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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer Publisher Comments Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik Publisher Comments It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Intellectuals by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman Publisher Comments Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.) by James R. Gaines Publisher Comments Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a... (read more) Your price: $13.99 New - Trade Paper
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney (P.S.) by Paul M Johnson Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman Publisher Comments In this follow-up to her bestselling < I>Sex with Kings< /I>, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of the queen's boudoir. Impeccably reseached, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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