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Dirty Work: The CIA in Western Europe

By: Agee

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dorset Pr: May 1988

Seller ID: 333380

ISBN: 088029132x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Lions and Foxes: Men and Ideas of the Italian Renaissance

By: Alexander, Sidney

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr: April 1985

Seller ID: 345032

ISBN: 082140394x

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

A topically organized narrative locates vital personalities and concepts in the politics and art of the period and relates them to contemporary experience.
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Celtic Warrior 300 BC - AD 100 (Osprey Military: Fighting Elite)

By: Allen, Wayne Reynolds Stephen

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Publisher: Osprey: January 2001

Seller ID: 344890

ISBN: 1841764264

Binding: Hardcover

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The Sword And The Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB

By: Andrew, Christopher, Mitrokhin, Vasili

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Basic Books: November 1999

Seller ID: 333381

ISBN: 0465003109

Binding: Hardcover

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The Sword and the Shield is based on one of the most extraordinary intelligence coups of recent times: a secret archive of top-level KGB documents smuggled out of the Soviet Union which the FBI has described, after close examination, as the "most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source." Its presence in the West represents a catastrophic hemorrhage of the KGB's secrets and reveals for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin, a secret dissident who worked in the KGB archive, smuggled out copies of its most highly classified files...
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Arendt, Hannah

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Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1994

Seller ID: 337205

ISBN: 0140187650

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

This report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This edition contains further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt's postscript commenting on the controversy that arose over her book.
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Dersu the Trapper (Recovered Classics)

By: Arseniev, V. K.

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Publisher: McPherson: October 1996

Seller ID: 345753

ISBN: 0929701496

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological, botanical, and ethnographic data he amassed. Among these, Dersu the Trapper has earned a privileged place in Russian literature. In this Russian counterpart to The Journals of Lewis and Clark and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Arseniev combines the precise observations of a naturalist with an exciting narrative of real-life adventure.

Arseniev describes three explorations in the Ussuria...
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The Panorama of the Renaissance

By: Aston, Margaret

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Publisher: Harry N. Abrams: March 2000

Seller ID: 305473

ISBN: 0810981882

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The great turning point of Western civilization that we call the Renaissance marked the emergence of the modern world from the Dark Ages. This ingenious, profusely illustrated book presents the entire epoch of the Renaissance through a spectacular array of images and invites readers to follow the great lives, explore the themes, and witness the major events of this exciting era.
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The Law

By: Bastiat, Frederic

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Publisher: Creative Commons: May 2013

Seller ID: 354191

ISBN: 1940177014

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Here, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat discusses: what is law?, why socialism constitutes legal plunder, the proper function of the law, the law and morality, "the vicious circle of socialism," and the basis for stable government. French political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FR D RIC BASTIAT (1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept that property rights and individual freedoms flowed from natural law.
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The Law

By: Bastiat, Frederic

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Publisher: Creative Commons: May 2013

Seller ID: 357991

ISBN: 1940177014

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Modern European Thought: Continuity and Change in Ideas, 1600-1950

By: Baumer, Franklin

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co: November 1977

Seller ID: 199185

ISBN: 0023065001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Poisoned Past: The Life and Times of Margarida de Portu, a Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner (Thinking Historically)

By: Bednarski, Steven

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Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division: April 2014

Seller ID: 316160

ISBN: 1442604778

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is the story of Margarida de Portu, a fourteenth-century French medieval woman accused of poisoning her husband to death. As Bednarski points out, the story is important not so much for what it tells us about Margarida but for how it illuminates a past world. Through the depositions and accusations made in court, the reader learns much about medieval women, female agency, kin networks, solidarity, sex, sickness, medicine, and law.

Unlike most histories, this book does not remove the author from the analysis. Rather, it lays bare the working methods of the historian. Throughout ...
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The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and How America Helped Rebuild Europe

By: Behrman, Greg

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Publisher: Free Press: August 2008

Seller ID: 218922

ISBN: 0743282647

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this landmark, character-driven history, Greg Behrman tells the story of the Marshall Plan, the unprecedented and audacious policy through which America helped rebuild World War II-ravaged Western Europe. With nuanced, vivid prose, Behrman recreates the story of a unique American enterprise that was at once strategic, altruistic and stunningly effective, and of a time when America stood as a beacon of generosity and moral leadership.

When World War II ended in Europe, the continent lay in tatters. Tens of millions of people had been killed. Ancient cities had been demolished. The econo...
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The Vatican empire

By: Bello, Nino Lo

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Publisher: Trident Pr: January 1968

Seller ID: 333977

ISBN: B0007DYPI8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344

By: Bennett, Judith

Price: $9.95

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education: November 1998

Seller ID: 321222

ISBN: 0072903317

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This history of medieval village life is told through the experiences of Cecilia Penifader, a peasant woman who lived on one English manor in the early fourteenth century. This truly unique book offers a wealth of insight into medieval peasant society, bringing many of the characteristics of a time and a people to life. Short and readable, it is an ideal text for undergraduate teaching, suitable for courses in Western civilization, medieval history, women's history, and English history.
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Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too

By: Berlinski, Claire

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Publisher: Crown Forum: February 2006

Seller ID: 296040

ISBN: 1400097681

Binding: Hardcover

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Old Europe's new crisis.

Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. But lately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes and demonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamic cells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even the police won't enter them. In Spain, a terrorist attack prompts instant capitulation to the terrorists' demands. In France, the suburbs go up in flames every night. In Holland, politicians and artists are murdered for speaking frankly about Islamic immigration.
This isn't the Europe we thought we knew. What's goi...
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The Viking: The Settlers, Ships, Swords, and Sagas of the Nordic Age

By: Bertil Almgren

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Barnes and Noble Books: January 1995

Seller ID: 357944

ISBN: 076070371X

Binding: Hardcover

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The Oxford History of Modern Europe

By: Blanning, T. C. W.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA: August 2000

Seller ID: 330459

ISBN: 0192853716

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Written by an international team of leading scholars, The Oxford History of Modern Europe traces Europe's turbulent history, from the beginnings of the Revolution in France to the dawn of two world wars to the breakup of the Soviet Union to today's kaleidoscope of nation-states. The achievements (and failures) of key figures from many arenas--politics, technology, warfare, religion, and the arts among them--are drawn vividly, and social, cultural, and economic insights are included alongside the record of geopolitical strife. We read of the personality cult as exemplified by the Soviet portrai...
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The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution

By: Breitman, Richard

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Knopf: April 1991

Seller ID: 349834

ISBN: 0394568419

Binding: Hardcover

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Although Adolf Hitler held the ultimate responsibility for what became the Holocaust, it was Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, who essentially laid the plans and devised the schemes that led to the killings of six million Jews. An important and engrossing book that makes evident why Heinrich Himmler should be regarded as the master planner of the Final Solution.
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Hitler, A Study in Tyranny

By: Bullock, Alan

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Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: January 1964

Seller ID: 244713

ISBN: B01M2UTPVP

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages

By: Bumke, Joachim

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Publisher: Harry N. Abrams: June 2000

Seller ID: 361735

ISBN: 1585670510

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Every aspect of "courtly culture" comes to life in Joachim Bumke's extraordinarily rich and well-documented presentation. A renowned medievalist with an encyclopedic knowledge of original sources and a passion for history, Bumke overlooks no detail, from the material realities of aristocratic society -- the castles and clothing, weapons and transportation, food, drink, and table etiquette -- to the behavior prescribed and practiced at tournaments, knighting ceremonies, and great princely feasts. The courtly knight and courtly lady, and the transforming idea of courtly love, are seen through th...
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Category: European History