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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman

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The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means... (read more)
 
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Hinges of History #05: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World
by Thomas Cahill

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From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization, a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements. After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a... (read more)
 
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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
by Roger Crowley

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A complete and compelling account of the fall of Constantinople, the siege that gave rise to today's jihad. When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, a remarkable era in world history ended. Constantinople, the "city of the world's... (read more)
 
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
by Anthony Everitt

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He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the... (read more)
 
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Historical Atlas of the Renaissance
by Robert Ritchie

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The Renaissance first bloomed in northern Italy in the 14th century, where the rediscovery of the cultural heritage left by ancient Rome and Greece sparked an intellectual revolution centered on humanism. Lasting roughly 300 years, the Renaissance was... (read more)
 
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Alexander the Great
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The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean (Vintage)
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In the sixteenth century, one of the world's most precious commodities was cochineal, a legendary red dye treasured by the ancient Mexicans and sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors. Shipped... (read more)
 
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The World of Athens (Joint Association of Classical Teachers') The World of Athens (Joint Association of Classical Teachers')
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Age of Capital 1848 1875
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The Memory of the Modern
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A multidisciplinary work, Memory of the Modern examines stock markets, tango dancers, vagabond murderers, neurology, monument destruction, and colonial policies to document how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late nineteenth and early... (read more)
 
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Uppity Women of the Renaissance
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Histories: French Constructions of the Past (New Press Postwar French Thought)
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Focusing on the changing field of historiography, this text sets the work of historians associated with the Annales school into the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods and interdisciplinary studies.... (read more)
 
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A Visual History of the Twentieth Century
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The twentieth century is unique in human history. The last hundred years have been captured not just in words, as in previous centuries, but also in visual detail with photographs, film and video. The greatest images of this era are combined here with... (read more)
 
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Vicki Leon, the popular author of the "Uppity Women" series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient... (read more)
 
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