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Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World by Jeffrey Herf Publisher Comments Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $28.88 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic 
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Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion by Jay Gitlin Publisher Comments Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $38.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Vikings by Robert Ferguson Publisher Comments A fascinating history of the Viking age and its complex culture and influence The emergence of the Viking age at the end of the eighth century ushered in a new era in the history of Europe, one in which the paganism of the conquering tribes of Norway... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $30.48 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics by Le Blanc M., Robin Publisher Comments This beautifully written ethnography follows the lives of two very different Japanese men entering political life in two very different communities. One is the rural leader of a citizens' referendum movement, while the other hopes to succeed his father... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $18.50 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: a Free Black Man's Encounter With Liberty by J. William Harris Publisher Comments The tragic untold story of how a nation struggling for its freedom denied it to one of its own. In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than five hundred Free Negros in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of 1,000 (about $200,000 in today's... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $26.47 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Legacy of the Black Gods in Time Before Time, Coming Forth from the Akashic Records by Paul Simons Publisher Comments THERE WAS A TIME BEFORE time,when the Blackman knew everything that there was to know. He was in tune with the Forces of Nature - his Ancestors, the spirits of the Black Gods; he was in tune with the Universe; and, he was thus in tune with his Creator, -... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $22.18 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques Publisher Comments How China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world According to even the most... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Fly By Wire by William Langewiesche Publisher Comments On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines. Over the next three minutes, the plane's pilot, Chesley Sully Sullenberger,... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $21.30 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Shadows on the Mountain: The Allies, the Resistance, and the Rivalries that Doomed WWII Yugoslavia by Marcia Kurapovna Publisher Comments An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episodethe failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and beyond Winston Churchill called it one of his biggest wartime failuresthe shift of British and U.S. support... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Italian History and Culture by Gabrielle Ann Euvino Publisher Comments Youre no idiot, of course. You know theres more to Italys rich tapestry than spaghetti and the Sicilian Mafia, but you also know you have a lot to learn about the country that brought you the paintings of Michelangelo, the poetry of Dante, and the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.53 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques Publisher Comments How China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world According to even the most... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $27.70 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White Publisher Comments The greatest political story ever told-the epic clash between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon, as captured in Theodore White's dramatic and groundbreaking chronicle The Making of the President 1960 is the book that revolutionized-even created-modern... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $11.89 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Oda Nobunaga: The Battle of Okehazama by Les Paterson, Synopsis The Battle of Okehazama put Oda Nobunaga on the world stage forever changed Japanese history. His victory over Imagawa Yoshimoto against impossible odds were more staggering. Being outnumbered almost twelve to one Nobunaga had no choice but to launch a... (read more) Your price: $12.95 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society?: Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism by Seth Schwartz Publisher Comments How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome? The Torah's laws seem to constitute a rejection of the reciprocity-based social dependency and emphasis on honor that were customary in the ancient Mediterranean world.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott Publisher Comments Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history-and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.31 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba by Tom Gjelten Publisher Comments A unique history of Cuba, captured in the life and times of the famous rum dynasty The Bacardis of Cuba, builders of a rum distillery and a worldwide brand, came of age with their nation and helped define what it meant to be Cuban. Across five... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $15.72 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Roman Republics by Harriet I. Flower Publisher Comments From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first century Bi-has profoundly shaped how Roman history is understood, how the ultimate failure of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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After Hegemony by Robert O Keohane Synopsis This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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1492 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 Fernndez-Armesto traces key elements of the modern world back to that single,... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $16.99 Palm Reader Ebooks - Electronic
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The New Deal and the Joneses by Gary Carmell Publisher Comments This book represents a fascinating compilation of 24 articles written in 1933 and 1934 detailing all of the major facets of the New Deal. It is written from the perspective of a typical 1930s American family, the Joneses, with a conservative, hard... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $6.20 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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