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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ( Updated and Expanded) by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before—creating an explosion of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-465) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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World History Atlas by Dk Publishing Publisher Comments Covering recent historical developments, this updated atlas is an accessible visual timeline of history. Full color.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 (00 Edition) by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments This Pulitzer Prize-winning treatise explores patterns and symbols in the disciplines of mathematics, art, and musical... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 perspective... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments Now completely revised and expanded, this comprehensive general history of the Middle Ages centers on medieval culture and religion rather than on political history, and retains the powerful narrative flow that made the earlier edition so accessible and... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Library Chronicles #32: Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history's most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded-and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographies and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture by Peter Garnsey Publisher Comments During the first, stable period of the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life in Ancient Egypt by Adolf Erman Publisher Comments The most thoroughly detailed account -- including material not found in more recent books -- of domestic life, religion, magic, medicine, commerce, and more in ancient Egypt. Illustrations include tomb paintings, carvings, more.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan Publisher Comments National Bestseller New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present, 500 Years of Western Cultural Life by Jacques Barzun Review "Jacques Barzun, one of the most erudite and eloquent of minds, in his new book spans the cultural history of the Western world from the Renaissance and the Reformation till now. It is a masterpiece for the ages." (-- Martin Meyerson, President... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Lessons of History by William Jame Durant Publisher Comments In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the reader the accumulated store of knowledge and experience from their four decades of work on the ten monumental volumes of The Story of Civilization. The... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William R Everdell Publisher Comments A lively and accessible history of Modernism, The First Moderns is filled with portraits of genius, and intellectual breakthroughs, that richly evoke the fin-de-siecle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. William Everdell offers... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover 
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A History of Civilizations 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... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments In this book, Eric Hobsbawm chronicles the events and trends that led to the triumph of private enterprise and its exponents in the years between 1848 and 1875. Along with Hobsbawm's other volumes, this book constitutes and intellectual key to the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea...: A Compendium of Great Historical Fiascoes by William R Forstchen Publisher Comments Throughout the annals of history, the best of intentions—and sometimes the worst—have set in motion events with a vastly different outcome than originally intended. In this entertaining, fact-filled chronicle, William Forstchen and Bill... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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