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 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern WorldBest Price: $6.38 Steven Johnson's Ghost Map is the fascinating story of the beginning of modern public health. It... |  Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's SoulBest Price: $8.84 I love to read non-fiction historical books. Often, however, I find they can be bias or dull.... |  The Guns of AugustBest Price: $4.24 First, I really enjoyed this book. I believe Tuchman did a masterful job of giving life to the... |  Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished LivesBest Price: $12.90 I am grateful to Jim Sheeler and especially to the soldiers and their families whose lives and... |  The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)Best Price: $20.99 Easy to read, this book accomplished what I was looking for: a complete high-level view of... |
 A History of the World in 6 GlassesBest Price: $8.43 I had to read this book over the summer for my world history AP class. Usually any summer book I... |  Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of CivilizationBest Price: $13.50 Snippets of newspaper stories, writings from letters and diaries, speeches, etc. up to the end... |  Traditions & Encounters, Volume 1 From the Beginning to 1500. (Traditions & Encounters)Best Price: $92.33 Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best... |  The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest HourBest Price: $14.94 Reading this book is an emotional and stirring event on many different levels. It offers one of... |  Temple At The Center Of Time: Newton's Bible Codex Finally Deciphered and the Year 2012Best Price: $10.17 A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain... |
 The Hiding PlaceBest Price: $5.25 This is an absolutely extraordinary book. Never have I read a book in which the spiritual beauty... |  Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical IslamBest Price: $14.63 Haj Amin al-Husseini was named the mufti of Jerusalem in 1921 and that was the beginning of a... |  Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New ChinaBest Price: $14.00 In his China book Philip Pan, former Washington Post bureau chief in Beijing, chooses to write... |  How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)Best Price: $3.75 I found the content of this book nowhere near as profound as the title. At times the writing... |  A Student's Guide to HistoryBest Price: $24.00 I was assigned this book for my historical methods course while in college. Throughout my time... |
 The Life of Elizabeth IBest Price: $7.98 I read this book as part of my interest in the Shakespeare authorship question. It was my first... |  The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the BritishBest Price: $16.47 Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation... |  Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, Second Edition: One Volume Hardcover, CompleteBest Price: $48.90 A great overview of moden history of the world that does an excellent job of pulling together... |  Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand StoryBest Price: $12.99 I thought the author became a bit lost between the history of the Maori people and her own... |  Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the WorldBest Price: $6.99 Cod is an engaging history of the fish that changed the world. As an eye opening adventure, cod... |
 The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World OrderBest Price: $5.94 As an Arab-Canadian, I'm pretty much at the forefront of this so-called "clash of... | The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Best Price: $5.94 As an Arab-Canadian, I'm pretty much at the forefront of this so-called "clash of... |  The Places In BetweenBest Price: $2.76 This is a curious book. It's a pretty good travelogue,covering the road from Herat to Kabul,... |  World History: People & NationsBest Price: $81.12 |  The Bookseller of KabulBest Price: $4.99 This is the depiction of a real Afghani family written by a journalist that wound up in... |
 A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle EastBest Price: $11.25 I am an enthusiastic amateur family historian and I have puzzled a while over an important (to... |  Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear AgeBest Price: $25.86 "Makers of Modern Strategy" is a scholarly collection of high quality papers on... |  We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of VietnamBest Price: $16.47 In their stunning follow-up to the classic bestseller We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young ,... |  Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous CrewBest Price: $7.52 This is a very good book that tells a great story. It is engrossing and draws the reader in... |  The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyBest Price: $14.60 I was intrigued by this book after hearing the authors in an interview on the BBC World Service... |
 Generation KillBest Price: $19.85 I can't put this book down, I am in the middle of combat with these courageous soldiers. It is... |  The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's PastBest Price: $11.50 Aristotle's theory of matter and form is one of the most important and influential aspects of... |  The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Islam (and the Crusades) (Politically Incorrect Guides)Best Price: $10.90 P.I.G. "Guides"? I agree, they are guides.... ....to smearing yourself with the... |  ThunderstruckBest Price: $6.68 Not quite as good as Devil in the White City, but a satisfying read anyway. Learned more than I... |  A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.)Best Price: $5.99 Samantha Power has produced a history of genocide through the 20th century. She presents an... |
 Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the PiratesBest Price: $8.46 Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates is an excellent... |  The Story of the World Activity Book Four: The Modern Age: From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSRBest Price: $19.39 To everyone who is whining that this book is not geared for younger children: IT'S NOT SUPPOSED... |  Man's Search for MeaningBest Price: $3.73 From the perspective of a member in a culture consumed in the "existential vacuum",... |  Born in Blood And Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, Second EditionBest Price: $31.35 Though maybe a little to sympathetic to Castro, this is a great book on the history of Latin... |  The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIBest Price: $8.00 I had known about this book for quite some time, but only got around to reading it recently. You... |
 Traditions & Encounters, Volume 2 From 1500 to the Present. (Traditions & Encounters)Best Price: $80.99 Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best... |  The Hiding PlaceBest Price: $3.30 I will not go into detail on this very public site about what this author, and her book, mean to... |  A History of the Modern Middle EastBest Price: $25.86 Cleveland's history of the Middle East is a superb summary of events that span the time between... |  While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from WithinBest Price: $7.65 This was an illuminating book. While the author does have his prejudices against traditional... |  All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorBest Price: $8.34 This is a good history book everyone needs to read. Especially anyone running for political office. |
 The Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor?Best Price: $14.74 Politics has become a synonym for all that is dirty, corrupt, dishonest, compromising, and... |  The Making of the Atomic BombBest Price: $8.98 Myself not being a scientist there were parts of this book that were hard to understand... | |||
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