| 331. Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris | |
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by: Sarah Turnbull List Price: $25.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.00 You Save: $8.00 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Sarah Turnbull, an Australian journalist, takes a year off work to travel. While she is roaming around Europe she meets a Parisian named Frederic, who invites her to visit him in Paris. It sounds like a good idea at the time; she does, although by the time her plane lands at Charles de Gaulle she is beginning to wonder what possessed her to agree to stay with essentially a complete and total stranger. The visit goes well, though; so well, in fact, that she moves permanently not just to ... Read More  Read Reviews and Description
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| 332. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 | |
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by: Paul M. Kennedy List Price: $17.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.90 You Save: $5.10 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description The problem with this book (and maybe why reviews are so divergent) is that it tries to be two different things. It succeeds as a historical narrative about the development of various western powers. The Hapsburgs, Napoleonic France, Czarist Russia, Prussia, Germany, and the British Empire are all covered. The Soviet Union, Japan and the U.S. come in for later treatment. The book traces the influence of finance, geography, politics and innovations and shows how advantages in each were strategically applied. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 333. Plagues and Peoples | |
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by: William H. McNeill List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.47 You Save: $4.48 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book by historian McNeill seeks to, in his own words, " discern major landmarks in the interaction of human populations and microparasites". The book began as an inquiry into the role of smallpox in the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and was expanded to similar parallels in world history. McNeill uses historical epidemiology as the organizing framework for his analysis of civilizations, as affected by changes in patterns of pestilential infection. In doing so, he extends the paradigms of disease and parasitism ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 334. Thomas Jefferson | |
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by: R. B. Bernstein List Price: $26.00 Amazon.com's Price: $17.68 You Save: $8.32 (32%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description A great book. This wonderful biography takes an unbiased look at the life of Thomas Jefferson. By not trying to stir things up or offer his opinion on an unresolvable issue, Bernstein succeeds in bring Jefferson's life into clear focus. Well written and very informative, this would be a great indroduction, or a great re-introduction, to Jefferson. From there you can try the many other Jefferson biographies (Dumas Malone's 6 Volume Set, etc..) or one of the many book that examine his character and/or certain events in ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 335. Too Close to the Falls | |
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by: Catherine Gildiner List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description This book was an absolute delight to read. It has the innocence and laugh-out-loud humor of a child's perpective. From the intelligently quirky mother to Warty, the self-appointed caretaker of the city dump, all of the characters ring true. And after just a few sentences Gildiner has you feeling like you really know them. And then there's the main character, the author as a child, who basically grew up in her father's drug store. It's a miracle she lived long enough, given her adventures and attitude, to write ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 336. Profiles in Courage (Perennial Classics) | |
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by: John F. Kennedy Amazon.com's Price: $11.95 Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description With the recent impeachment of President Clinton by the U.S. House of Representatives, and the impending trial in the Senate, "Profiles in Courage" gives an appropriate historical persepective on the impact of the impeachment process. This book allows the reader to truly understand the immense pressure each member of Congress was under at the time of the impeachement of President Andrew Johnson. It also brings into focus the sheer magnitude of the duties we have bestowed on members of both the House of Representatives and the Senate today. ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 337. Cracking the AP U.S. History Exam, 2004-2005 Edition (PRINCETON REVIEW SERIES) | |
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by: Tom Meltzer, Jean Hofheimer Bennett List Price: $18.00 Amazon.com's Price: $12.60 You Save: $5.40 (30%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description A great way to review for the APs. It is summarized in ways that are extremely easy to understand. Plenty of maps and cartoons. Explains the actual AP test and has great sample tests (multiple choice, DBQ, & FRQ), plus all the answers and bullet-style options for the essays. I strongly recommend this book!!!! Read Reviews and Description
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| 338. All But My Life : A Memoir | |
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by: Gerda Weissmann Klein List Price: $13.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I read this book for my Best Sellers class my Senior year. Mrs. Klein came to our school and spoke numerous times before I had even heard of this inspirational story. I wish I had been reccommended this book much earlier in my life. Gerda's story has inspired me to never give up hope in what I truly want. Even when things may seem their worst, they always find a way of getting better. Gerda Weissman Klein is such an inspirational writer. The story of her life during the Holocaust was one that I will never be able to forget. I can think of no greater ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 339. Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles | |
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by: Anthony Swofford List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description Although Mr. Swofford was probably a little better read then the average young Marine, his account an excellent representation of the mindset of an 18 year old in US military. Although his post service opinions have shifted to a more "enlightened" view of violence, his feelings towards events as the time reflect those of his fellow Marines. Although they may have joked about joining the Oil Corps, they were more worried about and griped more about the problems with equipment and support that affected their ability to fight. It should also be noted that ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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| 340. Amazing Grace : Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, The | |
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by: Jonathan Kozol List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Customer Reviews and Description I read this book because Jonathan Kozol was coming to speak at my university. In person, the concern and affection he has for the children he wrote about was even more evident. He also made the important point that poor children that have no opportunities for an education and the hope it can give them don't just live in the ghettos of the inner city. They can be found in every state, in every city, town and rural area. You don't have to go to New York to find them, it is just a matter of paying attention to your own backyard. As I read this book I thought ... Read More Read Reviews and Description
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