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  • CHUANG TZU
    CHUANG TZU
    DAVID HINTON
    Revered for millennia in the Chinese spiritual tradition, Chuang Tzu stands alongside the Tao Te Ching as a founding classic of Taoism. The Inner Chapters are the only sustained section of this text widely believed to be the work of Chuang Tzu himself, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. Witty and engaging, spiced with the lyricism of poetry, Chuang Tzu's Taoist insights are ti...
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    Q. 150

  • REBELLION
    REBELLION
    PETER ACKROYD
    Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In "Rebellion, "he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson,...
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    Q. 300

  • REBELLION
    REBELLION
    PETER ACKROYD
    Peter Ackroyd has been praised as one of the greatest living chroniclers of Britain and its people. In "Rebellion, "he continues his dazzling account of the history of England, beginning the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ending with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson,...
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    Q. 300

  • THE UNSUBSTANTIAL AIR
    THE UNSUBSTANTIAL AIR
    HYNES, SAMUEL
    "The Unsubstantial Air" is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the words and voices of the aviators themselves. A World War II pilot himself, the memoirist and cr...
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    Q. 260

  • HEIRS TO FORGOTTEN KINGDOMS
    HEIRS TO FORGOTTEN KINGDOMS
    RUSSELL, GERARD
    Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent...
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    Q. 290

  • EMPIRE OF SIN
    EMPIRE OF SIN
    KRIST, GARY
    From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' "other" civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City "Empire of Sin" re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and l...
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    Q. 260

  • A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN THIRTY-SIX POSTAGE STAMPS
    A HISTORY OF AMERICA IN THIRTY-SIX POSTAGE STAMPS
    WEST, CHRIS
    DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF AMERICA THROUGH ITS BEAUTIFUL AND DIVERSE POSTAGE STAMPS IN THIS EXUBERANT AND ALWAYS CHARMING HISTORY. In "A History of America in Thirty-six Postage Stamps," Chris West explores America's own rich philatelic history. From George Washington's dour gaze to the charging buffalo of the western frontier and Lindbergh's soaring biplane, American sta...
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    Q. 280

  • CAPTIVE PARADISE
    CAPTIVE PARADISE
    HALEY, JAMES L
    The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native cult...
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    Q. 300

  • EXODUS: HOW MIGRATION IS CHANGING OUR WORLD
    EXODUS: HOW MIGRATION IS CHANGING OUR WORLD
    PAUL COLLIER
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    Q. 300

  • THE FORMULA
    THE FORMULA
    DORMEHL, LUKE
    A fascinating guided tour of the complex, fast-moving, and influential world of algorithms--what they are, why they're such powerful predictors of human behavior, and where they're headed next. Algorithms exert an extraordinary level of influence on our everyday lives - from dating websites and financial trading floors, through to online retailing and internet searches - Google...
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    Q. 240

  • CHINESE RULES
    CHINESE RULES
    CLISSOLD, TIM
    From the author of the international bestseller Mr. China comes another rollicking ride through the slick mega-cities and industrial backwaters of twenty-first-century China--part adventure story, part erudite myth-buster, and part practical rule book to help Westerners win in China.China's role as struggling underdog is now firmly a thing of the past. The world has tilted east...
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    Q. 280

  • SHIPS, CLOCKS AND STARS
    SHIPS, CLOCKS AND STARS
    DUNN, RICHARD
    A history of one of the greatest nautical discoveries of all timeThree hundred years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure linked with the increasing importance of international trade, the British government passed the 1714 Longitude Act. It was an attempt to solve one of the most pressing problems of the age: how to determine a ship's longitude ...
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    Q. 750

  • FOR A LOVE OF HIS PEOPLE
    FOR A LOVE OF HIS PEOPLE
    MITHLO, NANCY MARIE
    Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-84) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people. He was a rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects. This book is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw's daughter Linda in 1989 at Stanford University. ...
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    Q. 620

  • MEDIEVAL PEOPLE
    MEDIEVAL PEOPLE
    PRESTWICH, MICHAEL
    This engrossing, exquisitely illustrated, often witty account tells the life stories of some seventy individuals who "made" the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes and politicians, soldiers and merchants, scholars, authors and visionaries. They range from the important, such as El Cid or Frederick Barbarossa, to the little known, such as the dissolute Venetian nun Cl...
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    Q. 400

  • RETRONAUT
    RETRONAUT
    WILD, CHRIS
    "An emporium of retro treasure...from shocking sculptures of the 1700s, to Kodachrome snaps of 1950s Piccadilly Circus, to biblical scenes captured by Google Earth. Rather than nostalgia or folly, the aim is enlightenment, wonder and the pleasure of weirdness." --The Guardian Based on the widely popular blog that started as a side project in a basement, " Retronaut "reveals str...
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    Q. 280

  • GREAT MAPS
    GREAT MAPS
    BROTTON,JERRY
    The world's finest maps explored and explained.From Ptolemy's world map to the Hereford's Mappa Mundi, through Mercator's map of the world to the latest maps of the Moon and Google Earth, "Great Maps" provides a fascinating overview of cartography through the ages.Revealing the stories behind 55 historical maps by analyzing graphic close-ups, "Great Maps" also profiles key cart...
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    Q. 305

  • LA FORMACION DE FRANCIA
    LA FORMACION DE FRANCIA
    ISAAC ASIMOV
    La serie informalmente titulada «Historia Universal Asimov» reúne lasobras dedicadas por el gran novelista y divulgador científico a laevolución política, cultural y material de la humanidad. "La formación de Francia" cubre el amplio y turbulento periodo que se extiendedesde los últimos años del siglo IX que vieron el final de la épocacarolingia y la llegada de una nueva dinast...
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    Q. 175

  • DIRTY OLD LONDON
    DIRTY OLD LONDON
    JACKSON, LEE
    In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and wome...
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    Q. 380

  • CITIES OF EMPIRE
    CITIES OF EMPIRE
    TRISTRAM HUNT
    An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wakeAt its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand as the economic and cultural powerhouses of the twenty-first century. In a series of ten...
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    Q. 350

  • LOS CAÑONES DEL ATARDECER
    LOS CAÑONES DEL ATARDECER
    RICK ATKINSON
    Una apasionante epopeya sobre el fin de la segunda guerra mundial en Europa. Los cañones del atardecer es una impresionante epopeya sobre el fin de la segunda guerra mundial en Europa, desde Normandía hasta la rendición en Berlín, con la que Rick Atkinson completa su monumental Trilogía de la Liberación, que se inició en 2002 con Un ejército al amanecer, galardonado con el Prem...
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    Q. 340

  • EL DIA DE LA BATALLA
    EL DIA DE LA BATALLA
    RICK ATKINSON
    La esperada segunda parte de Un ejército al amanecer de Rick Atkinson, premio Pulitzer de Historia 2003. En Un ejército al amanecer -que fue ganador del Premio Pulitzer de Historia 2003- Rick Atkinson proporcionaba una historia dramática y autorizada del triunfo de los aliados en África del Norte. Ahora, en El día de la batalla, sigue a los reforzados ejércitos norteamericanos ...
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    Q. 295

  • LA CRISIS MUNDIAL 1911-1918
    LA CRISIS MUNDIAL 1911-1918
    WINSTON CHURCHILL
    Un libro extraordinario.John Maynard KeynesEste libro perdurará como el gran clásico de la historia de la Primera Guerra MundialUna lectura esencial para todos aquellos que deseen entender mejor el siglo xx.Winston Churchill no fue únicamente un gran líder político y militar, también fue un cultivado historiador y un prolífico escritor galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literat...
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    Q. 200

  • FUE CUBA
    FUE CUBA
    JUAN BAUTISTA YOFRE
    Cuba, marzo de 1965. Fidel Castro inspecciona con satisfacción el pasaporte falso de Ernesto "Che" Guevara, parado a su lado y ya transformado en Ramón Benítez. Parece mucho más gordo; lleva sombrero, gruesos anteojos, prótesis bucal y zapatos que aumentan su estatura. Estaba en marcha la "Operación Manuel", y la Argentina, junto a otros países de América Latina, pasaría a ser ...
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    Q. 395

  • UNA HISTORIA DEL TERRORISMO
    UNA HISTORIA DEL TERRORISMO
    WALTER LAQUEUR
    Asesinatos, bombas, secuestros de aviones y de diplomáticos: el terrorismo es la forma de violencia política que más publicidad recibe en nuestra época. La historia del terrorismo se remonta a un período muy antiguo, un hecho que con frecuencia se ha silenciado. Lo cierto es que el terrorismo no se ha manifestado con idéntica intensidad en todas las épocas. Cuando el terrorismo...
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    Q. 240

  • CASTRO'S SECRETS
    CASTRO'S SECRETS
    BRIAN LATELL
    Castro’s Secrets begins like a slow murder mystery then builds damning fact after damning fact into a conclusive, ground-breaking portrait, based on firsthand sources, of how the Cuban strongman—...Published to glowing reviews, this riveting narrative takes us back to when the Cuban Revolution was young and offers a new and surprising look at Fidel Castro. Drawing on interviews...
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    Q. 170

  • RESTLESS EMPIRE
    RESTLESS EMPIRE
    WESTAD, ODD ARNE
    As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the cont...
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    Q. 230

  • HISTORY OF CHESS
    HISTORY OF CHESS
    MURRAY, H.J.R.
    An epic work that took more than a decade to complete, " A History of Chess," originally published in 1913, is a historic undertaking that shattered preconceptions about the game upon publication. Over a century later, Murray's research and conclusions, in which he argues that chess originated in India, are still widely accepted by most chess historians.Undertaking such a pione...
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    Q. 180

  • THE PORTABLE ENLIGHTENMENT READER
    THE PORTABLE ENLIGHTENMENT READER
    KRAMNICK, ISAAC
    The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the ...
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    Q. 220

  • HISTORIA CONTEMPORANEA DOCUMENTOS
    HISTORIA CONTEMPORANEA DOCUMENTOS
    ENRIQUE MORADIELLOS GARCÍA
    La historia se construye a partir de fuentes de origen diverso que el historiador analiza e interpreta. Este libro reúne una serie de documentos que permitirán al lector realizar un recorrido por la historia contemporánea a partir de los materiales sobre los que trabaja el historiador. Y así, recorremos la emergencia de la revolución industrial, los cambios políticos de la inde...
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    Q. 180

  • LAST EMPIRE
    LAST EMPIRE
    PLOKHY, SERHII
    On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to declare an American victory in the Cold War: earlier that day Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned as the first and last Soviet president. The enshrining of that narrative, one in which the end of the Cold War was linked to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the triumph of democratic values over commu...
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    Q. 190