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1	The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History more books like this by John M Barry add to wishlist Victims of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 suffered horrifying effects, including bleeding from the ears and nose, and they usually died. It killed more people in a year than the plagues of the Middle Ages did in a century. In the United States, where there weren't enough coffins to house the increasing numbers of bodies, nearly seven times ... see all copies from $3.20! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 more books like this by David McCullough add to wishlist Popular historian David McCullough tells the story of the building of the Panama Canal, which connected the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. He relates the engineering, the politics, and the human drama. THE PATH BETWEEN THE SEAS won a National Book Award in history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power more books like this by Daniel Yergin add to wishlist Written by the author of "Shattered Peace" and "Energy Future", this book brings to life the tycoons, wildcatters, monopolists, regulators, presidents, generals and sheiks whose struggle for oil has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, transformed the destiny of Britain and the world and profoundly changed all our lives. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One more books like this by David Kilcullen add to wishlist A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus, Kilcullen's vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq. Now, in "The Accidental Guerrilla," Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror. see all copies from $17.15! new only from $17.15! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The History of Sexuality: An Introduction more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. see all copies from $2.69! new only from $5.97! \| SVS
6	The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order more books like this by Samuel P Huntington add to wishlist An examination of the political and military conflicts that have erupted around the globe since the collapse of Communism in 1989, written by the well-known scholar and director of the Institute for Strategic Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Huntington envisions a future in which world politics is driven not by ideologies or economics, but by ... see all copies from $3.05! new only from $6.46! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Greatest Generation more books like this by Tom Brokaw add to wishlist Accompanying an NBC television special, this title features the American men and women who were born in the 1920s, experienced the unique circumstances of a World War, and went on to become the parents of the "baby boomers." Award-winning anchorman Brokaw has reported on many of the world's major news events since he began his career with NBC News ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $8.00! \| SVS
9	Basic Writings of Nietzsche more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (Editor) add to wishlist One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce ... see all copies from $2.86! new only from $2.86! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist War cannot be controlled in future without an understanding of its past. These essays analyse war, its strategic characteristics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. see all copies from $11.99! new only from $23.27! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Of Grammatology more books like this by Jacques Derrida add to wishlist This is the foundational book for the literary critical movement known as deconstruction. It offers Derrida's most systematic exposition of the linguistic and philosophical principles that have made him one of the century's most talked-about philosophers and literary theorists. see all copies from $7.70! new only from $16.02! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East more books like this by Baird T Spalding add to wishlist Abridged version of volume's 1-3 from Baird Spalding's Far East travels in 1894 that played a ground-breaking role in introducing to the Western world the knowledge that there are "Masters" assisting and guiding humanity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.97! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time more books like this by Carroll Quigley add to wishlist see all copies from $44.94! new only from $44.94! \| first editions
14 view cover	Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics more books like this by Herschel B Chipp add to wishlist "Shady Practices" is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeeded in establishing hundreds of lucrative ... see all copies from $2.47! new only from $17.10! \| SVS
15 view cover	Fear and Trembling more books like this by Soren Kierkegaard add to wishlist In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously justified or murder? Is there an absolute duty to God? Was Abraham justified in remaining silent? In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| SVS
16 view cover	Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy more books like this by Rene Descartes add to wishlist This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| SVS
17 view cover	Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion more books like this by Al Seckel, Douglas R Hofstadter (Foreword by) add to wishlist The definitive book of optical illusions featuring works by Escher and Dali. With delightful trickery and visual puns, this book features: colour illustrations throughout; astonishing creations by masters of the art, such as Escher, Dali, and Archimbolo; amazing visual trickery; and an illuminating foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ... see all copies from $11.05! new only from $11.05! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A History of the Modern Middle East more books like this by William L Cleveland add to wishlist This comprehensive survey analyzes political, social, cultural, and economic developments in the Middle East from the Ottoman and Safavid Empires to the present day. Cleveland lays the groundwork for this modern history by describing the roots of Islamic civilization in ancient times and tracing the relationship between distinctly Middle Eastern ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution more books like this by Alex Storozynski add to wishlist Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a woman above his station), he came to America one month after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, literally showing up on Benjamin ... see all copies from $17.36! new only from $21.76! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning more books like this by Chris Hedges (Read by) add to wishlist A veteran New York Times war correspondent's complex, moving, and thought-provoking reflection on how life is lived most intensely in times of war.. General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a notoriously single-minded general, it is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction more books like this by Roger B Beck, Linda Black, Larry S Krieger add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.81! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Cold War: A New History more books like this by John Lewis Gaddis add to wishlist Beginning with World War II and ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the author provides a thrilling account of the strategic dynamics that drove the age. The work is rich with illuminating portraits of its major personalities and fresh insight into its most crucial events. see all copies from $2.36! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The story of philosophy; the lives and opinions of the greater philosophers more books like this by Will Durant add to wishlist "The Story of Philosophy" chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story more books like this by Paul Aurandt add to wishlist Paul Harvey is the most listened-to radio personality in America. Millions of loyal listeners tune in every week to hear his unique blend of news and views. Now, in Paul Harveys The Rest Of The Story youll find eighty-two astonishing true stories of the famous and infamous, the outrageous and the unknown. Each unforgettable tale has for its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $89.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West more books like this by Niall Ferguson add to wishlist Ferguson reinterprets the modern era and the central paradox of why unprecedented progress coincided with unprecedented violence, and why the seeming triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undoing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.48! \| first editions \| SVS

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