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After the Warby Carol MatasISBN 0689807228 (0-689-80722-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After the War'Book summary:"Didn't the gas ovens finish you all off?" is the response that meets Ruth Mendenberg when she returns to her village in Poland after the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II. Her entire family wiped out in the Holocaust, the fifteen-year-old girl has nowhere to go.
Members of the underground organization Brichah find her, and she joins them in their dangerous quest to smuggle illegal immigrants to Palestine. Ruth risks her life to help lead a group of children on a daring journey over half a continent and across the sea to Eretz Israel, using secret routes and forged documents -- and sheer force of will.
This adventure will touch readers, who will marvel at the resources and inner strength of mere children helping other children to find a place in this world in which they can belong. Carol Matas, one of the foremost authors of historical fiction, brings the desperation and passion of this remarkable journey to life. [via]
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Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800; The Challengeby R. R. PalmerISBN 0691005699 (0-691-00569-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Armed Truce: The Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945-46by Hugh ThomasISBN 068911740X (0-689-11740-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictoral Representationby E. H. GombrichISBN 0691070008 (0-691-07000-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representationby Ernst Hans Josef GombrichISBN 0691017506 (0-691-01750-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation'Book summary:Considered a great classic by all who seek for a meeting ground between science and the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of present-day theories of visual perception information and learning. Searching for a rational explanation of the changing styles of art, Gombrich reexamines many ideas on the imitation of nature and the function of tradition. In testing his arguments he ranges over the history of art, noticing particularly the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks, and the visual discoveries of such masters as Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt, as well as the impressionists and the cubists. Gombrich's triumph in Art and Illusion arises from the fact that his main concern is less with the artists than with ourselves, the beholders.
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Aztecs and Spaniards : Cortes and the Conquest of Mexicoby Albert MarrinISBN 0689311761 (0-689-31176-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Berlin Diaries 1940-1945 of Marie Missie Vassiltchikovby Marie VassiltchikovISBN 0701129794 (0-7011-2979-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Can't You Make Them Behave, King Georgeby Jean Fritz, Tomie De PaolaISBN 0698114027 (0-698-11402-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Can't You Make Them Behave, King George'Book summary:This entertaining volume sheds light on the life of England?s King George III. It begins when he was a bashful boy who blushed easily, goes on to his early days as king, and finally examines his role in the American Revolution?when Americans ceased to think of him as good King George. Fascinating history made accessible for young readers.[via]More editions of Can't You Make Them Behave, King George:
Can't You Make Them Behave, King Georgeby Tomie De Paola, Jean FritzISBN 0698203151 (0-698-20315-1)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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Chapman's Homer: The Iliadby Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691002363 (0-691-00236-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Iliad'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."
This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the Iliad, making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction and a glossary. Garry Wills contributes a preface, in which he explains how Chapman tapped into the poetic consonance between the semi-divine heroism of the Iliad's warriors and the cosmological symbols of Renaissance humanism.
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Chapman's Homer: The Odysseyby Homer, Allardyce Nicoll, George ChapmanISBN 0691048916 (0-691-04891-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey'Book summary:George Chapman's translations of Homer are among the most famous in the English language. Keats immortalized the work of the Renaissance dramatist and poet in the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Swinburne praised the translations for their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." The great critic George Saintsbury (1845-1933) wrote: "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Odyssey (1614-15), making only a small number of modifications to punctuation and wording where they might confuse the modern reader. The editor, Allardyce Nicoll, provides an introduction, textual notes, a glossary, and a commentary. Garry Wills's preface to the Odyssey explores how Chapman's less strained meter lets him achieve more delicate poetic effects as compared to the Iliad. Wills also examines Chapman's "fine touch" in translating "the warm and human sense of comedy" in the Odyssey.
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That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
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The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissanceby J. R. HaleISBN 0689122004 (0-689-12200-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance'Book summary:In his new book, renowned historian John Hale paints, on a grand canvas, what he calls an "investigative impression" of Europe during the period from 1450 to 1620--the era we have come to call the Renaissance. 200 illustrations. [via]
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The Country and the Cityby Raymond WilliamsISBN 0701113715 (0-7011-1371-5)
Hardcover, Chatto and Windus
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Dance of the Planetsby Nancy VeglahnISBN 0698306937 (0-698-30693-7)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Disease & Historyby Frederick Fox CartwrightISBN 069024116X (0-690-24116-X)
Hardcover, Devin-Adair Pub
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Earthquakes In Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects Of Seismic Disruptionsby Donald Theodore Sanders, Jelle Zeilinga De BoerISBN 0691050708 (0-691-05070-8)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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For The Glory Of God: How Monotheism Led To Reformations, Science, Witch-hunts, And The End Of Slaveryby Rodney StarkISBN 0691119503 (0-691-11950-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'For The Glory Of God: How Monotheism Led To Reformations, Science, Witch-hunts, And The End Of Slavery'Book summary:For the Glory of God challenges numerous assumptions about how religion affected the course of history. As a professor of Sociology and Comparative Religions at the University of Washington, Rodney Stark (The Rise of Christianity) has a unique ability to write like a chatty social Scientist while delving into complicated theories on religion and history. Here he shows how beliefs in God--whether it was through the filter of Christianity, Judaism, or Islam--provoked and fueled human history. Of course many readers wont dicker with his evidence that religious fervor influenced the witch hunts. But readers may be surprised by Starks assertion that the persecution of witches actually had more to do with the conflicts between the worlds major religions than the oppressive beliefs of fanatical clergy or sexist men. He also asserts that the same religious leaders who were the first to persecute witches were also the first to take a stand against slavery. And, contrary to many historical theories, Stark claims that religion may have been the driving force behind the emergence of modern science. Starks fascinating conclusions may rile conventional historians. Indeed, Stark was dismayed to discover how many historians "dismiss the role of religion in producing good things such as the rise of science or the end of slavery, and the corresponding efforts to blame religion for practically everything bad." While certainly weighed in defense of religious beliefs, especially Christianity, Stark offers a respectable and intelligent argument for church leaders, theologians, and maybe a few history buffs to ponder. --Gail Hudson [via]
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Mayaby Linda Schele, David FreidelISBN 0688112048 (0-688-11204-8)
Softcover, Quill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya'Book summary:The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish. Here the great historic rulers of pre-Columbian civilization come to life again with the decipherment of their writing. At its height, Maya civilization flourished under great kings like Shield-Jaguar, who ruled for more than sixty years, expanding his kingdom and building some of the most impressive works of architecture in the ancient world. Long placed on a mist-shrouded pedestal as austere, peaceful stargazers, the Maya elites are now known to have been the rulers of populous, aggressive city-states.
Hailed as "a Rosetta stone of Maya civilization" (Brian M. Fagan, author of People of the Earth), A Forest of Kings is "a must for interested readers," says Evon Vogt, professor of anthropology at Harvard University.
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From Earliest Times to 1715by Charles D. HamiltonISBN 0690874693 (0-690-87469-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweilerby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 0689711816 (0-689-71181-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler'Book summary:After reading this book, I guarantee that you will never visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or any wonderful, old cavern of a museum) without sneaking into the bathrooms to look for Claudia and her brother Jamie. They're standing on the toilets, still, hiding until the museum closes and their adventure begins. Such is the impact of timeless novels . . . they never leave us. E. L. Konigsburg won the 1967 Newbery Medal for this tale of how Claudia and her brother run away to the museum in order to teach their parents a lesson. Little do they know that mystery awaits! [via]
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The Gate in the Wallby Ellen HowardISBN 0689822952 (0-689-82295-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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The Gifts Of Athena: Historical Origins Of The Knowledge Economyby Joel MokyrISBN 0691120137 (0-691-12013-7)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gifts Of Athena: Historical Origins Of The Knowledge Economy'Book summary:The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the growth explosion in the modern West in the past two centuries was driven not just by the appearance of new technological ideas but also by the improved access to these ideas in society at large--as made possible by social networks comprising universities, publishers, professional sciences, and kindred institutions. Through a wealth of historical evidence set in clear and lively prose, he shows that changes in the intellectual and social environment and the institutional background in which knowledge was generated and disseminated brought about the Industrial Revolution, followed by sustained economic growth and continuing technological change.
Mokyr draws a link between intellectual forces such as the European enlightenment and subsequent economic changes of the nineteenth century, and follows their development into the twentieth century. He further explores some of the key implications of the knowledge revolution. Among these is the rise and fall of the "factory system" as an organizing principle of modern economic organization. He analyzes the impact of this revolution on information technology and communications as well as on the public's state of health and the structure of households. By examining the social and political roots of resistance to new knowledge, Mokyr also links growth in knowledge to political economy and connects the economic history of technology to the New Institutional Economics. The Gifts of Athena provides crucial insights into a matter of fundamental concern to a range of disciplines including economics, economic history, political economy, the history of technology, and the history of science.
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The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Communityby William H. McNeillISBN 0691025592 (0-691-02559-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islamby Peter PartnerISBN 0691002355 (0-691-00235-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economyby Kenneth PomeranzISBN 0691090106 (0-691-09010-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy'Book summary:The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia? As Ken Pomeranz shows, as recently as 1750, parallels between these two parts of the world were very high in life expectancy, consumption, product and factor markets, and the strategies of households. Perhaps most surprisingly, Pomeranz demonstrates that the Chinese and Japanese cores were no worse off ecologically than Western Europe. Core areas throughout the eighteenth-century Old World faced comparable local shortages of land-intensive products, shortages that were only partly resolved by trade.
Pomeranz argues that Europe's nineteenth-century divergence from the Old World owes much to the fortunate location of coal, which substituted for timber. This made Europe's failure to use its land intensively much less of a problem, while allowing growth in energy-intensive industries. Another crucial difference that he notes has to do with trade. Fortuitous global conjunctures made the Americas a greater source of needed primary products for Europe than any Asian periphery. This allowed Northwest Europe to grow dramatically in population, specialize further in manufactures, and remove labor from the land, using increased imports rather than maximizing yields. Together, coal and the New World allowed Europe to grow along resource-intensive, labor-saving paths.
Meanwhile, Asia hit a cul-de-sac. Although the East Asian hinterlands boomed after 1750, both in population and in manufacturing, this growth prevented these peripheral regions from exporting vital resources to the cloth-producing Yangzi Delta. As a result, growth in the core of East Asia's economy essentially stopped, and what growth did exist was forced along labor-intensive, resource-saving paths--paths Europe could have been forced down, too, had it not been for favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas.
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Greater Than Angelsby Carol MatasISBN 068983084X (0-689-83084-X)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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Gunpowderby Clive PontingISBN 0701177527 (0-7011-7752-7)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fallby Peter TurchinISBN 0691116695 (0-691-11669-5)
Hardcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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History Of Christianityby Paul JohnsonISBN 0689705913 (0-689-70591-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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First published in 1976, Paul Johnson's exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, and magnitude. In a highly readable companion to books on faith and history, the scholar and author Johnson has illuminated the Christian world and its fascinating history in a way that no other has.
Johnson takes off in the year 49 with his namesake the apostle Paul. Thus beginning an ambitious quest to paint the centuries since the founding of a little-known 'Jesus Sect', A History of Christianity explores to a great degree the evolution of the Western world. With an unbiased and overall optimistic tone, Johnson traces the fantastic scope of the consequent sects of Christianity and the people who followed them. Information drawn from extensive and varied sources from around the world makes this history as credible as it is reliable. Invaluable understanding of the framework of modern Christianity - and its trials and tribulations throughout history - has never before been contained in such a captivating work. [via]More editions of History Of Christianity:
The Humanistic Tradition: Faith, Reason, and Power in the Early Modern Worldby Gloria K. FieroISBN 0697340716 (0-697-34071-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Humanistic Tradition: Medieval Europe and the World Beyondby Gloria K. FieroISBN 0697340694 (0-697-34069-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Humanistic Tradition: Romanticism Realism and the Nineteenth-Century Worldby Gloria K. FieroISBN 0697340724 (0-697-34072-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Humanistic Tradition: The European Renaissance, the Reformation, and Global Encounterby Gloria K. FieroISBN 0697340708 (0-697-34070-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Humanistic Tradition Vol. 6: The Global Village of the Twentieth Centuryby Gloria K. FieroISBN 0697340732 (0-697-34073-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the Days of Abraham to the Beginnings of Modern Timesby F. E. PetersISBN 0691006415 (0-691-00641-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Joan of Arcby Diane StanleyISBN 0688143296 (0-688-14329-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joan of Arc'Book summary:She was a child of wartime, for her country had long suffered under the twin horrors of invasion and civil war. At thirteen she began to hear the voices of saints. At seventeen she rode into battle and was proclaimed the savior of France. By nineteen she was dead--burned at the stake as a heretic. Almost five hundred years later she was declared a saint. This is her story, the story of Joan of Arc.
She was an illiterate peasant girl barely in her teens when the voices commanded her to leave her village, take up arms, and go to the aid of the young prince of France. Terrified, she protested--she was "Just a poor girl, who did not know how to ride or lead in war!" Still, she accepted her impossible mission and, during her brief and stunning career, faced hardship and danger, fought with unparalleled bravery, was twice wounded, and became a legend. The English, who began by mocking her as a foolish "cowgirl," soon came to fear her awesome power. The French were so inspired by this miraculous child that the tide of the dreadful war began to turn.
In the latest of her acclaimed series of picture-book biographies, Diane Stanley brings history to life through carefully researched, vivid narrative and sumptuous, gilded illustrations inspired by the illuminated manuscripts of the time. She takes readers to Joan's humble village of Domremy, to the splendid chambers where she first met the timid prince for whom she would sacrifice everything, to the battlefields where Joan fought so bravely, and to the dark and terrifying halls where she was condemned to die.
In this magnificent portrait of Joan of Arc, award-winner Diane Stanley once again reveals to young readers the richness and excitement of history.
Joan of Arc grew up during a time of invasion and civil war. At thirteen, she began to hear the voices of saints. At seventeen, she rode into battle. And by nineteen, she was burned at the stake as a heretic. Almost five hundred years later, she was declared a saint. In the latest of her acclaimed series of picture-book biographies, Diane Stanley tells Joan's story with a lively, carefully researched text and sumptuous, gilded illustrations inspired by the illuminated manuscripts of that time. In this glittering portrait of the illiterate peasant girl who became the savior of France, an award-winning author once again reveals to young readers the richness and excitement of history.00-01 South Carolina Book Award Nomination Masterlist (Grds 3-8)
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Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peaceby Thomas L. Pangle, Peter J. AhrensdorfISBN 0700612211 (0-7006-1221-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Kidnappedby Robert Louis Stevenson, Timothy Meis, N. C. WyethISBN 0689865422 (0-689-86542-2)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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All this changes after the death of his parents. He suddenly learns that he, David Balfour, is a man of wealth and standing, and that he is not destined for a simple life after all. All he needs to do to assume this new station in life is to travel to the town of Cramond, Scotland, to collect his inheritance from his father's younger brother, an uncle he had not even known existed. But David soon discovers that this is not as simple as it sounds, as he struggles to survive and outwit his treacherous uncle in this classic adventure story.
Original oil paintings by N. C. Wyeth capture the vitality of Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of fortune, camaraderie, betrayal, and independence. [via]
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Leif's Sagaby Jonathan HuntISBN 068980492X (0-689-80492-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Magellan First Around the Worldby Ronald SymeISBN 0688315941 (0-688-31594-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Ageby Peter ParetISBN 0691027641 (0-691-02764-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Master Cornhillby Eloise Jarvis McGrawISBN 0689303203 (0-689-30320-3)
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A Medieval Feastby AlikiISBN 0690042450 (0-690-04245-0)
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to Historyby Bruce B. Lawrence, N. J. Dawood, Franz Rosenthal, Ibn KhaldunISBN 0691120544 (0-691-12054-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History'Book summary:The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in America and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation was first published in 1969.
This new edition of the abridged version, with the addition of a key section of Rosenthal's own introduction to the three-volume edition, and with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence, will reintroduce this seminal work to twenty-first-century students and scholars of Islam and of medieval and ancient history.
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Muqaddimahby Ibn Khaldun, N. J. Dowood, Franz Rosenthal KhaldunISBN 0691017549 (0-691-01754-9)
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Nicholas and Alexandraby Robert K. MassieISBN 0689101775 (0-689-10177-5)
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No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam An Oral Historyby Otto J. LehrackISBN 0700605347 (0-7006-0534-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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On This Spot: An Expedition Back Through Timeby Susan E. Goodman, Lee ChristiansenISBN 0688169139 (0-688-16913-9)
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On Warby Michael Howard, Carl Von Clausewitz, Peter ParetISBN 0691018545 (0-691-01854-5)
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One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheismby Rodney StarkISBN 0691115001 (0-691-11500-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism'Book summary:Western history would be unrecognizable had it not been for people who believed in One True God. There would have been wars, but no religious wars. There would have been moral codes, but no Commandments. Had the Jews been polytheists, they would today be only another barely remembered people, less important, but just as extinct as the Babylonians. Had Christians presented Jesus to the Greco-Roman world as ''another'' God, their faith would long since have gone the way of Mithraism. And surely Islam would never have made it out of the desert had Muhammad not removed Allah from the context of Arab paganism and proclaimed him as the only God.
The three great monotheisms changed everything. With his customary clarity and vigor, Rodney Stark explains how and why monotheism has such immense power both to unite and to divide. Why and how did Jews, Christians, and Muslims missionize, and when and why did their efforts falter? Why did both Christianity and Islam suddenly become less tolerant of Jews late in the eleventh century, prompting outbursts of mass murder? Why were the Jewish massacres by Christians concentrated in the cities along the Rhine River, and why did the pogroms by Muslims take place mainly in Granada? How could the Jews persist so long as a minority faith, able to withstand intense pressures to convert? Why did they sometimes assimilate? In the final chapter, Stark also examines the American experience to show that it is possible for committed monotheists to sustain norms of civility toward one another.
A sweeping social history of religion, One True God shows how the great monotheisms shaped the past and created the modern world.
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Origins of the Second World Warby Alan J. TaylorISBN 0689706588 (0-689-70658-8)
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Otter Nonsenseby Norman Juster, Michael WitteISBN 0688122825 (0-688-12282-5)
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Parallel Journeysby Helen Waterford, Alfons Heck, Eleanor AyerISBN 0689832362 (0-689-83236-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Parallel Journeys'Book summary:She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their parallel journey through World War II. Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck were born just a few miles from each other in the German Rhineland. But their lives took radically different courses: Helen's to the Auschwitz extermination camp; Alfons to a high rank in the Hitler Youth. While Helen was hiding in Amsterdam, Alfons was a fanatic believer in Hitler's "master race." While she was crammed in a cattle car bound for the death camp Auschwitz, he was a teenage commander of frontline troops, ready to fight and die for the glory of Hitler and the Fatherland. This book tells both of their stories, side-by-side, in an overwhelming account of the nightmare that was WWII. The riveting stories of these two remarkable people must stand as a powerful lesson to us all. [via]
Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniverby E. L. KonigsburgISBN 068984624X (0-689-84624-X)
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Racism: A Short Historyby George M. FredricksonISBN 0691116520 (0-691-11652-0)
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Scotland - Church and Nation through Sixteen Centuriesby Gordon DonaldsonISBN 0701119098 (0-7011-1909-8)
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The Second World Warby Martin GilbertISBN 0701003855 (0-7010-0385-5)
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The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: The Truth Behind the Romanov Mysteryby Shay McNealISBN 0688169988 (0-688-16998-8)
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Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914by Susan Kingsley KentISBN 0691008523 (0-691-00852-3)
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Shadow of a Bullby Maia WojciechowskaISBN 0689300425 (0-689-30042-5)
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIIIby David StarkeyISBN 069401043X (0-694-01043-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII'Book summary:No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. What could make him marry six times? In this remarkable new study, David Starkey argues that the king was not a depraved philanderer, but someone seeking happiness -- and a son. Knowingly or not, he empowered a group of women to extraordinary heights and changed the way a nation was governed.
Henry took his first bride, Catherine of Aragon, when he was seventeen. They lasted twenty-four years together, but Catherine suffered through many miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir. Henry then fell in love with Anne Boleyn, the mother of Elizabeth I. Their relationship transformed England forever, but Henry had Anne beheaded and married his next wife, Jane Seymour, on the very day of Anne's execution. At last, Seymour gave birth to Henry's longed-for son, Edward VI. What followed was a farcical beauty contest which ended in the King's brief marriage to the "mare of Flanders," Anne of Cleves. Finally, there were the two Catherines: Catherine Howard, the flirtatious teenager whose adulteries made a fool of the aging king and who was the second bride to lose her head; and Catherine Parr, the shrewd, religiously radical bluestocking who outlived him.
Six Wives is a masterful work of history that intimately examines the rituals of diplomacy, marriage, pregnancy and religion that were part of daily life for women at the Tudor Court. Weaving new facts and fresh interpretations into a spellbinding account of the emotional drama surrounding Henry's six marriages, David Starkey reveals the central role that the queens played in determining policy. With an equally keen eye for romantic and political intrigue, he brilliantly recaptures the story of Henry's wives and the England they ruled.
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Six Wives :the Queens of Henry VIII: The Queens of Henry VIIIby David StarkeyISBN 0701172983 (0-7011-7298-3)
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The Story of Clocks and Calendars: Marking a Milleniumby Betsy Maestro, Giulio MaestroISBN 0688145493 (0-688-14549-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Clocks and Calendars: Marking a Millennium'Book summary:January 1, 2001, will mark the beginning of a new thousand-year period on earth. But our earth is more than four billion years old, and humans have lived on our planet for perhaps two hundred thousand years. So how can it be the year 2000? The answer is that it is the year 2000 only on the Gregorian calendar. On the Hebrew calendar, the year will be 5760. On the Muslim calendar, the year will be 1420. And on the Chinese calendar, it will be 4698. So what year is it really? It all depends on what calendar you use and when you started counting the years.
Here is the fascinating story of timekeeping: how, over thousands of years, calendars and clocks came to be.
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Sun Tzu: The New Translationby Sun-Tzu, J. H. HuangISBN 0688124003 (0-688-12400-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sun Tzu: The New Translation'Book summary:Sun-Tzu is a landmark translation of the Chinese classic that is without a doubt one of the most important books of all time. Popularly known as The Art of War, Sun-Tzu is one of the leading books on strategic thinking ever written. While other books on strategy, wisdom, and philosophy come and go, both leaders and gentle contemplators alike have embraced the writings of Sun-tzu.
Sun-Tzu is not simply another of many translations already available, but an entirely new text, based on manuscripts recently discovered in Linyi, China, that predates all previous texts by as much as one thousand years. In translating the text, researcher and interpreter J. H. Huang traced the roots of the language to before 221 B.C. to get to the original intent; Besides offering a wonderfully clear translation, Huang adds an introduction to the history behind Sun-Tzu and his own comments on the meaning of the text. In addition, Sun-Tzu includes six appendices, five of which were uncovered at Linyi and are not found in other editions.
The writings of Sun-tzu have stood the test of time, and J. H. Huang's Sun-Tzu is the edition for the next millennium and beyond. [via]More editions of Sun Tzu: The New Translation:
Tales Mummies Tellby Patricia LauberISBN 0690043899 (0-690-04389-9)
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The Thanksgiving Storyby Alice Dalgliesh, Helen SewellISBN 0689710534 (0-689-71053-4)
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Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nationsby Miguel De UnamunoISBN 0691018200 (0-691-01820-0)
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The Trumpeter of Krakowby Eric Philbrook Kelly, Janina DomanskaISBN 0689715714 (0-689-71571-4)
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The Twenty-Six Lettersby Oscar OggISBN 0690841159 (0-690-84115-9)
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The World of Odysseusby M. I. FinleyISBN 0701122447 (0-7011-2244-7)
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