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People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)

People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the... more

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    • Wish I had been exposed to this much earlier!
    • I enjoyed this book as much for the perspective that it is told from as I did reading the normally buried individual accounts, stories, testimonies and exposes of marginalized heroes that Dr. Zinn...
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    • Unfortunate Indoctrination
    • I could write volumes about this book, and for that matter every other Howard Zinn book I have ever read.

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    • A political, not a cultural, history
    • Professor Zinn definitely fills a need--a well-documented political history of the United States from the point-of-view of those who work to move this country nearer to a realization of the...
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Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles)

Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Modern Library Chronicles)

Margaret MacMillan, an acclaimed historian and "great storyteller" (The New York Review of Books), explores here the... more

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    • Great read on the historical situation
    • MacMillan's call for historians to take back the discipline of writing and thinking about history is a welcome sight. For my own part, I'd have liked to have seen a bit more history in the work,...
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    • The View of History from the Seminar Room
    • The content of the book is flat and one-dimensional. First, only political history of the 20th century is considered. There is no consideration of the use of the history of science or the history...
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The Guns of August

The Guns of August

"More dramtatic than fiction...THE GUNS OF AUGUST is a magnificent narrative--beautifully organized, elegantly... more

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    • Slaughter
    • It never ceases to amaze me, when reading through history how easy it is, for a hand full of arrogant dim wits, to lead a vast multitude to the slaughter. Mrs. Tuchman used fine detail in...
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    • Good literature, mediocre history
    • First, I really enjoyed this book. I believe Tuchman did a masterful job of giving life to the people and events that led to WWI. This book is well worth reading, but only for what it is:...
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    • Worst summer reading I ever had
    • I didn't even bother to finish this book because, although i tried to read it and fell asleep on pretty much every other page, the writing was convoluted and stuffy, the "action" (was there any?)...
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great...

The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but... more

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    • a good introduction
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    • Boring and important people omitted
    • Despite being really interested in getting a good overview of the various ideas and lifes of great economists and being highly motivated I have not managed to get past page 132 - it was such a...
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    • Good, but too much
    • I do think this is a very informative book, but I think the author tries too hard. I have a decently large vocabulary, but there were still several words per chapter I needed a dictionary for....
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The Bagel: A Cultural History

The Bagel: A Cultural History

If smoked salmon and cream cheese bring only one thing to mind, you can count yourself among the world's millions of... more

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    • A Delicious History
    • You know what a bagel is; you have had countless opportunities to munch on the tasty, chewy rolls. If you don't have a bagel bakery nearby, there are always frozen bagels at the supermarket. But...
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The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy

The Greatest Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish,...

History isn't always made by great armies colliding or by great civilizations rising or falling. Sometimes it's made... more

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    • Great book!
    • I got this book for my dad because he always knows random stuff and he loves watching the history channel. He's not a huge reader but he really liked this book. It's perfect because the stories...
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    • not very impressed
    • This book provided a few interesting stories but, nothing awe inspiring. I would have to read stories / contributions from other ethnicities for a more balanced approach. But I guess that why it is...
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    • Fun trivia, with limitations
    • This book gives little snippets of history information. Each subject gets a few short, well-written paragraphs, plus a few accompanying illustrations. A lot of the stories are of the "If he'd only...
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The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for Surviving Boot Camp

The Ultimate Basic Training Guidebook: Tips, Tricks, and Tactics for...

As anyone who has undergone the transition from civilian to soldier will tell you, basic training is a lot tougher... more

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The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: Volume One: The Early Church to the Reformation (Story of Christianity)

The Story of Christianity: Volume 1: Volume One: The Early Church to the...

The Story of Christianity, Volume 1, is an informative, interesting, and consistently readable narrative history. It... more

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    • Who did Christianity come from?
    • "The Story of Christianity" puts Christian monks, martyrs, popes, heretics, saints, kings, persecutors and women in their proper context. The book is a Sunday School appropriate, scholarly account...
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    • A Portrait of the Church Through Its Early Ages
    • A readable book, the Story of Christianity Volume 1 will be a simple, but informative read especially for those who never have studied the historical roots and development of Christianity. Dr....
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Encyclopedia Idiotica: History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them

Encyclopedia Idiotica: History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made...

The 64 A.D. burning of Rome during the reign of Nero . . . Winston Churchill's ill-conceived and disastrous World War... more

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    • Brief and Amusing
    • This book is an amusing rendition of various acts of idiocy through history. Stephen Weir begins with Adam and Eve, who he regards as the original idiots, and finishes with the Boxing Day tsunami...
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    • Entertaining look at history
    • This book provides a concise and entertaining look at some of the most idiotic decisions throughout (mostly Western) history. Whether you agree with the author's choices or not, he has written an...
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    • Poorly researched, poorly written, poorly edited
    • I've read this book and found it to have many errors of fact. The basis of the humour depends on trust in the author that the historical accounts he describes are actually correct. Once you lose...
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Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

?We, the free, face a daunting opportunity. Previous generations could only dream of a free world. Now we can begin... more

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    • A Wise Post-Mortem on the Post-Western World, but?
    • This "Whither goes the West?" critique of emerging international relations is both thoughtful and literate, and raises in a careful way, many fundamental questions that, arguably, only a smoothly...
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    • a very conservative take
    • The book did not work for me, because of the usage of too many broad generalizations to make a point. The author finds these generalizations necessary in order to be able to analyze at all. He also...
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    • "The future"---but without specifics how to get there.
    • "At the finishing line, the diplomacy of the Iraq crisis came down to a clash of two old European strategies, Gaullism and Churchillism." Mr. Garton Ash further posits that "1940 was the fulcrum...
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The Official SAT Subject Tests in U.S. & World History Study Guide (Official Sat Subject Tests in U.S. History and World History)

The Official SAT Subject Tests in U.S. & World History Study Guide...

The best way to practice for SAT Subject Tests? in HistoryEvery year nearly 120,000 students take a SAT Subject Test?... more

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    • Math Tests are NOT Accurate
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    • An accurate judge of your score...
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Society of the Spectacle

The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works... more

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    • Debord was a key member of the Situationists, that notable group of Parisien flaneurs (well, drunks, to be frank) who thought that by traversing the patchwork of the city on foot they could bring...
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    • Bad translation? This isn't readable at all.
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Five Steps to a 5 AP U.S. History, Second Edition (5 Steps to a 5 on the Advanced Placement Examinations)

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    • I just needed this book for a class cause it was a required purchase. I haven't really looked at it that much except to see that's it's basically just another textbook. It shipped quickly though so...
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    • The book was required from the school. Whether the book is any good is highly subjective. It it gives my kid an "A" then I will say it is great.
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Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2010 Edition (College Test Preparation)

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your History Textbook Got Wrong

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    • More boring than history
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    • Deserves Credit, but Fails in Some Places
    • I was actually able to meet Dr. Loewen when he spoke to one of my teaching classes in college. I felt, as did the majority of the class, that he did nothing but put down the profession of high...
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Ten Theories of Human Nature

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    • Insight on What Makes Us Human
    • Leslie Stevenson and David Haberman have produced a work that serves the undergraduate student of philosophy well since this work is accessible and conversational. Furthermore, the new fifth...
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    • Annoying chatty tone ruins good survey
    • The author's notes at the beginning explain that the content of the book comes from Stevenson's first year mandatory class at a university in Scotland. Unfortunately, it was not really repackaged...
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Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought

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    • Ugh
    • This is required book in some classes, probably because there is nothing else out there on the subject. But do not be taken in by that fact.

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    • Excellent book but should be read thoughtfully
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    • Commendable goal, poor follow through
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