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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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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History)
by Thomas Cahill 
Publisher Comments A delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history in which the author shows that the Irish were not only conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western...
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher Comments Daniel Boorstin, former librarian of the Library of Congress, gives a fascinating history of world civilization. From astronomical development, microscopes, telescopes, medicine, vaccines, genetics and map-making, this book delves into the discoveries of...
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present
by Jacques Barzun
Publisher Comments Chapter One The West Torn Apart The Modern Era begins, characteristically, with a revolution. It is commonly called the Protestant Reformation, but the train of events starting early in the 16C and ending-if indeed it has ended-more than a century later...
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
by Daniel J Boorstin Publisher Comments By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers with...
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An Intimate History of Humanity
by Theodore Zeldin Publisher Comments A provocative work that explores the evolution of emotions and personal relationships through diverse cultures and time. "An intellectually dazzling view of our past and future."--Time...
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
by Terry Jones Publisher Comments Famous for lampooning the medieval world in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail, "Terry Jones has a real passion for and detailed knowledge of the Middle Ages. In "Terry Jones' Medieval Lives," his mission is to rescue the Middle Ages from moth-eaten...
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Life in a Medieval City
by Joseph Gies Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-261) and index....
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Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
by Jon Meacham
Publisher Comments The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston,...
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Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present
by Fritz R Stern Publisher Comments This is a book by historians about history, personal reflections on an ancient but ever varying discipline. As the present work will show, modern historians have written in a variety of genres, but the multiplicity of style cannot obscure the two basic...
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The pessimist's guide to history
by Stuart Flexner Publisher Comments The original "irreverent jaunt through the catastrophes, cataclysms and outrages that shaped our world" has sold more than 73,000 copies. This updated edition takes us from the Big Bang (it was an explosion, after all) to the turn of the millennium, with...
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Feudal Society, Volume 2: Social Classes and Political Organization
by Marc Bloch Publisher Comments "Few have set themselves to the formidable task of reconstructing and analyzing a whole human environment; fewer still have succeeded. Bloch dared to do this and was successful; therein lies the enduring achievement of Feudal Society."—Charles...
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The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem from the Big Bang to the New Millenniu
by Stuart Flexner Publisher Comments Description of Events 18 Billion Years Ago: The Big Bang. The first and greatest natural catastrophe imaginable was the Big Bang, the cataclysmic event that scientists believe created virtually the entire universe we know today. The true pessimists among...
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The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- And Western Civilization
by Barry Strauss Publisher Comments On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval battle of the ancient world. Overwhelmingly outnumbered by the enemy, the Greeks triumphed through a...
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Legends & Lies of World History
by Richard Shenkman Publisher Comments Some Things You Should Know Before Reading This Book We Americans, I have discovered, do not just get our own history wrong. We get everybody else's wrong as well. Think Nero fiddled while Rome burned? Think Catherine the Great was Russian? Think King...
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The Renaissance: A Short History
by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments From a legendary historian comes "a concise and entertaining survey" ("The Wall Street Journal") of perhaps the most revolutionary, and romanticized, era of human history....
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Practicing History: Selected Essays
by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a...
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The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
by T R Reid Publisher Comments To Americans accustomed to unilateralism abroad and social belt-tightening at home, few books could be more revelatoryor controversialthan this timely, lucid, and informative portrait of the new European Union. Now comprising 25 nations and 450 million...
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History of Civilizations (93 Edition)
by Fernand Braudel Publisher Comments This groundbreaker by one of the premier historians of this century takes an anti-ethnocentric approach to the history of civilizations. This book focuses on the broad sweep of history rather than on the famous events. It covers historical developments...
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The Vanished Library
by Luciano Canfora Publisher Comments The Library of Alexandria, one of the wonders of the Ancient World, has haunted Western culture for over 2,000 years. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt--successors of Alexander the Great--had a staggering ambition: to house all of the books ever written under...
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