The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
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Category: REM History
Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilization.Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extaordinary: a ...Show more
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past & the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
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Category: REM History
Uncovering his family's remarkable and moving stories, Mark Mazower recounts the sacrifices and silences that marked a generation and their descendants. It was a family that fate drove into the siege of Stalingrad, the Vilna ghetto, occupied Paris, and even into the ranks of the Wehrmacht. His British f ...Show more
Ottoman Odyssey - Travels Through a Lost Empire by Alev Scott
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$32.99 (60% off)
Category: REM History | Reading Level: near fine
The author's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800 years of rule ended a century ago--and yet, travelling through twelve countries from Kosovo to Greece to Palestine, she uncovers a legacy that's vital and relevant; where medieval ...Show more
New York City in 3D - the Gilded Age - A Book Plus a Stereoscopic Viewer, and 50 3D Photos from the Turn of the Century by Dinah Dunn
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Category: REM History
This innovative package includes a metal stereoscopic viewer and 50 stereoscopic photographs. The kit includes an accompanying 112-page paperback that provides a brief history of the stereograph craze and an overview of the city's evolution. New York City in the Gilded Age paperback details the rapid gr ...Show more
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy
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Category: REM History
History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting among her courtiers -- and still to come is the Spanish Armada and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. We ...Show more
The Husband-Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York by Anne De Courcy
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Category: REM History
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of you ...Show more
Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits : The Crime Spree That Gripped Belle Epoque Paris by John Merriman
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$39.99 (57% off)
Category: REM History
The thrilling story of the Bonnot Gang, a band of anarchist bank robbers whose crimes terrorized Belle poque Paris, and whose escapades reflected the fast-paced, dizzyingly modern, and increasingly violent period on the eve of World War I. For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of Paris we ...Show more
Viceroys: The Creation of the British by Christopher Lee
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Category: REM History
Viceroys is the story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs. It is also the story of how the modern British identity was established. British history from the Hundred Years War onwards gives an impression of how the British were seen. It is a misconce ...Show more
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
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Category: REM History
What was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and revolutions, not the everyday details of carrying and carin ...Show more
Living with the Gods - 40,000 Years of Peoples, Objects and Beliefs by Neil MacGregor
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Category: REM History
In the same format as his best-selling books A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany: Memories of a Nation--the acclaimed art historian now gives us a magnificent new book that explores the relationship between faith and society. Until fairly recently, religion as a major influence on the ...Show more
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester
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Category: REM History
Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. As the Mediterranean shaped the cl ...Show more
REMARKABLE BOOKS THE WORLDS MOST BEAUTIFUL AND HISTORIC WORKS by DK
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Category: REM History
Imagine a world without Principia Mathematica, Rights of Man, the Bible, Shakespeare, or the Mahabharata. Remarkable Books features 75 of the world’s most momentous titles - from The Art of War to Anne Frank’s Diary - and reveals their far-ranging impact. Books are the medium through which scientists, ...Show more