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Niall Ferguson
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008]
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Description: A splendid history.... If Americans want to be convinced of the benefits of empire, as well as apprised of its costs, they need merely pick up Ferguson's dazzling book.- Weekly Standard About the Book: This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the... more
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Archie Brown
[Hardcover 2009]
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From the internationally acclaimed Oxford authority on Communism comes a definitive history that examines the origins of the ideology, its development in different nations, its collapse in many of those countries following perestroika, and its current incarnations around the globe. "The Rise and Fall of Communism" explores how and why... more
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Edward W Said
[Paperback 1994]
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Investigates the relationship between culture and the imperialism of the West, combing the masterpieces of the Western tradition from Mansfield Park to Aida to find evidence that the concept of empire-building was embedded in the imagination of the West. 20,000 first printing. Tour. A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious... more
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Niall Ferguson
[Paperback 2009]
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Ferguson tells the human story behind the evolution of money, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest Wall Street upheavals. The author shows that finance is, in fact, the foundation of human progress. Description: A richly original look at the origins of money and how it makes the... more
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Charles Van Doren
[Hardcover 1991]
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A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected from the beginning of civilization into the twenty-first century. Massive in its scope, and yet totally accessible, A HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE covers not only all the great... more
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Norman Lowe
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Book Summary of Mastering Modern World History This best-selling is ideal for first examinations in history. It meets the requirement of Modern History. It is a complete, readable, self-contained course, for individual study or classroom use, and requires no previous knowledge. The third edition includes new material in all chapters... more
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Neil Mac Gregor
[Paperback 2013]
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About the Book : -'In this book, we travel back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans have shaped our world and been shaped by it over the past two million years. The story is told exclusively through the things that humans have made - all... more
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Jared Diamond
[Paperback 2013]
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In his runaway bestseller "Guns, Germs, and Steel," Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances that allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can... more
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National Geographic
[Hardcover 2005]
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The world history book to define all others, "National Geographic Visual History of the World" is a classic in the making. No other volume offers such a comprehensive and richly illustrated chronicle of world events, from the construction of the Pyramids to the overthrow of the Taliban. Readers see how... more
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W B Marsh ,
Bruce Carrick
[Paperback 2003]
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A fascinating compendium of historical tales, organized by the days of the year. Read about the day Jesse Owens humiliated the Nazis at the Olympic Games, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart vanished in flight, Leonardo Da Vinci died in a king's arms, and many more.... more
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Ariel Durant Will Durant
[Paperback 2010]
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A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, "The Lessons of History "is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the... more
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About the Book : Gopal Gandhi’s wonderfully moving and insightful tragedy elegantly and imaginatively revisits one of Indian history’s great what-if moments, making us ask again how different things might have been if it was heterodox mystic Dara rather than the puritanical bigot Aurangzeb who had won the civil war... more
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Erik S Reinert
[Paperback 2008]
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In this refreshingly revisionist history, Erik S. Reinert shows how rich countries developed through a combination of government intervention, protectionism, and strategic investment--rather than through free trade. Yet when our leaders lecture poor countries on the right path to riches they do so in almost perfect ignorance of the fact... more
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Ian Crofton
[Hardcover 2012]
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The Winner Stands Alone is set in the exciting worlds of fashion and... more
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Andrew Marr
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About the book : Andrew Marr, author of two bestselling histories of Great Britain now turns his attention to the world as a whole. A History of the World takes readers from the Mayans to Mongolia, from the kingdom of Benin to the court of the Jagiellonian kings of Poland.... more
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Kerwin Swint
[Hardcover 2011]
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Throughout history, behind so many de facto rulers, there can often be found a shadowy puppetmaster pulling the strings. Using examples from Machiavelli, Catherine de Medici and Alexander Hamilton to Dick Cheney, Zhou Enlai and Joseph Stalin, Kerwin Swint presents profiles of notorious "king whisperers," spanning the globe and historical... more
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Christopher Lloyd
[Hardcover 2008]
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About the Book: In What on Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella, how the Earth's collision with another... more
