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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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Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt Publisher Comments The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, Thinking the Twentieth Century maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder Publisher Comments Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, Americas wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue Publisher Comments The Economist's Tehran correspondent Christopher de Bellaigue brings to light the never-before-told full story of one of the great anti-colonial heroes of the twentieth century: Muhammad Mossadegh, the great Iranian leader whose untimely demise resulted... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt Publisher Comments A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from one of our most celebrated intellectuals. As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security, stability, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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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Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre Publisher Comments “Ben Macintyres rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus- spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.” —William Grimes, The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book of the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-To-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and O by Walter Truett Anderson Publisher Comments Anderson reveals the reality of postmodernism in politics, popular culture, religion, literary criticism, art, and philosophy -- making sense of everything from deconstructionism to punk.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose Publisher Comments Now in its second edition, this landmark book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose... (read more) Your price: $34.25 New - Trade Paper
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River of Doubt Theodore Roosevelts Darke by Candice Millard Publisher Comments At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. The River of Doubt—it is a... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley Publisher Comments On the success of his two bestselling books about World War II, James Bradley began to wonder what the real catalyst was for the Pacific War. What he discovered shocked him. In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz Staff Pick Blue Latitudes is an enjoyable and often hilarious journey into the amazing life and adventures of Captain James Cook and his crew. There is no better way to learn nautical history than to bring an Aussie, and a bottle of grog, along.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik Publisher Comments It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition (Wesleyan Poetry) by Aime Cesaire Publisher Comments Soleil cou coupe (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aime Cesaire's most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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The Grey Seas Under: The Perilous Rescue Mission of A N.A. Salvage Tug by Farley Mowat Publisher Comments The hair-raising rescue missions of a deep-sea salvage tug that saved hundreds of lives during two decades of service in the North Atlantic.... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Brief History of the Age of Steam: The Power That Drove the Industrial Revolution by Thomas Crump Publisher Comments In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner by John Maxtone Graham Publisher Comments This is a book unlike any other. Rather than offering simply a detailed retelling of the Titanic sinking on her maiden voyage, John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative, and rarely... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Long Twentieth Century (2ND 09 Edition) by Giovanni Arrighi Publisher Comments The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries," each of which produced a new world power that... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Condition of Postmodernity by David Harvey Publisher Comments In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.... (read more) List Price $44.25 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup by Christopher De Bellaigue Publisher Comments On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against a cussed, bedridden seventy-two-year-old man. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, and his crimes had been to flirt with communism and to nationalize... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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