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Blood and Rage_ A Cultural Hist - Michael Burleigh
From Publishers WeeklyBurleigh (_Earthly Powers_), one of the leading English-language scholars of the role of ideas in the modern world, makes another major contribution in this p... -
Black Hawk Down_ A Story of Mod - Mark Bowden
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The acclaimed *New York Times* bestseller *Black Hawk Down* is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (*San Francisco Chronicle*) De... -
Bamboo and Blood - James Church
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Church once again does a brilliant job of portraying the dysfunctional, paranoid society of modern North Korea in his third novel to feature I... -
Awakening the Buddha Within _ E - Lama Surya Das
Amazon.com ReviewIf you dropped the Buddha into a modern metropolis, would he come off sounding like a 16th-century morality play or more like a drive-time disc jockey? Lama Surya ... -
Armageddon's Children - Terry Brooks
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Terry Brooks's The Measure of the Magic. Terry Brooks is one of a handful of writers whose work defines modern fantasy fiction. His twe... -
Another part of the wood - Beryl Bainbridge
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and other... -
An Area of Darkness - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness_ _is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul[HTML_REMOVED]s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perce... -
American Lion - Jon Meacham
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidenc... -
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
Review"* 'Brian Murdoch's new English translation...shows that Remarque's evocation of the horrors of modern warfare has lost none of its force' - The Times * 'There are some books... -
Aftermath - Ann Aguirre
Product DescriptionDuring the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, grimspace jumper" Sirantha Jax decided to go it alone. The cost of her actions: the destruction of modern ...