Who Owns Antiquity?

Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage

by James Cuno

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Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication date: May 01, 2008

The first extended defense of museums in the struggle over the return of antiquities to their countries of origin.

The Taste of Conquest

The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

by Michael Krondl

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Publisher: Ballantine Books/Div. Random House

Publication date: November 01, 2007

Learn how the spice trade led to the rise of great empires and great recipes alike in this spicy work of foodie history.

Fabergé's Eggs

The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces that Outlived an Empire

by Tony Faber

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Publisher: Random House Trade Pub/Div Random H

Publication date: October 14, 2008

The history of the exquisite objects that at once symbolize imperial pomp, desperate tragedy and a prewar golden age.

The Day We Lost the H-Bomb

Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History

by Barbara Moran

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Publisher: Random House, Inc.

Publication date: May 01, 2009

Based on a wealth of new research, an incisive and dramatic account of the greatest disaster in our nuclear weapons history: the U.S. Air Force’s loss of four hydrogen bombs over the coast of Spain in 1966.

The Forge of Christendom

The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West

by Tom Holland

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Publisher: Doubleday & Co. Inc. Div Random Hou

Publication date: May 05, 2009

Comprehensive history of the rise of the Christian West in the first century of the second millennium.

An Edible History of Humanity

by Tom Standage

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Publisher: Walker & Company

Publication date: May 01, 2009

The author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses shows us how food has transformed human culture through the ages.

The Rise and Fall of Communism

by Archie Brown

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Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Publication date: June 01, 2009

An erudite look at a system of government that was (and is) more complex, dynamic and varied than is often assumed.

Chronicle of the Russian Tsars

The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia

by David Warnes

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson Inc.

Publication date: February 01, 2010

From the brutal Ivan the Terrible to the power-hungry Catherine the Great and beyond, this comprehensive volume documents the lives of tsars famous and infamous in a lively series of illustrated biographical portraits.

The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part II

From the Bastille to Baghdad

by Larry Gonick

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Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Publication date: October 06, 2009

Part II of Gonick’s history in graphic novel form takes us from the Enlightenment to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yalta

The Price of Peace

by S.M. Plokhy

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Publisher: Viking Penguin/Div Of Penguin Putna

Publication date: February 01, 2010

Based on unprecedented archival research—including previously untapped Soviet files—a major history of the eight tense and dramatic days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill and Stalin decided the fate of the world.