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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild
Mariner Books
Mariner Books
King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched the globe to find a colony for...
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Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2008 Edition (College Test Prep)
Princeton Review
Princeton Review
Princeton Review
Scoring high on the AP World History Exam is very different from earning straight A's in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about World history—only the strategies and information you’ll need to get your...
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Vintage
Vintage
1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of what that year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed) question of what human civilization in the Americas was like before the Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americans...
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon
Pantheon
At last! Here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” ( Wall Street Journal ) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” ( The New...
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They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It
Brigitte Gabriel
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press
They Must Be Stopped is New York Times bestselling author Brigitte Gabriel’s warning to the world: We can no longer ignore the growth of radical Islam--we must act soon, and powerfully. Gabriel challenges our western and...
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
Vintage
Vintage
When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, few could have anticipated its potential for devastation. Pulitzer prize-winning author John Hersey recorded the stories of Hiroshima residents shortly after the explosion and, in 1946, Hiroshima was...
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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
Philip P. Pan
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
From an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and one of the leading China correspondents of his generation comes an eloquent and vivid chronicle of the world's most successful authoritarian state -- a nation undergoing a remarkable...
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The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Daniel Yergin
Free Press
Free Press
Daniel Yergin's first prize-winning book, Shattered Peace, was a history of the Cold War. Afterwards the young academic star joined the energy project of the Harvard Business School and wrote the best-seller Energy Future. Following on from there, ...
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