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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Scott Anderson
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A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history — the Arab Revolt, and the secret game to control the Middle East. The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words... (read more)

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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
by Susan Wise Bauer
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Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end on the walls of Constantinople... (read more)

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A House in the Sky: A Memoir
A House in the Sky: A Memoir
by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett
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The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia — a story of courage... (read more)

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The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
by Gary J. Bass
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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
by Max Hastings
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches... (read more)

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The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
by Alan Taylor
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Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as “freedom’s swift-winged angels.” In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for... (read more)

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Pacific Northwest Cheese: A History
Pacific Northwest Cheese: A History
by Tami J. Parr
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In this rich and engaging history, Tami Parr shows how regional cheesemaking found its way back to the farm. It’s a lively story that begins with the first fur traders in the Pacific Northwest and ends with modern-day small farmers in Oregon... (read more)

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The Story of the Holy Land: A Visual History
The Story of the Holy Land: A Visual History
by Peter Walker
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A visual tour of the promised land, from the stark vistas of the Judean wilderness to the lush banks of Jordan, for those who want to see the places of the Bible from the comfort of their own homes—and from the best angles Laid out in a... (read more)

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Che on My Mind
Che on My Mind
by Margaret Randall
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Che on My Mind is an impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevara by the renowned feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. Recalling an era and this figure, she writes, "I am old enough to remember the world in which [Che... (read more)

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Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion of England 1216
Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion of England 1216
by Sean Mcglynn
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The first book on the important but overlooked French invasion of England in 1216, which was almost a second Norman Conquest History came within a hair's breadth of repeating itself, 150 years after the Norman Conquest. In 1216, taking advantage of the... (read more)

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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations
by Mary Beard
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Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also... (read more)

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The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler
by Ben Urwand
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To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this bargain for the first time--a "collaboration... (read more)

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The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America (Civil War America)
The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America (Civil War America)
by David T. Gleeson
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Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking... (read more)

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Hunters: U.S. Snipers in the War on Terror
Hunters: U.S. Snipers in the War on Terror
by Milo S. Afong
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In the War on Terror, there are no set battles. The fanatical enemy adheres to no warrior code or international law. Their only desire is to kill—or be killed. Thats where the snipers of the U.S. Marines, Army, and Navy SEALs come in . .&#... (read more)

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The Last Days of Hitler
The Last Days of Hitler
by Hugh Trevor-roper
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The classic account of Hitler's fall from power, first published in 1947, reissued with a striking new cover In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor... (read more)

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Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
by Jo Roberts
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1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are. After... (read more)

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The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past
The Structure of Cuban History: Meanings and Purpose of the Past
by Louis A. Perez
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In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Pérez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal... (read more)

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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
by Peter Kornbluh
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Revised and updated for the fortieth anniversary of Augusto Pinochets September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, The Pinochet File reveals a formerly secret record of complicity with atrocity on the part of the U.S. government. Documents that were first... (read more)

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Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos
Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos
by Robert Bauval
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In this ground-breaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy uncover the mystery of Imhotep, and ancient Egyptian superstar, pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton all rolled into one. Based on their research... (read more)

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Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection (Images of Nature)
Chinese Art and the Reeves Collection (Images of Nature)
by Judith Magee
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A unique collection of botanical, zoological, and entomological drawings depicting the natural history of China This collection is a selection of some of the finest examples of Chinese natural history drawings from the 18th and 19th centuries... (read more)

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