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Historical Essays & Writings on History

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365 GREAT STORIES FROM HISTORY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR.
By W.B. Marsh & B. Carrick. Current Item #6195261 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $10.95

THE AGE OF EMPIRES.
Edited By Robert Aldrich. Current Item #6335020 Pub at $50.00 - Our Price $34.95

THE AGE OF OIL: What They Don't Want You to Know About the World's Most Controversial Resource.
By Leonardo Maugeri. Current Item #704013X Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $11.95

ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY.
Edited By K. Santon & L. McKay. Remainder Item #6245897 Our Price $17.95

THE BIRTH OF FREEDOM.
Edited By Jon E. Lewis. Remainder Item #7050151 Our Price $4.95

BOOKS ON FIRE: The Destruction of Libraries Throughout History.
By Lucien X. Polastron. Current Item #6282717 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $16.95

THE CARTOON HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD, PART 1: From Columbus to the U.S. Constitution.
By Larry Gonick. Current Item #6071643 Pub at $17.95 - Our Price $11.95

CHAMBERS DICTIONARY OF WORLD HISTORY.
Edited By Hilary Marsden. Remainder Item #7121598 Pub at $50.00 - Our Price $14.95

CHAMBERS HISTORY FACTFINDER.
Edited By Mary O'Neill. Remainder Item #7121636 Pub at $13.95 - Our Price $5.95

THE COLLECTED WHAT IF? Eminent Historians Imagining What Might Have Been.
Edited By Robert Cowley. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #7085532 Our Price $9.95

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HERALDRY.
By Arthur Charles Fox-Davies. Remainder Item #6279872 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $5.95

CONNECTIONS, REVISED.
By James Burke. Remainder Item #7094159 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $6.95

CREATION: Artists, Gods & Origins.
By Peter Conrad. Current Item #6294170 Pub at $45.00 - Our Price $29.95

DAY OF EMPIRE: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall.
By Amy Chua. Current Item #6332684 Pub at $27.95 - Our Price $18.95

EYEWITNESS TO HISTORY.
Edited By John Carey. Remainder Item #7112564 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $4.95

FORGE OF EMPIRES, 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made.
By Michael Knox Beran. Current Item #6318045 Pub at $30.00 - Our Price $19.95

GENGHIS KHAN AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD.
By Jack Weatherford. Remainder Item #7017707 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $9.95

THE GRAND CONTRAPTION: The World as Myth, Number and Chance.
By David Park. Remainder Item #7017065 Our Price $9.95

HARD CALL: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them.
By John McCain with M. Salter. Current Item #6268382 Pub at $25.99 - Our Price $16.95

HEROES: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen.
By Lucy Hughes-Hallett. Remainder Item #7073011 Our Price $4.95

HISTORICA: 1000 Years of Our Lives and Times.
By Geoffrey Wawro et al. Remainder Item #705873X Our Price $29.95

HISTORY BITES: The Past's Strangest Moments in Bite-Size Portions.
By Judith Millidge. Remainder Item #6340679 Pub at $9.95 - Our Price $4.95

A HISTORY OF HISTORIES: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century.
By John Burrow. Current Item #7108834 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $23.95

THE HISTORY OF TORTURE & EXECUTION.
By Jean Kellaway. Adults only. Current Item #6280633 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $13.95

IDIOT PROOF: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense.
By Francis Wheen. Remainder Item #6300065 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $4.95

LIVING ON THE EDGE IN LEONARDO'S FLORENCE: Selected Essays.
By Gene Brucker. Remainder Item #7008511 Pub at $34.95 - Our Price $12.95

LONDON BOOKSELLERS AND AMERICAN CUSTOMERS: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811.
By James Raven. Remainder Item #6192203 Pub at $59.95 - Our Price $19.95

LOVE, SEX & TRAGEDY: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.
By Simon Goldhill. Remainder Item #7019335 Pub at $27.50 - Our Price $9.95

THE MANHATTAN PROJECT: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians.
Edited By Cynthia C. Kelly. Remainder Item #7082541 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $19.95

THE MEANING OF EVERYTHING: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.
By Simon Winchester. Remainder Item #6244947 Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $3.95

MILLIONAIRES, MANSIONS, AND MOTOR YACHTS: An Era of Opulence.
By Ross MacTaggart. Remainder Item #5429021 Pub at $59.95 - Our Price $19.95

THE NAKED HEART, VOLUME IV: The Bourgeois Experience--Victoria to Freud.
By Peter Gay. Remainder Item #7103107 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $3.95

THE NEW PENGUIN HISTORY OF THE WORLD, FIFTH EDITION REVISED.
By J.M. Roberts. Current Item #7006330 Pub at $22.00 - Our Price $14.95

OSMAN'S DREAM: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923.
By Caroline Finkel. Current Item #6177611 Pub at $18.95 - Our Price $12.95

THE PURPOSE OF THE PAST: Reflections on the Uses of History.
By Gordon S. Wood. Current Item #7090315 Pub at $25.95 - Our Price $16.95

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies.
By Mark Booth. Current Item #7038798 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $19.95

A SHORT HISTORY OF PROGRESS.
By Ronald Wright. Remainder Item #7115431 Our Price $4.95

SOCIAL CONTRACT: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau.
Remainder Item #7112181 Pub at $29.95 - Our Price $7.95

TWIN TRACKS: The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World.
By James Burke. Remainder Item #6292070 Pub at $24.00 - Our Price $5.95

THE WOODEN HORSE: The Liberation of the Western Mind from Odysseus to Socrates.
By Keld Zeruneith. Current Item #6318797 Pub at $37.95 - Our Price $26.95

WORLDS AT WAR: The 2,500-Year Struggle Between East and West.
By Anthony Pagden. Current Item #709924X Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $23.95

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