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Damascus: A History
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Ross Burns · 2005
This is the first book in English to relate the history of Damascus, bringing out the crucial role the city has played at many points in the region's past.
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and ...
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C. S. Lewis · 1994
Hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind," this work paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and ...
A Concise History of Greece
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Richard Clogg · 2002
This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, with a new final chapter about Greek history and politics to the present day. 56 illustrations. 10 maps.
God and Reason in the Middle Ages
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Edward Grant · 2001
This book shows how the Age of Reason actually began during the late Middle Ages.
The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in ...
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William E. Leuchtenburg · 1996
This superbly crafted book sheds new light on the great Constitutional crisis of our century, illuminating the legal and political battles that created today's Supreme Court.
Sunset Park
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Paul Auster · 2010
Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure.
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought ...
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Jerry Z. Muller · 1997
"A richly diverse, intelligently designed, and helpfully annotated introduction to the world of conservative theory. No comparable collection that I know of is as broad and unparochial as this one."--Thomas Pangle, University of Toronto
The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941
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A perennial backlist performer. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
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Mary Pattillo · 2010
Black on the Block tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the groundwork for a revitalized and self-consciously black neighborhood that continues to flourish today.
The Changing Scale of American Agriculture
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John Fraser Hart · 2003
Hart believes that modern large-scale farmers have been criticized unfairly, and The Changing Scale of American Agriculture, the result of decades of research, is his attempt to tell their side of the story.