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Life After Death by Richard (edt) Bessel Publisher Comments Novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War.... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas Publisher Comments "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Illustrated History of the World Volume 2 by J M Roberts Publisher Comments The Illustrated History of the World is a lavishly illustrated edition of J. M. Roberts's bestselling History of the World. Now completely revised and updated, each volume of this comprehensive reference work traces the tumultuous story of humankind from... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics by Eleanor Herman Publisher Comments In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Historical Tweets: The Completely Unabridged and Ridiculously Brief History of the World by Alan Beard Publisher Comments OUTRAGEOUS HISTORICAL REVELATIONS IN FEWER THAN 140 CHARACTERS! THEY TWEETED WHAAAATTT? History’s most famous personalities share their ridiculous, scandalous, and humorous thoughts. From the ancient tweets of @Plato and @Socrates to modern... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Medieval Women (Canto Book) by Eileen Edna Power Publisher Comments A vivid portrayal of women in the Middle Ages, with an engaging essay on Eileen Power by Maxine Berg.... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The 1990s. An extraordinary decade in Europe. At its beginning, the old order collapsed along with the Berlin Wall. Everything seemed possible. Everyone hailed a brave new Europe. But no one knew what this new Europe would look like. Now we know. Most of... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Gibbon Publisher Comments "Its theme is the most overwhelming phenomenon in recorded history -- the disintegration not of a nation, but of an old and rich and apparently indestructible civilization." --Moses Hadas, editor.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, the Men Who Introduced the World to Itself by Jonathan Wright Publisher Comments We think of ambassadors as simply diplomats-but once they were adventurers who dared an uncertain fate in unknown lands, bringing gifts of greyhounds and elephants to powerful and unpredictable leaders. In vivid detail, The Ambassadors traces the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Jumbo's Hide, Elvis's Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha: More Marvelous Tales of Historical Artifacts by Harvey Rachlin Review "A bodacious artifactual romp through history." (Kirkus Reviews)... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.48 Used - Trade Paper
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Jumbo's Hide, Elvis's Ride, and the Tooth of Buddha: More Marvelous Tales of Historical Artifacts by Harvey Rachlin Publisher Comments The book behind the History Channel's new series, "History's Lost and Found." Following on his acclaimed Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones and Einstein's Brain, the insatiably curious Harvey Rachlin tells the fascinating and often hilarious tales of forty... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $1.50 Used - Hardcover
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Barbed Wire: A Political History by Olivier Razac Publisher Comments No less than the internal combustion engine, the transistor, or the silicon chip, barbed wire is the quintessentially modern creation, a product that has influenced the lives of millions of people across the globe since its invention in the late... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by Felipe Armesto Fernandez Publisher Comments In "Civilizations, " Felipe Fernandez-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Blood of Revolution: From the Reign of Terror to the Rise of Khomeini by Erik Durschmied Publisher Comments Starting on the eve of the French Revolution in the late 1780s, Durschmied not only describes the dramatic events but enriches each of these historic upheavals by quoting the protagonists on both sides. Letting facts and quotations speak for themselves... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome's most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all time. Cicero comes to life in these pages and takes center... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How Did It Really Happen?: Decide What You Believe about History's Intriguing Mysteries by Readers Digest Synopsis Find out the true story behind 150 of the world's most enduring myths, strange disappearances, mysterious deaths, nagging controversies and timeless questions. Knowing the facts about mysteries surrounding historic events and famous people will let you... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Time 100: Heroes & Inspirations Person of the Century by Time Inc Publisher Comments Memorable portraits of 20 great people who have led humanity through inspirational words and deeds. Time's editors designate the famed "Person of the Century."... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Hardcover
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The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism by Anthony Read Publisher Comments While the Western leaders were hammering out a peace treaty in Paris to end the Great War, a new war had already begun. Bolshevism--the creed of the Russian Revolution--had burst on the scene in 1917 and seared itself into the world's consciousness even... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader by Keith Whitlock Synopsis An essential reference for any student of the Renaissance, this book is a collection of readings on one of the most fascinating periods of Western development. Eminent scholars explore themes of humanism, structures of authority, and levels of culture... (read more) List Price $43.75 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ancient Mediterranean by Michael Grant Publisher Comments Written by eminent classical scholar Michael Grant. The Ancient Mediterranean is a wonderfully revealing, unusually comprehensive history of all the peoples who lived around the Mediterranean from about 15,000 B.C. to the time of Constantine (306... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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