Penguin Guide To CDS DVDS 2003 2004
by Ivan March
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The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalising, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th...
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.)
by John Kelly
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La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the...
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Rubicon
by Tom Holland
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Accessible and exciting narrative history of the final 100 years of the Roman Republic. Over 17,000 copies of the hardback sold to date, with strong reviews across the media....
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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution
by Larry Gonick
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< P> The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up& ndash; to& ndash; date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an...
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Age of Capital 1848 1875
by E J Hobsbawm
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A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism"; the triumph of a society which...
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Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House
by Ken Goffman
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As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. At times it moves deep below the surface of things, a stealth mode of being all but invisible to the dominant paradigm; at other times it's in plain sight, challenging the status quo; and...
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
by Nicholson Baker
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Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy — a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh...
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Persian Fire
by Tom Holland
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A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC. It was 2,500 years ago that East and West first went to war. In the early 5th century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring...
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
by Jennifer Mich Hecht
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<<Hecht is right that doubts story deserves to be told ... (and) she tells it in just the right spirit.>>...
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Alexander the Great: The Conqueror
by Giampaolo Casati
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Explore the legend of Alexander the Great through fascinating text and hundreds of full-color photographs of artifacts, paintings, statues, archaeological sites, and more. A man plans and nearly achieves his superhuman dream?the conquest of the world...
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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...
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A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire
by Amy Butler Greenfield
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This colorful account is a richly researched, dramatic, enthralling look thatportrays the color red as a driving force in history and empire since ancienttimes. 8-page color insert....
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney (P.S.)
by Paul M Johnson
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Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's "Intellectuals" as "a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of "Adventures of the Mind,"" Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers "Creators," a companion volume of essays that examines a host of...
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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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When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, a remarkable era in world history ended. In this volume, Crowley gives a complete and compelling account of the Holy War for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West that gave rise to today'...
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World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age
by William Manchester
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From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative...
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Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
by Ian Kershaw
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The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability. Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily thought-provoking and gripping new book, FATEFUL...
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The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future
by James Martin
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According to James Martin-known as "the guru of the Information Age"-humanity is at a crucial turning point. If we succeed in finding ways to support massive gains in population combined with dizzying technological progress, we have a magnificent future...
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Ancient Greece: The Famous Monuments Past and Present (Monuments Past and Present)
by G Behor
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This tour through ancient Greece includes the Acropolis, the Temple of Poseidon, Agora, Olympia and Delphi. Overlays depict the sculptures and other adornments thought to have embellished the buildings in their day....
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Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
by Julia P Gelardi
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Julia Gelardi’s Born to Rule is the powerful epic story of five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria, who reigned over the end of their empires, the destruction of their families, and the tumult of the twentieth century Here are the stories...
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The European Dream
by Jeremy Rifkin
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"[Rikfin's] major achievement in The European Dream is to draw together and cohere the complex historical, philosophical, and theological forces that have created such very different worldviews for shaping the future for us and our neighbors across the...
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