The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History
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The Leopard
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, his only novel. Visconti's film adaptation, starring Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme …
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Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time cha…
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Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
Hailed in Italy as the best book ever written about the mafia in any language, Cosa Nostra is a fascinating, violent, and darkly comic account that reads like fiction and takes us deep into the inner …
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Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ
From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New York Times Book Review ), a biography of the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early Chr…
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on F…
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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
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A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself awa…
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
No books have been more feared than grimoires, and no books have been more valued and revered. In A History of Magic Books , Owen Davies illuminates the many fascinating forms these recondite books ha…
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea.
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern worl…
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