| 1181. From Third World to First : The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 | |
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by: Lee Kuan Yew List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $23.80 You Save: $11.20 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I have both read the book and been to Singapore. I must say Singapore is a charming place. Mr. Lee is harsh, a bit repressive, and intolerant, but he took a small island from the third world to first. What ever you say of Mr. Lee Yew, you can't deny Singapore's GDP per capita. Mr. Lee has created an affective legal system and a wealthy nation. Yes, sometime he did not always stick to the free market, but he got the job done! Let the old man enjoy his victory, the controls he imposed where need at ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 1182. The Black Rose | |
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by: Thomas Costain List Price: $45.95 Amazon.com's Price: $32.16 You Save: $13.79 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I first read The Black Rose in the late sixties while still in high school. I have read it at least 4 or 5 times since. I always disliked history in school but this book and others like it make history come alive. Admittedly, as Costain notes in his forward, he meant the book to be more about Edward I and Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, but became more caught up in the legend of Thomas a Becket's parents: an English knight married to an Eastern girl. In spite of this, it is well researched and shows good attention ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1183. A Short History of World War II | |
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by: James L. Stokesbury List Price: $15.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.17 You Save: $4.78 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description As a lifelong student of military history (World War II, in particular) I found this book a splendid overview of the very complex conflict. Professor Stokesbury conveys what happened without getting mired too deeply in dates and casualty figures. I find his writing style crisp, informative and entertaining. This is a must-read for anyone new to military history or anyone who would like to discover a new perspective. Read Reviews and Description
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| 1184. Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, With a Revised English Translation | |
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by: Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Elizabeth Anscombe List Price: $31.95 Amazon.com's Price: $22.36 You Save: $9.59 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description [First off, Bluegreen is stealing Goodman's term without crediting him for that work. He/she also obviously didn't read the book. I get really tired of people on Amazon who don't even read the stuff they're reviewing.] Now...The Philosophical Investigations is probably hands down the most influential piece of philosophy in the past half-century. Whether the P.I. is the most important work, is a judgement that only the individual can make. This work, along with W.V. Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1185. The D-Day Companion | |
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by: Jane Penrose List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $20.37 You Save: $9.58 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Compiled and organized by Jane Penrose, The D-Day Companion: Leading Historians Explore History's Greatest Amphibious Assault is a seminal anthology of articulate essays and thoughtful insights drawn from a wide variety of military historians concerning the greatest European Theatre amphibious assault of World War II. Powerful black-and-white photographs wonderfully illustrate and enrich the text. The D-Day Companion was published to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings, examining vital moments and events ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1186. The History: Herodotus | |
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by: Herodotus, David Grene List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $4.80 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Herodotus is great. Don't look to him for accurate facts and figures, which a lot of people expect out of a history these days, because I doubt he was truly concerned with how many Persians there were exactly but rather with illustrating a point about the nature of the Persian regime. So when you run across the footnotes poking fun at him for his "inaccuracies," "mistakes," etc, just skip over them as it's really not relevant. Grene's translation is better than I could do yet, but I'm sure there are better ones out there closer ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1187. Russia in Search of Itself | |
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by: James H. Billington List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.97 You Save: $7.98 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Dr. Billington has been the Librarian of Congress since 1987. For at least thirty years he has studied Russia, both as a historian and cultural specialist. This is his sixth book on Russia.==This book is about how Russians have been thinking about their nation since the collapse. It is not a history of Russia, but an attempt to understand how the heirs of a great tradition are grappling under new conditions of freedom. In many ways, the average Russian is worse off than before the collapse. How will this translate into voting ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1188. Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks) | |
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by: Jim Corbett Amazon.com's Price: $8.95 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is not a story of a bloodthirsty hunting fiend frenzied with the unquenchable lust to pull the trigger and spread carnage. Jim Corbett was a true hunter, sportsman and role model. He was commissioned by the government of India to go and kill man eating tigers and leopards that were running havoc amount the inhabitants of the small villages in remote jungles. Some of these beasts had over 100 recorded human kills. When Mr. Corbett was in the jungle hunting them, these man-eaters were often also hunting him. This was a day when rifles ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1189. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (Vintage) | |
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by: Fred Anderson List Price: $21.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.70 You Save: $6.30 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description "Few reveries haunt history professors more insistently than the dream of writing a book accessible to general readers that will also satisfy their fellow historians' scholarly expectations ... I must admit that I wrote this book because of it." Thus begins Fred Anderson's prodigious study of the effects of the Seven Years' War, and its immediate aftermath, on the prospects for the British Empire in North America. Roughly the first half deals mainly with the military conflicts of the Seven Years' War that involved Great Britain, Spain, Austria, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 1190. Panzer Operations: The Eastern Front Memoir of General Raus, 1941-1945 | |
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by: Erhard Raus, Steven H. Newton List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $23.80 You Save: $11.20 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Steven H. Newton has compiled one masterful book and rescued one of the most vital documents of wwii. Austrian born Erhard Rauss along with Erwin Rommell are the two top tacticians of all time. His daring approach for dealing with the massive soviet assaults on the eastern front by withdrawing his main battle line and supporting elements to alternate positions prior to the devastating artillery bombardments preceeding the main thrust has got to be one of the most innovative concepts in wwii warfare. Requiring pinpoint timing and nerves of steel this operation was ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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