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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: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Christina, Queen of Sweden : Restless Life of a European Eccentric (05 Edition) 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $44.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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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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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeers dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought—from Delft to Beijing—were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global. A painting... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused by Mike Dash Publisher Comments In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland by Gretel Ehrlich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-361) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich by Stephen Halbrook Publisher Comments While surrounded by the Axis powers in World War II, Switzerland remained democratic and, unlike most of Europe, never succumbed to the siren songs and threats of the Nazi goliath. This book tells the story with emphasis on two voices rarely heard. One... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Dealing with the Dutch: A Guide for Visitors, New Residents and Better Business Relationships by Jacob Vossestein Publisher Comments People from all corners of the world involved in government, business and culture come into contact with Dutch colleagues and counterparts, either in the Netherlands or in their own countries. No matter whether you are coming to the Netherlands for a... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Twentieth Train: The True Story of the Ambush on the Death Train to Auschwitz by Marion Schreiber Publisher Comments The spring of 1943 was a desperate season for the Jews of Brussels. The resistance movement had successfully bombed the SS headquarters that January, but anti-Jewish laws were tightening, and a camp had been set up in the nearby town of Mechelen to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism & Its Discontent by Paul Sniderman Publisher Comments In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street. His killer was Mohammed Bouyeri, a twenty-six-year-old Dutch Moroccan offended by van Gogh's controversial film about Muslim suppression of women. The Dutch... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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What Happened to Sweden? - While America Became the Only Superpower. by Ulf Nilson Publisher Comments Renowned World Correspondent Ulf Nilson, one of Sweden's most well-known journalists, journeys through he histories of his two countries: his native Sweden and America, where he lived for twenty years. In this extensively researched book, Nilson explores... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman Publisher Comments In this persuasive new biography, Shipman takes a fresh look at the alluring, scandalous, and most notorious female spy in history.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Palace of the Snow Queen Signed Edition 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: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood on the Snow: The Killing of Olof Palme by Jan Bondeson Publisher Comments Recreates the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, an ardent opponent of apartheid and major figure in world politics.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold 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... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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