History Books


Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time Best Price: $37.25 Yes international bankers run the world for their own ends.We see what the FED has done for them...	Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 Best Price: $7.00 This book's setting is eerily similar to the current state of affairs going on in with the 2008...	Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson Best Price: $14.94 Alan Pell Crawford brings an elegant writing style, a compelling narrative and insightful...	On Call In Hell: A Doctor's Iraq War Story Best Price: $5.95 I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in military medicine. The author gives an...	The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to American History (Politically Incorrect Guides) Best Price: $8.57 I expected this book to be an iconoclastic and surprising take on American history. It is in...



The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War Best Price: $10.00 Don't let the fact this book was written over 2,000 years ago sway you from reading it! I'll...	The Pope's Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland's New Elite Best Price: $12.44 David McWilliams may be an economist, but that shouldn't stop anyone from reading this...	After the Reich: The Brutal History of The Allied Occupation Best Price: $15.40 "By May 7, 1945 at least 1,800,000 German civilians had perished and 3,600,000 homes had...	1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War Best Price: $21.45 I bought "1948" through the mail and did so with a bit of trepidation because of the...	The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA Best Price: $5.50 Good book, very easy to read despite its scientific background. As an autobiography, it also...



What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics Best Price: $8.12 "What Orwell Didn't Know" is an eye-opening compendium of pieces about the insidious...	Strength to Love Best Price: $10.05 Martin Luther King Jr. uses very apt exegesis in his Sermon about the Good Samaritan. The...	Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) Best Price: $29.80 Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke demonstrate with much detail how trade, war, and peace have...	The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America Best Price: $7.50 Jonathan Kozol is very good at exposing the shameful conditions of inner city schools serving an...	Gringos in Paradise: An American Couple Builds Their Retirement Dream House in a Seaside Village in Mexico Best Price: $4.99 This book was a joy to read from the opening sentence to the last word. The author described...

Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times Audiobook CD: From the Earliest Nomads to the Late Roman Empire, Revised Edition (7 CDs) Best Price: $23.79 We love these cd's. Everytime we got in the car while we were listening to them my son would...	Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed Best Price: $6.84 If you like information on this subject (jets, stealth, SR71)then this book is for you. I...	All But My Life: A Memoir Best Price: $5.00 This book was gripping and I could not put it down until I finished it. It's so hard to believe...	For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years Best Price: $15.91 In the past few months, I have been reading a lot about the Clintons. I wanted to know more...	Expecting Miracles: True Stories of Gods Supernatural Power and How You Can Experience It Best Price: $8.22 A simply beautiful love song of a book to the Lord. God, continue to pour out your blessings on...

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History) Best Price: $5.25 Boring book but it did arrive in good condition as described. But a very boring read. Thanks	The Untold Story of Milk: Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Products Best Price: $12.70 The wealth of information in this book more than makes up for a little bit of disorganization at...	A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation Best Price: $12.50 Recently two new important African-American slave narratives have come to light, published here...	Field of Glory: Ancient and Medieval Wargaming Rules (Field Of GLory) Best Price: $21.75 These rules renewed my interest in painting and playing with ancients and medievals again. I...	How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom Best Price: $12.10 When I read this book I had no idea how hard core professional chess was. Six months games with...

The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California Best Price: $14.00 A compelling and concise history of the California railroad. One realizes that Private capital...	Man's Search For Meaning Best Price: $2.76 Frankl wrote a brilliant book. The way of his writing is very clear and to the point. There...	The Diana Chronicles Best Price: $5.25 This is a well written and compulsively readable book, which captures the essence of Diana...	Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America Best Price: $8.41 Webb's attempt at cultural anthropology falls a little short in his predisposition to praise his...	Mythology Best Price: $4.99 Mythology is classicist Edith Hamilton's book on Greek, Roman and Norse mythology, illustrated...

A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties Best Price: $15.61 A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness,...	White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son Best Price: $8.06 I've seen other reviews stating that all white people should read this book. I think that...	Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury Best Price: $40.95 A brave and fascinating attempt to pull together the various strands of, mostly, commercial...	Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace Best Price: $4.91 I have been strugling about how to have an organization or a corporation that are at the same...	On Ugliness Best Price: $26.25 'One man's trash is another man's treasure' might be a apt conclusion after spending the...

They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan Best Price: $7.89 When I picked it up I didnt know it was written written by the boys themselves. This made it...	Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace Best Price: $37.70 "Evidence Explained" by Elizabeth Shown Mills is by far the most comprehensive...	The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future Best Price: $8.00 This is an excellent book which describes the fundamental differences between the Shia and...	Travels with Herodotus Best Price: $14.08 A poetic view into the experiences of a Polish man raised with Stalinist-era values, and how he...	My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking Best Price: $17.23 Anyone who loves parsi must get this book. I enjoyed preparing and serving the dishes to my...

Cracking the SAT U.S. & World History Subject Tests, 2007-2008 Edition (College Test Prep) Best Price: $11.34 The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT U.S. and World History Subject Tests is very...	Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (Oxford History of the United States) Best Price: $12.99 A fabulous reference for the era of the "Great Depression" and the F. D. Roosevelt...	The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.72 There are three main translations of Thucydides available for the English reader: Thomas...	A Tale of Love and Darkness Best Price: $4.14 This is a beautiful and moving memoir from a sensitive and humanistic writer of great skill and...	Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Best Price: $21.35 through the exhaustive historiography of the phases of congestion coney island brought to...

Essays on the Great Depression Best Price: $25.27 Anyone can spin a story about anything using the various mumbo-jumbo parts of mainstream...	The Mayan Calendar and the Transformation of Consciousness Best Price: $11.36 I really think Carl Johan Calleman is on to something. I believe this book is a must read for...	The New York Times Passover Cookbook : More Than 200 Holiday Recipes from Top Chefs and Writers Best Price: $16.50 I wish I had read the negative review about this cookbook and given a little more thought to the...	Plants and Their Application to Ornament: A Nineteenth-Century Design Primer Best Price: $18.51 Elegant botanical illustrations from the classic 1897 design book Plants and Their Application...	A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (Great Discoveries) Best Price: $11.00 There are probably only a handful of scientists the average educated person could name, among...

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, New and Updated Edition Best Price: $12.14 The definitive account of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, published on the 40th...	Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography Best Price: $20.00 This is the same man who after gaining power outlawed the possession of HIS OWN BOOK "La...	Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights Best Price: $13.70 The book is an easy read (though not very enjoyable given its subject matter) of how the current...

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History Books