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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.) by John Kelly Publisher Comments La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer Publisher Comments Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age by William Manchester Publisher Comments From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria by Julia P Gelardi Publisher Comments Julia Gelardi’s Born to Rule is the powerful epic story of five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria, who reigned over the end of their empires, the destruction of their families, and the tumult of the twentieth century Here are the stories... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 by David Levering Lewis Powells.com Staff Pick God's Crucible is an eye-opener. It's a finely written history of the early years of Islam. Many westerners will come away from the book with new understandings of the intersection of religions and cultures which spawned the Crusades. Recommended by... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-284) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $17.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Collins Atlas of 20th Century History by Richard Overy Publisher Comments A single-volume reference to answer all your questions about history's most complex century. <P>The 20th century was a time of massive political upheaval and rapid transition that included the Age of Imperialism, Lenin, the First World War, the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Western Civilization on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments A new edition of the phenomenal #1 bestseller. "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield Publisher Comments This colorful account is a richly researched, dramatic, enthralling look thatportrays the color red as a driving force in history and empire since ancienttimes. 8-page color insert.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments < P> The Cartoon History of the Modern World is a wickedly funny take on modern history. It is essentially a complete and up& ndash; to& ndash; date course in college level Modern World History, but presented as a graphic novel. In an... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments A delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history in which the author shows that the Irish were not only conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W Tuchman Publisher Comments &amp;quot;Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition.&amp;quot; Commentary&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman Cantor Publisher Comments Wonderfully rich, readable, and detailed, this volume rebukes the common fallacies of the greatest medical disaster in history. Cantor pierces the haze of myths that surrounds the understanding of the fundamental impact of the Plague on society, religion,... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun Publisher Comments Chapter One The West Torn Apart The Modern Era begins, characteristically, with a revolution. It is commonly called the Protestant Reformation, but the train of events starting early in the 16C and ending-if indeed it has ended-more than a century later... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright Publisher Comments In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history-and discerning... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Age of Capital 1848 1875 by E J Hobsbawm Synopsis A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism"; the triumph of a society which... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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