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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail (Oprah's Book Club) by Malika Oufkir Publisher Comments The adopted daughter of the king of Morocco, whose father was arrested and executed for a 1972 attempt to assassinate the king, tells the story of how she, her mother, and her five siblings endured years of imprisonment in a desert penal colony. This... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Autobiography : the Story of My Experiments With Truth (83 Edition) by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Publisher Comments Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha — nonviolent protest — movement. His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification, and ultimate salvation of his homeland is... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Empire of Atlantis: The Secrets of History's Most Enduring Mystery Revealed by Gavin Menzies Publisher Comments The astonishing true story of Atlantis In 1500 B.C. a supervolcano beneath the Greek island of Santorini exploded in a near-apocalyptic eruption. Buried beneath the rubble and waves was the world’s most remarkable lost civilization. . . . New York... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar Publisher Comments From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (Dialogos) by Camilla Townsend Publisher Comments The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja Publisher Comments For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death. Forced into an arranged marriage at age seventeen, Fauziya... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek Fire: The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis by Nicholas Gage Publisher Comments The love affair of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis scandalized and fascinated the world from the moment it began in 1959 during a cruise on the fabled yacht Christina. In the decades since, dozens of books have been written about the incandescent diva... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski Staff Pick Several months ago, I happened upon a copy of The Shadow of the Sun. From its opening pages, I understood why I'd been hearing such laudatory praise about Ryszard Kapuściński for years — here was some of the most astonishing travel writing I'd ever... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us by Robyn Meredith Publisher Comments The Elephant and the Dragonis the essential guide to understanding how India and China are reshaping our world. With labor now unbound from geographic borders, we're seeing startling shifts in how'"and where'"nearly everything we buy is made. In a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995 by Kenneth J Ruoff Publisher Comments Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution. This comprehensive study analyzes numerous issues... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Voices from Chernobyl is the first book to present personal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History) by Judith Shapiro Publisher Comments This book tells the story of environmental destruction and human suffering during the Mao years.... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Midland Book #0536: Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russias City of Steel by John Scott Synopsis Students reading Scott have come away with a real appreciation of the hardships under which these workers built Magnitogorsk and of the nearly incredible enthusiasm with which many of them worked. --Ronald Grigor Suny A genuine grassroots account of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Night by Elie Wiesel Publisher Comments This powerful and gripping novel explores what life in the secret annex might have been like for Peter Van Pels. What it was like to be forced into hiding with Anne, first to hate her and then begin falling in love with her.To sit and... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Factory Girls: From Village To City in a Changing China (08 Edition) by Leslie T. Chang Publisher Comments An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham—the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer Publisher Comments This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy Publisher Comments About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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