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A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropyMeyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field

The Wipers Times: The Famous First World War Trench Newspaper

Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely

The Last Interview - Conversation With Giovanni Tesio Paperback

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was

Perestroika And Germany: The Truth Behind The Myths

Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance products of a purposeless universe, but other traditions believe humanity

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Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining (Huffington Post)the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe.Today, Casanova

Set within the context of the struggles in the Florentine Republic over the distribution of political power and the search for stability,Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 14641498: A

As one of the worlds most populous countries, China has always flexed its muscles beyond its borders, the result being a thread of conflict woven into the fabric

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For centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in AD 330, Istanbul served as the capital of three great empires: Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman. The city's maze-like streets and high balconies, its steep

James Grants story of Americas last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this carefully researched historymakes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting

Which river has half the distilleries in Scotland found along its length and in its surrounding glens? Why were monks at the forefront of developing whisky? Which Speyside distillery has an annual

E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott's account of cowboy life on the cattle drives from Texas to Montana in the 1870's and 1880's. Abbott's story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, is an

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.Both

The most accessible expression of Fran*ois Laruelle's non-philosophical, or 'non-standard', thought, General Theory of Victims forges a new role for contemporary philosophers and intellectuals by rethinking their relation to victims. A key

In this important new book, the leading cultural theorist and philosopher Bernard Stiegler re-examines the relationship between politics and aesthetics in our contemporary hyperindustrial age. Stiegler argues that our