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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491

By Charles C. Mann ,

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The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
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The Ornament of the World

By María Rosa Menocal ,

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Paris: The Biography of a City
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Paris

By Colin Jones ,

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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

By Alexei Yurchak ,

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Pyongyang
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Pyongyang

By Guy Delisle , Helge Dascher (translator) ,

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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
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Oracle Bones

By Peter Hessler ,

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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
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From Dawn to Decadence

By Jacques Barzun ,

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Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
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Maps of Time

By David Christian ,

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Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since 1945
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Epic Encounters

By Melani McAlister ,

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The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others
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The Greeks

By Paul Cartledge ,

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Etruscan Civilization: A Cultural History
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Etruscan Civilization

By Sybille Haynes ,

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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
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The Argumentative Indian

By Amartya Sen ,

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The Midwife's Apprentice
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The Midwife's Apprentice

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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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Fordlandia

By Greg Grandin ,

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The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
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The World That Made New Orleans

By Ned Sublette ,

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Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day
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Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day

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The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian
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The Classical World

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How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism
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How Russia Shaped the Modern World

By Steven G. Marks ,

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Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction
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Ancient Greece

By Paul Cartledge ,

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A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome: Daily Life, Mysteries, and Curiosities
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A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome

By Alberto Angela , Gregory Conti (translator) ,

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In Search of England: Journeys into the English Past
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In Search of England

By Michael Wood ,

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Portrait of a Turkish Family
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Portrait of a Turkish Family

By Irfan Orga ,

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Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South
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Southern Honor

By Bertram Wyatt-Brown ,

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The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914
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The Vertigo Years

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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures
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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures

By Marcy Norton ,

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Black Europe and the African Diaspora
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Black Europe and the African Diaspora

By Darlene Clark Hine (editor) , Trica Danielle Keaton (editor) , Stephen Small (editor)

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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
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Ideas

By Peter Watson ,

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Reflections of Osiris: Lives from Ancient Egypt
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Reflections of Osiris

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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

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The Complete Pompeii
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The Complete Pompeii

By Joanne Berry ,

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The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture
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The Arts of Intimacy

By Jerrilynn D. Dodds , María Rosa Menocal , Abigail Krasner Balbale

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God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215
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God's Crucible

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The Carthaginians
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The Carthaginians

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The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
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The Lost Land of Lemuria

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The Age of American Unreason
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The Age of American Unreason

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Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt (The Chronicles Series)
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Chronicle of the Pharaohs

By Peter A. Clayton ,

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Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance
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Something Torn and New

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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms
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The Secret Parts of Fortune

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Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture
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Prosthetic Memory

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The Visigoths in History and Legend
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The Visigoths in History and Legend

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This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity
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This Fleeting World

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The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention
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The Genius of China

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Rome's Cultural Revolution
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Rome's Cultural Revolution

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The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America
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The Big Empty

By Norman Mailer , John Buffalo Mailer ,

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Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World
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Sailing from Byzantium

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The Greeks and the Irrational
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The Greeks and the Irrational

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The Civilizing Process
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The Civilizing Process

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Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
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Red Land, Black Land

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Rome: In Spectacular Cross-Section
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Rome

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Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
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Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

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The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
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The Book of Memory

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Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600
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Sources of Chinese Tradition

By William Theodore De Bary (editor) , Irene Bloom (editor) , Joseph Adler (editor)

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The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
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The Pleasures of the Imagination

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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
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Britons

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Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840-85
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Becoming Native in a Foreign Land

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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World

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Exotic Nation: Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain
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Exotic Nation

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Humans
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Humans

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