$44.09
Furtado, Peter
From the foundation of Rome on April 21, 753 B.C. to the execution of Saddam Hussein on December 30, 2006, 1001 Days That Shaped the World focuses on those truly extraordinary moments that changed the direction of world history.
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$20.99
Menzies, Gavin
The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century
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$33.55
Haddock, Bruce
This book is a comprehensive introduction to the history of political thought, tracing the development of arguments and controversies from ancient Greece, through different forms of community, state and empire, to today's global con
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$36.75
Stoneman, Richard
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther—across foreign cultu
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$20.99
Warner, Jessica
A completely original exploration of the abstinence movement in America — from alcohol to sex to meat.
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$21.00
Ferguson, Niall
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
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$26.20
Adams, Trevor
In Atlantic Canada’s 100 Greatest Books, Trevor J. Adams and Stephen Patrick Clare review the top one hundred Atlantic Canadian books—both fiction and nonfiction—ever published, as chosen by a panel of local readers and literary lumi
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$19.94
Duffy, Peter
In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to d
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$28.34
Levi, Primo
The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist.
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$37.75
Lunde, Paul
This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia surveys the history and development of code making and code breaking in all areas of culture and society-from hieroglyphs and runes to DNA, the Zodiac Killer, The Da Vinci Code, graffiti, and beyo
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$20.95
D'Epiro, Peter
The Book of Firsts is an entertaining, enlightening, and highly browsable tour of the major innovations of the past twenty centuries and how they shaped our world.
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$34.64
Kramer, Clara
Clara Kramer has created a memoir that is lyrical, dramatic and heartbreakingly compelling. Despite the worst of circumstances, this is a story full of hope and survival, courage and love.
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$36.70
Demont, John
The history of coal is the story of the last two centuries of the industrialized world. Coal has powered that world, and controlled the destinies of millions. And nowhere has that influence run more deeply than in Nova Scotia, where t
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$24.10
Browne, Janet
Acclaimed writer and Darwin biographer Janet Browne shows why The Origin of Species can claim to be the greatest science book ever published.
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$20.95
Laffoley, Steven
Steven Laffoley explores historic McNab’s Island in search of Halifax during its time of cholera.
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$19.90
Shorto, Russel
Descartes' Bones is a flesh-and-blood story about the battle between religion and rationalism that rages to this day.
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$21.00
Robb, Graham
A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France.
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$18.38
Pitman, Joanna
The Dragon's Trail is a microhistory that touches on the rise of the Tudors, the downfall of a Stuart, the twilight of the French aristocracy, the terrors of the Bolshevik revolution, and the depths of the Cold War -- all witnessed
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$27.25
Safrian, Hans
More than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: how could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women, and children, persecuted as Jews or Gypsies,
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