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Peoples and Empires
A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6761-6 (0-8129-6761-5)
Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It’s the... Read more >
A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present
Written by Anthony Pagden
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6761-6 (0-8129-6761-5)
Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It’s the... Read more >
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1
Written by Plutarch
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by James Atlas
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75676-4 (0-375-75676-0)
Plutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects... Read more >
Written by Plutarch
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by James Atlas
Format: Trade Paperback, 816 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75676-4 (0-375-75676-0)
Plutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects... Read more >
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
Written by Plutarch
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by James Atlas
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75677-1 (0-375-75677-9)
Plutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects... Read more >
Written by Plutarch
Edited by Arthur Hugh Clough
Translated by John Dryden
Introduction by James Atlas
Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 10, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75677-1 (0-375-75677-9)
Plutarch’s Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects... Read more >
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Those Who Forget the Past
The Question of Anti-Semitism
Afterword by Cynthia Ozick
Edited by Ron Rosenbaum
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7203-0 (0-8129-7203-1)
"Rosenbaum's outstanding compilation of nearly 50 sharp essays has the advantage of not only displaying a wide range of views but juxtaposing pieces in debate with one another...This is an estimable collection and may find a place with course adopters as well as common readers." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
After the horrors... Read more >
The Question of Anti-Semitism
Afterword by Cynthia Ozick
Edited by Ron Rosenbaum
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 11, 2004
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7203-0 (0-8129-7203-1)
"Rosenbaum's outstanding compilation of nearly 50 sharp essays has the advantage of not only displaying a wide range of views but juxtaposing pieces in debate with one another...This is an estimable collection and may find a place with course adopters as well as common readers." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
After the horrors... Read more >
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Dreamland
Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70829-9 (0-375-70829-4)
By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe’s old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their place on the map, many hoped that a more liberal Europe would emerge. But this post-war idealism all too... Read more >
Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War
Written by Howard M. Sachar
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70829-9 (0-375-70829-4)
By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe’s old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their place on the map, many hoped that a more liberal Europe would emerge. But this post-war idealism all too... Read more >
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The Ninth
Beethoven and the World in 1824
Written by Harvey Sachs
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6907-8 (0-8129-6907-3)
The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and... Read more >
Beethoven and the World in 1824
Written by Harvey Sachs
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-6907-8 (0-8129-6907-3)
The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and... Read more >
The Balfour Declaration
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Written by Jonathan Schneer
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7603-8 (0-8129-7603-7)
Winner, 2010 National Jewish Book Award (Writing Based on Archival Material)
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be... Read more >
The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Written by Jonathan Schneer
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 3, 2012
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7603-8 (0-8129-7603-7)
Winner, 2010 National Jewish Book Award (Writing Based on Archival Material)
Issued in London in 1917, the Balfour Declaration was one of the key documents of the twentieth century. It committed Britain to supporting the establishment in Palestine of “a National Home for the Jewish people,” and its reverberations continue to be... Read more >
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The Brendan Voyage
Written by Tim Severin
Introduction by Malachy McCourt
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75524-8 (0-375-75524-1)
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built... Read more >
Written by Tim Severin
Introduction by Malachy McCourt
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75524-8 (0-375-75524-1)
Could an Irish monk in the sixth century really have sailed all the way across the Atlantic in a small open boat, thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years? Relying on the medieval text of St. Brendan, award-winning adventure writer Tim Severin painstakingly researched and built... Read more >
The Long Road Home
The Aftermath of the Second World War
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3350-8 (1-4000-3350-0)
Groundbreaking and remarkably relevant to modern emergency relief efforts, The Long Road Home tells the epic story of how the mammoth refugee problem in the wake of World War II was painstakingly solved.
While the war was still going on, the Western Allies began to plan for the humanitarian crisis they... Read more >
The Aftermath of the Second World War
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3350-8 (1-4000-3350-0)
Groundbreaking and remarkably relevant to modern emergency relief efforts, The Long Road Home tells the epic story of how the mammoth refugee problem in the wake of World War II was painstakingly solved.
While the war was still going on, the Western Allies began to plan for the humanitarian crisis they... Read more >
The Long Road Home
The Aftermath of the Second World War
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4068-1 (1-4000-4068-X)
At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory was assured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler would come into focus or even assume the name of the Holocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath. Taking cues from the end of... Read more >
The Aftermath of the Second World War
Written by Ben Shephard
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4068-1 (1-4000-4068-X)
At the end of World War II, long before an Allied victory was assured and before the scope of the atrocities orchestrated by Hitler would come into focus or even assume the name of the Holocaust, Allied forces had begun to prepare for its aftermath. Taking cues from the end of... Read more >
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Descartes' Bones
A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
Written by Russell Shorto
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27566-0 (0-307-27566-3)
Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes’ bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and painters.
But as Russell Shorto shows... Read more >
A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
Written by Russell Shorto
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27566-0 (0-307-27566-3)
Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes’ bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and painters.
But as Russell Shorto shows... Read more >
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An Honourable Englishman
The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
Written by Adam Sisman
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6976-7 (1-4000-6976-9)
He was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation—a brilliant writer, high-society star, and cultural force who moved easily between aristocratic houses and the humble haunts of literary bohemia. He developed a lucid prose style that he used to scathing effect, earning notoriety for his sharp attacks on other... Read more >
The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
Written by Adam Sisman
Format: Hardcover, 672 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6976-7 (1-4000-6976-9)
He was one of the most gifted scholars of his generation—a brilliant writer, high-society star, and cultural force who moved easily between aristocratic houses and the humble haunts of literary bohemia. He developed a lucid prose style that he used to scathing effect, earning notoriety for his sharp attacks on other... Read more >
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The Decline of the West
Written by Oswald Spengler
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9700-5 (1-4000-9700-2)
Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial... Read more >
Written by Oswald Spengler
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9700-5 (1-4000-9700-2)
Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial... Read more >
Passion of the Western Mind
Written by Richard Tarnas
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 16, 1993
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-36809-6 (0-345-36809-6)
The Passion of the Western Mind is a major new presentation of the evolution of the consciousness of Western culture, from the dawn of Western civilization to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Tarnas traces the interplay of philosophy, religion, and science as they have converged to mold our culture and... Read more >
Written by Richard Tarnas
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 16, 1993
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-36809-6 (0-345-36809-6)
The Passion of the Western Mind is a major new presentation of the evolution of the consciousness of Western culture, from the dawn of Western civilization to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Tarnas traces the interplay of philosophy, religion, and science as they have converged to mold our culture and... Read more >
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The Spanish Civil War
Revised Edition
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1136 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75515-6 (0-375-75515-2)
A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this... Read more >
Revised Edition
Written by Hugh Thomas
Format: Trade Paperback, 1136 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75515-6 (0-375-75515-2)
A masterpiece of the historian’s art, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this... Read more >
War of Nerves
Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
Written by Jonathan Tucker
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3233-4 (1-4000-3233-4)
In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield... Read more >
Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda
Written by Jonathan Tucker
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3233-4 (1-4000-3233-4)
In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of synthetic chemistry made the large-scale use of toxic chemicals on the battlefield... Read more >
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Ireland
A Smithsonian Natural History
Written by Michael Viney
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-294-2 (1-58834-294-8)
Ireland conjures up images of nature’s majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A place of legendary beauty, it is also a land with a rich natural history. Michael Viney invites us to discover the geologic forces that created the island, peer into the famous bone... Read more >
A Smithsonian Natural History
Written by Michael Viney
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-294-2 (1-58834-294-8)
Ireland conjures up images of nature’s majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A place of legendary beauty, it is also a land with a rich natural history. Michael Viney invites us to discover the geologic forces that created the island, peer into the famous bone... Read more >
Charlemagne
Written by Derek Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27480-9 (0-307-27480-2)
An absorbing biography of the great leader who was the bridge between ancient and modern Europe — the first major study in more than twenty-five years.
Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: an ingenious military strategist, a wise but ruthless leader, a cunning politician, and a devout believer who ensured the survival of... Read more >
Written by Derek Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27480-9 (0-307-27480-2)
An absorbing biography of the great leader who was the bridge between ancient and modern Europe — the first major study in more than twenty-five years.
Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: an ingenious military strategist, a wise but ruthless leader, a cunning politician, and a devout believer who ensured the survival of... Read more >
Embracing the Infidel
Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West
Written by Behzad Yaghmaian
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38294-5 (0-553-38294-2)
“Like Günter Walraff and other practitioners of the dying craft of investigative journalism, Yaghmaian has given a voice to people whose tales have not been told before. In doing so, he has written one of the essential documents of our times and shown once again what journalism can do when it... Read more >
Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West
Written by Behzad Yaghmaian
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: October 31, 2006
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38294-5 (0-553-38294-2)
“Like Günter Walraff and other practitioners of the dying craft of investigative journalism, Yaghmaian has given a voice to people whose tales have not been told before. In doing so, he has written one of the essential documents of our times and shown once again what journalism can do when it... Read more >
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