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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob Burckhardt, Ludwig Goldscheider, S.G.C. MiddlemoreISBN 0714833630 (0-7148-3363-0)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'Book summary:Published in 1860, Burckhardts great work redefined our sense of the European past, wholly reinterpreting what has since been known simply as the Italian Renaissance. With unsurpassed erudition, Burckhardt illuminates a world of artistic and cultural ferment, innovation, and discovery; of revived humanism; of fierce tensions between church and empire; and of the birth of both the modern state and the modern individual. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy remains the single most important and influential account of this crucial moment in the history of the West.
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- Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy: ISBN 0714821403 (0-7148-2140-3)
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Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpectedby Daniel J. Boorstin, Ruth Frankel Boorstin, Marty AsherISBN 0679755187 (0-679-75518-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War IIby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 068480137X (0-684-80137-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II'Book summary:Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, Stephen E. Ambrose's D-Day: June 6, 1944 relies on over 1,400 interviews with veterans, as well as prodigious research in military archives on both sides of the Atlantic. He provides a comprehensive history of the invasion which also eloquently testifies as to how common soldiers performed extraordinary feats. A major theme of the book, upon which Ambrose would later expand in Citizen Soldiers, is how the soldiers from the democratic Allied nations rose to the occasion and outperformed German troops thought to be invincible. The many small stories that Ambrose collected from paratroopers, sailors, infantrymen, and civilians make the excitement, confusion, and sheer terror of D-day come alive on the page. --Robert McNamara [via]
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D-Day, June Sixth, Nineteen Forty-Fourby Stephen AmbroseISBN 0613501268 (0-613-50126-8)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 067943593X (0-679-43593-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'Book summary:"I set out upon Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [and] was immediately dominated by both the story and the style," recalled Winston Churchill. "I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all....I was not even estranged by his naughty footnotes." In the two centuries since its completion, Gibbon's magnum opus--which encompasses some thirteen hundred years as it swings across Europe, North Africa, and Asia--has refused to go the way of many "classics" and grow musty on the shelves. "Gibbon is a landmark and a signpost--a landmark of human achievement: and a signpost because the social convulsions of the Roman Empire as described by him sometimes prefigure and indicate convulsions which shake the whole world today," wrote E.M. Forster. Never far below the surface of the magnificent narrative lies the author's wit and sweeping irony, exemplified by Gibbon's famous definition of history as "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
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Diplomacyby Henry KissingerISBN 0671510991 (0-671-51099-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diplomacy'Book summary:In this brilliant, controversial, and monumental book, former Secretary-of-State Henry Kissinger explains, based on his own experience, what diplomacy is, and why, historically, Americans, from our presidents down to the man in the street, have always distrusted the whole idea. 30 photos. 6 maps. Index. [via]
The Earth And It's People: Advanced Placement Editionby Richard W. Bulliet, Daniel R. Headrick, Lyman L. Johnson, David Northrup, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Steven W. HirschISBN 0618427708 (0-618-42770-8)
Hardcover, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin
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The Earth And Its People: A Global Historyby Richard BulliertISBN 0618427651 (0-618-42765-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Earth And Its People: A Global History'Book summary:This text provides a truly global approach to the world history survey. Its fundamental theme, the interaction of human beings and the environment, serves as a point of comparison for different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology and how technological development underlies all human activity. The Third Edition combines strong scholarship and pedagogy to uphold the book's reputation for rigor and accessibility. Several features, such as detailed maps, images, and timelines, help students build their geography and comparative analysis skills. [via]
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The Earth and Its People: A Global History Since 1500by Richard W. BullietISBN 0618003266 (0-618-00326-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, Since 1500'Book summary:The Earth and Its Peoples is a truly global text that employs a fundamental theme to compare different times, places, and societies: the interaction of human beings and the environment. Special emphasis is given to technology (in its broadest sense) and how technological development underlies all human activity. Highlights of the new second edition include: - New! Several content changes have been made to the 2e: New coverage of the early Americas in Chapter 3 More coverage of both medieval and modern Russia More coverage of Meiji Japan and Latin America in the 20th century More coverage of the Renaissance and Enlightenment Improved treatment of the Industrial Revolution The last 5 chapters on the 20th century have been reorganised for better chronological flow - New! Chapter-opening vignettes are now followed by 2-4 focus questions, alerting students to key ideas and themes in the chapter. - New! Chronology for each chapter, helping students to see at a glance what was happening in these disparate regions during the same time period. - New! Key Terms are boldfaced in the text, and revised Glossary at the end of the book including all Key Terms and their definitions. - Revised Part-opening essays have been trimmed down to about 380 words and are accompanied by a corresponding world map and a redesigned timeline. - New! "Primary Source" features, which poses questions for analysis and encourages students to closely evaluate primary source excerpts. [via]
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The Earth and Its People: A Global History to 1550by Daniel R. Headrick, Lyman L. Johnson, David Northrup, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Steven W. Hirsch, Richard BullietISBN 061821464X (0-618-21464-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Handy History Answer Bookby Rebecca FergusonISBN 0780809254 (0-7808-0925-4)
Hardcover, Omnigraphics Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Handy History Answer Book'Book summary:[via]A concise guide to all things historical, this compendium addresses people, times, and events in a wide-ranging and comprehensive manner, complemented by helpful illustrations and a chronology of major events. Some of the history-making events include the election of George W. Bush, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; spectacular images from probes in outer space, medical advances and debate, and many new scientific discoveries on Earth; a devastating earthquake in Iran and the deadly tsunami in Asia; the downfall of Enron and the comeback of Apple, as well as the dot-com bubble burst. Beginning with a section on historical eras, this popular reference source tracks history and organizes information in 13 specific subject sections, ranging from politics and war to science and religion. It tackles exploration and settlement, technological advances, legal fireworks, financial and business events, social movements, natural and man-made disasters, medicine and disease, and art and culture. This resource is the perfect fingertip, time-traveling guide through the pages of history.
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History of English Speaking People: Great Democracies, 1815-1901by Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0396040497 (0-396-04049-7)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantiumby Paul VeyneISBN 0674399749 (0-674-39974-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium'Book summary:First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slavesfrom concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning of virtue, and the separation of private and public spaces.
The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire. Using illuminating motifs, the authors weave a rich, colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide.
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History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantiumby Philippe Aries, Georges Duby, Paul VeyneISBN 0674399757 (0-674-39975-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium'Book summary:First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slavesfrom concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning of virtue, and the separation of private and public spaces.
The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire. Using illuminating motifs, the authors weave a rich, colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide.
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History of the English Speaking Peoplesby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0396082726 (0-396-08272-6)
Softcover, Dodd Mead
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The History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Age of Revolutionby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0396082734 (0-396-08273-4)
Softcover, Dodd Mead
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Great Democraciesby Winston S. ChurchillISBN 0396082742 (0-396-08274-2)
Softcover, Dodd Mead
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A History of the Twentieth Century: 1933-1951by Martin GilbertISBN 0688100651 (0-688-10065-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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History of the Worldby Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Simon AdamsISBN 0756612446 (0-7566-1244-6)
Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the World'Book summary:Packed with full-color photographs of real artifacts, tools, and art from around the globe, as well as detailed illustrations of the people who lived in each era, this visual chronology of world history is an excellent tool for stirring interest in young readers. [via]
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A History of the World in the Twentieth Centuryby J. A. S. GrenvilleISBN 0674399609 (0-674-39960-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A History of Warfareby John KeeganISBN 0679730826 (0-679-73082-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Warfare'Book summary:The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written."--The New York Times Book Review. [via]
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A History Of World Societiesby John P. McKay, John Buckler, Bennett D. Hill, Patricia Buckley EbreyISBN 061830195X (0-618-30195-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of World Socities'Book summary:With unparalleled coverage of social history, A History of World Societies explores the lives of peoples of the world within a political framework. The text is known for its readability, integration of strong scholarship, and new historical interpretations. A range of technology resources, including Houghton Mifflin's Eduspace online learning tool, premium Blackboard and WebCT content, and materials designed for student success, gives A History of World Societies one of the strongest technology programs on the market. Twentieth-century world and African history scholar Roger Beck joins the author team for the Seventh Edition. In addition to completely revising the last four chapters, Dr. Beck contributes his scholarly expertise throughout the text. The entire author team has worked to increase coverage of non-western topics in order to achieve a more balanced, global approach to world history. Several new features, as well as significant structural and content changes, round out this very thorough revision, most importantly, Volumes II and C, along with the complete version of the text, also include a 16-page essay by Roger Beck, titled "The Middle East in Today's World." The essay focuses on a broad examination of the various crises in the Middle East and their global consequences and is illustrated with photos and maps that help students visualize the topics. [via]
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- A History of World Societies: ISBN 0618610936 (0-618-61093-6)
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Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - A History Of World Societies: ISBN 0395753813 (0-395-75381-3)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - A History Of World Societies: ISBN 0395944945 (0-395-94494-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - A History Of World Societies: ISBN 0395753775 (0-395-75377-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - A History Of World Societies: ISBN 0395944899 (0-395-94489-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - A History of World Socities: ISBN 061830195X (0-618-30195-X)
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- A History of World Societies: ISBN 0618610936 (0-618-61093-6)
A History Of World Societies: To 1715by John P. McKay, John Buckler, Bennett D. HillISBN 0395944902 (0-395-94490-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaustby Daniel Jonah GoldhagenISBN 0679772685 (0-679-77268-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust'Book summary:In a work that is as authoritative as it is explosive, Goldhagen forces us to revisit and reconsider our understanding of the Holocaust and its perpetrators, demanding a fundamental revision in our thinking of the years between 1933-1945. Drawing principally on materials either unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Goldhagen marshals new, disquieting primary evidence that explains why, when Hitler conceived of the "final solution" he was able to enlist vast numbers of willing Germans to carry it out. A book sure to provoke new discussion and intense debate. [via]
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Human Recordby Andrea, James H. OverfieldISBN 0618370412 (0-618-37041-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Human Record: Sources of Global Historyby Alfred J. Andrea, James H. OverfieldISBN 0395870887 (0-395-87088-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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The Human Record: Sources of Global History To 1700by Alfred J. Andrea, James H. OverfieldISBN 0618042458 (0-618-04245-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africaby Adam HochschildISBN 0618001905 (0-618-00190-5)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa'Book summary:King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched the globe to find a colony for Belgium, frantic that the scramble of other European powers for overseas dominions in Africa and Asia would leave nothing for himself or his people. When he eventually found a suitable location in what would become the Belgian Congo, later known as Zaire and now simply as Congo, Leopold set about establishing a rule of terror that would culminate in the deaths of 4 to 8 million indigenous people, "a death toll," Hochschild writes, "of Holocaust dimensions." Those who survived went to work mining ore or harvesting rubber, yielding a fortune for the Belgian king, who salted away billions of dollars in hidden bank accounts throughout the world. Hochschild's fine book of historical inquiry, which draws heavily on eyewitness accounts of the colonialists' savagery, brings this little-studied episode in European and African history into new light. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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- King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa: ISBN 0618711678 (0-618-71167-8)
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Lies My Teacher Told Meby James W. LoewenISBN 0613706471 (0-613-70647-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me'Book summary:The national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award, thoroughly updated for the first time since its initial publication to include textbooks written since 2000 and featuring a new chapter on what textbooks get wrong about 9/11 and Iraq.
Since its initial publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell one million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education" beginning with the pre-Columbian period and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre.
In this revised and updated edition, James Loewen surveys six new high school history textbooks written since the first edition of Lies was published. In his inimitable style, he adds material to each chapter noting where the new books have gotten more accurate and where they are still fatally flawed. Loewen also writes at length about the way these textbooks treat the 2001 terrorist attacks and our "response" in Iraq. In fact, while researching this new edition Loewen made the front page of the New York Times in 2006 when he discovered that publishers were passing off as original virtually identical passages on important recent events in a number of history books. And in yet another example of the failure of American history textbooks, he found that "celebrity" historians whose names appear as authors in some cases have never read, let alone written, the texts attributed to them. [via]More editions of Lies My Teacher Told Me:
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Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 0684818868 (0-684-81886-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong'Book summary:Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that:
- The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
- Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations
- The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. [via]
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679748407 (0-679-74840-7)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679739742 (0-679-73974-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus I: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Medieval Worldby Jane Bingham, Fiona Chandler, Inklink, Gerald Wood, Jeremy GowerISBN 0746027621 (0-7460-2762-1)
Hardcover, Usborne Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval World'Book summary:-- Each title covers a huge range of information
-- Clear text and lively, labeled illustrations and pictures introduce children to the history of the world
-- Ancient World covers 10,000 BC - 500 AD
-- Medieval World covers 500 AD - 1500 AD
-- The Last 500 Years covers 1500 AD - present
-- Timelines of World History is an indispensable guide to what happened when and where in the world, with plenty of illustrations and covers over 3,500 dates [via]
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Mein Kampfby Adolf Hitler, Ralph ManheimISBN 0395925037 (0-395-92503-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mein Kampf'Book summary:The angry ranting of an obscure, small-party politician, the first volume of Mein Kampf was virtually ignored when it was originally published in 1925. Likewise the second volume, which appeared in 1926. The book details Hitler's childhood, the "betrayal" of Germany in World War I, the desire for revenge against France, the need for lebensraum for the German people, and the means by which the National Socialist party can gain power. It also includes Hitler's racist agenda and his glorification of the "Aryan" race. The few outside the Nazi party who read it dismissed it as nonsense, not believing that anyone could--or would--carry out its radical, terrorist programs. As Hitler and the Nazis gained power, first party members and then the general public were pressured to buy the book. By the time Hitler became chancellor of the Third Reich in 1933, the book stood atop the German bestseller lists. Had the book been taken seriously when it was first published, perhaps the 20th century would have been very different.
Beyond the anger, hatred, bigotry, and self-aggrandizing, Mein Kampf is saddled with tortured prose, meandering narrative, and tangled metaphors (one person was described as "a thorn in the eyes of venal officials"). That said, it is an incredibly important book. It is foolish to think that the Holocaust could not happen again, especially if World War II and its horrors are forgotten. As an Amazon.com reader has pointed out, "If you want to learn about why the Holocaust happened, you can't avoid reading the words of the man who was most responsible for it happening." Mein Kampf, therefore, must be read as a reminder that evil can all too easily grow. --Sunny Delaney [via]
Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West: The Climactic Battle of World War IIby Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 0671884034 (0-671-88403-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Nightby Elie WieselISBN 0553208071 (0-553-20807-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night'Book summary:Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's wrenching attempt to find meaning in the horror of the Holocaust is technically a novel, but it's based so closely on his own experiences in Birkenau, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald that it's generally--and not inaccurately--read as an autobiography. Like Wiesel himself, the protagonist of Night is a scholarly, pious teenager racked with guilt at having survived the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. [via]
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Peoples and Empires : A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Presentby Anthony PagdenISBN 0679640967 (0-679-64096-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peoples and Empires : A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present'Book summary:Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between us and them, culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It relates the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists and colonized changed each other. Its about how we came to think about world divisions the way we do. Written by the man who has been called the worlds foremost historian of human migration, Peoples and Empires will become a seminal work. [via]
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The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Centuryby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0520081161 (0-520-08116-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century'Book summary:Volume III investigates what Braudel terms "world-economies"--the economic dominance of a particular city at different periods of history, from Venice to Amsterdam, London, New York.[via]More editions of The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century:
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocideby Samantha PowerISBN 0465061508 (0-465-06150-8)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide'Book summary:During the three years (1993-1996) Samantha Power spent covering the grisly events in Bosnia and Srebrenica, she became increasingly frustrated with how little the United States was willing to do to counteract the genocide occurring there. After much research, she discovered a pattern: "The United States had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred," she writes in this impressive book. Debunking the notion that U.S. leaders were unaware of the horrors as they were occurring against Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Iraqi Kurds, Rwandan Tutsis, and Bosnians during the past century, Power discusses how much was known and when, and argues that much human suffering could have been alleviated through a greater effort by the U.S. She does not claim that the U.S. alone could have prevented such horrors, but does make a convincing case that even a modest effort would have had significant impact. Based on declassified information, private papers, and interviews with more than 300 American policymakers, Power makes it clear that a lack of political will was the most significant factor for this failure to intervene. Some courageous U.S. leaders did work to combat and call attention to ethnic cleansing as it occurred, but the vast majority of politicians and diplomats ignored the issue, as did the American public, leading Power to note that "no U.S. president has ever suffered politically for his indifference to its occurrence. It is thus no coincidence that genocide rages on." This powerful book is a call to make such indifference a thing of the past. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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The Rand McNally World Atlas of Explorationby Eric NewbyISBN 0528830155 (0-528-83015-5)
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The Rape of Nankingby Iris ChangISBN 0613180771 (0-613-18077-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rape of Nanking'Book summary:China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago. [via]
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The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIby Iris ChangISBN 0465068359 (0-465-06835-9)
Hardcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II'Book summary:China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago. [via]
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The Reformationby Will Durant, Ariel DurantISBN 0671610503 (0-671-61050-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reformation'Book summary:The Story of Civilization, Volume VI: A history of European civilization from Wyclif to Calvin: 1300-1564. This is the sixth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series. [via]
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germanyby William L. ShirerISBN 0671728687 (0-671-72868-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany'Book summary:Before the Nazies could destroy the files, famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer sifted through the massive self-documentation of the Third Reich, to create a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind--now in a special 30th anniversary edition.
"One of the most important works of history of our time."
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Rumor of War: With a Twentieth Anniversary Postscript by the Authorby Philip CaputoISBN 0708958648 (0-7089-5864-8)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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The Samurai's Taleby Erik Christian HaugaardISBN 0395549701 (0-395-54970-1)
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The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His Worldby Daniel J. BoorstinISBN 0679434453 (0-679-43445-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World'Book summary:Renowned historian Daniel J. Boorstin completes the trilogy he began with The Discoverers and The Creators. The first volume covered explorers, scientists, and historians in their quest for raw knowledge, while the second book describes writers, painters, and composers in their pursuit of inspiring art; The Seekers describes people searching for an understanding of human existence--"Man is the asking animal," notes Boorstin. It's a big, bold theme, and although The Seekers is the shortest work in the trilogy, it's still vintage Boorstin: incredibly learned, richly anecdotal, and casually profound. It begins with the prophets of the Holy Land and the philosophers of ancient Greece, continues through the Renaissance, and concludes with the modern era of the social sciences. "In this long quest [for understanding], Western culture has turned from seeking the end or purpose to seeking causes--from the Why to the How," writes Boorstin. That's a neat summary of Western intellectual development over several thousand years. What other author could put it so succinctly? Boorstin is generally stronger with material that is more recent and more secular, but this is an accomplished book and a worthy capstone to an outstanding three-volume effort. --John J. Miller [via]
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A Short History of Irelandby John O'Beirne RanelaghISBN 0521469449 (0-521-46944-9)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Travels Of Marco Poloby Marco Polo, Milton Rugoff, Mittelmark, Howard (AFT)ISBN 0451529510 (0-451-52951-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels Of Marco Polo'Book summary:[via]Volume 1 of 2-volume set. One of the greatest books of all time a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, political systems, much more. 200 illustrations, 32 maps and site plans.More editions of The Travels Of Marco Polo:
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Henri Cordier, Marco Polo, Henry YuleISBN 0486275868 (0-486-27586-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:One of the greatest books of all time a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, political systems, much more. 200 illustrations, 32 maps and site plans. Volume I of 2-volume set.[via]More editions of The Travels of Marco Polo:
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Travels of Marco Poloby Milton RugoffISBN 0451517172 (0-451-51717-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones.
· An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871).
· The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all.
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Twentieth Century: History of the World, 1901 to the 2000by J. M. RobertsISBN 0670884561 (0-670-88456-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Usborne Illustrated Atlas of World Historyby Lisa Miles, John Lawrence, Guy Smith, Philip Argent, Janos MarffyISBN 0746017286 (0-7460-1728-6)
Hardcover, Edc Pub
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War Against the Jews, 1933-1945by Lucy S. DawidowiczISBN 055334532X (0-553-34532-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945'Book summary:Here is the unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, Lucy S. Dawidowiczs classic tells the complete story of the Nazi Holocaustfrom the insidious evolution of German Anti-Semitism to the ultimate tragedy of the Final Solution. [via]
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The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-First Centuryby David FromkinISBN 0679766693 (0-679-76669-3)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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World Atlas of Explorationby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517471523 (0-517-47152-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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World Civilizations: The Global Experience 1450 to Presentby Peter N. Stearns, Stuart B. Schwartz, Michael AdasISBN 0673994287 (0-673-99428-7)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World Civilizations: The Global Experience 1450 to Present'Book summary:Paperback: 608 pages Publisher: Harpercollins College Div; 2nd edition (June 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0673994287 ISBN-13: 978-0673994288 [via]
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The World in 1800by Olivier BernierISBN 0471395218 (0-471-39521-8)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World in 1800'Book summary:The world two centuries ago was much unlike our own--but closer in spirit to our own time than to the century that preceded it. Across the globe, writes Olivier Bernier, a sense had spread that it was possible for individuals of whatever social station to be free and make their own place in life; although everywhere there was still "a radical separation between the well to do and the rest of the population," the example of revolutionary America and revolutionary France set in motion forces that would lead to the growth of democracy and internationalism alike. Bernier charts this growth and the parallel rise of empires, nationalism, and world trade. He offers some surprising, and fresh, interpretations of history along the way. For instance, he suggests that the restaurant as we know it was the outgrowth of the French revolution, when chefs previously employed by aristocratic households opened their kitchens to anyone who could afford a meal. (The same revolution, he adds, introduced the metric system and the concept of civil marriage to the world.)
Bernier occasionally swims against the tide, arguing, for instance, that Thomas Jefferson did not father children by Sally Hemmings, a slave on his Monticello plantation. (The best evidence suggests otherwise.) But his wide-ranging view of a time when the affairs of one country could influence events thousands of miles away makes for constantly fascinating reading. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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