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The New Middle Ages: The World System in the 21st Century

By: Akihiko, Tanaka. Translated by Hoff, Jean Connell

Price: ¥2,900

Publisher: Japan, LTCB International Library T. : 2002

Seller ID: RWARE0000061445

Binding: Hardback

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris

By: Allin, Michael

Price: ¥1,700

Publisher: New York, Walker & Company : 1998

Seller ID: RWARE0000007597

ISBN-13: 9780802713391

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine/Fine

A highly collectible first edition, tight clean copy, protected in a new br odart wrapper, no inscriptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. The baby giraffe was captured in the highlands of Ethiopia and taken to Khartoum. She sailed down the Nile to Alexandria and across the Mediterranean to Marseilles, where she wintered. In April 1827, Zarafa started a 550-mile walk to Paris. She was accompanied by her Nubian handler, three milk cows, two Mouflon sheep, an antelope and one of the foremost scientists of the time, Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire. Zarafa was a gift to ...
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A history of private life (5 Volume Set)

By: Arie?s, Philippe

Price: ¥18,500

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass, Belknap Press of Harvard Uni

Seller ID: RWARE0000050340

ISBN-13: 9780674399754

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

In excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlig hting. The spines remain undamaged.1985 editions in like new condition. Translation of: Histoire de la vie prive?e. v. 1. From pagan Rome to Byzantium / Paul Veyne, editor -- v. 2. Revelation s of the medieval world / Georges Duby, editor -- v. 3. Passions of the Ren aissance / Roger Chartier, editor -- v. 4. From the fires of Revolution to the Great War / Michelle Perrot, editor -- 5. Riddles of identity in modern times / Antoine Prost and Ge?rard Vincent, editors. 5 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

By: Arthur, Max

Price: ¥500

Publisher: US, Ebury Press : 2003

Seller ID: RWARE0000053407

ISBN-13: 9780091888879

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A fascinating history of World War I in the words of the men who were there -- "an extraordinary and immensely moving book." --Stephen Fry In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous and important task. A te am of academics, archivists and volunteers set about tracing WWI veterans a nd interviewing them at length in order to record the experiences of ordina ry individuals in war. The IWM aural archive has become the most important archive of it...
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Medieval Goldsmith's Work 71 Plates in Full Colour

By: Barsali, Isa Belli

Price: ¥4,000

Publisher: London, PAUL HAMLYN : 1969

Seller ID: RWARE0000010824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+/Very Good+

A tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper. Paul Hamlyn Books of London. Printed on a heavy coated stock, it includes 71 full color plates. Visually spectacular, it is also a very intellectually gratifying and educational read. Principal emphasis is on the work of goldsmiths from Medieval Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and Romanesque and Gothic periods.
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The Special Relationship: A Political History of Anglo-American Relations S ince 1945

By: Bartlett, Christopher John

Price: ¥4,000

Publisher: London ; New York, Longman Group United Kingdom : 1992

Seller ID: RWARE0000015607

ISBN-13: 9780582023956

Condition: Near Fine

A crisp clean softcover no markings throughout: Circumstances, and common enemies, have kept Britain and the United States in close partnership for much of the twentieth century, but the relationship -- however 'special' at times -- was not automatic or even instinctive. Indeed, it has often been dominated by economic disputes. Through the eyes of contemporary British and American policy-makers, Professor Bartlett reconstructs changing official perceptions of the relationship; explains what respective governments hope to get out of it; and shows that, while a 'special relationship' often exist...
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

By: Berman, Marshall

Price: ¥1,000

Publisher: US, Verso Publishing (Academic) : 2010

Seller ID: RWARE0000063358

ISBN-13: 9781844676446

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Marshall Berman's "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air" is widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books on modernity. A kaleidoscopic journey into the experiences of modernization, the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world, it dexterously interweaves an exploration of modernism in art, literature, and architecture.
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The power of gold : the history of an obsession

By: Bernstein, Peter L.

Price: ¥650

Publisher: New York, Wiley : 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000057595

ISBN-13: 9780471252108

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This volume recounts the timeless story of our obsession with gold. Mixing myth, legend, and historical fact, the author looks at the people, places, and events that have evoked desperation and frustration in human behavior. Starting with a broad palette of colorful characters, Pharaoh Hatshepsut, K ing Midas, Alexander the Great, Emperor Justinian, the Inca Emperor Atahual pa, Martin Luther, Kublai Khan, Sir Isaac Newton, and Charles De Gaulle, th e ...
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International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond

By: Best, Antony

Price: ¥1,000

Publisher: US, Taylor & Francis Ltd : 2008

Seller ID: RWARE0000061367

ISBN-13: 9780415438964

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This major global history of the twentieth century is written by four promi nent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward . Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors cover events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from the last centur y and beyond. Among the areas this book covers are: the decline of European hegemony over the international order the diffusion of power to the two supe...
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The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

By: BOORSTIN, DANIEL J.

Price: ¥750

Publisher: US, Vintage : 1985

Seller ID: RWARE0000063270

ISBN-13: 9780394726250

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way. Covering time, the earth and the seas, nature and society, he gathers and analyzes stories of the man's profound quest to understand his world and the cosmos.
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The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization & Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 2 (English, French and French Edition)

By: Braudel, Fernand

Price: ¥2,200

Publisher: US, Harper & Row : 1985

Seller ID: RWARE0000058655

ISBN-13: 9780060150914

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine

The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volu me 2 This is the second volume in Braudel's magnificent new three-volume social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. This is history on a grand scale yet always on the human level. Written with immediacy and realism, the book is full of personal stories and examples culled from a lifetime of research by a master who wears his erudition lightly. The preceding volume, The Structures of Everyday Life, described the material context of the preindustrial world, outlining the l...
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Imperialism and Orientalism: A Documentary Sourcebook

By: Carter, Mia (Editor)

Price: ¥10,000

Publisher: US, Wiley-Blackwell : 1999

Seller ID: RWARE0000046453

ISBN-13: 9781557867100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Imperialism and Orientalism assembles an unprecedented collection of archival and documentary materials that maps the ideological and political grounds for late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British and European colonialism in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.
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The Social Fabric Volume Two

By: Cary, John H.

Price: ¥615

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown : 1984

Seller ID: RWARE0000000916

ISBN-13: 9780316130738

Condition: Very Good

Includes bibliographies. v. 1. American life from 1607 to 1877 -- v. 2. Ame rican life from the Civil War to the present.
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End of millennium

By: Castells, Manuel

Price: ¥550

Publisher: Oxford ; Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishers : 2000

Seller ID: RWARE0000053353

ISBN-13: 9780631221395

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Manuel Castells concludes the Information Age trilogy by considering the i ntersection of the global network society and factional project identities. As always, the scope of Castell's argument is far-ranging. Among the subje cts addressed are the collapse of the Soviet Union; the potential emergence of the Asian Pacific as the next region of major world power; and the rapi dly increasing growth of a "Fourth World"--A series of "black holes of info r...
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The Ancient Near East: The Origins of Civilization

By: Caubet, Annie

Price: ¥1,300

Publisher: US, Brécourt Academic : 1998

Seller ID: RWARE0000039385

ISBN-13: 9782879391526

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Mesopotamia is credited with the invention of writing and of agriculture, and so is seen as the cradle of civilisation . The dazzling quality of the art of the Sumerians, Akkadian. Hittite, Assyrian and Persian empires speaks to the present about the culture and belief systems of these peoples. The text covers the origins of the cities and empires concerned, their view of the gods and the evolution of writing, including a special feature on the epic o...
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The Enigma of MARY STUART

By: Cowan, Ian B.

Price: ¥800

Publisher: GREAT BRITAIN, Sphere : 1972

Seller ID: RWARE0000010715

Condition: Very Good

Imperial War Museum

By: Crawford, Robert

Price: ¥400

Publisher: US, Imperial War Museum Lambert : 2002

Seller ID: RWARE0000027424

ISBN-13: 9781901623239

Condition: Very Good

Sir Robert Crawford, CBE (born 1945) is a former Director General of the Im perial War Museum. Educated at Culford School and Pembroke College, Oxford (MA, Modern History, 1967), he joined the Imperial War Museum as a Research Assistant in 1968 and progressed to Head of Research and Information, Keep er of the Department of Photographs, Assistant Director and Deputy Director -General before becoming Director-General in 1995. He retired in October 20 08. He was Chairman of the National Museum Directors' Conference from 2001 to 2006. Robert Crawford is Chairman of the Greenwich Foundation for th...
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The Celts: A Very Short Introduction

By: CUNLIFFE, Barry

Price: ¥500

Publisher: US, Oxford University Press : 2003

Seller ID: RWARE0000062121

ISBN-13: 9780192804181

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long be en a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. Fr om the ancient Romans to the present day, their real nature has been obscur ed by a tangled web of preconceived ideas and stereotypes. Barry Cunliffe seeks to reveal this fascinating people for the first time, using an impressive range of evidence, and exploring subjects such as trade, migration, and the evolution of Celtic traditions. Along the way, he exposes the way in which society's needs have shaped our visions of the Celts, and examines ...
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Sense of Security

By: Dennett, Laurie

Price: ¥3,000

Publisher: Granta Editions : 1998

Seller ID: RWARE0000000375

ISBN-13: 9781857570601

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

The Rebirth of the West

By: Duignan, Peter

Price: ¥3,000

Publisher: US, John Wiley and Sons Ltd : 1991

Seller ID: RWARE0000059225

ISBN-13: 9781557860897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good/Very Good

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The recovery of Western Europe in the years after World War II seemed miraculous at the time and perhaps it seems even more so today at the end of the Cold War. Duignan and Gann show how important a role the United States played in rebuilding Europe and how reluctant initially the United States was to play this role. The authors capture the personalities of the men who led America and Europe in these years, particularly Clement Atlee, Harry Truman, Ko...
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