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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 $26.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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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 $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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) check for new and sale copies
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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 $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Birmingham Publisher Comments Switzerland is a remarkable country, half of whose territory lies in the Alps. This is the history of one Swiss alpine village. Raising cattle and making cheese brought modest wealth to its struggling peasants until a destructive Napoleonic invasion... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Liesbeth Melis Publisher Comments About 10,000 agricultural businesses in the Netherlands are closed every year. Where once there were grazing cows, now there are golfers playing the back nine or rows of campervans and tents--or even farm museums. Some businesses decide to specialize... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $35.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Lebor Publisher Comments Based on newly declassified documents and archival research, Hitler's Secret Bankers reveals the full, hitherto unknown extent of Swiss economic collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. In this updated edition, readers discover how and why the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sissela Bok Publisher Comments Alva Myrdal (1902-1986), diplomat, feminist, and one of the founders of the Swedish welfare state, exemplifies in her extraordinary life the joys, the sorrows, and the achievements of women in our time. Her daughter shows us with unflinching candor how... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yvonne De Rid Files Publisher Comments The story of a true heroine of WWII, a young woman who risked her life fighting the Nazis during the war.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacquel Van Maarsen Publisher Comments A touching and intimate autobiography, this account recalls the author's remarkable childhood friendship with Anne Frank while attending a special school for Jewish children in Amsterdam during the late 1930s. With the story of her initial meeting and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $29.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Veronica Buckley Publisher Comments She was born on a bitterly cold December night in 1626 and, in the candlelight, mistakenly declared a boy. On her father's death six years later, she inherited the Swedish throne. She was tutored by Descartes, yet could swear like the roughest soldier... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas R Rochon Publisher Comments Across Europe, national leaders and ordinary citizens alike face the problems and opportunities raised by increasing economic and political interdependence. Interdependence between nations creates new dilemmas in every sphere of activity. In The... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jo Vanderwal Taylor Publisher Comments Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. This interest cuts across the traditional boundaries between fiction... (read more) List Price $11.50 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosi Braidotti Publisher Comments In 2007, Aernout Mik represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale. Rather than produce a standard catalogue to accompany Mik's acclaimed three-part video installation, curator Maria Hlavajova organized this dense and galvanizing critical reader... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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