World History
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester  Publisher Comments Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The...
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)
by Loung Ung Publisher Comments From a childhood survivor of the brutal Pol Pot regime comes an unforgettable narrative of tragedy and spiritual triumph. 8-page photo insert....
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.)
by John Kelly Publisher Comments La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester 
Powells.com Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places...
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
by Peter Hessler Publisher Comments In the tradition of "Iron & Silk" comes a powerful memoir about a young American teacher in the Peace Corps living in the small Chinese city of Fuling as it navigates increasing waves of cultural and social upheaval. Maps....
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)
by Laurence Bergreen
Powells.com Staff Pick Laurence Bergreen brings Magellan's groundbreaking circumnavigation of the globe to life in this excellent, highly readable history. Through exhaustive research, including many first person accounts previously unavailable in English, Bergreen weaves...
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Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge (P.S.)
by Eleanor Herman
Powells.com Staff Pick "This is a witty and engaging book, intelligently written, with an endless amount of scandalous, hilarious, and eye-opening anecdotes. As Herman is the first to admit, though, many tales of the court were related by gossipy courtiers, memoirists eager...
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Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal (P.S.)
by Deborah Cadbury Publisher Comments A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the...
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.)
by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments For the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, Nicolson draws from a wide range of sources to investigate the battle, and the ambitions, fears and principles that drove the British fleet to such a devastating victory....
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
by David Laskin Publisher Comments The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,...
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History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (P.S.)
by Deborah E. Lipstadt Publisher Comments In her acclaimed 1993 book "Denying the Holocaust," Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people...
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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (P.S.)
by Michela Wrong Publisher Comments Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national...
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.)
by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian...
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District (P.S.)
by Louise Brown Publisher Comments The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as...
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Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust (P.S.)
by Josip Novakovich Publisher Comments < P> Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever.< /P> < P> Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the < i> New York...
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The Africa House: The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream (P.S.)
by Christina Lamb Publisher Comments In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with...
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