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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Ethnic Cleansing Andrew Bell-Fialkoff Palgrave Macmillan A critically-acclaimed history of ethnic cleansing from pre-modern times to the present.

Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	Leaving Eden Ann Chamberlin Forge Books Leaving Eden brilliantly brings to life the moment in our history when man-and woman-turned their backs on ancient laws in order to strike out in independence....

Trade Paperback : $19.00 Buy	The Devil's Flu The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It Pete Davies Holt Paperbacks A gripping account of the 1918 flu pandemic and the modern-day hunt for this elusive and deadly virus In 1918, a flu virus more lethal than any that has...

Trade Paperback : $21.95 Buy	The First World War A Complete History Martin Gilbert Holt Paperbacks A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1994 It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the...

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	A Free Nation Deep in Debt The Financial Roots of Democracy James Macdonald Farrar, Straus and Giroux Nowadays, the idea that the way a country borrows its money is connected to what kind of government it has comes as a surprise to most people. But in the...

Hardcover : $30.00 Buy	America's Boy A Century of United States Colonialism in the Philippines James Hamilton-Paterson A John Macrae Book A narrative history of the U.S.-supported dictatorship that came to define the Philippines. Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos presented themselves as the...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The Riddle and the Knight In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler Giles Milton Picador Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the...

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Poison

A History and a Family Memoir

Gail Bell St. Martin's Press

Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the...

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The Poisoner

A Story of Family Secrets

Gail Bell St. Martin's Griffin

Years after Dr. William Macbeth died, his ornate medicine case passed to his estranged son. Over the protests of his family, the son buried it deep in the...

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Refusenik! Israel's Soldiers of Conscience Edited by Peretz Kidron; Preface by Susan Sontag Zed Books A moving collection of rarely-heard stories from Israelis who have resisted conflict, from the conflict with Lebanon up to the present situation with Palestine...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Road to Delphi The Life and Afterlife of Oracles Michael Wood Picador Cultures of all epochs have consulted oracles in times of need. This fascinating exploration of the enduring popularity of oracles examines how they are...

Trade Paperback : $22.95 Buy	An Anatomy of Terror A History of Terrorism Andrew Sinclair Pan Macmillan From antiquity to the present day, in the east and the west, the methods and motives for terror are disturbingly similar. In An Anatomy of Terror, Andrew...

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Voices from Chernobyl

The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Svetlana Alexievich; Translated by Keith Gessen Picador

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated...

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery Terry Jones; With Robert Yeager, Terry Dolan, Alan Fletcher, and Juliette Dor St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books In this spectacular work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A...

Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	The Last of the Crusaders The Knights of St. John and Malta in the Eighteenth Century Roderick Cavaliero Tauris Parke Paperbacks Founded in 1080, the Knights Hospitaller of St. John and Malta was a militant order of monk-soldiers who alone outlasted the bloody centuries of the Crusades....

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How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half

Stephen R. Bown Thomas Dunne Books

"This is a starry love story, a tale of seething jealousies and subterfuge, a political imbroglio, and religious cruelties. It sounds like Shakespeare and it...

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Trade Paperback : $29.99 Buy	Castles A History of Fortified Structures: Ancient, Medieval & Modern Charles Stephenson St. Martin's Griffin While the word “castle” conjures up an image of the classic medieval stone edifice, resplendent with towers and turrets, battlements and barbicans, and the odd...

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Tears of Mermaids

The Secret Story of Pearls

Stephen G. Bloom St. Martin's Griffin

A round, luminescent pearl is the simplest and most perfect gem. Columbus sought—and found—this precious jewel coveted by his Spanish sovereigns, sparking...

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The Story of English in 100 Words

David Crystal St. Martin's Press

The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In The...

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Hardcover : $35.00 Buy	The Humanitarian Conscience Caring for Others in the Age of Terror W.R. Smyser Palgrave Macmillan Humanitarian action, long dismissed as a realm apart from major foreign policy concerns, has become an omnipresent element in international affairs. It now...

Trade Paperback : $22.95 Buy	The Reign of Charles V William S. Maltby Palgrave Macmillan The Reign of Charles V provides an indispensable introduction to an era and to a man who altered the course of history

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War William J. Philpott and Matthew Hughes Palgrave Macmillan This newest addition to the Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas series helps readers understand one of our world's most complex and misconcieved conflicts: WWI...

Trade Paperback : $17.00 Buy	The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book “Riggs brings it all together brilliantly, assembling all evidence of Marlowe’s life and adding to that a wider and deeper focus . . . Superb.”—Los Angeles...

Hardcover : $21.95 Buy	Rat How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Clawed Its Way to the Top Jerry Langton St. Martin's Press From its origins in the swamps of Southeast Asia to its role in the medieval Black Death to its unshakeable niche in modern urban centers, the rat has...

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