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Thunderstruck

By: Larson, Erik

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush”
In Thunderstruck, erik Larson tel ... more

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The Key to The Da Vinci Code

By: Ferris, Stewart

Despite being a work of fiction, the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code has a plot based on a number of concepts and ideas ... more

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Pursuit

By Johnson, Clint

"A Spellbinding Tale Of The Last Days Of The Confederacy.” --David J. eicher, author of The Longest Night
In the only book to tell the definitive story of Confederate President Jefferson Davis's chase, capture, imprisonment, and release, journalist and Civil War ...

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Underground

By Rudd, Mark

The leader of the student uprising of 1968 and founding member of the notorious Weather Underground tells his story—for the first time

In 1968, Mark Rudd led the legendary occupation of five buildings at Columbia Universit ...

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The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story

By Gleeson, Janet

An extraordinary episode in cultural & scientific history comes to life in the fascinating story of a genius, greed, & exquisite beauty revealed by the obsessive pursuit of the secret formula for one of the most precious commodities of eighteenth century european royalty-fin ...

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After the Prophet

By Hazleton, Lesley

British-born LeSLeY HAZLeTON is a veteran Middle east journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, esquire, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and other publications. The author of several books on Middle east politics, religi ...

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Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington

By Bardach, Ann Louise

From the award-winning reporter and go-to source on Cuban-Miami politics Ann Louise Bardach comes a riveting, eye-opening account of the last chapter in the life of Fidel Castro: his near death and marathon finale, his enemies and their fifty-year failed battle to elimina ...

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Genesis of Fiction, The: Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters

By Wright, Terry R.

This book considers a range of twentiethcentury novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the "Book of Genesis" which more conventional biblical criticism sometimes ignores. each chapter considers some of the interpretive challenges of ...

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Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle

By Bobelian, Michael

The first account of the aftermath of the Armenian Genocide and a people's pursuit of justice for the horrific crime that has come to define them. ...

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Select Undergraduate Papers: Real Term & Research Papers That Received T

By Odu, Jude K

This book is intended to provide undergraduate college students with original samples of well-written papers that have received top grades from college professors. This collection is 100% free of works from Internet paper "shops" which hawk term papers for a fee. You will no ...

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When Coal Was Queen: The History of the Queen City - Olyphant, Pennsylva

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No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in

By Goodwin, Doris Kearns

No Ordinary Time is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story line ...

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The First World War

By Strachan, Hew

It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars” is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose ...

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The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea--and the Marines--from Extinction

By Sloan, Bill

The dramatic first three months of the Korean War, when South Korea was saved from Communists conquest, told in Band of Brothers style. ...

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Stalingrad

By Beevor, Antony

This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II, conveying the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought in inhuman conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. ...

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Patton, Montgomery, Rommel: Masters of War

By Brighton, Terry

In Patton, Montgomery, Rommel, one of Britain's most accomplished military scholars presents an unprecedented study of the land war in the North African and european theaters, as well as their chief commanders—three men who also happened to be the most compellin ...

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The Freemasons In America: Inside the Secret Society

By Jeffers, H. P.

What Is Their Secret And What Are They Hiding?
Step inside the secret world of the Masons and discover:
How such pivotal American documents as the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights reflect Masonic principles and influence.
How Freemaso ...

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World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008

By Basbanes, Nicholas A.

World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 ...

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Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative

By Adorno, Rolena

In this book on early Latin American narrative, Rolena Adorno argues that the core of the Spanish American literary tradition consists of the writings in which the rights to Spanish dominion in the Americas and the treatment of its natives were debated. She places the works ...

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Say It Again, Sam

By McBride, Mary

The strangest things are happening in Heart Lake, and Sheriff Sam Mendenhall is trying to keep the peace. The trouble really begins when his former sweetheart Beth Simon returns. Their undeniable attraction leads them to the little cabin in the woods where they fell in love ...

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Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion

By Gitlin, Jay

Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders, and American expansion ...

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Big House

By Cox, Stephen

Big House ...

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Special Forces

By Clancy, Tom

They are sent to the world's hot spots-on covert missions fraught with danger. They are called on to perform at the peak of their physical and mental capabilities, primed for combat and surveillance, yet ready to pitch in with disaster relief operations. They are the Army's ...

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Carrier

By Clancy, Tom

They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic displa ...

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D-Day

By Beevor, Antony

The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945
From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the w ...

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WW1 at Sea: The Pocket Essential Guide

By Carolan, Victoria

Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another significant arena of war - the battle for control of the sea. In 1914 at th ...

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The Dead Hand

By Hoffman, David

“A stunning feat of research and narrative. Terrifying.”
–John le Carré
“In The Dead Hand, David Hoffman has uncovered some of the Cold War’s most persistent and consequential secretsR ...

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Xin Loi, Viet Nam

By Sever, Al

No one in Vietnam had to tell door gunner and gunship crew chief Al Sever that the odds didn't look good. He volunteered for the job well aware that hanging out of slow-moving choppers over hot LZs blazing with enemy fire was not conducive to a long life. But that wasn't goi ...

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We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers

By Brotherton, Marcus

From Marcus Brotherton, co-author of Call of Duty, comes a new collection of untold stories from the Band of Brothers. They were the men of the now-legendary easy Company. After almost two years of hard training, they parachuted into Normandy on DDay and, later, Operation M ...

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Against a Dark Background

By Banks, Iain M.

Against a Dark Background ...

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Armored Cav

By Clancy, Tom

A penetrating look inside an armored cavalry regiment -- the technology, the strategies, and the people . . . profiled by Tom Clancy. His first non-fiction book, Submarine, captured the reality of life aboard a nuclear warship. Now, the #1 bestselling author of Clear and P ...

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The Bomber Boys

By Ayres, Travis L.

True tales of heroism and the men who fought and died in the skies of World War II europe.
In World War II, there were many ways to die. But nothing offered more fatal choices than being inside a B-17 bomber above Nazi-occupied europe. From the hellish storms o ...

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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception

By Melton, H. Keith

Magic or spycraft? In 1953, against the backdrop of the Cold War, the CIA initiated a top-secret program, code-named MKULTRA, to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques. Realizing that clandestine officers might need to covertly deploy newly developed pills, ...

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WW1 at Sea: The Pocket Essential Guide

By Carolan, Victoria

Images of WWI in the popular consciousness normally involve the bloody attrition of trench warfare, the miles of mud, the shattered earth, the tangled miles of barbed wire. However there was another significant arena of war - the battle for control of the sea. In 1914 at th ...

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Men at War

By Fawcett, Bill

epic battles-as seen through the eyes of the men who fought them.
From Gettysburg to D-Day, history's most momentous battles have been recounted to the world on a grand scale. This book, for the first time ever, looks at man's most epic battles from the point ...

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Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945

By Biddle, Tami Davis

Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 ...

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Phantom Warrior: The Heroic True Story of Pvt. John McKinney's One-Man Stand Against the Japanese in World War II

By Johnson, Forrest Bryant

He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery. But his story has never been told...until now. This is the story of John McKinney, who, on the morning of May 11, 1945, received the Medal of Honor for his actions against a Japanese surprise attack. That day, McKinney retu ...

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The Magnificent Bastards

By Nolan, Keith

On April 29, 1968, the North Vietnamese Army is spotted less than four miles from the U.S. Marines' Dong Ha Combat Base. Intense fighting develops in nearby Dai Do as the 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, known as "the Magnificent Bastards,” struggles to eject NVA forces from thi ...

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Why Read the Classics?

By Calvino, Italo

Italo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in english, accounting for the endu ...

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D-Day

By Beevor, Antony

The definitive account of the Normandy invasion by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945
From critically acclaimed world historian, Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the w ...

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Wandering Souls

By Karlin, Wayne

Wandering Souls ...

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Overlord

By Hastings, Max

Chapter I
“MUCH THe GReATeST THING We HAVe eVeR ATTeMPTeD”
Not the least remarkable aspect of the Second World War was the manner in which the United States, which might have been expected to regard the ca ...

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Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

By Beck, Glenn

FUNNY.
FRIGHTeNING.
TRUe.
It happens to all of us: You're minding your own business, when some idiot informs you that guns are evil, the Prius will save the planet, ...

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Final Voyage

By Nichols, Peter

A maritime adventure set against a lush historical backdrop.
I n 1871, an entire fleet of whaling ships was caught in an arctic ice storm and destroyed. Though few lives were lost, the damage would forever shape one of America's most distinctive commodities: oi ...

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Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business t

By Joel, Mitch

Is it important to be connected? Well, consider this: If Facebook were a country, it would have the sixth largest population in the world.
The truth is, we no longer live in a world of six degrees of separation. In fact, we're now down to only six pixels of separatio ...

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1959: The Year Everything Changed

By Kaplan, Fred

Advance Praise for Fred Kaplan's 1959: The Year everything Changed
"An engrossing story about not just where the '60s came from but the birth of the future. Kaplan does a masterful job of weaving together the strands - in politics, society, culture, and scien ...

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Devil's Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes

By Dickerson, James L.

Recalling the state's shameful racist history of lynching, arson, denial of rights, false imprisonment, and other heinous crimes, this riveting narrative explores how Mississippi became a safe haven for the most violent and virulent racists, who were immune to prosecution fo ...

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When Coal Was Queen: The History of the Queen City - Olyphant, Pennsylva

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When Coal Was Queen: The History of the Queen City - Olyphant, Pennsylvania ...

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The Real Lincoln

By Dilorenzo, Thomas

The Real Lincoln ...

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Civil War Wives

By Berkin, Carol

Carol Berkin received her A.B. from Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught at Baruch College from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 1983. She is cur ...

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Who Shot JFK?

By Ramsay, Robin

After nearly 1000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries and hundreds of Websites, is there anything left to say about the assassination of President John F Kennedy? Hell, yes. The Ke ...

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Sweet Thunder

By Haygood, Wil

Wil Haygood is a prizewinning staff writer for The Washington Post and an acclaimed biographer. His In Black and White was internationally praised. Among his honors are the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, the Hurston/Wright Lega ...

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There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence

By Cunningham, David

Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left during the 1960s. examin ...

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Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory

By Zimmerman, Jonathan

Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory ...

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Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial

By Temkin, Moshik

Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial ...

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The Kingdom of New York

By New York Observer, The

For the last two decades, The New York Observer has documented the Platinum Age of New York, when the city's new elite rose and dominated society, media, business, and culture with an amusing arrogance that redefined the power capital of the world. The Kingdom of New York ja ...

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The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers

By Fleming, Thomas

A compelling, intimate look at the founders--George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison--and the women who played essential roles in their livesWith his usual storytelling flair and unparalleled research, Tom Fleming ...

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A Shining Thread of Hope

By Thompson, Kathleen / Hine, Darlene Clark

At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African A ...

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Who Shot JFK?

By Ramsay, Robin

After nearly 1000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries and hundreds of Websites, is there anything left to say about the assassination of President John F Kennedy? Hell, yes. The Ke ...

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The American Civil War and Reconstruction: People, Politics, and Power

By Publishing, Britannica Educational

The American Civil War and Reconstruction is just one title in this 5 book series that gives readers a detailed look into America's military history. Military legacies are not just about dates and timelines; they're about our strengths and weaknesses, ignorance and brillian ...

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World War II: People, Politics, and Power

By Publishing, Britannica Educational

World War II is just one title in this 5 book series that gives readers a detailed look into America's military history. Military legacies are not just about dates and timelines; they're about our strengths and weaknesses, ignorance and brilliance, and desire for peace or d ...

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General Sherman's Christmas

By Weintraub, Stanley

Historian Stanley Weintraub, author of Silent Night, combines two winning topics�''Christmas and the Civil War�''in General Sherman's Christmas, new from Smithsonian Books. Focusing on the holiday season of 1864, when General Sherman relentlessly pushed his troops across Geo ...

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> Foner, Eric

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Give Me Liberty!, 2nd Edition, Vol. 1

By Foner, Eric

"Adopted at over 600 universities, colleges, and schools across the country, eric Foner's Give Me Liberty! is making a difference in the American history survey course. Featuring a single author and a single, comprehensive theme, Give me Liberty! presents American history wi...more ...

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> Nyiszli, Miklos

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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

By Nyiszli, Miklos

Auschwitz was one of the first books to bring the full horror of the Nazi death camps to the American public; this is, as the New York Review of Books said, "the best brief account of the Auschwitz experience available...more ...

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> Morrell, Margot

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Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

By Morrell, Margot

"Sir ernest Shackleton has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years. Today the public can't get enough of this once-forgotten explorer, and h...more ...

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> Bourne, Joanna

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The Spymaster's Lady

By Bourne, Joanna

She's never met a man she couldn't deceive...until now. She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the el...more ...

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> Gourevitch, Philip

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We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

By Gourevitch, Philip

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity...more ...

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> Jacob, Margaret, C.

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The Radical Enlightenment - Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans

By Jacob, Margaret, C.

The Radical enlightenment - Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans...more ...

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> McCullough, David

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Truman

By McCullough, David

The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, a...more ...

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> Chakrabarty, Dipesh

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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

By Chakrabarty, Dipesh

Can european thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-european place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social science? Provincializing europe is one of the first book-length treatments on how post...more ...

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The Spymaster's Lady Review: As soon as I finished reading this novel, I went looking for more by Joanna Bourne. Unfortunately for fans like me, Ms B regrets (on her web-site) that She cannot write any faster. As with that of Jud ... more