Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no
.Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating...
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Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Immigration, Islam, and the West
Written by Christopher Caldwell
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $30.00
Can you have the same Europe with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.
Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its need for immigrant labor and underestimating...
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The Illustrious Dead
Napoleon, Typhus, and the Dream of World Conquest
Written by Stephan Talty
Read by Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $17.50
“Gripping . . . a compelling story of personal hubris and humbling defeat.”
—Jack Weatherford,author of the
New York Times bestseller
Genghis Khan and the Making of the
Modern World In a masterful dual narrative that pits the heights of human ambition and achievement against the supremacy of nature,
New York Times bestselling...
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Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous...
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Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $24.95
In Paris at the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art stepped out of her frame and into a sensational mystery.
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened—Leonardo da Vinci’s
Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials...
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Vanished Smile
Written by R.A. Scotti
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $24.95
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using...
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Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $23.95
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using...
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Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $34.95
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using...
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Vanished Smile
The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa
Written by R.A. Scotti
Read by Kathe Mazur
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $17.50
On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using...
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
Written by David I. Kertzer
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $15.95
Bologna, 1858: A police posse, acting on the orders of a Catholic inquisitor, invades the home of a Jewish merchant, Momolo Mortara, wrenches his crying six-year-old son from his arms, and rushes him off in a carriage bound for Rome. His mother is so distraught that she collapses and has to...
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Bad Faith
A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
Written by Carmen Callil
Format: eBook, 672 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $16.95
Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.
Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish...
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Defeat:
Napoleon's Russian Campaign
Written by Philippe-Paul de Segur
Translated by J. David Townsend
Introduction by Mark Danner
Format: Trade Paperback, 200 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $15.95
In the summer of 1812 Napoleon gathered his fearsome Grande Armée, more than half a million strong, on the banks of the Niemen River. He was about to undertake the most daring of all his many campaigns: the invasion of Russia. Meeting only sporadic opposition and defeating it easily along the...
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Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: Hardcover, 736 pages
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $30.00
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous...
Read more >
Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 29, 2008
Price: $20.00
In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.
They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous...
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Also available as an
eBook.
The Anatomy of Fascism
Written by Robert O. Paxton
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
From the author of
Vichy France, a fascinating, authoritative history of fascism in all its manifestations, and how and why it took hold in certain countries and not in others.
What
is fascism? Many authors have proposed succinct but abstract definitions. Robert O. Paxton prefers to start with concrete historical experience. He...
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The Confident Hope of a Miracle
The True Story of the Spanish Armada
Written by Neil Hanson
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
The real story of the Spanish Armada.
In the winter of 1587 the Spanish Armada, the largest force of warships ever assembled, set sail to crush the English navy. This breathtaking overview of one of the most fascinating campaigns in European history begins with the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, the...
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The Renaissance
A Short History
Written by Paul Johnson
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human...
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Bad Faith
A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
Written by Carmen Callil
Format: Trade Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $16.95
Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.
Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Killing Hitler
The Plots, The Assassins, and the Dictator Who Cheated Death
Written by Roger Moorhouse
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $14.00
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have...
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Killing Hitler
Written by Roger Moorhouse
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2006
Price: $25.00
For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.
Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have...
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