Vampire Forensics
Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend
Written by Mark Collins Jenkins
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $14.95
Mark Jenkins’s engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient...
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Vampire Forensics
Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend
Written by Mark Collins Jenkins
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 16, 2010
Price: $25.00
Mark Jenkins’s engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient...
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Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler
The Age of Social Catastrophe
Written by Robert Gellately
Format: eBook, 720 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2009
Price: $15.99
A bold new accounting of the great social and political upheavals that enveloped Europe between 1914 and 1945—from the Russian Revolution through the Second World War.
In
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but also analyzes...
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Junkers Ju 88 Kampfgeschwader in North Africa and the Mediterranean
Written by John Weal
Illustrated by John Weal
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $22.95
This volume follows the Luftwaffe's twin-engined
Wunderbomber southwards to describe its deployment in North Africa and the Mediterranean Theater during World War II (1939-1945), from the Straits of Gibraltar in the west, via the beleaguered island of Malta, to the Aegean and the Suez Canal in the east. It is a...
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The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
Written by Paul Strathern
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $13.99
Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when they did would significantly...
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My Father's Country
The Story of a German Family
Written by Wibke Bruhns
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $16.95
In this gripping memoir, the daughter of a man who conspired to assassinate Hitler tells the story of three generations of her family and offers unparalleled insight into the German experience in the last century.
On August 15, 1944, Major Hans Georg Klamroth was tried for treason for his part in...
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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: $13.99
This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected demographic revolution focuses on the increasingly assertive Muslim populations shaping the continent’s future.
Europe’s half century of mass immigration has failed to produce an American melting pot and is now faced with a serious problem for which there is no easy solution. Based on...
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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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England's Mistress
The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
Written by Kate Williams
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $14.99
She was the most famous woman in England–the beautiful model for society painters Joshua Reynolds and George Romney, an icon of fashion, the wife of an ambassador, and the mistress of naval hero Horatio Nelson. But Emma Hamilton had been born to the poverty of a coal-mining town and spent her...
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Dark Continent
Europe's Twentieth Century
Written by Mark Mazower
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $14.99
"A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --
Los Angeles TimesDark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy was anything...
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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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In Europe
Travels Through the Twentieth Century
Written by Geert Mak
Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $16.99
From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred...
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Vanished Smile
Written by R.A. Scotti
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $11.99
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 the 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 the 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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Vienna, 1814
How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
Written by David King
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $16.99
“Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”
—David Fromkin, author of
Europe’s Last SummerVienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modern European history. With...
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