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Dumb History: The Stupidest Mistakes Ever Made by Joey Green Publisher Comments A book that proves idiocy is as old as timeThink civilization has deteriorated and that people these days are dumber than ever? Dumb History proves that we didn’t invent stupidity in the 21st century. You’ll find facts from throughout the... (read more) Your price: $13.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Cartoon History of the Universe #1-7: Cartoon History of the Universe 1 by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments An entertaining and informative illustrated guide that makes world history accessible, appealing, and funny.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Atlantic : Modernity and Double-consciousness (93 Edition) by Paul Gilroy Publisher Comments Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Captured : a True Story of Abduction By Indians on the Texas Frontier (04 Edition) by Scott Zesch Publisher Comments On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Slinging Mud: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of American Politics by Rosemarie Ostler Publisher Comments Two Centuries of Scandalous Rumors, Over-the-Top Insults, and Low-Down Slurs. We bemoan the loss of civility in public discourse these days, but mudslinging is an American tradition as old as the republic. Not everyone admired the Father of Our Country.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.35 New - Trade Paper
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History of Mexico (05 Edition) by Burton Kirkwood Publisher Comments This narrative history of Mexico through 1998 will readers understand the lively and sometimes turbulent history of our neighbor to the south. Surveying Mexico from the arrival of the first humans in the Western Hemisphere to current issues at the turn... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary by Simon Hornblower Publisher Comments For almost half a century, the Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivaled one-volume reference work on the Greco-Roman world. Whether one is interested in literature or art, philosophy or law, mythology or science, intimate details of daily life... (read more) Your price: $60.00 Used - Hardcover
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Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconcetions Throughout the Ages by Leland Gregory Publisher Comments Why exactly is Paul Revere revered? Was the lightbulb really Thomas Edison's bright idea? * Best-selling author Leland Gregory employs his masterful wit to expose historical myths, faux "facts," strange events, and tales of human stupidity throughout... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History, Revised Edition by Colin Mcevedy Publisher Comments The period from the reign of Constantine to the great voyages of discovery—or from the fourth to the fifteenth century—was once seen merely as the long, slow decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Yet, for Europeans, it is also a "supreme story... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History (Columbia Guides to Asian History) by R. Keith Schoppa Publisher Comments This book is both an introduction to the major features of modern Chinese history and a resource for researchers interested in virtually any topic relating to the Chinese experience of the last 220 years.... (read more) Your price: $85.50 New - Hardcover
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The Civil War Book of Lists: Thousands of Facts About the Devastation, the Battles, and the Personal Triumphs of the War America Could Never Win by New Page Books Synopsis Packed with information about battle statistics, the famous feuds among generals, popular songs of the Civil War for the North and the South, and even a "top ten" listing of Web sites about the war, this "Book of Lists" features insightful analyses and a... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Trade Paper
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Don't Know Much About the Bible by Kenneth C. Davis Publisher Comments Part One Whose Bible Is It Anyway? My Bible or yours? Whose version shall we read? The King James? The Jerusalem Bible? The "Living Bible?" Take a look at this brief passage from one Bible story as told in a version called "The Five Books of Moses: " The... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Covered Wagon Women Volume 1 by Kenneth L Holmes Publisher Comments The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Roman World (Cultural Atlas of) by Tim Cornell Synopsis This comprehensive, three-part historical and cultural atlas documents the origins of Rome and Greek influence, the transition from Republican to Imperial Rome, and the rise and decline of the Roman Empire.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $26.00 Used - Hardcover
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People's Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present by James Trager Book News Annotation Paper reissue of the $45.00 cloth original (1992), with new data into 1993. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook by Michael Volkin Publisher Comments As anyone who has undergone the transition from civilian to soldier will tell you, basic training is a lot tougher and more challenging than any recruit can imagine. Michael Volkin discovered that fact soon after 9-11, when his personal vow to serve my... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students by Jenny Presnell Publisher Comments In the past, historians could rely on their basic understanding of bibliographic tools to do effective research, as resources were primarily available in print, on microform, or at a library. Today, the information explosion resulting from access to the... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer Publisher Comments The author of the highly successful History Channel book GREATEST STORIES NEVER TOLD returns with new historic tales that your high school teacher never told you, this time focusing on our nation's leaders.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Atlantic World : History, 1400-1888 (07 Edition) by Egerton And Alison / Landers / Lane / Wright Publisher Comments Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants, animals, and microbes of Eurasia and Africa on the one hand and the Americas on the other. Following... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dictionary of Global Culture: What Every American Needs to Know as We Enter the Next Century--From Diderot Tobo Diddley by Kwame Anthony Appiah Publisher Comments This passionate volume, compiled by two distinguished scholars, reflects the realities of evolving global civilization, placing equal emphasis on the contributions of non-Western societies and those of Europe and North America.... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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