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A Wall in Palestine

René Backmann, Translated by A. Kaiser Picador

"[A] well-written history of the barrier . . . The most detailed account of the barrier to date. Backmann places the barrier smack in the middle of the controversy over Israeli confiscation of Palestinian lands: He makes a compelling case that Israel set out to expand West Bank Jewish settlements on the Israeli side at the expense of thousands of acres of Palestinian territory."—Linda Gradstein, The Washington Post

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	FDR: The First Hundred Days Anthony J. Badger Hill and Wang "A brilliantly written, compelling and moving portrait . . . [and] a classic example of how a work of history can illuminate the issues we're dealing with today."—Prime Minister Gordon Brown, The Guardian

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James Buchanan

The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861

The American Presidents

Jean H. Baker; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books

"Historians generally agree that James Buchanan was the worst U.S. president. After all, it was on his unhappy watch that the Union disintegrated. Far from wishing to rehabilitate Buchanan, Baker wants to bury him deeper in infamy. She brilliantly shows how Buchanan's mishandling of the mini-Civil War between pro- and anti-slavery factions in Kansas led to John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and helped make the greater conflict inevitable, and how his vacillation and dithering allowed rebels to seize federal forts and arsenals across the South."—Foreign Affairs

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Trade Paperback : $20.00 Buy	Family of Secrets The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years Russ Baker Bloomsbury Press “Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments.”—Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon and Partners in...

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The Cold War

An International History 1947-1991

S.J. Ball Bloomsbury USA

"The author displays extensive knowledge and sound judgment of the policies of nations whose histories are so rich and complex that many historians could spend a lifetime of study before uttering the kind of sensible pronouncements that Ball repeatedly makes . . . [A] valuable contribution to the Cold War corpus, as a reference text, as a possible course textbook, and as a model for all bold enough to write about international history."—Canadian Journal of History

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	France Inventing the Nation Tim Baycroft Bloomsbury USA "A variable volume in an important new series...this effective book considers the way in which constructions of French identity have interacted with political contention. The result is a valuable reading of French history from the Revolutionary period on."—Jeremy Black, The Historical Association

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A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah Sarah Crichton Books

"What is it about African wars that is so disturbing? Why do they unsettle us so? . . . The great benefit of Ishmael Beah's memoir, A Long Way Gone, is that it may help us arrive at an understanding of this situation. Beah's autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determine—perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer . . . A Long Way Gone is his first, remarkable book. . . . Beah's memoir joins an elite class of writing: Africans witnessing African wars . . . A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen."—William Boyd, The New York Times Book Review

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The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet

A Climate Crisis Solution for the 44th President

William S. Becker St. Martin's Griffin

"The next president has no time to waste in building a post-carbon economy. This book is a distillation of the best policy advice he will get from anyone on the most important issue of our time."—David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor, Oberlin College

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Trade Paperback : $49.50 Buy	The World Since 1945 An International History P. M. H. Bell Bloomsbury USA This new book presents a bold and wide-ranging account of international affairs between 1945-1991, from the end of the Second World War to the close of the Cold War. It deals with the Cold War and Detente, with decolonization and the Third World, and with the development of international organizations.

Trade Paperback : $29.95 Buy	Twentieth-Century Europe P. M. H. Bell Bloomsbury USA This insightful study explores the proposition that the idea of European unity makes sense when there is more that unites Europe than divides it, and then asks when that has been true during the past hundred years and provides the historical context necessary to fully understand the complexity surrounding the European Union.

Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	Affluence and Authority A Social History of Twentieth-Century Britain John Benson Bloomsbury USA Affluence and Authority provides a wide-ranging, well-informed, and accessible interpretation of British social history during a century of profound and unprecedented, economic, political, cultural, demographic and ideological upheaval.

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Germany

Inventing the Nation

Stefan Berger Bloomsbury USA

German national identity has been constructed over the course of more than three centuries. This book examines the diverse and contested definitions of "Germaness" and covers the struggles between the democratic and non-democratic divisions, the role of foreigners and the impact of war on national identity. This comprehensive resource is a fundamental reappraisal of Germany's history from the fresh perspective of the post-Communist, reunified Germany.

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In the Land of Magic Soldiers

A Story of White and Black in West Africa

Daniel Bergner Picador

"The journalist and novelist Daniel Bergner is right . . . to see Africa's civil wars as a horror of our time that deserves exploration . . . Bergner has a keen eye . . . What is of value in this book is less what it says about Sierra Leone than about the human condition."—Adam Hochschild, The New York Times Book Review

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Herding Donkeys

The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics

Ari Berman Farrar, Straus and Giroux

After the 2004 election, the Republican Party held the White House, both houses of Congress, twenty-eight governorships, and a majority of state legislatures....

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Opportunism

How to Change the World--One Idea at a Time

Shraga F. Biran Farrar, Straus and Giroux

In this bold and forward-looking book, an Israeli civic leader shows how reorienting our society to make the most of “opportunity” could restore the global...

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American Original

The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Joan Biskupic Sarah Crichton Books

The first full-scale biography of the Supreme Court’s most provocative—and influential justice If the U.S. Supreme Court teaches us anything, it is that...

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Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Using History Jeremy Black Bloomsbury USA "Deftly describes the way public history is distorted, manipulated, and used by governments and groups, but...never falls back on a nihilistic relativism.... Historians, college students, and all those interested in the uses of history will find this frequently witty book to be fascinating."—History

Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Thieves of Baghdad One Marine's Passion to Recover the World's Greatest Stolen Treasures Matthew Bogdanos and William Patrick Bloomsbury USA Thieves of Baghdad is a riveting account of Colonel Matthew Bogdanos and his team’s extraordinary efforts to recover over 5,000 priceless antiquities stolen...

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Escape from Slavery

The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America

Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan St. Martin's Griffin

"Bok takes the Sudanese government and world leaders to task for their indifference to his people's suffering. Although he at first was an unwilling ambassador, he has become a leading voice for the antislavery movement in the United States."—Detroit News and Free Press

"A touching modern-day slave narrative that is more than just an account of [Bok's] journey from childhood to manhood under the worst of circumstances . . . Pages of historical details are eye-opening and provide a glimpse into what can happen when religion is the impetus in the governing of a nation . . . An informative, inspiring read."—The Boston Globe

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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	The Yom Kippur War And the Airlift Strike That Saved Israel Walter J. Boyne St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books It's usually called the Yom Kippur War. Or sometimes the October War. The players that surround it are familiar: Sadat and Mubarak, Meir and Sharon, Nixon and...

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Woodrow Wilson

The American Presidents Series: The 28th President, 1913-1921

The American Presidents

H. W. Brands; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books

"A worthy overview that acknowledges Wilson's considerable strengths and his many limitations."—Kirkus Reviews

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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	The Koreans Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies Revised and Updated; Michael Breen St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books "Michael Breen gives readers an insight into the history and character of a complex people which helps us assess how they might deal with the current complex period in their development."—Catherine Lee, Seoul correspondent, The Economist

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Nineteenth-Century Germany

Politics, Culture, and Society 1780-1918

Edited by John Breuilly Bloomsbury USA

"The collection is a satisfying introduction to the area. The essays are comprehensive without becoming superficial and balance the need for factual information with the requirement that students are provided with quite sophisticated discussions of tricky historiographical disputes."—History

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Gerald R. Ford

The American Presidents Series: The 38th President, 1974-1977

The American Presidents

Douglas Brinkley; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., General Editor Times Books

"Although Brinkley calls the pardon and its 'healing' effect on America Ford's most enduring legacy, he deftly describes other achievements. These including ending the divisive Vietnam War while doing his best to aid South Vietnam's refugees; helping to forge the 1975 Helsinki Accords that led the Soviet Union to acknowledge basic human rights and opened the way for its collapse, and fiscal policies that cut inflation in half and, according to Brinkley, boosted the U.S. economy out of its lowest trough since the Great Depression."—Jack Nelson, Los Angeles Times

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