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Embarrassment of Riches : an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (87 Edition) by Simon Schama Publisher Comments In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee Publisher Comments Carol Ann Lee’ s impeccably researched portrait The Hidden Life of Otto Frank brings into sharp focus every facet of the extraordinary life, both charmed and cursed, of Otto Frank, the father of the most famous young girl of the twentieth century... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold Cook Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce—not religion—inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold John Cook Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce—not religion—inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $23.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Historical Dictionary of Belgium by Robert Stallaerts Book News Annotation In this update of the 1999 edition, Stallaerts, a Belgian economist and author of an Historical Dictionary of Croatia, focuses on his home country that has been a long-time center of European conflicts and is now known by tourists, he contends... (read more) List Price $113.95 Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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The Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe. by Andrew H. Dawson And Rick Fawn Publisher Comments This work covers the uncertain geopolitical situation of some countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including some of those which are hoping to enter the European Union in the near future, some for which entry is far off, and some which may never seek... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price: $29.75 New - Hardcover
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Re-Contextualising East Central European History: Nation, Culture and Minority Groups (Legenda Main) by Robert Pyrah And Marius Turda Publisher Comments Twenty years after the fall of Communism, scholarship on East-Central Europe has adopted mainstream western methodologies, but remains preoccupied with a narrow range of themes. Nationalism, identity, fin- de-siecle art and culture, and revisionist... (read more) List Price $89.50 Your price: $59.96 New - Hardcover
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Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook Publisher Comments In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce (not religion) inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeers dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought—from Delft to Beijing—were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A painting... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused by Mike Dash Publisher Comments In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Meddling in Middle Europe: Britain and the 'Lands Between' 1919-1925 by Lojk Publisher Comments This work addresses the much-ignored history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojko convincingly argues that the absence of trust in... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $24.98 New - Hardcover
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Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist. It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma Publisher Comments In 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that insulted the prophet Mohammed. Buruma returned to his native land to investigate the shocking event and its larger... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Methods in Molecular Biology #597: Rat Genomics: Methods and Protocols by Ignocio Anegon Publisher Comments Grown exponentially by the genomic revolution, the use of the rat as a model of choice for physiological studies continues in popularity and at a much greater depth of understanding. In Rat Genomics: Methods and Protocols, world-wide experts provide both... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price: $73.70 New - Hardcover
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Black Sea Security; International Cooperation and Counter-trafficking in the Black Sea Region. by Fiona Houston Et Al Publisher Comments Contributors from business, government, and from academia continue an effort that began in 2002 to develop a cohesive thinking on the capability of international security cooperation issues and to build more cross-cutting relationships between countries,... (read more) List Price $157.00 Your price: $105.19 New - Trade Paper
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Revolution & Change in Central & Eastern Europe by Roger And Jolyon Pontin East Book News Annotation Provides a record of the recent period of rapid change experienced by the region's former communist states, describing the collapse of communism and the creation of post-communist political systems. After a historical introduction, chapters treat... (read more) List Price $89.50 Your price: $44.75 New - Hardcover
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments “Elegant and quietly important…Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanitys interdependence.”—... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: The Challenge of Integration by Peter Rutland Publisher Comments The premier source for a comprehensive update and overview of developments in the most rapidly changing region in the world.<P>Each edition features thematic coverage of regional, political, and economic developments.<P>Chapters on every... (read more) List Price $114.50 Your price: $42.50 New - Hardcover
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Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #182: Myth in History, History in Myth: Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Society for Netherlandic History (New York: June 5-6, 2006) by Laura Cruz And Willem Frijhoff Synopsis Based on the proceedings of a 2005 conference, this volume re-examines the role of Dutch social and patriotic myths. Using recent methodological approaches, the essays assess how the Dutch perceived their myths and how they were treated by previous... (read more) List Price $160.50 Your price: $98.49 New - Hardcover
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