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Quinine: The Jesuits discovered it. The Protestants feared it. The British vied with the Dutch for it, and the Nazis seized it. Because of quinine, medicine, warfare, and exploration were changed

Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice

The Party - Richard McGregor (Paperback)

The Speed Tribes - Days And Nights With Japan' S Next Generation Paperback 1st HarperPerennial Ed

A compelling memoir by a Colombian presidential candidate details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to the turbulent political scene

The less-than-innocents abroad in these short novels are Americans in Europe, involved in what turn out to be pleasure tours of hell: shocking, bewildering trips that change forever their ideas about history,

A comprehensive study of the military aspects of the American Revolution provides detailed coverage of eighteenth-century combat, as well as the conflict's most significant contributors, in an account that is complemented by

A wry study of the cult and culture of the obituary assesses what our fascination with these unique human-interest stories reveals about our feelings about death, offering a survey of the obituary,