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After the Prophet
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor | History - Middle East; Religion - Islam - History
978-0-385-52394-3 (0-385-52394-7)
September 7, 2010 | $18.00
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor | History - Middle East; Religion - Islam - History
978-0-385-52394-3 (0-385-52394-7)
September 7, 2010 | $18.00
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In this gripping narrative history, Lesley Hazleton tells the tragic story at the heart of the ongoing rivalry between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam, a rift that dominates the news now more than ever.
Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic...
At the Dark End of the Street
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf | History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-307-26906-5 (0-307-26906-X)
September 7, 2010 | $32.00
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.
The truth of who Rosa Parks was and...
Hardcover | 352 pages | Knopf | History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-307-26906-5 (0-307-26906-X)
September 7, 2010 | $32.00
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Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement.
The truth of who Rosa Parks was and...
Also available as an
eBook.
Fred Dibnah - Made in Britain
Hardcover | 352 pages | Bantam Press | Biography & Autobiography; History - Great Britain
978-0-593-06469-6 (0-593-06469-0)
September 7, 2010 | $48.50
Hardcover | 352 pages | Bantam Press | Biography & Autobiography; History - Great Britain
978-0-593-06469-6 (0-593-06469-0)
September 7, 2010 | $48.50
Pierre Berton
Trade Paperback | 808 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-7710-5756-4 (0-7710-5756-3)
September 7, 2010 | $23.99
The first ever biography of one of Canada’s best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author.
From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920—2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most famous Canadian media figure of his...
Trade Paperback | 808 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Biography & Autobiography; History - Canada
978-0-7710-5756-4 (0-7710-5756-3)
September 7, 2010 | $23.99
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The first ever biography of one of Canada’s best-known and most colourful personalities by an award-winning author.
From his northern childhood on, it was clear that Pierre Berton (1920—2004) was different from his peers. Over the course of his eighty-four years, he would become the most famous Canadian media figure of his...
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hardcover.
Runaway Devil
Trade Paperback | 296 pages | McClelland & Stewart | True Crime - Murder; True Crime; History - Modern - 21St Century
978-0-7710-7361-8 (0-7710-7361-5)
September 7, 2010 | $19.99
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April...
Trade Paperback | 296 pages | McClelland & Stewart | True Crime - Murder; True Crime; History - Modern - 21St Century
978-0-7710-7361-8 (0-7710-7361-5)
September 7, 2010 | $19.99
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Marc and Debra seemed to have it all — a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April...
Simon Wiesenthal
Hardcover | 496 pages | Doubleday | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - Holocaust
978-0-385-51946-5 (0-385-51946-X)
September 7, 2010 | $40.00
From esteemed Israeli journalist and historian Tom Segev, the first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, revealing the fascinating truth behind this simultaneously admired, despised, and feared hunter of Nazis.
Simon Wiesenthal was the legendary “Nazi hunter” played by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier on film, a Holocaust survivor who...
Hardcover | 496 pages | Doubleday | Biography & Autobiography - Historical; History - Holocaust
978-0-385-51946-5 (0-385-51946-X)
September 7, 2010 | $40.00
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From esteemed Israeli journalist and historian Tom Segev, the first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, revealing the fascinating truth behind this simultaneously admired, despised, and feared hunter of Nazis.
Simon Wiesenthal was the legendary “Nazi hunter” played by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier on film, a Holocaust survivor who...
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Sisters of Fortune
Hardcover | 416 pages | Chatto & Windus | History
978-0-7011-7308-1 (0-7011-7308-4)
September 7, 2010 | $65.00
Hardcover | 416 pages | Chatto & Windus | History
978-0-7011-7308-1 (0-7011-7308-4)
September 7, 2010 | $65.00
There is Power in a Union
Hardcover | 784 pages | Doubleday | History - United States
978-0-385-52629-6 (0-385-52629-6)
September 7, 2010 | $40.00
From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.
From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence...
Hardcover | 784 pages | Doubleday | History - United States
978-0-385-52629-6 (0-385-52629-6)
September 7, 2010 | $40.00
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From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.
From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Warmth of Other Suns
Hardcover | 640 pages | Random House | History - United States
978-0-679-44432-9 (0-679-44432-7)
September 7, 2010 | $34.00
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six...
Hardcover | 640 pages | Random House | History - United States
978-0-679-44432-9 (0-679-44432-7)
September 7, 2010 | $34.00
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Words of War
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Mainstream Publishing | History - Great Britain
978-1-84596-596-9 (1-84596-596-5)
September 7, 2010 | $23.95
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Mainstream Publishing | History - Great Britain
978-1-84596-596-9 (1-84596-596-5)
September 7, 2010 | $23.95
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The Constitution of the United States of America
Hardcover | 136 pages | Welcome Books | History - United States
978-1-59962-082-4 (1-59962-082-0)
August 31, 2010 | $34.00
In 1787. . .
We were given the right to practice the religion of our choice.
We were given the right to say what we wanted without persecution.
It was written that our house and property were secure from unreasonable search and seizure. We were given the right to a...
Hardcover | 136 pages | Welcome Books | History - United States
978-1-59962-082-4 (1-59962-082-0)
August 31, 2010 | $34.00
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In 1787. . .
We were given the right to practice the religion of our choice.
We were given the right to say what we wanted without persecution.
It was written that our house and property were secure from unreasonable search and seizure. We were given the right to a...
The First Family
Paperback | 512 pages | Seal Books | True Crime; History - Social History
978-1-4000-2632-6 (1-4000-2632-6)
August 31, 2010 | $10.99
Hundreds of books have been written about the American Mafia, but none has told how it came into existence. This one does. Mafia books are notoriously unreliable, too often filled with the recycled errors of earlier authors. This one has been painstakingly researched from primary sources, including interviews with surviving family...
Paperback | 512 pages | Seal Books | True Crime; History - Social History
978-1-4000-2632-6 (1-4000-2632-6)
August 31, 2010 | $10.99
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Hundreds of books have been written about the American Mafia, but none has told how it came into existence. This one does. Mafia books are notoriously unreliable, too often filled with the recycled errors of earlier authors. This one has been painstakingly researched from primary sources, including interviews with surviving family...
Somebody Else's Century
Hardcover | 256 pages | Pantheon | Current Affairs - International; History - Asia
978-0-375-42550-9 (0-375-42550-0)
August 31, 2010 | $30.00
From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West.
In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction between modernization (the simple...
Hardcover | 256 pages | Pantheon | Current Affairs - International; History - Asia
978-0-375-42550-9 (0-375-42550-0)
August 31, 2010 | $30.00
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From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West.
In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction between modernization (the simple...
Also available as an
eBook.
In Ishmael's House
Hardcover | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | History - Modern - 21St Century; History - Jewish; History
978-0-7710-3369-8 (0-7710-3369-9)
August 24, 2010 | $34.99
From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan.
In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of...
Hardcover | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | History - Modern - 21St Century; History - Jewish; History
978-0-7710-3369-8 (0-7710-3369-9)
August 24, 2010 | $34.99
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From one of the most popular historians writing today comes a book as fascinating as the bestsellers of Karen Armstrong and Reza Aslan.
In this captivating chronicle, Martin Gilbert shines new light on a controversial dilemma in the modern world: the troubled relationship between Jews and Muslims. Beginning at the dawn of...
Also available as an
eBook.
Woman from Shanghai
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor | History - China
978-0-307-39097-4 (0-307-39097-7)
August 24, 2010 | $19.00
In Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, one of China’s most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reveals firsthand—and for the first time in English—what life was like in one of Mao’s most notorious labor camps.
Between 1957 and 1960, nearly three thousand Chinese citizens were labeled...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Anchor | History - China
978-0-307-39097-4 (0-307-39097-7)
August 24, 2010 | $19.00
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In Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, one of China’s most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reveals firsthand—and for the first time in English—what life was like in one of Mao’s most notorious labor camps.
Between 1957 and 1960, nearly three thousand Chinese citizens were labeled...
