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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
by Simon Schama
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In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast... (read more)

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The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
by Carol Ann Lee
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Carol Ann Lee’ s impeccably researched portrait The Hidden Life of Otto Frank brings into sharp focus every facet of the extraordinary life, both charmed and cursed, of Otto Frank, the father of the most famous young girl of the twentieth century... (read more)

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The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun
The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun
by Lisa Jardine
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In this innovative and engaging work of history, distinguished author Lisa Jardine shows how the first killing by handgun of a head of state had a profound effect on the course of history. The shooting of Prince William of Orange by a French Catholic in... (read more)

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The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland
by Barbara Sjoholm
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Barbara Sjoholm's moving travel narrative takes readers on a personal journey through the icy landscape of Lapland. A frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her. Sjoholm... (read more)

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Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust
Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust
by Moritz Nachtstern
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Published for the first time in English, this is an enthralling personal account of the secret Nazi project, Operation Bernhard, devised to destabilize the British and, later, American economies by creating and putting into circulation millions of... (read more)

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Sweden, the Nation's History
Sweden, the Nation's History
by Franklin Dani Scott
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Steven Koblik' s epilogue extends Scott' s now standard text with an analysis of contemporary Swedish political, economic, and social behavior. In addition to the epilogue, Scott has made a number of alterations in the text in order to maintain the... (read more)

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Madam Prime Minister
Madam Prime Minister
by Gro Harl Brundtland
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One of the world's leading woman politicians tells her inspiring story At forty-one, Gro Harlem Brundtland, physician and mother of four, was appointed prime minister of Norway-the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that office. In this... (read more)

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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by Veronica Buckley
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Not unlike the elusive figure played by Greta Garbo, the real Queen Christina stood among the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the seventeenth century. All of Sweden could not contain her ambition or quench her thirst for adventure. Freed... (read more)

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The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
by Emmanuel Ladurie
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From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie deepens and expands the historical contexts of these... (read more)

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The Life of Charles XII, King of Sweden
The Life of Charles XII, King of Sweden
by G Adlerfelt
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional... (read more)

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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
by Gretel Ehrlich
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For the last decade, Gretel Ehrlich has been obsessed by an island, a terrain, a culture, and the men and women who long for and love the complex frailties and treacherous beauty of a world defined by ice. Greenland, the world?s largest island, 840... (read more)

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Murder in Amsterdam : Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence (06 Edition)
Murder in Amsterdam : Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence (06 Edition)
by Ian Buruma
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In 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie that insulted the prophet Mohammed. Buruma returned to his native land to investigate the shocking event and its larger... (read more)

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The Challenge of Neutrality: Diplomacy and the Defense of Switzerland
The Challenge of Neutrality: Diplomacy and the Defense of Switzerland
by Georges A Chevallaz
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A study of Swiss neutrality during World War II. It asks two essential questions: Why, in the face of German imperialism - with its authoritarian, totalitarian and racist ideology - did Switzerland declare neutrality? Why did it not join the "camp of... (read more)

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The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
by Emma Le Roy Ladurie
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From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie deepens and expands the historical contexts of these... (read more)

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Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
by Harold J. Cook
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In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce (not religion) inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook... (read more)

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The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth
The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth
by Stefan Maechler
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This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.<BR>In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski... (read more)

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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
by Timothy Brook
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In the hands of award-winning historian Brook, Vermeer's dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought--from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.... (read more)

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This Cold Heven
This Cold Heven
by Gretel Ehrlich
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In a tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth. This book details her discovery of the realm of ice pavilions, polar bears and Eskimo nomads, learning about hunting and endurance, Inuit languages... (read more)

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Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia
Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia
by Olli Vehvilainen
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This book describes the struggle for power between two totalitarian dictatorships in the north of Europe and the battle for survival of a small nation caught between them. In the Winter War of 1939-40, Finland successfully fought off a Soviet invasion... (read more)

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Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian Buruma
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Ian Buruma returns to his native land to explore the great dilemma of our time through the story of the brutal murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh at the hands of an Islamic extremist. It was the emblematic crime of our moment: On a... (read more)

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