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The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
DescriptionFor decades, American foreign policy has been based on the seductive belief this there exists a logical relationship between power of states and the physics of modify. And yet today policies intended to do us safer instead do the world extra perilous. History's grandest war against terrorism creates extra terrorists. Global capitalism, designed ...
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Categories Nonfiction   Social History   Public Policy   Relations   General   Government   Futurology   Books on CD   Unabridged  
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to inform America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.

This P.S. edition ...

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ManufacturerHarper Perennial Modern Classics
Categories United States   General AAS   Political Ideologies   Blue Politics   General   Social History   Democracy   Paperback   Printed Books   All product   Books  
GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
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ManufacturerVintage
Categories Business & Investing   Social History   General   Cultural   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
DescriptionA richly original look at the origins of money and how it makes the world go 'round

Niall Ferguson follows the money to inform the human story behind the evolution of our financial system, from its genesis in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. What's extra, Ferguson reveals financial history as ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Economic History   Social History   General   Paperback   Printed Books   All product   Books  
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
DescriptionGail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, together with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).

When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when much American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit ...
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ManufacturerLittle, Brown and Company
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   History   1945 - Present   General   21st Century   Social History   Women   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Description In his runaway bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond brilliantly examined the circumstances this allowed Western civilizations to dominate much of the world. Now he probes the other side of the equation: What caused some of the excellent civilizations of the past to fall into ruin, and what can we study from their fates? Utilizing ...
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Categories General AAS   Public Policy   Anthropology   Early Civilization   Social History   General   Paperback   Printed Books  
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
DescriptionAcclaimed journalist Charlie Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation.

In Americans in Paris, tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival unfold season by season, from the spring of 1940 to liberation in the ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Intellectual Life   Paris   General   Social History   Europe   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
DescriptionThe building of the Panama Canal was one of the much grandiose, dramatic, and sweeping adventures of all time. Spanning nearly half a century, from its beginnings by a France in pursuit of glory to its completion by the United States on the eve of World War I, it enlisted men, nations, and money on a scale never before seen. Apart from the excellent ...
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ManufacturerSimon & Schuster
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Up from Slavery: an Autobiography (An African American Heritage Book)
DescriptionUp from Slavery is one of the much influential biographies ever written. On one altitude it is the life story of Booker T. Washington and his rise from slavery to accomplished educator and activist. On another altitude it the story of how an entire race strove to better itself. Washington makes it clear just how far race relations in America have come, ...
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Categories African-American & Black   General   Social History   African-American Studies   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship
DescriptionFrom the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture comes a moving tribute to female friendships, together with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became.

Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who shaped a exclusive bond growing up in Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eight different ...
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ManufacturerGotham
Categories Textbooks Trade-In   Memoirs   Midwest   Women   General   Iowa   Social History   Hardcover   Printed Books  
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