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The end of empire
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Christopher Kelly |
Christopher Kelly's bold account of Attila the Hun as empire builder and political threat to Rome.
Conjuring up images of savagery and ferocity, Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarianism… |
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Pandora's Seed
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Spencer Wells |
In The Journey of Man, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells traced human evolution back to our earliest ancestors, creating a remarkable and readable map of our distant past. Now, in … |
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The Fiction of Narrative
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Hayden White |
Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where… |
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The unnatural history of the sea
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Callum Roberts |
"Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, a… |
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Mussolini's Italy
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R. J. B. Bosworth |
With Mussolini 's Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth—the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English—vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century's most… |
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The World Is Flat
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Thomas L. Friedman |
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of tec… |
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Introductory econometrics
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Humberto Barreto |
This highly accessible and innovative text and accompanying CD-ROM use Excel (R) workbooks powered by Visual Basic macros to teach the core concepts of econometrics without advanced mathematics. It e… |
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Lincoln legends
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Edward Steers |
The folklore surrounding history's towering figures often overshadows actual scholarship, both in terms of quantity and in terms of prevalence in the public consciousness. As one might expect with a … |
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Us and Them
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David Berreby |
Perceptions, memories, fears, hopes and wants are all blended by your mind to create a map of reality. One of the most important parts of that map is identity: your sense of who belongs where, in a… |
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