Imagining Atlantis
Written by Richard Ellis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.00
Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its catastrophic downfall has inspired people--from Francis Bacon to Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau--to speculate on...
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Salonica, City of Ghosts
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950
Written by Mark Mazower
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
Salonica, City of Ghosts is an evocation of the life of a vanished city and an exploration of how it passed away. Under the rule of the Ottoman sultans, one of the most extraordinary and diverse societies in Europe lived for five centuries amid its minarets and cypresses on the shore...
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Salonica, City of Ghosts
Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950
Written by Mark Mazower
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $16.95
Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi dervishes, and Albanian brigands all rubbed shoulders. Tensions sometimes flared, but tolerance largely prevailed until the twentieth century when the Greek army marched in, Muslims were forced...
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The Fall of Constantinople
Written by Nanami Shiono
Translated by Kerim Yasar
Format: Hardcover, 236 pages
On Sale: July 1, 2005
Price: $19.95
The Roman Empire did not meet its end when barbarians sacked the City of Seven Hills, but rather a thousand years later with the fall of Constantinople, capital of the surviving Eastern Empire. The Ottoman Turks who conquered the city aslo known to us as Byzantium would force a tense centruy...
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