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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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Chronicles of the First Crusade by Christopher Tyerman Publisher Comments The gripping story of the First Crusade, as witnessed by contemporary writers The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an army of exhausted and starving western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events in history—with a legacy that... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed by Leslie Maitland Publisher Comments On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History T (Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America) by Claire Bond Potter Publisher Comments Recent history—the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend by Joann Fletcher, Dr. Publisher Comments The subject of myth for more than two millennia, Cleopatra has long been obscured by Roman propaganda, Shakespearean tragedy, and Hollywood glamour. Yet Cleopatra was a woman of passion, magnetism, and political genius, the last and perhaps the greatest... (read more) Your price: $17.99 New - Trade Paper
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Profiles in Folly: History's Worst Decisions and Why They Went Wrong by Alan Axelrod Publisher Comments Using the same engrossing anecdotal format that proved so popular in Profiles in Audacity, bestselling author Alan Axelrod turns to the dark side of audacious decision-making and explores history's most tragic errors. While Axelrod looks at the... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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I Used to Know That: World History: Intriguing Facts about the World's Greatest Empires, Leader's, Cultures and Conflicts by Emma Marriott Synopsis It can be difficult to keep different historical events and figures straight in your head, which is why I Used to Know That: World History presents major episodes in history with short, easily understood sections. Among the people, movements, and events... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover
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A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics by Neil Faulkner Publisher Comments What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us to... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra by James A Evans Publisher Comments The Hellenistic world, ushered into existence in 323 b.c.e. through the conquests of Alexander the Great, stretched from India in the east to Sicily in the west. Within this vast region, society was multicultural, but the dominant culture was that of the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization by Stephen Cave Publisher Comments A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave’s Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. But it also makes a powerful... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan Publisher Comments According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated in July 1099, when thousands of western European knights liberated Jerusalem from the rising menace of Islam. But what if the First Crusade’s real... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Dumb History: The Stupidest Mistakes Ever Made by Joey Green Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World by Lacey Baldwin Smith Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Emergence of the Eastern Powers, 1756-1775 by Hamish M. Scott List Price $50.00 Your price: $48.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Conquests of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel List Price $19.00 Your price: $18.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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