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Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Publisher Comments Now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a... (read more) Available January 14, 2014 Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Poets of the Italian Diaspora: A Bilingual Anthology by Luigi Bonaffini Publisher Comments In the century between 1870 and 1970, about twenty-seven million migrants left Italy to work and live abroad. As a result, the worldwide Italian diaspora reportedly numbers more than sixty million people. Until now, however, there has not been an... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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Black 9/11: Money, Motive and Technology by Mark H. Gaffney Publisher Comments The weeks following the attacks of September 11, 2001, were traumatic for nearly every American, but for some, the answers they received from the media and the government to explain the horrific events was not satisfactory. Accusations of cover-ups... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Mexican Mosaic: a Brief History of Mexico (08 Edition) by Jurgen Buchenau Publisher Comments Our new brief text highlights Mexico's stunning geographical, ethnic, and social diversity. In the sixteenth century, diseases brought by the Spanish conquerors wiped out almost 90 per cent of the indigenous population. Since then, Mexico - first as a... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Fire Monks: Zen Mind Meets Wildfire by Colleen Morton Busch Publisher Comments In June 2008 more than two thousand wildfires, all started by a single lightning storm, blazed across the state of California. Tassajara, the oldest Zen Buddhist monastery in the United States, was at particular risk. Set deep in the Ventana wilderness... (read more) Available June 26, 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Navies of Rome by Michael Pitassi Publisher Comments Both welcome and useful. (...) This is a narrative history as well as a focused study of the development of the ships, officers, and crews and the overall naval establishment. Recommended. CHOICE This publication represents the first true examination of... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers (Vintage) by Andrea Di Robilant Publisher Comments From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause célè... (read more) Available August 7, 2012 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Road to Valor: A True Story of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation by Aili And Andres Mcconnon Publisher Comments Road to Valor is the inspiring, against-the-odds story of Gino Bartali, the cyclist who made the greatest comeback in Tour de France history and secretly aided the Italian resistance during World War II. Gino Bartali is... (read more) Available June 12, 2012 Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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A Short History of Fear (Counterpunch) by Alexander Cockburn Publisher Comments Nonfiction. Political Science. A SHORT HISTORY OF FEAR is a scathing, often hilarious, and always insightful analysis of Western culture's preoccupation with fear. The idea that Armageddon is just around the corner has been a common refrain since the... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard Mcgregor Publisher Comments In this provocative and illuminating account, Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China’s Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future. China’s political and economic growth in the past three decades... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $16.99 New - Trade Paper
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Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale Publisher Comments "I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman—bodily and morally the husbands slave—a very doubtful happiness." —Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vicky Headstrong, high... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Great Empires: An Illustrated Atlas by National Geographic Publisher Comments Experience what life was like when pharaohs erected the majestic pyramids; when Hannibal commanded Carthage's 40,000 troops; when Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor; and when the drive to conquer defined the destiny of leaders and the lives of... (read more) Available November 20, 2012 Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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A Monarchy of Letters: Royal Correspondence and English Diplomacy in the Reign of Elizabeth I (Queenship and Power) by Rayne Allinson Publisher Comments Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) sent more letters into more distant kingdoms than any English monarch had before, and her exchanges with an ever-growing number of rulers reveal how shifting conceptions of sovereignty were made manifest on paper. This book... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $99.25 New - Hardcover
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Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf Publisher Comments The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa--and sometimes even further afield. In Rome, historian Greg Woolf... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Gay Dads: Transitions to Adoptive Fatherhood by Stanford Shaw Publisher Comments When gay couples become parents, they face a host of questions and issues that their straight counterparts may never have to consider. How important is it for each partner to have a biological tie to their child? How will they become parents: will... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $28.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places, an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that... (read more) Available October 11, 2012 Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Windmills and Waterwheels Explained: Machines That Fed the Nation (England's Living History) by Stan Yorke Publisher Comments It is amazing to discover that there are well over 400 waterwheels and windmills open to the public in England and Wales. Many of them are in excellent working order and provide a valuable insight into the partnership between man and machine going back... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $23.75 New - Trade Paper
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Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures by Hanneke Grootenboer Publisher Comments The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $50.95 New - Hardcover
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Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York by Susan Allport Publisher Comments What do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many were built by slaves, Indians, indentured servants, and... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Rian Malan Synopsis Since its original publication twenty years ago Rian Malans classic work of narrative nonfiction My Traitors Heart has earned its author comparisons to masters of literary nonfiction like Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuscinski. The Lion Sleeps Tonight is... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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