Edited by Ornolfur Thorsson
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In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also called the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's great literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as ... more.

Hazel Felleman
Random House, Inc
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Truly a classic, The Best Loved Poems of the American People contains over 575 traditional favorites to be read and reread. Categorized by theme, and indexed by author and first line, this is a coll ... more.

John Steinbeck
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Hemingway's The Grapes of Wrath still stands as a quintessential piece of Great American Writing. The story of the sufferings and trials of the Dust Bowl as experienced by one family, the hurt and trials gone through trying to hav ... more.

Edited by Tania Gergel
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Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle, and boundless in his ambition, Alexander the Great inherited his father's empire at the age of twenty and resolved to expand it. He ruthlessly suppressed all who dared to reb ... more.

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More than 600 species are described in detail, with more than 525 illustrations. This is the guide for quick, reliable identification of fishes that you'll encounter while fishing, snorkeling, diving, or even strolli ... more.

Robert McCrum & Robert MacNeil
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record ... more.

George Chapman, Allardyce Nicoll, Garry Wills
Calif Princeton Fulfilment
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George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language. This volume presents the original (1611) text of Chapman's translation of the ... more.

Thomas More
Yale University Press
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This book, from its first appearance in 1516, has been one of the germinal works in Western thought and remains even today, in its essential modernity, stimulating and controversial. This edition is based on the text prepared as Volume 4 in The Ya ... more.

Samuel E. Morison
Oxford University Press
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The sources and documents presented in this book reflect the ideological revolution in America, encompassing the growth of independent sentiment in the colonies, the break with the mother cou ... more.

Dinesh D'Souza
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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With What's So Great About America, Dinesh D'Souza is not asking a question, but making a statement. The former White House policy analyst and bestselling author argues that in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, ... more.

Nelson Lankford
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Hazel Felleman
Random House, Inc
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Poems That Live Forever, is a fine, thoughtful selections of poems that live forever in our mind and hearts. Some will be remembered perhaps by title- The Highwayman, or On His Blindness, or The Purple Cow. Perhaps we will ... more.

Harrold Doughty
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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For students planning further study after college, the Guide to American Graduate Schools puts the necessary information at their fingertips. Completely revised and updated, this long-trusted and indispensable tool ... more.

Christian G.Appy
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Christian G. Appy's monumental oral history of the Vietnam War is the first work to probe the war's path through both the United States and Vietnam. These vivid testimonies of 135 men and women span the entire history of the Vietnam confli ... more.

John Keegan
Random House, Inc
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The First World War, a cataclysm that left ten million dead, created the modern world. It was a struggle of unprecedented ferocity that ended the rational, liberal culture that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment, swept a ... more.

John Cornwell
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Covering the dramatic rise of German science in the 19th century, its preeminence in the early 20th century, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is a the compelling story of German scientists un ... more.

Edited by Stephen Orgel & A.R. Reaunmuller
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Incorporating the most up-to-date research and debate, the general editors of the Pelican Shakespeare series, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, have assembled a team of distinguished scholar ... more.

Tom Brokaw
Random House, Inc
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In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depress ... more.

Elliott
Houghton-mifflin
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Includes over 125 stunning full-color photographs of singing birds, informative text, over 125 quotations of prose and poems from early naturalists and poets, and closeup sound recordings of most of the bird ... more.

Frederick Douglass
Random House, Inc
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This eloquent and dramatic autobiography of the early life of an American slave was first published in 1845, when its author was about twenty-eight years old and had just achieved his freedom. Althou ... more.

Alexandre Dumas
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This enduringly popular tale of love and vengeance in the post-Napoleonic era follows Edmond Dantes as he prepares to captain his own ship and marry his beloved Mercedes. But on his wedding day, he is betrayed by spiteful enemie ... more.

Leo Tolstoy
Random House, Inc
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Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of Russian spirit. Yet the book was not immediately or universally recognized by reade ... more.

Albert Hourani
Harvard University Press
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Upon its publication in 1991, Albert Hourani's masterwork was hailed as the definitive story of Arab civilization, and became both a bestseller and an instant classic. In a panoramic view encompassing tw ... more.

Graham Bannock
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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Whether you want to follow the economic discussions in the media today, or study economics or need some knowledge of it at work (in business, finance or the public sector), this wide-ranging and accessible dictionary ... more.

Juris Kelley
Xulon Press
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Knowledge Nirvana is about achieving the competitive advantage through effective content management and team collaboration. In today's information-based economy, we must utilize the enabling technologies and industry's best prac ... more.

George Washington, John H. Rhodehamel
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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For two centuries George Washington has been universally acknowledged as the one indispensable founder of the American Republic. This one-volume edition-the most comprehensive and authoritat ... more.

John James Audubon
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The breathtaking art of John James Audubon's Birds of America has been celebrated throughout tthe world since it first appeared over 150 years ago. Less well known is Audubon's literary legacy: the magnificent ... more.

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This outstanding treasury of great reading includes the bawdy humor of Machiavelli's Mandragola; the poignant, searching wit of Chekov's Uncle Vanya; the ironic social comment of Shaw's Arms and the Man; and five other influential works, includin ... more.

John Rhodehamel
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This is a comprehensive collection of over 120 pieces by more than 70 Revolution-era writers from both sides of the War of Independence. Containing letters, speeches, and newspaper articl ... more.

Hermann Kinder
Penguin Putnam Inc.
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In two volumes, The Penquin Atlas of World History juxtaposes maps with a detailed and wide-ranging chronological summary of the main cultural, scientific, religious, economic and political events of ... more.