| 201. Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World | |
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by: MARGARET MACMILLAN List Price: $16.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.87 You Save: $5.08 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This excellent book provides an in depth review and analysis of the Versailles conference, a seminal event of the 20th Century that redrew the maps of both Europe and of the Third World of its colonies and which created the conditions, or at least provided the backdrop for, events leading to the Second World War 2O years later. Ms. MacMillan, a descendant of one the key players in this event, Lloyd George, along with other scholars and academics who publish their manuscripts through large ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 202. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West | |
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by: Dee Alexander Brown, Dee Brown List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $4.80 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description As a student and fan of history I have read probably thousands of fiction, non-fiction and 'semi-fiction' books, but this could be the most powerful and affecting of them all. Although this book only covers a thirty-year portion of the early history between European settlers and the native peoples of the United States, the repetitive nature of the encounters depicted fully displays the shameful truths that school textbooks and most Western movies hid, ignored, misrepresented or lied about. In EACH ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 203. Natasha's Dance : A Cultural History of Russia | |
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by: Orlando Figes List Price: $20.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.00 You Save: $6.00 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This is a really fascinating book. Figes explores the development of the Russian national identity and the extraordinary role of literature and all the other arts in Russian history. It is not meant to be a "comprehensive history" of all the Russian arts but an interpretation of the Russian tradition. Figes makes this clear in the Introduction - so it is quite unfair to criticize his book for omissions. Natasha's Dance is a wonderfully rich and entertaining read. Figes writes quite beautifully. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 204. The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production | |
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by: James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description In "The Machine That Changed the World", Womack, along with several other individuals, give an analysis of the Automobile Industry within global boundaries. This book was the summarization of a five year, five million dollar study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Analysis was provided for both foreign and domestic automobile manufacturers with an eye toward the future. This book spoke "globally" far earlier than it was hip to speak in such terms, analyzing such foreign automotive powers such as Toyota, with their ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 205. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know | |
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by: E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, James S. Trefil List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $20.37 You Save: $9.58 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Want to look up cultural references in Denis Miller's rants? Can't remember what the Byzantine empire did? Feel like your loosing your memory? This book can help! Yes, I'll admit the title does have a certain haughtiness and presumptiouness to it, but this book is packed with information. The topics covered are quite broad, and I guess it would HAVE to be if the goal is to ensure cultural literacy. Including all the things you should have learned in highschool had you been paying attention, this book is a great refresher ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 206. Gulag : A History | |
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by: ANNE APPLEBAUM List Price: $16.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.87 You Save: $5.08 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum is the first compresive account of the Soviet system of forced labor and random terror. Now that the shroud of secrecy and propaganda is lifted, the reality of twentieth century Soviet Union, and especially the period of Stalin's rule, is of a catastrophically malfunctioning totalitarian state. At times the horror of the Gulag is almost unfathomable. Applebaum's research here is clearly very thorough. She makes ample use of survivor memoirs, recently opened Soviet archives, and interviews. Gulag is ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 207. Last Dance in Havana | |
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by: Eugene Robinson List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.00 You Save: $8.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum is the first compresive account of the Soviet system of forced labor and random terror. Now that the shroud of secrecy and propaganda is lifted, the reality of twentieth century Soviet Union, and especially the period of Stalin's rule, is of a catastrophically malfunctioning totalitarian state. At times the horror of the Gulag is almost unfathomable. Applebaum's research here is clearly very thorough. She makes ample use of survivor memoirs, recently opened Soviet archives, and interviews. Gulag is ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 208. Krakatoa : The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 | |
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by: Simon Winchester List Price: $13.95 Amazon.com's Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description At first glance Simon Winchester's true account of this absolutely catastrophic (surely an understatement) volcanic event of the late 1800s appears to be structured a bit like a text book with carefully chosen and interesting illustrations and maps...but after you are a few chapters into the book his rich narrative begins to grab you and won't let go! The compelling details of this infamous chapter in history (which claimed 40,000 lives mostly from tsunamis following the eruption) is fascinating enough. Even more interesting though are ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 209. Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, 1839-1865 (Library of America) | |
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by: Ulysses S. Grant, Mary Drake McFeeley, William S. McFeeley List Price: $35.00 Amazon.com's Price: $23.80 You Save: $11.20 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description The story of Ulysses Simpson Grant is a tale about a man who rises from obscurity to become one of the most important men of the nineteenth century. Many men saw Grant, as general-in-chief of the Union armies during the late Civil War, as the savior of the nation. He was elected to two terms as President, and enjoyed such immense popularity that he was lavished with praise and gifts around the globe when he traveled the world. But Grant's origins were humble. He was the son of a tanner. As a young man he failed at nearly everything he did, ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 210. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning | |
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by: Chris Hedges List Price: $12.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Chris Hedges, the author of the book is a former war correspondent for The New York Times. He's seen war up close in Latin America, the Balkans and the Middle East. He looks back at those years as a time of his own intoxication with the great myth of war's appeal. Indeed, it seems to give people a noble cause and a purpose for living. Years after a war the participants often look back and remember never feeling so much alive as during those dangerous times, when their lives were one long adrenalin rush. Nationalism is one of the plagues ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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