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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt Publisher Comments He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nero by Edward Champlin Publisher Comments Without seeking to rehabilitate the historical monster, Champlin renders Nero more vividly intelligible by illuminating the motives behind his notorious deeds. 4 halftones. 5 maps.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples by Mark Cocker Publisher Comments The past five centuries have witnessed a shocking series of confrontations between European nations and millions of indigenous peoples, and these cultural encounters still resonate strongly to this day. Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is an essential... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Government & Politics of the Euro 4TH Edition by Neill Nugent Publisher Comments In this fourth edition of the leading text in its field, Neill Nugent provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of the developments occuring in the European Union. Thoroughly revised and updated, this book examines such key and current issues as... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 by Charles Murray Publisher Comments A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun’ s From Dawn to Decadence. “ At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (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 $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Historian's Fallacie by David Hacke Fischer Publisher Comments Chapter OneFalicies of Qustion-FramingAre we to be disgusted with science because it has not fulfilled our hopes or redeemed its promises? And are we, for this reason, to announce the "bankruptcy" of science, as is so often and so flippantly done? But... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker Publisher Comments For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already well acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be profoundly challenged... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry and Revenge (P.S.) by Eleanor Herman Powells.com Staff Pick "This is a witty and engaging book, intelligently written, with an endless amount of scandalous, hilarious, and eye-opening anecdotes. As Herman is the first to admit, though, many tales of the court were related by gossipy courtiers, memoirists eager... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000 by William H Mcneill Publisher Comments In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.95 (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   Dreadnought by Robert K Massie Publisher Comments "A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome by S Dando Collins Publisher Comments PRAISE FOR Caesar' s Legion ' A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar' s Legio X- arguably the most famous legion of its day- from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda and from Thapsus... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S Landes Publisher Comments David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Centers of Civilization Series #1: Athens in the Age of Pericles by Charles A Robinson Publisher Comments This book suggests to modern readers the supreme importance of decision in all of man's affairs, and the frightful consequences of wrong decision, once it is made.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization by Simon Hornblower Publisher Comments Unrivaled in scope and scholarship, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization is an indispensable guide to the richly textured history of ancient Greece and Rome. From military history to architecture, ancient law to mythology, the sciences to the... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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. 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 rise of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Working IX to V: Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World by Vicki Leon Publisher Comments Vicki Leon, the popular author of the "Uppity Women" series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Truth: A History and a Guide for the Perplexed by F Fernandez Armesto Publisher Comments Written by a renowned Oxford historian, this fascinating volume presents a global history of truth. Sharp and authoritative, "Truth" manages to touch every period of human experience; it leaps from truth-telling technologies of "primitive" societies to... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Davis shows how the ruling elites helped produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. 15 photos. 8 maps.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alexander the Great by Lewis V Cummings Publisher Comments Reissued to coincide with the release of Oliver Stone's epic movie on Alexander the Great (slated for fall 2004) and the Summer Olympics in Greece, Lewis Cummings's comprehensive and readable biography of Alexander the Great gives us the full portrait of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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