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An Awakening World

From the Bronze Age to the Fall of Rome

by Raimund Schulz ...

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Going beyond Greece and Rome, a prominent scholar offers a groundbreaking history of ancient Eurasia.Antiquity was an era of human awakening and transformation that encompassed the entire Eurasian continent. Tracing 2,000 years of history, scholar Raimund Schulz presents a panorama of the ancient world as never before. From Celtic settlements and caravan cities of northern Iran to the epic ... Read more

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Going beyond Greece and Rome, a prominent scholar offers a groundbreaking history of ancient Eurasia.Antiquity was an era of human awakening and transformation that encompassed the entire Eurasian continent. Tracing 2,000 years of history, scholar Raimund Schulz presents a panorama of the ancient world as never before. From Celtic settlements and caravan cities of northern Iran to the epic
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Abel and Cain

by Gregor von Rezzori ...

Translated by David Dollenmayer, Joachim Neugroschel, Marshall Yarbrough ...

Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant volumeThe Death of My Brother Abel and its delirious sequel, Cain, constitute the magnum opus of Gregor von Rezzori’s prodigious career, the most ambitious, extravagant, outrageous, and deeply ... Read more

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Appearing together in English for the first time, two masterpieces that take on the jazz age, the Nuremburg trials, postwar commercialism, and the feat of writing a book, presented in one brilliant volumeThe Death of My Brother Abel and its delirious sequel, Cain, constitute the magnum opus of Gregor von Rezzori’s prodigious career, the most ambitious, extravagant, outrageous, and deeply
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Tripped

Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

by Norman Ohler ...

Translated by Marshall Yarbrough ...

"A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative secret history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA ... Read more

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"A fleet-footed and propulsive account . . . Brilliantly sifting a massive history for its ideological through lines, this is a must-read." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative secret history of drugs and postwar America, examining the untold story of how Nazi experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA
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Travel with a Writer

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Spend a weekend in Berlin with Norman Ohler, the internationally bestselling author of Blitzed**.**From Friday night to Monday evening, Norman Ohler moves through Berlin’s nightlife, immigration, gentrification, and reunification. Four nights of Wagner, or at least the attempt, give way to techno and jazz. A motorboat journey through the city passes imperial monuments, immigrant neighborhoods, ... Read more

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Spend a weekend in Berlin with Norman Ohler, the internationally bestselling author of Blitzed**.**From Friday night to Monday evening, Norman Ohler moves through Berlin’s nightlife, immigration, gentrification, and reunification. Four nights of Wagner, or at least the attempt, give way to techno and jazz. A motorboat journey through the city passes imperial monuments, immigrant neighborhoods,
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The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days

by Michael Kempe ...

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A biography of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz told through seven critical days spanning his life and revealing his contributions to our modern world.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a “universal genius” who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independently from Isaac Newton), conceptualized ... Read more

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A biography of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz told through seven critical days spanning his life and revealing his contributions to our modern world.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a “universal genius” who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independently from Isaac Newton), conceptualized
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The Radio Operator

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by Ulla Lenze ...

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Based on a true story, a gripping historical novel about a German immigrant who becomes embroiled in a Nazi spy ring operating in New York City in the early days of World War II.At the end of the 1930s, Europe is engulfed in war. Though America is far from the fighting, the streets of New York have become a battlefield. Anti-Semitic and racist groups spread hate, while German nationalists ... Read more

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Based on a true story, a gripping historical novel about a German immigrant who becomes embroiled in a Nazi spy ring operating in New York City in the early days of World War II.At the end of the 1930s, Europe is engulfed in war. Though America is far from the fighting, the streets of New York have become a battlefield. Anti-Semitic and racist groups spread hate, while German nationalists
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The Unknown Guest

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by Charlotte Link ...

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Rebecca Brandt has decided to take her own life. Nothing can console her for the death of her husband. But an unexpected visitor keeps her from carrying out her plans, an old friend who shows up at her secluded house in the South of France and brings two strangers along with him: the students Inga and Marius, who wanted to hitchhike to the sea. Rebecca befriends the two of them and even lets them ... Read more

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Rebecca Brandt has decided to take her own life. Nothing can console her for the death of her husband. But an unexpected visitor keeps her from carrying out her plans, an old friend who shows up at her secluded house in the South of France and brings two strangers along with him: the students Inga and Marius, who wanted to hitchhike to the sea. Rebecca befriends the two of them and even lets them
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The Rose Gardener

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by Charlotte Link ...

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A dark secret hangs over the old rose gardener's house in the village of Le Variouf. And all the clues seem to point to its inhabitants' past—to the years of World War II, when the idyllic island of Guernsey was occupied by German troops...The young teacher Franca Palmer is at the end of her rope. Her marriage is reaching a crisis point, and she barely feels capable of continuing to face the ... Read more

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A dark secret hangs over the old rose gardener's house in the village of Le Variouf. And all the clues seem to point to its inhabitants' past—to the years of World War II, when the idyllic island of Guernsey was occupied by German troops...The young teacher Franca Palmer is at the end of her rope. Her marriage is reaching a crisis point, and she barely feels capable of continuing to face the
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Soul Magic

A Century of Psychotherapy

by Steve Ayan ...

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It's the beginning of the twentieth century, and members of the Wednesday Circle hurry through Vienna's darkening streets. Dr. Freud does not tolerate lateness, and the men invited to join his new society sense they are on the brink of something momentous. In his study, through a haze of cigar smoke, these early psychoanalysts alight on a profound and shocking idea that will alter modern life: the ... Read more

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It's the beginning of the twentieth century, and members of the Wednesday Circle hurry through Vienna's darkening streets. Dr. Freud does not tolerate lateness, and the men invited to join his new society sense they are on the brink of something momentous. In his study, through a haze of cigar smoke, these early psychoanalysts alight on a profound and shocking idea that will alter modern life: the
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The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days

by Michael Kempe ...

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a "universal genius" who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independently from Isaac Newton), conceptualized the modern computer, and developed the famous thesis that the existing world is the best that God could have created.Historian and Leibniz expert Michael Kempe takes us on a journey into the mind of a ... Read more

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a "universal genius" who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (independently from Isaac Newton), conceptualized the modern computer, and developed the famous thesis that the existing world is the best that God could have created.Historian and Leibniz expert Michael Kempe takes us on a journey into the mind of a
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Decade of Disunion

How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861

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With “characteristic wisdom and grace” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) Robert W. Merry explores a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever demonstrating how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s.The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new ... Read more

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With “characteristic wisdom and grace” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) Robert W. Merry explores a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever demonstrating how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s.The Mexican War brought vast new territories to the United States, which precipitated a growing crisis over slavery. The new
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Women in the Valley of the Kings

The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

by Kathleen Sheppard ...

**A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FINALIST FOR HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY"A new history of Egyptology that prioritizes the women whose contributions, for good and otherwise, shaped the field.” - The New York TimesThe never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way for exploration in Egypt and laid the groundwork for Egyptology**The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand ... Read more

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**A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FINALIST FOR HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY"A new history of Egyptology that prioritizes the women whose contributions, for good and otherwise, shaped the field.” - The New York TimesThe never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way for exploration in Egypt and laid the groundwork for Egyptology**The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand
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