect public discourse today.
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The Gods of Eden: A New Look at Human Historyby William BramleyISBN 0940291002 (0-940291-00-2)
Hardcover, Dahlin Family Press
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Great Adventures That Changed Our Worldby Reader's DigestISBN 0895770482 (0-89577-048-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Merchandise &
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The Guinness Book of Kings, Rulers & Statesmenby Clive CarpenterISBN 090042446X (0-900424-46-X)
Hardcover, Guiness Superlatives
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Heroes, Antiheroes, and the Holocaust: American Jelwery and Historical Choiceby David MorrisonISBN 0964688603 (0-9646886-0-3)
Hardcover, Milah
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History of the Second World Warby Basil Henry Liddell HartISBN 0896730654 (0-89673-065-4)
Hardcover, Exeter Books
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History of Cartographyby Leo BagrowISBN 0913750336 (0-913750-33-6)
Hardcover, Transaction Pub
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A History of the Bahamasby Michael CratonISBN 0969256817 (0-9692568-1-7)
Softcover, San Salvador Press
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History's Greatest Liarsby Joseph McCabeISBN 0911826815 (0-911826-81-5)
Softcover, Amer Atheist Pr
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Homage to the Spanish Exiles: Voices from the Spanish Civil Warby Nancy MacDonaldISBN 0898853257 (0-89885-325-7)
Hardcover, Kluwer Academic Pub
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Homer, The Iliad And the Odysseyby Homer, James H. Ford, Samuel ButlerISBN 0977340007 (0-9773400-0-7)
Softcover, El Paso Norte Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homer, The Iliad And the Odyssey'Book summary:The history of Homer and his works is lost in doubtful obscurity, as is the history of many of the first minds who have done honor to humanity because they rose amidst darkness. The majestic stream of his song, blessing and fertilizing, flows like a river through many lands and nations. The creations of genius always seem like miracles, because they are, for the most part, created far out of the reach of observation. If we were in possession of all the historical testimonies, we never could wholly explain the origin of the Iliad and the Odyssey. But it must be noted that Homer's great epic poems hold a singular place in literature. Within the knowledge of all of history that has been passed down to us, there is no known predecessor that could lay claim to be the progenitor or equal to these great works. It was Homer who formed the character of the Greek nation. No poet has ever, as a poet, exercised a similar influence over his countrymen. Prophets, lawgivers, and sages have formed the character of other nations; it was reserved to a poet to form that of the Greeks. When lawgivers and sages appeared in Greece, the work of the poet had already been accomplished; and they paid homage to his superior genius. He held up before his nation the mirror, in which they were to behold the world of gods and heroes no less than of feeble mortals, and to behold them reflected with purity and truth. His poems are founded on the first feeling of human nature; on the love of children, wife, and country; on that passion which outweighs all others, the love of glory. His songs were poured forth from a breast which sympathized with all the feelings of man; and therefore they enter, and will continue to enter, every breast which cherishes the same sympathies. The table of contents of this special edition begins with the first line of the text for each chapter and verse. [via]
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africaby Walter RodneyISBN 0950154644 (0-9501546-4-4)
Hardcover, Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications
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How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilizationby Thomas E. WoodsISBN 0895260387 (0-89526-038-7)
Hardcover, Regnery Pub
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In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophetby Paul KriwaczekISBN 1400031427 (1-4000-3142-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Following Zarathustras elusive trail back through time and across the Islamic, Christian, and Jewish worlds, Paul Kriwaczek uncovers his legacy at a wedding ceremony in present-day Central Asia, in the Cathar heresy of medieval France, and among the mystery cults of the Roman empire. He explores pre-Muslim Iran and Central Asia, ultimately bringing us face to face with the prophet himself, a teacher whose radical humility shocked and challenged his age, and whose teachings have had an enduring effect on Western thought. The result is a tour de force of travel and historical inquiry by an adventurer in the classic tradition. [via]More editions of In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet:
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Istanbul: Memories And the Cityby Orhan Pamuk, Maureen FreelyISBN 1400033888 (1-4000-3388-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank GodwinISBN 0895772329 (0-89577-232-9)
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Lais of Marie De France.by Robert W. Hanning, Joan M. Ferrante, De France Marie, MarieISBN 0939464020 (0-939464-02-0)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Lenin for Beginnersby R. Appignanesi, Oscar ZaranteISBN 0904613674 (0-904613-67-4)
Softcover, Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative
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Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Ageby Charles H. HapgoodISBN 0932813429 (0-932813-42-9)
Softcover, Adventures Unlimited Pr
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Mark Twain Joan of Arcby Mark Twain, Jean Francois AldenISBN 0898702682 (0-89870-268-2)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Mihlotiby Miriam TlaliISBN 0947009035 (0-947009-03-5)
Softcover, Skotaville Publishers
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Mind Benders, Beginning Book 1by Michael BakerISBN 0894558722 (0-89455-872-2)
Softcover, Critical Thinking Co
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My Land and My Peopleby Dalai LamaISBN 0961147407 (0-9611474-0-7)
Softcover, Potala Pubns
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Nicaraguan Peasant Poetry from Solentinameby David GulletteISBN 0931122481 (0-931122-48-1)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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Nicholson's Historic Britainby Rosemarie McCabeISBN 0905522532 (0-905522-53-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Nuclear Devil's Dictionaryby James J. FarrellISBN 0961534877 (0-9615348-7-7)
Softcover, Usonia Pr
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Orders of Knighthood, Awards, and the Holy Seeby Peter Bander Van Duren, Hyginus Eugene CardinaleISBN 0905715268 (0-905715-26-8)
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Perpetual War for Perpetual Peaceby Harry E. BarnesISBN 0939484013 (0-939484-01-3)
Softcover, Inst for Historical Review
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Pieces of the Game: The Human Drama of Americans Held Hostage in Iranby Charles W. ScottISBN 0931948517 (0-931948-51-7)
Hardcover, Xs Books
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The Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin MartinezISBN 0937832383 (0-937832-38-3)
Softcover, Branden Pub Co
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Quest for the Pastby Reader's Digest StaffISBN 0895771705 (0-89577-170-5)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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Reflections on Historyby Jacob Burckhardt, Gottfried DietzeISBN 091396638X (0-913966-38-X)
Softcover, Liberty Fund, Incorporated
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Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairsby Noam ChomskyISBN 0896086119 (0-89608-611-9)
Softcover, South End Pr
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Saint Ignatius and the Company of Jesusby August Derleth, John LawnISBN 0898707226 (0-89870-722-6)
Softcover, Ignatius Pr
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Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggleby Margaret RandallISBN 091988833X (0-919888-33-X)
Softcover, New Star Books
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The Story of the World Activity Book Three: Early Modern Times from Elizabeth the First to the Forty-Ninersby Susan Wise BauerISBN 0972860320 (0-9728603-2-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Templars: Knights of Godby Edward BurmanISBN 0892812214 (0-89281-221-4)
Softcover, Inner Traditions
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Ten Days That Shook the Worldby John ReedISBN 0972042806 (0-9720428-0-6)
Softcover, Waterlow Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ten Days That Shook the World'Book summary:The situation in St. Petersburg was growing more and more tense. The People's Revolution had begun by overthrowing the corrupt Tsarist regime in March 1917, but the workers and the peasants felt the revolution had much farther to go. Tired of fighting a war that meant little to them, the soldiers also grew restless: "When the land belongs to the peasants, and the factories to the workers, and the power to the Soviets, then we'll know we have something to fight for, and we'll fight for it!"
Lenin pressed the Bolsheviks to seize power. On the night of October 24, an organized mass of workers, soldiers, peasants, and sailors stormed the Winter Palace. On the following day, at the opening of the second Congress of Soviets, Trotsky announced the overthrow of the provisional government. Counterrevolutionary forces marched on the capital, but the Revolutionary Army triumphed. After all, "[t]his was their battle, for their world; the officers in command were elected by them. For the moment that incoherent multiple will was one will."
In Ten Days That Shook the World John Reed tells the story of Red October and the Russian revolution from a unique, firsthand perspective. Reed, an American journalist, was on assignment in Russia for The Masses--then the principal radical journal in the United States--and spent his days walking the streets, reading and collecting handbills, newspapers, and posters, and talking to people. As a result, Ten Days crackles with energetic immediacy. At its best moments it reads like a novel: Reed recounts conversations and arguments, details political machinations, and speculates on personal motives. Though this is no mere piece of propaganda, Reed's enthusiasm for the revolution infuses the text (some readers may be put off by Reed's florid prose), casting each counterrevolutionary act in a negative light. Helpful notes flesh out the background for those less familiar with the preceding events and render this a solid work of history. Ten Days That Shook the World is a stirring account of a stirring event. --Sunny Delaney [via]
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The Theaetetus of Platoby Myles BurnyeatISBN 0915144816 (0-915144-81-6)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Theory and Practice of Black Resistance to Apartheid: A Social-Ethical Analysisby Mokgethi B. G. MotlhabiISBN 0947009019 (0-947009-01-9)
Softcover, Skotaville Publishers
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Thomas Jefferson Writings Autobiography a Summary View of the Rights of British Columbia Notes on the State of Virginia Public Papers Addresses Messaby Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. PetersonISBN 094045016X (0-940450-16-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Twilight over Englandby William JoyceISBN 091103837X (0-911038-37-X)
Softcover, Noontide Pr
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The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorismby Stephen SchwartzISBN 1400030455 (1-4000-3045-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Schwartz reveals the hypocrisy of the Saudi regime, whose moderate facade conceals state-sponsored repression and terrorism. He also raises troubling questions about Wahhabi infiltration of Americas Islamic community and about U.S. oil companies sanitizing Saudi Arabias image for the West. This sharp analysis and eye-opening expose illuminates the background to the September 11th terrorist attacks and offers new approaches for U.S. policy toward its closest ally in the Middle East. [via]More editions of The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism:
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Ulyssesby James JoyceISBN 0914061704 (0-914061-70-4)
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Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is: What happens?. In the case of Ulysses, the answer might be Everything. William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of indelible Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, stroll the streets, argue, and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream-of-consciousness technique--which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river--we're privy to their thoughts, emotions, and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordian folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism.
Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent--that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call Early Yeats Lite--will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naive curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" --James Marcus [via]
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Under the Big Stick: Nicaragua and the United States Since 1848by Karl BermannISBN 0896083233 (0-89608-323-3)
Softcover, Compita Pub
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Unsolved Mysteries of the Pastby Reader's Digest EditorsISBN 0895773597 (0-89577-359-7)
Hardcover, Readers Digest
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W.E.B. Dubois: Writings, the Suppression of the African Slave-Trade, the Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, Essays and Articlesby W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathan Irvin HugginsISBN 094045033X (0-940450-33-X)
Hardcover, Library of America
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Wall Street & the Rise of Hilterby Antony C. SuttonISBN 0945001533 (0-945001-53-3)
Softcover, G S G & Associates Pub
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Wall Street and the Rise of Hitlerby Antony C. SuttonISBN 0892450045 (0-89245-004-5)
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War Is a Racketby Smedley D. ButlerISBN 0939482126 (0-939482-12-6)
Softcover, Noontide Press
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War Is a Racket: The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General, Two Other Anti=Interventionist Tracts, and Photographs from the Horror of Itby Smedley D. Butler, Adam ParfreyISBN 0922915865 (0-922915-86-5)
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We the Black Jews: Witness to the White Jewish Race Mythby Yosef Ben-JochannanISBN 0933121407 (0-933121-40-7)
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Woman As Force in History: A Study in Traditions and Realitiesby Mary Ritter BeardISBN 0892551135 (0-89255-113-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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World of Columbus and Sonsby Genevieve FosterISBN 0964380382 (0-9643803-8-2)
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World War II in the Pacific: Remember Pearl Harborby R. Conrad SteinISBN 0894905244 (0-89490-524-4)
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