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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments Updated with important new findings! In 1500 B.C. a supervolcano beneath the Greek island of Santorini exploded in a near-apocalyptic eruption. Buried beneath the rubble and waves was the world's most remarkable lost civilization. . . . For three... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities by Matthew White Publisher Comments Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Silencing the Past by Michel Ro Trouillot Publisher Comments Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Rule of Empires: Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall by Timothy H Parsons Publisher Comments In The Rule of Empires, Timothy Parsons gives a sweeping account of the evolution of empire from ancient Rome to its most recent twentieth-century embodiment. He explains what constitutes an empire, what empires of the past can tell us about our own... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cleopatra: A Biography (Women in Antiquity) by Duane Roller Publisher Comments Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles Publisher Comments The first full-scale history of Hannibal's Carthage in decades and "a convincing and enthralling narrative." (The Economist ) Drawing on a wealth of new research, archaeologist, historian, and master storyteller Richard Miles resurrects the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Jonathan Schell Publisher Comments In this work, Jonathan Schell, the author of The Fate of the Earth, proposes that the defining characteristic of the twentieth century was the uncontrolled acceleration of humankind’s capacity for self-destruction, manifested in ‘policies of... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $1.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt Publisher Comments A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from one of our most celebrated intellectuals. As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security, stability, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson Publisher Comments Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious — or at least edible. Tools shape what we eat, but they have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Protestant Reformation by Hans J. Hillerbrand Publisher Comments Originally published more than forty years ago, this important collection brings together the works and writings of the revolutionary minds behind the Protestant Reformation—and it remains a major resource for teachers, students, and history... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Slave Route: From Africa to America by Harry Holcroft Publisher Comments Of all institutions, common to all societies throughout human history, slavery is the only constant. It would not be wildly inaccurate to suggest that well over 90% of all humanity has been subjected to slavery of some description. In one form or another,... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815 (Short Oxford History of Europe) by T C W Blanning Publisher Comments The eighteenth century was a time of expansion, forming the hinge between the old world and the new for, by its end, change was not only detectable, it was also seen to be irreversible. These specially commissioned chapters, written by experts in the... (read more) List Price $52.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Empires Apart: A History of American and Russian Imperialism by Brian Landers Publisher Comments The American road to empire started when the first English settlers landed in Virginia. Simultaneously, the first Russians crossed the Urals and the two empires that would dominate the twentieth century were born. Empires Apart covers the history of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Robert B Strassler Publisher Comments From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Telling the Truth about History by Joyce Appleby Publisher Comments We have lost our grip on historical truth. Popular films depict subterranean conspiracies that shape historical events and public knowledge of those events. Best-selling narrative histories dissolve the border between fact and fiction, allowing the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945-1953 by Robert Dallek Publisher Comments "Robert Dallek brings to this majestic work a profound understanding of history, a deep engagement in foreign policy, and a lifetime of studying leadership. The story of what went wrong during the postwar period…has never been more intelligently... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff Staff Pick I'm rather sure that all three of Stacy Schiff's previous works have been nominated for some award or another. With a pedigree like that, you know that her latest biography is bound to be a must-read. Stripping away all the previous misconceptions about... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Life in Year One: What the World Was Like in First-Century Palestine by Scott Korb Publisher Comments What was it like to live in the time of Jesus? What did people eat? Whom did they marry? How did they keep themselves clean? What did their cities and towns look like? What did they believe? The answers, it turns out, are surprising. This simple question... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins by J E Lendon Publisher Comments Song of Wrath tells the story of Classical Athens victorious Ten Years War (431 421 BC) against grim Spartathe first decade of the terrible Peloponnesian War that turned the Golden Age of Greece to lead. Historian J.E. Lendon presents a... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend by Joann Fletcher Publisher Comments The subject of myth for more than two millennia, Cleopatra has long been obscured by Roman propaganda, Shakespearean tragedy, and Hollywood glamour. Yet Cleopatra was a woman of passion, magnetism, and political genius, the last and perhaps the greatest... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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