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Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; Vl
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the sc... -
Colonization_ Second Contact - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewHarry Turtledove pays tribute to pulp science fiction, combining a favorite plot--invasion by technologically superior aliens--with an alternate history of WWII an... -
Colonization_ Down to Earth - Harry Turtledove
Amazon.com ReviewColonization: Down to Earth marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove's epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a h.... -
Cod - Mark Kurlansky
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble f... -
Coco Chanel_ An Intimate Life - Lisa Chaney
The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon.Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle Coco'' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential... -
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of - Alexandra Fuller
In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of F... -
City Boy_ My Life in New York D - Edmund White
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Novelist and critic White (A Boy's Own Story; The Joy of Gay Sex) weaves erotic encounters and long-ago literati into a vast tapestr... -
Chronicler of the Winds - Henning Mankell
SUMMARY: A haunting and powerful story about war-torn Africa, a mystical orphan boy, and the power of narrative to give a chaotic world order. In the hot African night a single gun... -
China - Damian Harper
Nobody knows China like Lonely Planet. Whether you want to sip cocktails in Shanghai, trek Tibet's holy Mt Kailash or contemplate history at Xu'an's Army of Terracotta Warriors, ou... -
China Witness - Xinran
SUMMARY:China Witness is an extraordinary work of oral history that illuminates the diverse ways in which the Chinese perceive and understand their own history. Xinran, the ...