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A New History of Modern Latin Ameri...

Lawrence A. Clayton

A New History of Modern Latin America

A New History of Modern Latin America provides an engaging and readable narrative history of the nations of Latin America from the Wars of Independence in the nineteenth century to the democratic turn in the twenty-first. This new edition of a well-known text has been revised and updated to include the most recent interpretations of major themes in the economic, social, and cultural history of the region to show the unity of the Latin America experience while exploring the diversity of...

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Lawrence A. Clayton

A New Middle Kingdom

J. P. Park

A New Middle Kingdom

Historians have claimed that when social stability returned to Korea after a series of devastating invasions by the Japanese and Manchus around the turn of the seventeenth century, the late Chos n dynasty was a period of unprecedented economic and cultural renaissance. This book questions this age-old belief by claiming that true-view landscape and genre�paintings were most likely�adopted to propagandize�social harmony under Chos n rule and to justify the status,...

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J. P. Park

A New Shoah

Giulio Meotti

A New Shoah

Every day in Israel, memorials are being held for the victims of Islamic fundamentalism. Since the Second Intifada” began ten years ago, Palestinian terrorists have claimed 1,700 Israeli civilians. This equates to a staggering 70,000 victims, when adjusted to the United States population for scale.In A New Shoah, Italian journalist Giulio Meotti’s extensive interviews with those Israeli families torn apart by hundreds of daily attacks in buses, cafés,...

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Giulio Meotti

A Night for Her Pleasure

Terri Brisbin

A Night for Her Pleasure

Elise saved her family from ruin by marrying Simon, Count of Rennes.Yet this is no mere marriage of convenience–Elise has already fallen in love with her new husband. Intending to please him, Elise sets out to be the bold and seductive woman she thinks Simon desires–even though she's an inexperienced, innocent virgin.On this their wedding day, Simon is determined to skillfully arouse his new wife and initiate her into the pleasures of the bedchamber, although he fears a woman so feminine...

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Terri Brisbin

A Night Of Secret Surrender

Sophia James

A Night Of Secret Surrender

He was her first love…Now she’ll risk all to save him.Celeste Fournier once gave her innocence to the man she loved. Years later that same man, Major Summerley Shayborne, is in Paris—and in danger! Celeste’s world has changed beyond recognition, but she knows she must help Shay flee. Yet their scorching reunion makes her wish she could reclaim something of herself…to be the girl she was…the girl that Shay deserves.

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Sophia James

A Night of Wicked Delight

Джоанна Рок

A Night of Wicked Delight

Indulge in the passion of the past with these short, sexy and scandalous eBooks!Gareth of Domingart has abducted Lady Emma of Westleigh to get revenge on her cousin, the man who plundered his home and sold him into slavery.Gareth meant to simply hold Emma for ransom, yet once he brings the fiery noblewoman back to his keep, the urge to possess her becomes overwhelming. . . especially after Emma makes a startling demand: "You must steal my innocence. " For Lady Emma has a plan of her own: to lose...

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Джоанна Рок

A Noble Man

Anne Ashley

A Noble Man

A young woman disappears. A husband is suspected of murder. Stirring times for all the neighborhood.Lady Sophia Cleeve dazzled all that Season, but she declared she would not marry a pampered man. Instead, she wanted a worthy man–outside her privileged class! As shock rocked her entourage at this declaration, the sea-worn Duke of Sharnbrook, Benedict Risely, entered the scene and instantly fell for Sophia. To win her, Benedict decided to hide his wealth and take a job as Sophia's personal...

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Anne Ashley

A Not So Respectable Gentleman?

Diane Gaston

A Not So Respectable Gentleman?

WELBOURNE MANOR’S PRODIGAL SON RETURNSSince Leo Fitzmanning returned to London he’s kept his seat at the card table warm, his pockets full of winnings and his mind off a certain raven-haired heiress. Until whispers at the gaming hell reveal that Miss Mariel Covendale is being forced into marriage with an unscrupulous fortune-hunter!Leo must re-enter the society he detests to help her, before returning to his clandestine existence. But he hasn’t counted on Mariel having grown even more achingly...

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Diane Gaston

A Notable Woman

Jean Lucey Pratt

A Notable Woman

'Timeless, funny and utterly absorbing' HILARY MANTEL In April 1925 at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in 45 exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, spirited woman and writer. Never before has an account so fully, so honestly and so vividly captured a single woman's journey through the twentieth century.

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Jean Lucey Pratt

A Notorious Woman

Amanda McCabe

A Notorious Woman

Venice belongs to the mysteries of night, to darkness and deep waters. And so does Julietta Bassano. The beautiful perfumer hides her secrets from the light of day, selling rosewater to elegant ladies rather than taking her rightful place in society.Enter Marc Antonio Velazquez – a fierce sea warrior determined to claim her! Seduced by his powerful masculinity, Julietta begins to let down her defences. But in the city of masks, plots spiral and form around Marc and Julietta – plots that will...

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Amanda McCabe

A Passage to India

Edward Morgan Forster

A Passage to India

A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its «All Time 100 Novels» list. The novel is based on Forster's experiences in India, deriving the title from Walt Whitman's...

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Edward Morgan Forster

A Passion for Facts

Tong Lam

A Passion for Facts

In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the «culture of fact» in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the Neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the modern departure from it, Lam shows how, through...

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Tong Lam

A Pearl for My Mistress

Annabel Fielding

A Pearl for My Mistress

A story of class, scandal and forbidden passions in the shadow of war. Perfect for fans of Iona Grey, Gill Paul and Downtown Abbey.England, 1934. Hester Blake, an ambitious girl from an industrial Northern town, finds a job as a lady's maid in a small aristocratic household.Despite their impressive title and glorious past, the Fitzmartins are crumbling under the pressures of the new century. And in the cold isolation of these new surroundings, Hester ends up hopelessly besotted with her young...

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Annabel Fielding

A Peculiar Imbalance

William D. Green

A Peculiar Imbalance

In the 1850s, as Minnesota Territory was reaching toward statehood, settlers from the eastern United States moved in, carrying rigid perceptions of race and culture into a community built by people of many backgrounds who relied on each other for survival. History professor William Green unearths the untold stories of African Americans and contrasts their experiences with those of Indians, mixed bloods, and Irish Catholics. He demonstrates how a government built on the ideals of liberty and...

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William D. Green

A Penniless Prospect

Joanna Maitland

A Penniless Prospect

A Lady In DisguiseWith no dowry and unremarkable looks, Jessamyne Calderwood sees herself as a penniless country mouse. But when her greedy family attempts to marry her off, the mouse becomes a wily vixen….Determined to escape a loveless marriage, «Jamie» disguises herself as a boy and manages to find a position working in the gardens on the estate of Richard, Earl Hardinge. There she remains undetected until Richard rescues her from an attack. To his astonishment, he finds he's not holding...

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Joanna Maitland

A People Betrayed

Paul Preston

A People Betrayed

From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain chronicles the fomenting of violent social division throughout the country by institutionalised corruption and startling political incompetence. Most spectacularly during the Primo de Rivera and Franco dictatorships, grotesque and shameless corruption went hand-in-hand with inept...

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Paul Preston

A People's History of Scotland

Chris Bambery

A People's History of Scotland

Nation, people, land: the first history from below of Scotland in over sixty years A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past. It captures the history that matters today, stories of freedom fighters, suffragettes, the workers of Red Clydeside, and the hardship and protest of the treacherous Thatcher era. With riveting storytelling, Chris Bambery recounts the struggles for nationhood. He charts the lives of Scots who changed...

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Chris Bambery

A People's History of the Hmong

Paul Hillmer

A People's History of the Hmong

Over the centuries, the Hmong have called many places home, including China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and most recently France, Australia, and the United States. Their new neighbors, though welcoming, may know little about how they have come to these places or their views on relationships, religion, or art. Now, in A People's History of the Hmong, representative voices offer their community's story, spanning four thousand years to the present day.<br /><br...

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Paul Hillmer

A People's History of the United St...

Howard Boone's Zinn

A People's History of the United States: Teaching Edition

The Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter, this edition spans American Beginnings, Reconstruction, the Civil War and through to the present, with new chapters on the Clinton Presidency, the 2000 elections, and the "War on Terrorism."

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Howard Boone's Zinn

A People's History of the World

Chris Harman

A People's History of the World

In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible—a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages. From earliest human society to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the millennium, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the planet. Eschewing the standard histories of ‘Great Men,’ of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking...

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Chris Harman

A People’s History of the French Re...

Eric Hazan

A People’s History of the French Revolution

A bold new history of the French Revolution from the standpoint of the peasants, workers, women and sans culottes. The legacy of the French Revolution has remained a fascinating and contentious subject for over two centuries. Instead of seeing the revolution as an aberrant bloodbath on the path to a liberal society, this new book, the first significant history of the French Revolution in over twenty years, maintains that it fundamentally changed the Western world. Looking at history from the...

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Eric Hazan

A Perfect Knight

Anne Herries

A Perfect Knight

A knight, a lady, and a dark, dark secret…Lady Alayne's remarkable beauty acts as an irresistible lure to the knights of Queen Eleanor's Court of Love. Unhappy in her first marriage, she has no desire to tie herself to another man. Until the arrival of Sir Ralph de Banewulf. His tragic past touches her, and his commanding figure is hard to ignore.On the Queen's orders, Alayne must accompany Sir Ralph to England. A marriage between them would ensure Alayne's protection, but...

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Anne Herries

A Perilous Attraction

Patricia Frances Rowell

A Perilous Attraction

The Altar Made An Inauspicious Start To MarriageBut because dire financial straits had bound her to the enigmatic Earl of Caldbeck, Catherine Maury resolved to make the best of it. Yet could she break through his mysterious restraint and uncover the secret of his true nature?Charles Randolph, Earl of Caldbeck, had always guarded his emotions closely, and an insidious danger to his people only deepened his reserve. But now that he'd taken fiery, greathearted Catherine to wife, he could feel...

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Patricia Frances Rowell

A Persian Tale

Kevin J Todeschi

A Persian Tale

For millennia, the Arab world has been one of extremes: a place where wind-swept desert plains coexist with tropical climes and rich vegetation. It is a place where the splendor and majesty of some of the largest and oldest cities on earth provide a stark contrast to wandering desert nomads who travel with all belongings in tow–a place where warring peoples are as common as a depth of spiritual commitment found few places on earth. This novel traces the development of the legendary city of...

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Kevin J Todeschi

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