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  • The Elgin Affair

    The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History

    Almost two hundred years after they were purchased” from Greece, the finest and most famous marbles of antiquity still remain a burning issue. This compelling, controversial story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full and colorful detail the greatest art theft in history,” a steamy tale of obsession, intrigue, adultery, and ruin. As the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alexandria

    City of the Western Mind

    Alexandria was the greatest cultural capital of the ancient world. Accomplished classicist and author Theodore Vrettos now tells its story for the first time in a single volume. His enchanting blend of literary and scholarly qualities makes stories that played out among architectural wonders of the ancient world come alive. His fascinating central contention that this amazing metropolis created ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Fall of Berlin

    The final days of Hitler's evil regime

    In April 1945, Soviet forces descended on Berlin in the final phase of the war in Europe. The fighting was fierce as soldiers fanatically loyal to the Nazi party - and those afraid of the vengeance their opponents might enact - sought to stave off the end of the regime as long as possible.Even as it became clear that defeat was inevitable, Hitler and his subordinates determined to fight to the ... Read more

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  • Time in Maps

    From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

    "As wide-ranging, imaginative, and revealing as the maps they discuss, these essays . . . track how maps—interpreted broadly—convey time as well as space." —Richard White, Stanford UniversityMaps organize us in space, but they also organize us in time. Looking around the world for the last five hundred years, Time in Maps shows that today's digital maps are only the latest effort to insert a sense ... Read more

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  • A History of Death in 17th Century England

    by Ben Norman ...
    A look at the constant confrontation with mortality the English experienced in a time of plague, smallpox, civil war, and other calamities.In the lives of the rich and poor alike in seventeenth-century England, death was a hovering presence, much more visible in everyday existence than it is today. It is a highly important and surprisingly captivating part of the epic story of England during the ... Read more

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  • The Far Traveler

    Voyages of a Viking Woman

    The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse ... Read more

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  • Edward I's Conquest of Wales

    by Sean Davies ...
    A study of medieval warfare and a formative event in the history of Britain.Edward I's conquest of Wales has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over a century. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key characters involved in the conquest. That is why Sean Davies's absorbing new study is so timely and ... Read more

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  • The Delusions of Crowds

    Why People Go Mad in Groups

    This "disturbing yet fascinating" exploration of mass mania through the ages explains the biological and psychological roots of irrationality ( Kirkus Reviews).From time immemorial, contagious narratives have spread through susceptible groups—with enormous, often disastrous, consequences. Inspired by Charles Mackay's nineteenth-century classic Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the ... Read more

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  • Prince Albert

    The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    A deeply textured and ambitious portrait of the life of Queen Victoria's husband and his influence on Great Britain, by the author of Victoria ."An engrossing biography that continues the author's long engagement with the Victorian age. . . . [Wilson's] most striking contribution, though, is a psychologically astute approach to Victoria and Albert, one that results in a persuasive and humane ... Read more

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  • Assembling the Dinosaur

    Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle

    by Lukas Rieppel ...
    A lively account of the dinosaur's role in Gilded Age America, examining the connection between business, paleontology, and museums.Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world's largest industrial economy, ... Read more

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  • Culture in Nazi Germany

    " A much-needed study of the aesthetics and cultural mores of the Third Reich . . . rich in detail and documentation." ( Kirkus Reviews)Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology in the German people and to manipulate the public perception of Hitler's enemies. During the war, the ... Read more

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  • Hitler's Girls

    Doves Amongst Eagles

    by Tim Heath ...
    The "frank, tragic, bittersweet, brutal, emotional" true story of the Third Reich's so-called she-devils of the League of German Girls (Gerry Van Tonder, author of Berlin Blockade).They were ten to eighteen years old: German girls who volunteered for the war effort, and were indoctrinated into the Nazi youth organizations, Jungmädelbund and Bund Deutcscher Mädel. At first they were schooled in a ... Read more

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