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The Century
by Peter Jennings  Publisher Comments What was it like to watch the Wright Brothers soar into the sky? To hear the first crackling voice aired on the radio? To cower in the ghastly trenches of Europe during World War I? To lose everything in the stock-market crash of 1929, or experience the...
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Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
by Nicholson Baker 
Publisher Comments Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy — a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh...
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Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.)
by James R. Gaines Publisher Comments Johann Sebastian Bach created what may be the most celestial and profound body of music in history; Frederick the Great built the colossus we now know as Germany, and along with it a template for modern warfare. Their fleeting encounter in 1757 signals a...
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The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
by L. Fletcher Prouty Publisher Comments "L. Fletcher Prouty is a man whose name will go down in history."—Oliver Stone The Secret Team, L. Fletcher Prouty's CIA exposé, was first published in the 1970s, but virtually all copies of the book disappeared upon distribution, purchased en...
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus Publisher Comments The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world — and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the...
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Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
by Robin Wright Publisher Comments A magnificent reckoning with the extraordinary changes engulfing the Middle East, by one of our greatest reporters on the region Robin Wright first landed in the Middle East on October 6, 1973, the day the fourth Middle East war erupted. She has covered...
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Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Classics)
by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for...
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Inventing Human Rights (07 Edition)
by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments "A tour de force."—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary...
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Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
by Michael Asher Publisher Comments Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara. In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu, in French Sudan,...
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or, the True and Incredible Adventure of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
by Giles Milton
Publisher Comments A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas. The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago. Just two miles long and half a mile wide, it is remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored. Yet 370 years ago, Run's...
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How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy
by Mark Engler Publisher Comments A debate is taking place over what values should define the international order. For global elites, it is a debate about how to rule the world: a conflict between one vision of global order based on U.S. empire and another based on an expanding...
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labor Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom
by Josef M. Bauer Publisher Comments Reminiscent of S_avomir Rawicz's classic The Long Walk, an amazing narrative of escape and survival. In 1944, German paratrooper Clemens Forell was captured by the Soviets and sentenced to twenty-five years of labor in a Siberian lead mine. In the Gulags,...
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The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Restitution, New and Fully Updated Edition
by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments With the opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, the case for restitution is now unanswerable. The opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens in spring 2008 provides the opportunity to re-state the case for the return of the Elgin Marbles to...
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Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
by Peter Watson Publisher Comments Chapter One Disturbing the Peace The year 1900 A.D. need not have been remarkable. Centuries are man-made conventions after all, and although people may think in terms of tens and hundreds and thousands, nature doesn't. She surrenders her secrets...
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The Grateful Slave
by George Boulukos Publisher Comments The figure of the grateful slave, devoted to his or her master in thanks for kind treatment, is ubiquitous in eighteenth-century writing from Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack (1722) to Maria Edgeworth's 'The Grateful Negro' (1804). Yet this important trope...
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Inventing Vietnam
by James M. Carter Publisher Comments This book considers the Vietnam war in light of U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam, concluding that the war was a direct result of failed state-building efforts. This U.S. nation building project began in the mid-1950s with the ambitious goal of creating a...
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March of Folly : From Troy To Vietnam (85 Edition)
by Barbara W. Tuchman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographies and index....
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Islamist, The
by Ed Husain Publisher Comments When the author was sixteen, he became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, he rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and his family. He tried to put his experiences behind him, but as the...
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Age of Extremes: the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-91 (UK Edition)
by E.j. Hobsbawm Synopsis A reassessment of the 20th century exploring topics such as the breakdown of the Old World, the lack of international accord, the failure of the Arts in recent years and the influence of the Third World....
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Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940
by David E. Kyvig Publisher Comments In this fascinating book, David Kyvig describes everyday life in the 20s-40s decade, when automobiles and home electricity became commonplace, and radio and the movies became popular. The details of work life, domestic life, and leisure activities make...
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