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  • AMERICAN DIPLOMACY (ANNIVERSARY, EXPANDED)
    AMERICAN DIPLOMACY (ANNIVERSARY, EXPANDED)
    GEORGE FROST KENNAN
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    Q. 330

  • DOMESTICATED
    DOMESTICATED
    FRANCIS, RICHARD C.
    Without our domesticated plants and animals, human civilization as we know it would not exist.We would still be living at subsistence level as hunter-gatherers if not for domestication. It is no accident that the cradle of civilization?the Middle East?is where sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, and cats commenced their fatefully intimate association with humans.Before the agricultural...
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    Q. 280

  • CENSORS AT WORK
    CENSORS AT WORK
    DARNTON, ROBERT
    With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Ro...
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    Q. 180

  • MEN OF WAR
    MEN OF WAR
    ALEXANDER ROSE
    In the grand tradition of John Keegan’s enduring classic The Face of Battle comes a searing, unforgettable chronicle of war through the eyes of the American soldiers who fought in three of our most iconic battles: Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima. This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riv...
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    Q. 429

  • PIRATE HUNTERS
    PIRATE HUNTERS
    ROBERT KURSON
    A thrilling new adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the New York Times bestseller Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men—John Chatterton and John Mattera—are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister...
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    Q. 400

  • THE COST OF COURAGE
    THE COST OF COURAGE
    CHARLES KAISER
    This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the French Resistance is told by an American writer who has known and admired the family for five decades In the autumn of 1943, André Boulloche became de Gaulle’s military delegate in Paris, coordinating all the Resistance movements in the nine northern regions of Franc...
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    Q. 386

  • KEEN´S LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION, 2-VOLUME SET
    KEEN´S LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION, 2-VOLUME SET
    ROBERT M. BUFFINGTON, LILA CAIMARI
    The tenth edition of Keen’s Latin American Civilization inaugurates a new era in the history of this classic anthology by dividing it into two volumes. This first volume retains most of the colonial period sources from the ninth edition but with some significant additions, including new sets of images representing Brazilian cannibals and “casta paintings” of mixed race families...
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    Q. 680

  • END OF THE COLD WAR: 1985-1991
    END OF THE COLD WAR: 1985-1991
    SERVICE, ROBERT
    The Cold War had seemed like a permanent fixture in global politics, and until its denouement, no Western or Soviet politician had foreseen that an epoch defined by games of irreconcilable one-upmanship between the world’s most heavily armed superpowers would end in their lifetimes. Under the long, forbidding shadow of the Cold War, even the smallest miscalculation from either ...
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    Q. 350

  • A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
    A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
    JAMES WEST DAVIDSON
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    Q. 250

  • EL GRAN DEBATE I
    EL GRAN DEBATE I
    TROTSKI / BUAJRIN / ZINOVIEV
    El Gran Debate (1924-1926) recoge los principales textos de la discusión política que se desarrolla en el seno del partido bolchevique desde el periodo inmediato a la muerte de Lenin (1924) hasta el XIV Congreso del partido, en el que Stalin vio definitivamente reforzadas sus posiciones (1926). Se trata, sin duda, de una de las polémicas más importantes previas a la iniciación ...
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    Q. 270

  • EL GRAN DEBATE II
    EL GRAN DEBATE II
    ZINÓVIEV, GRIOGORI / STALIN, IÓSIF
    El Gran Debate (1924-1926) recoge los principales textos de la discusión política que se desarrolla en el seno del partido bolchevique desde el periodo inmediato a la muerte de Lenin (1924) hasta el XIV Congreso del partido, en el que Stalin vio definitivamente reforzadas sus posiciones (1926). Se trata, sin duda, de una de las polémicas más importantes previas a la iniciación ...
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    Q. 270

  • ADIÓS HISTORIA, ADIÓS
    ADIÓS HISTORIA, ADIÓS
    CRUZ , MANUEL
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    Q. 120

  • LA GRAN DIVERGENCIA
    LA GRAN DIVERGENCIA
    PETER WATSON
    Cuando Colón llegó a América en 1492 encontró un Nuevo Mundo muy distinto del Viejo, del cual había partido. ¿Por qué habían evolucionado de manera tan distinta? Para averiguarlo Watson emprende una experiencia de arqueología cognitiva, basada en la interacción que existe entre las ideas de los seres humanos y las realidades naturales de su entorno, con el fin de ofrecernos una...
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    Q. 350

  • THE ENLIGHTENMENT
    THE ENLIGHTENMENT
    VINCENZO FERRONE
    In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical views of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in soc...
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    Q. 300

  • RACISM
    RACISM
    GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON
    Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particularly susceptible to virulent ...
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    Q. 200

  • THE SON ALSO RISES
    THE SON ALSO RISES
    GREGORY CLARK
    How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique—track...
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    Q. 200

  • 1177 B.C.
    1177 B.C.
    ERIC H. CLINE
    In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh’s army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes ov...
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    Q. 180

  • THE COMING OF THE FRENCH REV
    THE COMING OF THE FRENCH REV
    GEORGES LEFEBVRE
    The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world. First published in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, and suppressed by the Vichy government, this classic work explains what happened in France in 1789, the first year of the French Revolution. Georges Lefeb...
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    Q. 200

  • THE NEW YORK NOBODY KNOWS
    THE NEW YORK NOBODY KNOWS
    WILLIAM B. HELMREICH
    As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood. Decades later, his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever.Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually eve...
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    Q. 200

  • PINOCHET EN PICADILLY
    PINOCHET EN PICADILLY
    ANDY BECKETT
    El 16 de octubre de 1998, el general Augusto Pinochet fue detenido en Londres, acusado de crímenes contra la humanidad por el juez español Baltasar Garzón. Durante los dieciséis meses que duró su arresto, el caso se convirtió en la cause célèbre más importante de finales del siglo XX, conocía mil peripecias judiciales y provocaba encendidos debates en España, Chile, el Reino Un...
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    Q. 220

  • LA BIBLIA DESENTERRADA
    LA BIBLIA DESENTERRADA
    ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN
    La pregunta central de este libro es: ¿narra la Biblia hechos constatables históricamente? Esta pregunta ha hecho que durante los últimos ciento cincuenta años los expertos hayan librado una auténtica guerra. Últimamente, ciertos descubrimientos espectaculares realizados por la arqueología bíblica han planteado dudas importantes sobre la versión más difundida del antiguo Israel...
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    Q. 280

  • TEMPLARIOS, NAZIS Y OBJETOS SAGRADOS
    TEMPLARIOS, NAZIS Y OBJETOS SAGRADOS
    LORENZO FERNANDEZ BUENO
    La exitosa serie de Conversaciones con Dios ha alcanzado los corazones de millones de jóvenes y adultos en todo el mundo. Ahora, Neale Donald Walsch invita a experimentar de manera interactiva la sabiduría que se encuentra en sus libros.Esta obra cercana y práctica es el acompañamiento definitivo para alcanzar la iluminación más profunda: ejercicios, tareas y experimentos que p...
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    Q. 225

  • CÓMO CAMBIAR EL MUNDO
    CÓMO CAMBIAR EL MUNDO
    ERIC HOBSBAWM
    El libro, que comienza con un estudio sobre «Marx hoy» y acaba con otro sobre la relación, a lo largo del tiempo, entre Marx y el movimiento obrero organizado, cuya conclusión es que, ante los problemas de la economía en el siglo XXI, «ha llegado de nuevo el tiempo de tomar a Marx en serio», nos ofrece una primera parte con una serie de trabajos sobre Marx y Engels, sobre sus o...
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    Q. 260

  • HOW WE GOT TO NOW
    HOW WE GOT TO NOW
    STEVEN JOHNSON
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    Q. 180

  • THE THIRD HORSEMAN
    THE THIRD HORSEMAN
    WILLIAM ROSEN
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    Q. 170

  • THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR VOLUME 1
    THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR VOLUME 1
    MELVYN P.LEFFLER
    This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period, and discusses how markets, ideas and cultural interactions affected political di...
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    Q. 600

  • THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR VOLUME 2
    THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR VOLUME 2
    MELVYN P.LEFFLER
    Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. A team of leading scholars explains how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and how this sense of increased stability evolved into the détente era of the early 1970s. The authors o...
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    Q. 600

  • THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR VOLUME 3
    THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR VOLUME 3
    MELVYN P.LEFFLER
    This volume examines the evolution of the Cold War from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. Leading scholars analyze the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological, and geopolitical factors that shaped the policies that ended the Cold War, looking at the personalities and policies of Carter and Reagan, Brezhnev and Gorbachev, Thatcher, K...
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    Q. 600

  • A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
    A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
    SIMON JENKINS
    Which battle was fought 'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted 'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge? In A Short History of England, bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and many more - as he tells the tumultuous story of a fascinating nation. From the invaders of the dark ages to today's coalition, via ...
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    Q. 135

  • HOW TO MANAGE YOUR SLAVES
    HOW TO MANAGE YOUR SLAVES
    MARCUS SIDONIUS FALX / JERRY TONER
    At last a clear manual for managing slaves the Roman way. How to Manage your Slaves offers practical answers to every question you're likely to have and guidance on every problem you're likely to encounter. Marcus Sidonius Falx shows where and how to buy the slaves for the purposes you have in mind and how to get the best out of them once you've got them. He explains how to tel...
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    Q. 120