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The Age of Empires by Robert Aldrich Publisher Comments 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) List Price $50.00 Your price: $12.97 Sale - Hardcover 
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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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The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa's City of Gold by Frank T Kryza Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Allah's Bomb: The Islamic Quest for Nuclear Weapons by Al Ventner Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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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A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice by Malalai Joya Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 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 $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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A Rhyming History of Britain: 55 B.C.- 1966 A.D. by James Muirden Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.00 Your price: $3.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis Francia Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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 $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land by Frank Welsh Synopsis 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) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tir A'mhurain by Paul Strand Publisher Comments 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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $32.98 Sale - Hardcover
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch Staff Pick "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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rough Revolution by Elizabeth Becker Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey Into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System by Roberto Saviano Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle) by Tracy Kidder Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Publisher Comments 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $10.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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