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The Age of Empires
The Age of Empires
by Robert Aldrich
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The story of thirteen modern empires told with a rich profusion of illustrations drawn from a wide range of vivid, authentic sources. Images of empire are extraordinarily potent. Spanish memories of the Conquistadors; Camöes' saga of the Portuguese "... (read more)

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Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
by Neal Bascomb
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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)

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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold
by Frank T Kryza
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In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers– – and fortune hunters– – than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by... (read more)

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Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons
Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons
by Al Ventner
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It is called the "Club of Nine," the exclusive group of nations that have detonated nuclear weapons. Apart from the major powers, its membership also includes, India, Pakistan, and Israel. More recently, its membership was blighted by North Korea. Based... (read more)

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Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara
Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara
by Andrew Sinclair
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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)

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A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice
by Malalai Joya
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Malalai Joya was named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the... (read more)

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A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties
A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties
by Robert Greenfield
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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)

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A Rhyming History of Britain: 55 B.C.- 1966 A.D.
A Rhyming History of Britain: 55 B.C.- 1966 A.D.
by James Muirden
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This cheerful poem has been written To tell the history of Britain; For People puzzled by the Past— If this means YOU, heres help at last! From Celts to Churchill, it relates (With all the most Important Dates) Our countrys convoluted course... (read more)

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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos
History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos
by Luis Francia
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The Philippines is a country in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, troubled and multilayered past. From its first settlement through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the subsequent American occupation... (read more)

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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
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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)

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Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land
Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land
by Frank Welsh
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Acclaimed historian Welsh traces the history of Australia from scattered convict settlements to the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, and on to today's thriving independent nation, exposing many national myths in the process.... (read more)

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Tir A'mhurain
Tir A'mhurain
by Paul Strand
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In 1954 Paul Strand and his wife Hazel spent three months traversing the rugged island of South Uist, off the west coast of Scotland. Tir a’Mhurain is a collection of photographs that reflects the impressions they gathered during their stay... (read more)

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
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"I urge everyone to read this book. The cover shows a picture of serenity, a scene from the beach of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The landscape is devoid of human beings and an empty chair sits on the sand. The title in red stands out starkly from this backdrop.... (read more)

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When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rough Revolution
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rough Revolution
by Elizabeth Becker
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Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the... (read more)

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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider
by Peter Gay
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First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever... (read more)

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The Places In Between
The Places In Between
by Rory Stewart
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In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers... (read more)

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by Adam Hochschild
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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber... (read more)

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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
by Roberto Saviano
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A groundbreaking, unprecedented bestseller in Italy, Roberto Saviano's insider account traces the decline of the city of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network more powerful and violent... (read more)

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Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle)
Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle)
by Tracy Kidder
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In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Deo arrives in the United States from... (read more)

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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
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Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban--the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization--into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to... (read more)

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