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 Into Thin AirBest Price: $7.11 This is a poignant, compelling narrative about Chris McCandless, an intelligent, intense, and... |  The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War VictoryBest Price: $12.00 More than ten years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the time has come for a thorough,... |  Three Came HomeI have this original book my father in law had in his library. It has a beautiful cover design. ... |  The American PeopleBest Price: $37.00 It's amazing to me to read reviews of people who tout this book as "liberal... |  ClimbBest Price: $7.75 Every story has two sides. In this book, readers of Jon Krakauer's best selling Into Thin... |
 Black Holes & Time Warps: Einsteins Outrageous Legacy -- 1995 publicationIn the same vein as Stephen Hawkins' "A Brief History of Time," (and with even... |  Guns Up!Best Price: $4.55 I've read this book five times, twice to my sons. Each time I've read it I have come... |  From Beirut to Jerusalem: Revised EditionBest Price: $30.70 In a very exhaustive account of Middle Eastern politics, Friedman narrates, based on his... |  Tocqueville's Discovery of AmericaBest Price: $6.95 Why another short biography of Tocqueville after the commendable efforts of Joseph Epstein,... |  Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Modern WarfareBest Price: $15.95 John Alexander's FUTURE WAR gives us a definitive look at emerging non-lethal weapons... |
 Africa in Chaos: A Comparative HistoryBest Price: $7.13 Ayittey has written an excellent book. In fact, I'm just as critical of Africa's... |  The New Macedonian Question (St. Antony's)Best Price: $14.99 Reviewed by Zhidas Daskalovski (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College... |  Why Nations Go to WarThis book was really quite interesting. Stoessinger writes in a lucid manner, which makes the... |  Michael Collins: The Man Who Made IrelandBest Price: $14.99 One cannot understand modern Ireland with no knowledge of Michael Collins. Known as the... |  Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered HistoryBest Price: $8.00 The sexual revolution of the 1960's and 1970's is an important subject about which... |
 The Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the CrusadesBest Price: $8.59 The Templars By Piers Paul Read If you are looking for proof that the Templars and the... |  French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the FrenchBest Price: $4.50 I picked this book up after my most recent visit to Paris, hoping to learn a little more about... |  Sea Assault: The Sinking of Japan's Secret SupershipBest Price: $62.66 Originally published under the title "Shinano" For my money, this is the very... |  Downtown: My ManhattanBest Price: $2.12 During Pete Hamill's lifetime, he has lived mostly in Manhattan which is usually the... |  Modern Latin AmericaBest Price: $7.35 This is an excellent textbook for anyone who wants a summary of Latin America. It covers all of... |
 Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, FriendsBest Price: $1.11 Lonnie Johnson has written an excellent history of a complex region that is, to many Americans,... |  Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's ApprenticeshipBest Price: $25.00 Adolf Hitler remains one of the most despised of all dictators. His hatred and anti-Semitism and... |  Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)Best Price: $14.99 Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer, is an insightful look into one of the most... |  Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930sBest Price: $11.26 In the midst of the Great Depression in the 1930's, the Great Plains states faced the... |  Osun Across the Waters : A Yoruba Goddess inBest Price: $24.67 The book was very very good in the yoruban sections but I could not help but wonder who chose... |
 The Gulf War Did Not Take PlaceBest Price: $10.94 No one can lack commonsense as much as an intellectual, especially a leftist one, and perhaps... |  Battle on the Bay: The Civil War Struggle for GalvestonBest Price: $17.25 This is a true, factual account of how a handful of Texans recaptured the Port of Galveston... |  Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of SeattleBest Price: $6.00 Skid Road by Murray Morgan has become somewhat of a classic in the Seattle area, where having... |  The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of ExtremismBest Price: $1.30 The story at the core of this book is the flawed basis on which the United States brought war to... |  The Marine Corps Way: Using Maneuver Warfare to Lead a Winning OrganizationBest Price: $0.01 I had reservations about this book before reading it because I happen to agree with those who... |
 A World History of ArchitectureBest Price: $55.00 This is one of those big, beautiful art/architecture books that always seem to end up unread on... |  The African-American Odyssey: Combined Volume (4th Edition)Best Price: $48.00 There is so much bias in this book. While bias is neither good or bad, it just is. This book can... |  Classical Mythology: Images and InsightsBest Price: $47.00 Used for a university course, this book is surprisingly quick to read and highly compelling. ... |  The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the SommeBest Price: $7.95 The special genius of Keegan is his ability to evoke the human side of war. This comes from his... |  A Russian DiaryBest Price: $7.77 When I read the back of this book I was intrigued. A Russian Diary is a non-fiction work by a... |
 Advanced Unix ProgrammingBest Price: $5.00 You should be familiar with general UNIX commands and the UNIX OS. This text will take you help... |  The Ancient World: A Social and Cultural History (5th Edition)Best Price: $10.00 I also have used this book, along with the primary source companion, in the classroom. I found... |  The Tao of PoohBest Price: $6.50 `The Tao of Pooh', a fascinating synthesis of Eastern philosophy and Western children's... |  Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic QueenBest Price: $8.48 I recently re-read this book, six years after first reading it. The first time I wasn't... |  First Family: Abigail and John AdamsBest Price: $4.80 In about 300 pages, author Joseph Ellis takes us on a whirlwind tour of the lives of John Adams... |
 Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed AmericaBest Price: $7.15 Dr. Jay Parini is a poet, novelist, college teacher and literary scholar. In "Promised... |  Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged RomeBest Price: $8.90 Although it is highly informative and an enjoyable read, this work on Attila does not quite... |  The American Promise: A History of the United States, Volume II: From 1865Best Price: $25.00 As far as textbooks go, it was the formatting that make it what it is. Lots of pictures &... |  The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan JourneyBest Price: $6.85 In 1986, while working on his famously infamous novel, "The Satanic Verses", Rushdie... |  A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A DiaryBest Price: $5.98 The Diary "A Woman In Berlin 8 weeks In The Conquered City" was written by an... |
 The American Promise: A History of the United States, Volume II: From 1865 (Compact Edition)Best Price: $2.27 The reading structure allow the reader to visualize and understand American History from outside... |  America's History: Since 1865Best Price: $6.99 I disagree strongly with the previous reviews of this book. My university department just chose... |  On LibertyBest Price: $5.00 "On Liberty" is one of the most important books on political thought of the nineteenth... |  All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate ShawBest Price: $14.07 This is a timeless classic, and not just among memoirs, because the subject was a great... |  Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in OmanBest Price: $5.99 It's not as if there are so many anthropology books written about the women of Arabia and... |
 The Autobiography of Yukichi FukuzawaBest Price: $26.02 Yukichi Fukuzawa is on the money. Quite literally, actually. He is the face on the Japanese... |  Dubai: The Vulnerability of SuccessBest Price: $7.64 Despite the myriad of articles and sound bites about the latest achievements of Dubai, works... |  My Life with the Taliban (Columbia/Hurst)Best Price: $16.87 Abdul Salam Zaeef, orphaned at a young age and made a refugee not much later, writes of this and... |  Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral HistoryBest Price: $5.59 I have always enjoyed oral histories of warfare and this one told from the German point of view... |  Thunder At Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914Best Price: $10.69 In the first pages of this book, author Frederic Morton reveals the reason he has such an... |
 Pearl Harbor : Final JudgementBest Price: $2.99 This book is misnamed, but otherwise an outstanding and essential work regrading the causes of... |  The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-day SacrificeBest Price: $5.27 "The Bedford Boys" by Alex Kershaw is a solid telling of Bedford, Virginia's... | Into Thin Air Best Price: $7.11 This is a poignant, compelling narrative about Chris McCandless, an intelligent, intense, and... | The Fifty Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory Best Price: $12.00 More than ten years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the time has come for a thorough,... | Three Came Home I have this original book my father in law had in his library. It has a beautiful cover design. ... |
| The American People Best Price: $37.00 It's amazing to me to read reviews of people who tout this book as "liberal... | Climb Best Price: $7.75 Every story has two sides. In this book, readers of Jon Krakauer's best selling Into Thin... | Black Holes & Time Warps: Einsteins Outrageous Legacy -- 1995 publication In the same vein as Stephen Hawkins' "A Brief History of Time," (and with even... | Guns Up! Best Price: $4.55 I've read this book five times, twice to my sons. Each time I've read it I have come... | From Beirut to Jerusalem: Revised Edition Best Price: $30.70 In a very exhaustive account of Middle Eastern politics, Friedman narrates, based on his... |
| Tocqueville's Discovery of America Best Price: $6.95 Why another short biography of Tocqueville after the commendable efforts of Joseph Epstein,... |  Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNABest Price: $3.90 Dick did it again. Richard "Dick" Lewontin, one of the most esteemed (or... |  Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our NationBest Price: $4.91 What's in the history textbooks is something less than half the story. To read the words of... |  Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley ForgeBest Price: $4.46 The young American nation had lost its first capital, Philadelphia, in the fall of 1777. The... |  The Holy GrailBest Price: $7.57 Surely, after reading this entire book, I deserve some sort of prize as reward for my efforts. ... |
 Dragonfly: An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer SpaceBest Price: $13.57 What a moment to discover how true all those cold-war cliches were about backward Russian... |  Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883Best Price: $1.20 Disasters make for good storytelling. Simon Winchester regales us with 400 pages of absorbing... |  Among the RussiansBest Price: $7.40 As a cultural anthropologist who was been living and working in St. Petersburg, Russia for... |  Little House by Boston BayBest Price: $2.75 Although not written by Ingalls, Little House By Boston Bay continues in the spirit of her... |  Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism UnitsBest Price: $6.88 One of Israel's most highly respected Special Forces Unit is called "SAYERET... |
 The Mask of CommandBest Price: $5.30 In his introduction, John Keegan's describes his book The Mask of Command as, "a book... |  Travels with Charley in Search of America (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)Best Price: $5.76 Steinbeck at his most brilliant.What a marvellous and delightful read. Charley,his travelling... |  My First Summer in the Sierra (Classic, Nature, Penguin)Best Price: $4.40 This is the third of Muir's books that I have read, the first in several years. Gretel... |  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by HimselfBest Price: $4.98 If progress in human rights continues, and history offers no guarantees, then slavery will... |  Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath (Penguin Classic Military History)U.S.N. Commander Laurance Safford's stubborn, selfless lifelong quest - which clobbered his... |
 Out of America: A Black Man Confronts AfricaBest Price: $0.01 Firstly, I am a Nigerian who was lived in Ghana, Nigeria, England and the US, and who has been... |  Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. ArnoldBest Price: $0.87 It is difficult to imagine anyone actually reading nineteenth century biographies. If... |  Shakespeare: A LifeBest Price: $15.00 As with seemingly all biographies pertaining to the life of the legendary bard from... |  Samuel Barber: The Composer and His MusicBest Price: $46.35 Well, I thought the book was a respectable mix of biographical information and analysis, not too... |  I Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and SocietyBest Price: $22.41 I Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome--an exhibition and exhibit catalogue produced by the Yale... |
 Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian PowerBest Price: $3.59 This book is an example of how embarrassing it can be for an author to go out on a limb with his... |  Hitler's Professors: Second EditionBest Price: $22.97 Interestingly enough, I came across this book just after finishing Victor Klemperer's... |  Medieval ChildrenBest Price: $25.35 An in depth look at how children in the middle ages were brought up, schooled and treated, the... |  A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq (Yale Library of Military History)Best Price: $15.69 EDIT of 21 Feb 2010: A colleague in COINSOC has pointed out that I missed one key aspect of... |  History of Warfare: The Wars of the Ancient GreeksBest Price: $8.88 The series of Cassell's History of Warfare, edited by John Keegan, started coming out a... |
 Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and PhilosophersBest Price: $2.75 If Darwin's revelation of natural selection is "the best idea anyone, any where, ever... |  An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.00 For years I have passed over Hume's work, but after reading An Enquiry concerning Human... |  Russia: A HistoryBest Price: $12.46 Freeze's book examines the history of Russia from the early years to the present. It is a... |  Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933Best Price: $12.00 powerfully argued, vividly written and meticulously documented, "Hitler's Thirty... | |
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