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“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past.

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The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives 9780593472170, 9780593472194

Prize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how "Western Civilization"--t

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“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past.

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The Bakufu in Japanese History 0804722102, 9780804722100

This volume analyzes the recurring form of warrior government known as the Bakufu (or shogunate) that ruled Japan for ne

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The Bakufu in Japanese History 9781503621060

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The Lives of Lichens: A Natural History (The Lives of the Natural World, 10) 0691247277, 9780691247274

A richly illustrated guide to lichens and their biology Existing at the margins of life, lichens are the result of symb

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The Lives of the Novel: A History 0691165785, 9780691165783

A bold new account of the history of the novel, from ancient Greece to the present This is a bold and original original

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Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community 9781501741593

Using examples of excessive hubris and debilitating bureaucratic competition before the Asia-Pacific War, the unavoidabl

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Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History: A Handbook 9789048559381

After war defeat in 1945, Japan underwent historic political, economic and social transformations resulting in the count

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Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History 9781107058651, 9781107635685

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