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- 1215: The Year of Magna Carta
- 1421: The Year China Discovered America
- 1603: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I, the Return of the Black Plague, the Rise of Shakespeare, Piracy, Witchcraft, and the Birth of the Stuart Era
- 4,000 Years of Christmas: A Gift from the Ages
- A Brief History of the Human Race
- A Brief History of the Smile
- A Concise History of India
- A Concise History of the Crusades
- A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
- A History of Chinese Civilization
- A History of Illuminated Manuscript
- A History of Islamic Societies
- A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future
- A History of the Modern World
- A History of the Vikings
- A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works
- A Secret History of the IRA
- A Short History of Byzantium
- A Short History of the World
- A Short History of the World
- A Study of History: Abridgement of Volumes 1-VI
- A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
- All the Pope's Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
- An Intimate History of Humanity
- Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
- Ancient Mediterranean, The
- Asimov's Chronology of the World
- Astrology: A History
- Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas
- Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
- Battle: A History of Combat and Culture
- Black Knights: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen
- Black Sea
- Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
- Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
- Calendar:: Humanity's Epic Struggle To Determine A True And Accurate Year
- Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed
- Cartoon History of the Universe 2
- Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes
- Chocolate: The Nature of Indulgence
- Civilization in the West, Single Volume Edition
- Classics of Western Thought Series: The Modern World, Volume III
- Coal: A Human History
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
- Colonialism Postcolonialism.
- Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History
- Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook
- Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World
- Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2004-2005
- Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know
- Critical Path
- Crusades Through Arab Eyes
- Culture and Imperialism
- Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
- Doubt: A History: the Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
- Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War
- Eyewitness to History
- Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples 8000 Bc-Ad 1500
- Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
- Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
- Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World
- From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life
- Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
- Great Books
- Greek Thought, Arab Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early 'Abbasid Society
- Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics: The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
- Heritage of World Civilizations, Combined Volume
- Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
- Hiroshima
- History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History
- History of Western Civilization: A Handbook
- History of the Arab Peoples
- Homosexuality and Civilization
- How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
- How to Prepare for the AP World History
- How to Prepare for the SAT II World History
- Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
- Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
- Ideas That Changed the World
- Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
- In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
- India: An Illustrated History
- Industry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution
- Infidels: A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea...: A Compendium Of Great Historical Fiascoes
- Jews of Arab Lands a History and Source Book
- Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries
- Josephus: The Essential Writings
- Kaplan AP World History 2004
- Kaplan SAT II: World History 2004-2005
- Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niņo Famines and the Making of the Third World
- Leadership: The Warrior's Art
- Legends , Lies & Cherished Myths of World History
- Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
- Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student edition
- MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service
- Madness: A Brief History
- Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
- Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
- Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
- Medieval Celebrations: How to Plan for Holidays, Weddings, and Reenactments With Recipes, Customs, Costumes, Decorations, Songs, Dances, and Games
- Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition
- Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948
- Modern Times Revised Edition: World from the Twenties to the Nineties, The
- More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story
- Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
- National Geographic Almanac of World History
- Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
- Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students
- One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
- Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
- Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists
- Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
- Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story
- Penguin Atlas of Modern History
- Penguin Atlas of World History, The: Volume 1: From Prehistory to the Eve of the French Revolution
- Pirate Ship 1660-1730
- Pirate Utopias
- Plagues and Peoples
- Practicing History: Selected Essays
- Pride of the Sea: Courage, Disaster, and a Fight for Survival
- Queens' Jewels
- Racism: A Short History
- Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
- Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
- Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids
- Salt: A World History
- Salt: A World History
- Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
- Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
- Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave
- Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
- Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate
- Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer
- Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800-1830
- Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account of a New England Sea Captain Enslaved by North African Arabs
- Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
- Technics and Civilization
- Telling the Truth About History
- The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
- The Arabs
- The Arabs in History
- The Autumn of the Middle Ages
- The Battle of Kursk
- The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare
- The Cambridge World History of Food
- The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
- The Century
- The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
- The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations
- The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
- The Complete War of The Worlds
- The Creation of Patriarchy
- The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
- The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
- The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed The Truth and Other Events in History That Dramatically Altered Our Understanding of the World
- The Decline of the West
- The Discoverers
- The Disenchantment of the World
- The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300-2050
- The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation
- The Emergence of Modern Turkey
- The Encyclopedia of World History
- The French Religious Wars, 1562-1598
- The Future of Nostalgia
- The Genealogy of Greek Mythology: An Illustrated Family Tree Greek Myth from the First Gods to the Founders of Rome
- The Gods of Eden
- The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
- The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
- The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
- The History of Money
- The History of Pirates
- The History of Torture
- The History of Torture and Execution: From Early Civilization through Medieval Times to the Present
- The Idea of History
- The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
- The Instruments of Torture
- The Invention of Tradition
- The Knights Templar in the New World: How Henry Sinclair Brought the Grail to Acadia
- The Lessons of History
- The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians
- The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800
- The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War
- The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
- The Messianic Legacy
- The New History of the World
- The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire
- The Origins of The Second World War
- The Other World: Issues and Politics of the Developing World
- The Oxford History of Ireland
- The Palestinian People: A History
- The Past is a Foreign Country
- The Peloponnesian War
- The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings
- The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Century, Vol. 3
- The Pessimist's Guide To History: An Irresistible Compendium Of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres And Mayhem From The Big Bang To The New Millennium
- The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Water Gardens Made Carburetor Possible - and Other Journeys
- The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd
- The Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers
- The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933
- The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move
- The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
- The Practice of Everyday Life
- The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages
- The Rise and Decline of the State
- The Rise and Fall of British Empire
- The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
- The Scientific Revolution
- The Search for the Perfect Language
- The Seashell on the Mountaintop: How Nicolaus Steno Solved an Ancient Mystery and Created a Science of the Earth
- The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People
- The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World
- The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages
- The Thirty Years' War
- The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648
- The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events
- The True History of Chocolate
- The Unseen Hand
- The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam
- The Venture of Islam, Volume 3: The Gunpower Empires and Modern Times
- The Western Heritage, Volume II: Since 1648
- The World That Trade Created: Culture, Society and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present
- The World Through Maps: A History of Cartography
- The World of Jack Aubrey: Twelve-Pounders, Frigates, Cutlasses, and Insignia of His Majesty's Royal Navy
- The World's Great Speeches
- The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions
- Timelines of World History
- To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
- Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
- Transforming Leadership: The Pursuit of Happiness
- Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church
- Twin Tracks: The Unexpected Origins of the Modern World
- U.S. History for Dummies
- Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
- Understanding Arabs: A Guide for Westerners
- Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade
- We Interrupt This Broadcast: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Attacks of September 11
- We are the Romani People
- What Every American Should Know About the Rest of the World
- What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
- Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
- Why Nations go to War
- Winning the Wild West: The Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 1800--1899
- Words That Shook the World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events
- World History for Dummies
- Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World
- Writing History: A Guide for Students
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