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The Traveler's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You Must See in a Lifetime from Barron's Educational Series Price: $21.75 Customer Review:  I am disappointed by this book. The paper quality does not do justice to the photos. Colors and defintion are washed out. Furthermore, while I only skimmed through the book I noticed several typos. I was also surprised to see the Taj Mahal and Hong Kong and a lot of other very cool places... |
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Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words from Wiley Price: $16.47 Customer Review: This book tries to make sense of the labyrinthine history and politics of Gutenberg's era, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. He does well bringing the economic and buisness realities to life, as well as the innovations needed to develop a movable type printing press. Man seems rather a... |
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Genghis Khan : Life, Death, and Resurrection from Thomas Dunne Books Price: $19.77 |
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Gobi: Tracking the Desert from Yale University Press Price: $28.00 Customer Review:  The author's somewhat standard travelogue visit to Mongolia is escalated to excellence through two key things: the detail he provides about a little-documented country, and the insight that bridges Western concepts of society and natural beauty with those of Mongolia. It may help a great deal to... |
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History of Slavery from Book Sales Customer Review:  A powerful contribution on the real history of slavery. It written in away which explain slavery as a historical development of civilisation. The photos and pictures are excellent and you feel the despair and pain of slavery. It also concludes that slavery still exsists which is important because it... |
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Atlas of the Year 1000 from Harvard University Press Price: $13.57 Customer Review: John Man's Atlas Of The Year 1000 provides a fine choice for the Year 2000 reader: a survey of the inventions which took place around the world at the turn of the last century. Chapters pair sidebars of information and color maps with illustrations and lively descriptions of explorations and events... |
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A History of the World's Religion (10th Edition) from Prentice Hall Customer Review: I have used earlier editions of this book, then named Man's Religions, since 1989 as the basis for lectures on World Religion for a community college class. I definately want to get a copy of this 10th edition! I hope in the future to be able to have this textbook for my class because then I will... |
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The Survival of Jan Little from Select Penguin (Mm) Customer Review: In the 1950's Jan meets Harry Little - a jungle adventurer. Having always dreamed of living on a homestead, she accepts his offer of marriage & heads off into the jungles of Mexico with Harry & her daughter Rebecca. Jan is partially blind & although she can make out shapes & shades,... |
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Berlin blockade (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. Politics in action) from Ballantine Books |
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Torvill & Dean: The Autobiography of Ice Dancing's Gold Medal Winners from Citadel Press |
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The Gutenberg Revolution: The Story of a Genius and an Invention That Changed the World from Review Customer Review: _The Gutenberg Revolution_ is a highly informative book, not just about the man, Johannes Gutenberg, but about his machine, his time, and his legacy. Several chapters are devoted to the history and politics of late-medieval Germany, and they provided wonderful context for the overall story. I... |
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Battlefields : Then and Now from DIANE Publishing Company |
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Police Kung Fu: The Personal Combat Handbook of the Taiwan National Police from Tuttle Publishing Price: $11.53 Customer Review: This book is very well translated and lays out the various techniques clearly (with a couple of exceptions). Students of Kung Fu, Kenpo, Ninjitsu, and similar styles will find much familiar material here, with some twists. Provides a good range of weapons defenses, from blades to handguns, and is... |
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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World from Wiley Price: $16.97 Customer Review: I was indeed quite surprised to find so many negative comments about this book from other readers' reviews. Indeed personally I found this book quite interesting, just to mention how the author proposed the interesting theory of the evolution of the character "a" in the chapter of "Letters in the... |
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Robinson Crusoe: The Life and Strange Surprising Adventure (Everyman's Library (Paper)) from Tuttle Publishing Customer Review: An old book, but never the less a good one! I read this book for the first time when i was eight, and I think I have read it five or six times more after that. Robinson Crusoe is the innocent seaman that goes on his first journey. Everything goes well until the ship encounters a storm, in which it... |
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Stay Alive, My Son from Cornell University Press Price: $19.95 Customer Review: Pin Yathay's biography is a unique dramatic and shocking report on the Red Khmer regime in the 1970s in Cambodia. It contains an excellent first-hand account of the disorderly evacuation of Phnom Penh after the Red Khmer victory in the civil war. After the evacuation, the whole country was turned... |
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Alpha Beta from Headline Price: $10.23 Customer Review: "Alpha Beta" is the story of a revolutionary idea -- that instead of using symbols to represent words, or even to represent syllables, each symbol could represent a single sound, and thereby reproduce a language in only two or three dozen symbols, rather than hundreds or thousands. John Man tracks... |
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Atlas du d?barquement et de la bataille de Normandie, 6 juin-24 ao?t 1944 from Autrement |
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Atlas de l'an Mil. Soci?t?s et cultures dans le monde : les premiers liens from Autrement |
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The Kings of El Dorado (Treasures of the World) from Silver Burdett Pr |
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1999 Rocky Boy's Reservation Calendar from Well-Off-Man Photo-Graphics-Art |
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The Natural History of the Dinosaur from Smithmark Pub |
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Torvill & Dean: The Autobiography of Ice Dancing's Greatest Stars from Carol Publishing Corporation Customer Review: Thoroughly satisfying account of this famous ice-skating pair's beginnings and career, leading up to the 1994 Olympics and beyond. This book provides wonderfully intimate insights into how Chris and Jayne think and behave on and off the ice. Their fans will devour this long-overdue book, which... |
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The day of the dinosaur (Excalibur books) from Bison books Ltd |
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Weather Force: Climate and Its Impact on Our World from Putnam Pub Group (T) |
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