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Embarrassment of Riches : an Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (87 Edition)
by Simon Schama
Publisher Comments
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 Twentieth Train: The True Story of the Ambush of the Death Train to Auschwitz
by Marion Schreiber
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<div>One day in April 1943, a young doctor and Jewish resistance fighter Youra Livchitz discovered the departure date of the next transport train to Auschwitz. With only one weekend in which to organize a raid, Youra recruited two school... ( read more)
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Xenophobe's Guide To Swiss
by Paul Bilton
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'The diversity of the Swiss is apparent in the degree to which they worry. The German-speakers do little else. The French-speaking Swiss are great visionaries and philosophers with noble thoughts and global dreams. They worry that their Swiss-German... ( read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
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)
List Price $42.95
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Used - Trade Paper
Madam Prime Minister
by Gro Harlem 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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Used - Hardcover
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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Used - Trade Paper
Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination
by Allan Pred
Publisher Comments
In the context of persistently high unemployment rates and more general economic uncertainty, racism has resurged throughout Western Europe. Even in Sweden, a country long stereotyped by Western intellectuals as the very model of rational social justice... ( read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
by Emmanuel Ladurie
Publisher Comments
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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Used - Trade Paper
Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and Moral Blackmail Today
by Angelo Codevilla
Publisher Comments
What really happened to the billions of dollars worth of gold seized by Nazi Germany? What role did the Swiss government play and what are the implications of neutrality during wartime? The author addresses these questions, presents the case for and... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
by Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher Comments
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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Used - Hardcover
Murder in Amsterdam: Liberal Europe, Islam and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian Buruma
Publisher Comments
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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History of the Swedish People Volume 1 From
by Vilhelm Moberg
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Beginning in prehistoric times and culminating with the Dacke rebellion of 1542, renowned novelist Vilhelm Moberg's two-volume popular history of the Swedish people approaches its subject from the viewpoint of the common people, documenting peasants... ( read more)
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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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Used - Hardcover
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by Veronica Buckley
Publisher Comments
She was born on a bitterly cold December night in 1626 and, in the candlelight, mistakenly declared a boy. On her father's death six years later, she inherited the Swedish throne. She was tutored by Descartes, yet could swear like the roughest soldier... ( read more)
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Used - Hardcover
Assassination of Theo Van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma (Politics, History, Culture)
by Ron Eyerman
Publisher Comments
In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to... ( read more)
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Used - Trade Paper
The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga
by Emma Le Roy Ladurie
Publisher Comments
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)
List Price $40.95
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Used - Hardcover
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
by Harold J. Cook
Publisher Comments
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)
List Price $35.00
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Used - Hardcover
Wilkomirski Affair : a Study in Biographical Truth (01 Edition)
by Stefan Machler
Publisher Comments
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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Used - Trade Paper
This Cold Heven
by Gretel Ehrlich
Synopsis
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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Used - Hardcover
Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance
by Ian Buruma
Publisher Comments
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)
List Price $24.95
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Used - Hardcover
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