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Letters of a Javanese Princess - Raden Adjeng Kartini, Hildred Geertz and L. A. Translator Symmers - 9780819147585 - 0819147583

ISBN13: 9780819147585. ISBN10: 0819147583. by Raden Adjeng Kartini, Hildred Geertz and L. A. Translator Symmers. Published by Rowman & ... More at Textbooks.com

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Andrew Lam - Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

A noted journalist and NPR commentator presents a collection of essays that reflect his life-long struggle for identity as a Vietnamese national ...

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Latest review by Stephen_Murray Aug 30 '07

"Andrew Lam's "Reflection on the Vietnamese Diaspora," primarily his own family's, contains memoirs a..." Read full review

$6

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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956

Free Worldwide Delivery : The Gulag Archipelago: Experiment in Literary Investigation v. 1 : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780061253713 ...

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Latest review by shizdovsky Jul 06 '12

"Evidently, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is considered one of the most significant writers of the Soviet er..." Read full review

$9 - $18

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Gregory Gibson - Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, The Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus

Free Worldwide Delivery : Hubert's Freaks : Hardback : Harcourt Publishers,U.S. : 9780151012336 : 0151012334 : 14 Apr 2008 : Bob Langmuir is a dealer ...

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Latest review by jankp Oct 17 '09

"Please consider this passage from Gregory Gibson’s Hubert’s Freaks: The Rare Book D..." Read full review

$6 - $7

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David McCullough - 1776

In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the ...

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Latest review by toiletoctopus Nov 28 '10

"There are plenty of history books on George Washington and the Revolutionary War, that it can leave..." Read full review

$5 - $39

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Cornelius Ryan - A Bridge Too Far

The dramatic final volume in Ryan's superb World War II trilogy focuses on the battle for Arnhem. Ryan draws from a vast cast of characters--from ...

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Latest review by alexdg1 Mar 09 '04

"On the morning of Sept. 17, 1944, taking off from 24 airfields in southeast England in what was "th..." Read full review

$5 - $15

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Paul F. Boller Jr. - Presidential Anecdotes

Dramatic, poignant, hilarious, and sentimental, anecdotes about our presidents are as varied as the presidents themselves. This new and revised ...

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Latest review by alexdg1 Jan 01 '06

"The Lady Loses The best story about Coolidge's taciturnity, told by his wife, concerns the society w..." Read full review

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Simon Baatz - For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago

Documents the 1924 murder case of millionaire property developer's son Bobby Franks and the high-profile arrest and trial of his teenage killers, in ...

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Latest review by twainfile Sep 04 '09

"Simon Baatz's "For the the Thrill of It" must be considered the most authoritative account of the se..." Read full review

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Viktor E. Frankl, William J. (AFT) Winslade, Simon Vance - Man's Search for Meaning

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist recounts his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp that led to the development of his existentialist approach to ...

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Latest review by fuche_bu Jun 21 '01

"I first encountered this book seventeen years ago. I was taking a Psychology and Literature cour..." Read full review

$5 - $11

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Guy Sajer - Forgotten Soldier

The deluxe edition of the classic German WWII autobiography of a teenaged German soldier on the front lines through the entire war. Includes some ...

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Latest review by ericjohnso Oct 20 '07

"I was 16 when I first read Guy Sajer's book. I was a big enthusiast of American Civil War Literature..." Read full review

$8 - $20

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Reviel Netz and William Noel - The Archimedes Codex

Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created ...

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Latest review by wmcot Mar 07 '08

"The Archimedes Codex is fascinating reading even if you are not into math. The story of the discover..." Read full review

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Simon Wiesenthal and Bonny V. Fetterman - The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Can evil be forgiven? The famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal asked this question of people from many walks of life--including authors, political ...

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Latest review by gracef Feb 28 '04

"The other day, a friend looked at me and said, "Grace, you're a doormat!" I was shocked. Me? A doorm..." Read full review

$6 - $12

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Stephen E. Ambrose Jr. - Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

A biographical study of the U.S. Cavalry general and the Sioux chief who met in battle at Little Bighorn, Montana, on June 25, 1876. Stephen Ambrose ...

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Latest review by whita Mar 14 '00

"We have aggressively painted our histories on Crazy Horse and George Custer, and then painted them o..." Read full review

$7 - $20

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Klaus P. Fischer - Nazi Germany: A New History

In the 50 years since the fall of the 12-year Nazi Reich, thousands of books have been written on every conceivable aspect of the subject, each with ...

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Latest review by vmadwop1 Feb 24 '11

"I found this book in our library. I had never read, "Nazi Germany". The book's author is Klaus..." Read full review

$5

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Daniel Okrent - Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Free Worldwide Delivery : Last Call : Hardback : Scribner Book Company : 9780743277020 : 0743277023 : 11 May 2010 : Okrent explores the origins, ...

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Latest review by Bruguru Sep 06 '10

"After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of int..." Read full review

$24

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Flora Fraser - Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire

One of the things Napoleon Bonaparte loved as much as power was his family, and none more so than his sister Pauline, who became infamous for her ...

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Latest review by telynor Mar 14 '09

"There's a reason why I like reading about royalty, it seems. Inside of me, there's an itch for grand..." Read full review

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