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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover 
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick As fascinating as his bestseller 1491, Mann's 1493 recounts how the world was forever changed by a "Columbian Exchange," when plants, animals, commodities, and people crossed oceans for the first time. Entertaining and insightful, this scientific history... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $16.00 Used - Hardcover
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What Life Was Like in Europe's Golden Age: Northern Europe, Ad 1500-1675 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Conquest: The English Kingdom of France, 1417-1450 by Juliet R. V. Barker Publisher Comments For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that Juliet Barker brings to vivid life in Conquest. Following Agincourt, Henry V’s second... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy Publisher Comments “God’s Jury is a reminder, and we need to be constantly reminded, that the most dangerous people in the world are the righteous, and when they wield real power, look out. At once global and chillingly intimate in its reach, the Inquisition... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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History of Venice (82 Edition) by John Julius Norwich Publisher Comments Traces the rise ot empire of this city from its 5th century beginnings all the way through until 1797 when Napolean put an end to the thousand year-old Republic. 32 pages of black and white photos, 4 maps and charts.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1492: The Year the World Began by Felipe Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments 1492: Not Simply the Year Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue . . . In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernÁndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single fateful year when everything changed.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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History of Private Life #03: Histoire de La Vie Privee, Vol. 3, de La Renaissance Aux Lumieres / Ieres by Roger Chartier Review Its broad chronological scope, its remarkable effective integration of essays by different historians, and above all its ability to represent the seemingly frivolous details of private life in a challengingly theoretical matrix make this an important and... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Life Was Like at the Rebirth of Genius: Renaissance Italy, Ad 1400-1550 by Time Life Publisher Comments Drawing on art, artifacts, and literature that was left behind, these richly illustrated volumes recount captivating tales of everyday life in long-ago vanished worlds.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg Publisher Comments The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records of Domenico Scandella, a miller also known as... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Renaissance by Andrew Graham Dixon Publisher Comments In his adventurous new look at the artistic splendor of the European Renaissance, Andrew Graham-Dixon challenges traditional views on the Renaissance, arguing instead that this period in history was a culmination, not a rejection, of the Medieval and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Revolution of the Mind by Jonathan Israel Publisher Comments Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al Khalili Publisher Comments A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Renaissances (10 Edition) by Jack Goody Publisher Comments One of the most distinguished social scientists in the world addresses one of the central historical questions of the past millennium: does the European Renaissance deserve its unique status at the very heart of our notions of modernity? Jack Goody... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Challenges to Authority (Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry) by Peter Elmer Publisher Comments The evolution and reception of the Renaissance was mediated by developments in various other spheres of early modern life and culture. Foremost among these were the religious changes initiated by the Protestant Reformation, which are discussed in the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini Publisher Comments 1910. Harvard Classics, Volume 31. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. An excellent translation of the honest, if self-aggrandized life of the epitomal sixteenth-century Renaissance man. It ranks among the greatest autobiographies ever written.... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $5.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 by James Reston Publisher Comments A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance by James A Connor Publisher Comments Painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, 28 years after Michelangelo completed the glorious and hopeful ceiling, The Last Judgment is full of stark images depicting the End of Days. James Connor uses the famous fresco as the lens... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.00 Sale - Hardcover
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1492 (09 Edition) by Felipe Fernandez-armesto Publisher Comments The world would end in 1492—so the prophets, soothsayers, and stargazers said. They were right. Their world did end. Ours began. In this extraordinary, sweeping history, Felipe FernÁndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Renaissance Secrets: Recipes & Formulas by Jo Wheeler Publisher Comments From recipes for aphrodisiacs to formulas for everything from lip balm to stain removers to paint pigments, this book unveils the secret world of Renaissance lotions and potions. Clothbound with marbled endpapers and superbly illustrated with relevant... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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