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 Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of CivilizationBest Price: $17.61 America's war-making has been borrowing from the moral capital of WWII for some time now. So... |  The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first CenturyBest Price: $7.88 Tom Friedman is obviously a broad thinker in the true sense. What was great, and yes I have read... |  The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismBest Price: $17.44 Let me summarize: The fact that HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of people around the world have been lifted... |  The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed AmericaBest Price: $14.34 Very readable, well written book. Anybody who read and enjoyed "The Amazing Adventures of... |  The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of CivilizationsBest Price: $15.89 This book is a marvelous little examination of the role of climate and particularly... |
 The Zookeeper's Wife: A War StoryBest Price: $14.88 I haven't finished the book yet but it's hard to put down. sometimes it gets a bit long in... |  Night (Oprah's Book Club)Best Price: $2.99 Regardless of how many times I return to this book, it never fails to shock and inspire. An... |  Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle EastBest Price: $16.02 A clearly-written account of the current political and social roadmap in the Middle East. This... |  Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and WestBest Price: $14.97 This study of the combative relationship between the West (secular, individualistic,... |  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001Best Price: $10.60 Very much an in-depth history of our times. This book describes activities that were lightly or... |
 Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of CapitalismBest Price: $14.40 In this excellent, provocative book, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus sets forth his... |  The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyBest Price: $18.42 Ross's musical erudition and insight are beyond reproach, and his historical research is... |  Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy IndependenceBest Price: $14.85 One of Ralph Waldo Emerson's favorite themes is interdependence, yet Emerson is America's... |  Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young GirlBest Price: $2.28 ACH, DU LIEBER!!!! That's the biting phrase that can best epitomize my personal feelings at... |  Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your LifeBest Price: $14.99 One of the most important decisions anyone makes is where to live. What Richard shows is that... |
 The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy)Best Price: $15.62 I found this book to be one of the best telling of the American Army in the ETO. The Author has... |  Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)Best Price: $10.90 My 10th grade daughter, who is in AP classes in High School, told me her teacher highly... |  The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean WarBest Price: $13.98 I have been reading these reviews prior to getting this book. Many people seem to be... |  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or SucceedBest Price: $8.00 Jared Diamond is my hero, one of a small group of writers who've drastically impacted the way I... |  A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day SlaveryBest Price: $14.63 This edgy, unflinching study of slavery plunges us into the bowels of countries I wouldn't want... |
 Things We Couldn't SayBest Price: $16.32 The true story of true Christians, and Dutch patriots, Diet Eman and Hein Sietsma, and their... |  No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into ChaosBest Price: $10.96 This is heartbreaking on more fronts than you can readily imagine. If you want to know why the... |  The True Story of the Bilderberg GroupBest Price: $15.22 This book is truly a masterpiece on the topic. It covers more topics and in more of a concise... |  Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really ThinkBest Price: $14.00 Instead of thinking I understand how Muslims feel and why they behave the way they do because I... |  Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama CanalBest Price: $15.32 A thrilling tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine The Panama Canal was... |
 The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyBest Price: $14.96 I recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand the influence of the Israel Lobby on US... |  The Places In BetweenBest Price: $3.84 I borrowed this book from a friend, he explained a Scot crosses Afghanistan on foot shortly... |  The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914Best Price: $10.50 Feb 28, 2008 Ardsley, PA Transiting the Canal in 2005 with my family in our sailboat I... |  Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World (Hinges of History)Best Price: $11.20 This is a well-written, beautifully illustrated book. The treatment of the footnotes is unusual... |  Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the VeilBest Price: $7.99 Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil The book starts out interesting,... |
 Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human SocietiesBest Price: $5.00 Ever wonder how the Europeans managed to conquor the Americas, and not the other way around? ... |  1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before ColumbusBest Price: $7.89 The other reviewers have more than admirably summarized this book. It is a wonderful compilation... |  The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest JourneyBest Price: $8.39 A 54 year old ex-president tries to get out of a funk by planning a trip down the Amazon. Then... |  Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-First CenturyBest Price: $15.45 As an officer in the Air Force and analyst for DOD, I can not say strongly enough that this book... |  The Johnstown FloodBest Price: $8.45 I've lived in Pennsylvania all of my life but I never knew too much about the Johnstown flood.... |
 The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & PowerBest Price: $8.99 After reading this book, you'll have a very good understanding of how the oil industry developed... |  The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New WorldBest Price: $14.28 I'd been meaning to read Lucette Lagnado's family memoir for awhile. Learning that the book had... |  The Landmark Herodotus: The HistoriesBest Price: $27.00 Excuse the old song, but I could not help but to use it for this splendid book. Let me start by... |  Same Kind Of Different As MeBest Price: $8.48 Do you think you have compassion? Do you feel like you "treat others as you would like to... |  Cartographia: Mapping CivilizationsBest Price: $31.79 "Cartographia," by Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress is an amazing volume that... |
 King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial AfricaBest Price: $6.18 This is a very well written history of colonialism in Africa which I believe should be in every... |  Maus : A Survivor's Tale : My Father Bleeds History/Here My Troubles Began/BoxedBest Price: $18.48 Despite the approachable medium of the grpahic novel, Maus is an intense experience that I think... |  How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)Best Price: $2.90 Perhaps readers/reviewers who have read this work might also be keenly interested to learn of my... |  Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism: A Call to ActionBest Price: $8.10 The Real Battleground with Jihadism George Weigel correctly locates our civilization's real... |  Salt: A World HistoryBest Price: $7.19 Overall, I have enjoyed reading this book for its interesting historical facts. However, no... |
 OrientalismBest Price: $7.99 This book is a great overview and as noted by many others, a true work of literary genius.... |  The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the EastBest Price: $14.90 Excellent read; author tells it as it is. A realistic assessment for anyone monitoring trends in... |  The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom TraditionsBest Price: $6.45 If you read only one book about religion in your life than read this book. "The World's... |  ThunderstruckBest Price: $4.92 Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson, reviewed by Sandy Once again Erik Larson manages to weave two... |  1776Best Price: $6.17 If you have a few minutes and want to read a book that develops the characters well, provides... |
 A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the WorldBest Price: $19.80 I loved this book when I read it in manuscript form, and I loved it even more when I read the... |  All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorBest Price: $8.28 As an American who spent two years in Tehran during the 1950's, I was much aware of the impact... |  The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World OrderBest Price: $5.54 This excellent book provides the reader with a view of the world based on civilizations - past,... |  The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of AmericaBest Price: $1.85 Very pocketable reference for persons who have need for occasional reviewing of the language of... | |
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