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Democracy in America - Alexis Tocqueville
In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. The result was DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: a su... -
Dangerous liaisons - Choderlos de Laclos
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time** Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotion... -
Country Driving_ A Journey Thro - Peter Hessler
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in ... -
Common Sense, the Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
SUMMARY: Thomas Paine's book "Common Sense" was the written word that inflamed and drove the people of the colonies to the cause of the American Revolution. It was a clear and pass... -
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... -
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Sho - William Kennedy
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America's finest writers. When journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingw... -
Center of Gravity_ Star Carrier - Ian Douglas
Product DescriptionIn the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology. The warlike Sh’daar are ... -
Brilliant_ The Evolution of Art - Jane Brox
Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: In Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, Jane Brox illuminates the fascinating and forgotten h... -
Blood, Iron, and Gold - Christian Wolmar
From Publishers WeeklyThis spirited, dramatic history of the most important invention of the second millennium celebrates railroads as the central innovation of the industrial revo... -
Becoming Animal - David Abram
David Abram's first book, The Spell of the Sensuous--hailed as "revolutionary" by the Los Angeles Times, as "daring and truly original" by Science--has become a classic of envi...