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Guinness Book of the 20th Century

By: N/A

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Mint Publishers: May 2000

Seller ID: 255742

ISBN: 1892051052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Oxford the Desk Encyclopedia of World History

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 2006

Seller ID: 324810

ISBN: 0739483889

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hammond Atlas of the 20th Century

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hammond World Atlas Corporation: October 1996

Seller ID: 337624

ISBN: 0843711485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Unseen Hand : An Introduction to the Conspirational View of History

By: A. RALPH EPPERSON

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Publius Pr: January 1985

Seller ID: 333648

ISBN: 0961413506

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Complete Idiot's Guide to 20th-Century History

By: Alan Axelrod

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Alpha Books: January 1999

Seller ID: 325259

ISBN: 0028633857

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

You're no idiot, of course. You know that over the last 100 years, we've seen it all--world war, depression, assassinations, moon landings, an impeachment, and more. But when it comes to really understanding the significance of these events, you feel like you're scaling Mount Rushmore itself. Don't jump off Roosevelt's nose With The Complete Idiot, s Guide to 20th-Century History, you'll discover the most significant people, ideas, and events that shaped this century--in terms anyone can understand. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
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Black Gold: The Story of Oil in Our Lives

By: Albert Marrin

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers: January 2013

Seller ID: 145137

ISBN: 0375859683

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Oil is not pretty, but it is a resource that drives the modern world. It has made fortunes for the lucky few and provided jobs for millions of ordinary folks. Thick and slippery, crude oil has an evil smell. Yet without it, life as we live it today would be impossible. Oil fuels our engines, heats our homes, and powers the machines that make the everyday things we take for granted, from shopping bags to computers to medical equipment. Nations throughout the last century have gone to war over it. Indeed, oil influences every aspect of modern life. It helps shape the history, society, politi...
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The Third Wave

By: Alvin Toffler

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Bantam Books: January 1984

Seller ID: 326841

ISBN: 0553144316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Hip Hop History of the World (Part 1: From the Dawn of Civilization through the Renaissance) with CD

By: Andy Vietze

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Flocabulary: January 2009

Seller ID: 295972

ISBN: 1934773115

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This Brave New World: India, China and the United States

By: Anja Manuel

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 2016

Seller ID: 158754

ISBN: 1501121979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne

By: Anna Bikont

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: September 2016

Seller ID: 273808

ISBN: 0374536376

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The World on Fire: 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism

By: Anthony Read

Price: $7.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: March 2008

Seller ID: 336945

ISBN: 0393061248

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

While the Western leaders were hammering out a peace treaty in Paris to end the Great War, a new war had already begun. Bolshevism the creed of the Russian Revolution had burst on the scene in 1917 and seared itself into the world s consciousness even faster than al-Qaeda would some eighty years later. The Allied powers tried to destroy it at its source by intervening, controversially and unsuccessfully, in the civil war in Russia. Elsewhere there were bloody revolutions and bloodier counterrevolutions in Germany, Hungary, and the Baltic States; massive strikes and civil unrest broke out in Br...
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The Seven Sisters: The great oil companies & the world they shaped

By: Anthony Sampson

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Viking Adult: October 1975

Seller ID: 209534

ISBN: 067063591X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Study of History

By: Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books: January 1995

Seller ID: 162529

ISBN: 1566199379

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

By: Baker, Nicholson

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Vintage: April 2002

Seller ID: 345057

ISBN: 0375726217

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country's libraries-including the Library of Congress-have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. With meticulous detective work and Baker's well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless archive...
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

By: Barbara W Tuchman

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: January 1979

Seller ID: 145359

ISBN: 0345283945

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

THE PROUD TOWER, A PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE WAR 1890-1941

By: Barbara W Tuchman

Price: $7.95

Publisher: MacMIllan and Co: January 1966

Seller ID: 329882

ISBN: B000WE49QA

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: February 1985

Seller ID: 300633

ISBN: 0345308239

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece "The Guns of August, " grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma's senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decis...
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Practicing History

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Knopf: September 1981

Seller ID: 313661

ISBN: 0394520866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: February 1985

Seller ID: 320227

ISBN: 0345308239

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life

By: Barzun, Jacques

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper: June 2000

Seller ID: 307366

ISBN: 0060175869

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has now set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and conclusions about the whole of Western culture since 1500.In this account, Barzun describes what Western Man wrought from the Renaisance and Reformation down to the present in the double light of its own time and our pressing concerns. He introduces characters and incidents with his unusual literary style and grace, bringing to the fore those that have "Puritans as Democrats," "The Monarch's R...
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Category: World History