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A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar Publisher Comments From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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People of the Century: One Hundred Men and Women Who Shaped the Last One Hunderd Years by Time Cbs News Synopsis The greatest news magazine, the most-watched news channel, and a highly distinguished panel of writers team up for the ultimate millennial keepsake--powerful profiles and stunning photographs of the 100 key figures of the 20th century. 300 photos, 100 in... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Medieval Feudalism by Carl Stephenson Publisher Comments This book gives a clear and concise account of the origin, growth, and decay of the feudal system.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason by Iain McCalman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-272).... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Style in History by Peter Gay Publisher Comments In this original and lucid guide to the proper reading of Gibbon, Ranke, Macaulay, and Burckhardt--great historians who were also great stylists--Peter Gay demonstrates that style is an invaluable clue to the historian's insight.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconcetions Throughout the Ages by Leland Gregory Publisher Comments Why exactly is Paul Revere revered? Was the lightbulb really Thomas Edison's bright idea? * Best-selling author Leland Gregory employs his masterful wit to expose historical myths, faux "facts," strange events, and tales of human stupidity throughout... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin Publisher Comments An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Trial of the Templars by Malcolm Barber Publisher Comments In 1307, the Templars in France were arrested by King Philip IV's officials in the name of the Inquisition, their property seized and the men charged with serious heresies, including the denial of Christ, homosexuality, and idol worship. Confessions... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Legends & Lies of World History by Richard Shenkman Publisher Comments Some Things You Should Know Before Reading This Book We Americans, I have discovered, do not just get our own history wrong. We get everybody else's wrong as well. Think Nero fiddled while Rome burned? Think Catherine the Great was Russian? Think King... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton Publisher Comments "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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1688: a Global History by John E. Wills Publisher Comments The Shogun of Japan is cracking down on the samurai, and is obsessed with cruelty to dogs (he is known to history as the Dog Shogun). A very young Peter the Great is just about to launch his coup d'etat and transform Russia. In France, the Sun King rules... (read more) Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Way of Caesar by Irvin Isenberg Publisher Comments Although Gaius Julius Caesar was blessed with brains, courage, and helpful family ties, there were few signs that he would use them. Then suddenly, between the years 60 and 44 B.C., when he was in his forties and fifties, he began to excel in everything... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $1.48 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries by Jan Bondeson Publisher Comments Jan Bondeson, M.D., focuses his medical expertise and insightful wit on the great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity of the last two hundred years. Did the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette really die in the Temple Tower, or did the Lost Dauphin... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery by Wolfga Schivelbusch Publisher Comments Focusing on three seminal cases of military defeat--the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and Germany following World War I--Wolfgang Schivelbusch reveals the complex psychological and cultural responses of... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conversation: A History of a Declining Art by Stephen Miller Publisher Comments Essayist Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking a historical and philosophical view of the subject--the art of conversation in Western civilization.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself by Daniel J. Boorstin Publisher Comments Daniel Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, this book delves into the discoveries of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crusades by Michael Paine Publisher Comments This book examines the bloody, violent, and sometimes farcical reality behind our images of the Crusades, traces the chronology of the campaigns from 1095, when the first crusade was set in motion by Pope Urban II, to 1291, and the fall of Acre, and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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