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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Guns of August by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments "More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly phrased, skillfully paced and sustained....The product of painstaking and sophisticated research." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Historian and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lessons of History (10 Edition) by Will Durant Publisher Comments A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick As fascinating as his bestseller 1491, Mann's 1493 recounts how the world was forever changed by a "Columbian Exchange," when plants, animals, commodities, and people crossed oceans for the first time. Entertaining and insightful, this scientific history... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $16.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Annals of Imperial Rome (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus Synopsis "The Annals of Imperial Rome" recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. Michael Grant's introduction discusses the life and works of Tacitus and the historical context of the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History by William J. Bernstein Publisher Comments William J. Bernstein's A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, an Economist and Financial Times Best Book of the Year, placed him firmly among the top flight of historians like Jared Diamond and Bill Bryson, capable of distilling major trends... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." Commentary The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments Brilliant, voluble, cranky, a genius of political manipulation but also a true patriot and idealist, Cicero was Rome's most feared politician, one of the greatest lawyers and statesmen of all time. Cicero comes to life in these pages and takes center... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rome: Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC - Ad 476 by Neil Faulkner Publisher Comments Neil Faulkner's dynamic and provocative new history proves that there is a fresh, exciting new perspective to be found Compelling. History Today A thrilling and often coruscating fusion of narrative with scholarship. The... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Staff Pick True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you — or just plain doesn't make sense — pick up a copy of Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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History in Crisis?: Recent Directions in Historiography by Norman J Wilson Publisher Comments This book explores the possibilities remaining for historical study in the face of the current trends, including postcolonialism, postmodernism, and deconstruction, among others. The volume examines key topics such as what was history and what is... (read more) List Price $57.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Romanization in the Time of Augustus by Ramsay Macmullen Publisher Comments During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Alexander the Great by Tania Gergel Publisher Comments Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle, and boundless in his ambition, Alexander the Great was worshiped as a god during his lifetime, and his legend has only grown since? he remains in the forefront of the public imagination with no fewer than... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland Publisher Comments Holland's new work describes the very first "clash of empires" between East and West. Revealing extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and the present, this history takes in the entire sweep of the Persian Wars.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Decline of the West (Oxford Paperbacks) by Oswald Spengler Publisher Comments Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present by Fritz R Stern Publisher Comments This is a book by historians about history, personal reflections on an ancient but ever varying discipline. As the present work will show, modern historians have written in a variety of genres, but the multiplicity of style cannot obscure the two basic... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What is History by Edward Hallett Carr Publisher Comments '...[Carr] tackles half a dozen of the most fundamental questions concerning the interpretation of human social experience. He handles each of these with such mastery as we seldom see, and his little book is one of those rare works which one can with... (read more) List Price $17.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome by John Gibson Warry Publisher Comments This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. John... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Knight: The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, yet gallantry, chivalry, and literary brilliance flourished in the courts of England and elsewhere. It was a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Barbara Tuchman, explores the complex relationship of Britain to Palestine that led to the founding of the modern Jewish state--and to many of the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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