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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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Eyewitness To a Genocide : the United Nations and Rwanda (02 Edition) by Michael Barnett Publisher Comments Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project by William A. Newman Publisher Comments A fascinating look at the people, politics, and technology behind the massive landfill project that filled Boston's Back Bay.... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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History of Medieval Spain (83 Edition) by Joseph F. O'callaghan Publisher Comments 'This book is a comprehensive narrative history based on an impressively wide reading in the sources and secondary literature. It should prove useful to teachers, students, and general readers in European history...Soundly traditional in its organization,... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood on the Snow: The Killing of Olof Palme by Jan Bondeson Publisher Comments Recreates the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, an ardent opponent of apartheid and major figure in world politics.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Defiant: A True Story of Escape, Survival, & Resistance by Shalom Yoran Publisher Comments Fifty years ago, while recuperating in an Israeli hospital a young Polish refugee wrote at length about his remarkable experiences in war-torn Europe. When done, his notes were set aside as he built a new life for himself, his wife, and their children... (read more) Your price: $15.25 New - Trade Paper
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Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the Odyssey (01 Edition) by Segal Publisher Comments One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical patterns are... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Machiavelli's Children : Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan (03 Edition) by Richard J. Samuels Publisher Comments Focuses on the parallel courses of two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, who were similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers.... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Egyptian Religion: Siegried Morenz by Siegfried Morenz Book News Annotation A paperback reprint of the acclaimed 1973 Cornell U. Press cloth edition, translated (by Ann E. Keep) from the German original of 1960 (W. Kohlhammer GmbH., Stutthgart). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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Satan: The Early Christian Tradition by Jeffrey Burton Russell Synopsis Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, c1981.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Roman Britain by Michael E. Jones Publisher Comments Among the provinces long occupied by Rome, Britain retained the slightest imprint of the invading civilization. To explain why this was true, Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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Echoes of Fury: True Stories of Terror & Survival from the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens by Frank Parchman Publisher Comments After 123 years of inactivity, a swarm of earthquakes signals that America's youngest and most dangerous volcano is coming back to life. At first, no one notices. Then, two months later, all hell breaks loose. Frank Parchman tells the riveting story of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti by Jennie Marcelle Smith Publisher Comments In an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and disempowered, Jennie M. Smith's descriptions of peasant activity change what constitutes a democratic society. Through their civil institutions and artistic expression... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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Law and Life of Rome, 90 B.C. - A.D. 212 (77 Edition) by J. Crook Publisher Comments It is about Roman law in its social context, an attempt to strengthen the bridge between two spheres of discourse about ancient Rome by using the institutions of the law to enlarge understanding of the society and bringing the evidence of the social and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Religion in Ancient Egypt : Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice (91 Edition) by Byron E. (ed.) Shafer Publisher Comments Meeting the need for an up-to-date English-language survey, this informative and accessible book will be welcomed by Egyptologists and their students, as well as by other readers interested in learning more about the culture and religion of ancient Egypt.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bending Spines : Propagandas of Nazi Germany and the German Democratic Republic (04 Edition) by Randall L. Bytwerk Publisher Comments Why do totalitarian propagandas such as those created in Nazi Germany and the former German Democratic Republic initially succeed, and why do they ultimately fail? Outside observers often make two serious mistakes when they interpret the propaganda... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Republic of Letters : a Cultural History of the French Enlightenment (94 Edition) by Dena Goodman Publisher Comments In the first major reinterpretation of the French Enlightenment in twenty years, Dena Goodman moves beyond the traditional approach to the Enlightenment as a chapter in Western intellectual history and examines its deeper significance as cultural history.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case by Richard Rashke Publisher Comments Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood was a union activist concerned about health and safety issues at the... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methodology by Martha C Howell Publisher Comments From Reliable Sources is a lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus on the basics of source criticism, rather than on how to find references or on the... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann Publisher Comments Human beings, the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge. In his new book, Assmann explores images of death... (read more) Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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