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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Hidden Life of Otto Frank by Carol Ann Lee Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun by Lisa Jardine Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland by Barbara Sjoholm Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust by Moritz Nachtstern Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sweden, the Nation's History by Franklin Dani Scott Publisher Comments 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 $35.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Madam Prime Minister by Gro Harl Brundtland Publisher Comments 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) List Price $25.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric by Veronica Buckley Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $22.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Life of Charles XII, King of Sweden by G Adlerfelt Synopsis 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) List Price $20.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.71 Used - Hardcover
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Murder in Amsterdam : Liberal Europe, Islam, and the Limits of Tolerence (06 Edition) 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Challenge of Neutrality: Diplomacy and the Defense of Switzerland by Georges A Chevallaz Publisher Comments 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) List Price $56.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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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 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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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 $37.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth by Stefan Maechler 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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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) Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia by Olli Vehvilainen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $153.95 Your price: $100.00 Used - Hardcover
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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 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover
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