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Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion. Maria Misra by Maria Misra Publisher Comments As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world's most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright Publisher Comments Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia — the country where she was born — the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana Publisher Comments During the mid 19th century the US Senate entertained a bill to expand South and annex Cuba, to become not only a Caribbean empire but the greatest slaveholding nation in history. The 1860 publication of To Cuba and Back detailing, in Dana's words, .the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties by Robert Greenfield Publisher Comments A Day in the Life is the story of how the ideal marriage between two young and extraordinarily beautiful members of the English upper class fell apart as the psychedelic dreams of the sixties gave way to the harsh, hard-rock reality of the seventies. A... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk Publisher Comments The story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led the longrange archaeological raids on the Silk Road, incurring the undying wrath of the ChineseThe Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Lessons of History by Will Durant Publisher Comments A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Four Musketeers: The True Story of D'Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis & Athos by Kari Maund Publisher Comments The Three Musketeers, first published in 1844, is an abiding classic. It has been translated into many languages, repeatedly filmed, and its heroes—D’Artagnan, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos—have become literary archetypes. Yet, outside... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp Publisher Comments To understand Iraq, Charles Tripp's history is the book to read. Since its first appearance in 2000, it has become a classic in the field of Middle East studies, read and admired by students, soldiers, policymakers and journalists. The book is now... (read more) List Price $83.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British by Sarah Lyall Publisher Comments Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times, moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara by Andrew Sinclair Publisher Comments These features, which are fully complemented with posters, intimate photographs and other ephemera, will ensure that this is an essential purchase for anyone interested in this enduring icon, and the legacy he left behind.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $4.75 Sale - Hardcover
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David McCullough Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments These are riveting memoirs of one of the great moral and political figures of our time, an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy Publisher Comments From the award-winning author of The God of Small Things comes a searing frontline exposé of brutal repression in India In her latest book, internationally renowned author Arundhati Roy draws on her unprecedented access to a little-known rebel... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah Publisher Comments My new friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?" "Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Publisher Comments Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann shed his SS uniform and vanished. Following his escape from two... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England by Thomas Penn Publisher Comments It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and countercoups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings, had clambered to the top of the heap—a fugitive with a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments Americans call the Second World War The Good War.” But before it even began, Americas wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensand kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Games without Rules: The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary Publisher Comments Today, most people in the West still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between Western democracies and Islamist terrorism. That war is real; its happening; but it sits atop an older struggle, between Kabul and the countryside, between order and... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments In Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin (New York Review Books Classics) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Publisher Comments In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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