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Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi Publisher Comments In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and Italian citizen of Jewish race, was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi's classic account of his ten months in the German... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl Publisher Comments When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the thirty-three years since then, this book at once a memoir, a... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L Shirer Publisher Comments Hailed as “one of the most important works of history of our time” (The New York Times), this definitive chronicle of Hitlers rise to power is back in hardcover with a new introductory essay by Ron Rosenbaum (Explaining Hitler and How the End... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Publisher Comments Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis Publisher Comments The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Europe's Reformations 1450-1650 : Doctrine, Politics, and Community (2ND 06 Edition) by James D. Tracy Publisher Comments In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $30.35 New - Trade Paper
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Age of Revolution, 1789-1848 (62 Edition) by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Rape of Europa (94 Edition) by Lynn H. Nicholas Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost Goddesses of Early Greece : a Collection of Pre-hellenic Myths ((Rev)92 Edition) by Charlene Spretnak Publisher Comments For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Charlene Spretnak recreates, the original, goddess-centered myths and illuminates... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Age of Capital,1848-1875 (96 Edition) by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Publisher Comments Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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House of Medici : Its Rise and Fall (80 Edition) by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house of Medici,... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rise of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) by Polybius Synopsis In writing his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire, the Greek statesman Polybius set out to help his fellow-countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. This text presents a translation of his work.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of the Romans by Mary T Boatwright Publisher Comments How did a single village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become one of the mightiest imperial powers the world has ever known? This question is the focus of A Brief History of the Romans, an abbreviated version of the highly acclaimed The... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Last of the Just (60 Edition) by Andre Schwarz-bart Publisher Comments Published in sixteen languages and winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, Andre Schwarz-Bart's The Last of the Just is considered by many the single greatest novel of the Holocaust. This classic work -- long unavailable in a trade edition -- is one of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Peloponnesian War 421-404 BC (02 Edition) by Philip Desouza Publisher Comments It is a testament to the fascination of the subject that even today the events of the Peloponnesian War are studied for what they can teach about diplomacy, strategy and tactics. This book reveals the darker side of Classical Greek civilization. From the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The White Rose by Inge Scholl Publisher Comments A unique study of the WW2 culture of Germany.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Address Unknown by Kathrine K Taylor Publisher Comments A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 -- and now an international bestseller. Address Unknown When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Roman Britain : Very Short Introduction ((Rev)00 Edition) by Peter Salway Publisher Comments Peter Salway's Very Short Introduction to Roman Britain weaves together the results of archaeological investigation and historical scholarship in a rounded and highly readable concise account. He charts life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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