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Death in the Snow: Pedro de Alvarado and the Illusive Conquest of Peru (Lovell W. George)Pedro de Alvarado is best known as the right-hand man of Hernn Corts in the conquest of Mexico (1519-21) and the ruthless conqueror of Guatemala some years later. Far less known is his intent to intrude in the conquest of Peru and lay claim to Quito, a wealthy domain in the far north of the Inca Emp... |
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Crimes Against Humanity: A Shocking History of U.S. Crimes Since 1776 (Dav Chaitanya)In this incisive book, Chaitanya Dav fearlessly takes you where few dare to tread.... According to Dav , few Americans realize how the United States operates globally. In its greed, hubris and lust driven march towards the world domination, it has trampled upon, crushed and killed millions of inn... |
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Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life (Gray John)The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats--and what they reveal about humans torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably trag... |
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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Modern Age (Gerstle Gary)This volume explores democracy in the 20th century, examining the triumph, crises, recovery, and resilience of democracy and its associated cultures in this period. From 1920 democracy became the hegemonic discourse in political cultures, to the extent that even its enemies claimed its legacy. The... |
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Oedipus Cycle PB (Sophocles)Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone--together known as The Oedipus Cycle. One of the unquestionable acmes of world literature, Sophocless immortal series of plays centers upon the ... |
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Napoleons Last Campaign in Germany, 1813-The Beginning of the End of the Napoleonic Era (Petre F. Loraine)The War of the Sixth Coalition There are of course, many histories available on the Napoleonic era but the first distinction offered by this one must be the widely acknowledged regard with which its author, F. Loraine Petre is still held. Petre wrote several histories of the period and all are reco... |
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Dark Desert Highway - Mick Wall'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', yet for The Eagles their story was one where the dividing line between ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows was blurred beyond recognition, blinded by white-powdered double-visio... |
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The White Mans Burden: Why the Wests Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Easterly William)From one of the worlds best-known development economists--an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the Wests efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world. Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World. --BusinessWeek In his previous book, The ... |
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Into the WildNATIONAL BESTSELLER - In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to ... |
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Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to ... |
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Binge Times (Dade Hayes,Dawn Chmielewski)The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies -- Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded startup Quibi - as they scramble to mount... |
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Fdrs Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism (Kalman Laura)A comprehensive, engaging, and revisionist account of the Court fight that ties it to contemporary policy debates. In the last past few years, liberals concerned about the prospect of long-term conservative dominance of the federal courts have revived an idea that famously crashed and burned in the... |
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The Tyranny of MeritThese are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try".And the consequence is a brew of anger and ... |
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The Doctor Who Would Be King (Lachenal Guillaume)In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David--whom locals called emperor--dreamed of establishing a medical utopia. Through unch... |
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The Drowned Places'The most compelling and evocative of underwater odysseys' KATE HUMBLE'Breathtakingly good' TRISTAN GOOLEY'The most captivating book on diving that I have ever read' MENSUN BOUNDEntranced by history and myth, captivated by the wonders of nature, Damian Le Bas explores the meaning we find in sunken r... |
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What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Paul Jim)Jim Pauls meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all--his fortune, his reputation, and his job--in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit th... |
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris (Honigsbaum Mark)Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From the Spanish fl... |
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Greek Myths (Taschen)The Greek myths are timeless classics, whose scenes and figures have captivated us since ancient times. The gods and heroes of these legends hold up a mirror to the human condition, embodying universal characteristics and emotions, like love, hatred, fortune, jealousy, revenge, hubris, greed, or bra... |
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Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal (Soltes Eugene)What drives wealthy and powerful people to white-collar crime? Why They Do It is a breakthrough look at the dark side of the business world. From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the insider traders at McKinsey, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of cor... |
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Hg Wells Classic Collection I (Wells H. G.)This collection includes The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon and The Invisible Man - all collected in a stunning leather-bound omnibus. Five of the best science fiction novels by the Grandfather of Science Fiction: unsurpassed in their tim... |
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