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The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work by the bestselling author of The 33 Strategies of War and Mastery distills 3,000 years of the history of power in to 48 well-explicated laws

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The Art of Seduction

by Robert Greene

This bold, instructive guide to power of attraction by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and Mastery can make anyone a master of this devastating and timeless art

This...

D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

by Antony Beevor

The #1 internationally bestselling history of D-Day is now enhanced with rare video footage from the NBC News Archives for the ultimate narrative of the battle for Normandy.

"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is...

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels

by Charles Dickens & Kristie Allen

Two of the most beloved novels in all of English literature-together in one extraordinary volume.

A TALE OF TWO CITIES

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette...

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

by Steven Levy

If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made "hackers" a household word—comes...

The Friendly Guide to Mythology: A Mortal's Companion to the Fantastical Realm of Gods Goddesses Monsters Heroes

by Nancy Hathaway

How was the world as we know it created? What does it mean to be a hero? Where do we go when we die? Why are flood myths so ubiquitous? Anyone who has pondered these and other questions about humanity's ancient...

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers...

The 33 Strategies of War

by Robert Greene

Brilliant distillations of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of everyday life—by the bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power and Mastery

Robert Greene’s groundbreaking guides, The 48...

The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict: Seventh Revised and Updated E

by Walter Laqueur

An essential resource?completely revised and updated for the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of Israel

In print for forty years , The Israel-Arab Reader is a thorough and up-to-date guide to the continuing...

Home Tree Home: Principles of Treehouse Construction and Other Tall Tales

by Peter Nelson & Gerry Hadden

Remember the view from atop a tree? You could survey the landscape like a monarch, escape your parents' watchful eye, and let your imagination run wild. Well, just because you've grown up, it doesn't mean you...

A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5: Novels 1-5

Thursday Next #9

by Jasper Fforde

A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5 Fall into the world of Thursday Next with the first five novels in the New York Times bestselling series featuring the renowned Special Operative in literary detection...

Haunted Places: The National Directory: Ghostly Abodes, Sacred Sites, UFO Landings, and Other Supernatural Locations

by Dennis William Hauck

In almost every town in America there are places where strange things happen. The perfect companion to The International Directory of Haunted Places, this revised and updated edition of Haunted Places is both...

Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East

by Geoffrey Wawro

An unprecedented history of American involvement in the Middle East.

In this definitive and revelatory work, noted historian Geoffrey Wawro approaches America's role in the Middle East in a fundamentally new...

A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped OurConstitution: Revised Edition

by Peter Irons

Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current affairs, making this comprehensive and engaging work as timely as ever. In the tradition of Howard Zinn's...

The Portable William Blake

by William Blake

The Portable Blake contains the hermetic genius's most important works: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience in their entirety; selections from his "prophetic books"—including The Marriage of Heaven...

American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1)

by Alan Taylor

With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he...

Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance

by Dennis Overbye

In Einstein in Love, Dennis Overbye has written the first profile of the great scientist to focus exclusively on his early adulthood, when his major discoveries were made. It reveals Einstein to be very much...

The Hindus: An Alternative History

by Wendy Doniger

"Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher."

-The Washington Post

An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus offers...

Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin

by Bruce Chatwin & Nicholas Shakespeare

"Wonderful...the closest we are ever going to get to a Chatwin autobiography."

-William Dalrymple, The Times Literary Supplement (London)

The celebrated author of such beloved works as In Patagonia and The Songlines...

The Chinese in America: A Narrative History

by Iris Chang

In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange...