History

Walter R. Borneman

Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land

The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!"; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom. While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of change. "Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land" shows that there are no easy answers on either side and that Alaska will always be crossing the next frontier.

Elena Poniatowska, Elena Poniastowska

Noche de Tlatelolco, La

In this thought-provoking account of the Tlatelolco massacre, Elena Poniatowska re-creates and recollects in this book the events leading up to, during, and after the massacre of civilians in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Mexico City, in October 1968.

Maurice Druon

Reyes Malditos, Los (Paquete)

The accursed kings have captivated readers. The stories cover both pleasant reign of his time and the tragedies that made them fall. Kings cursed I. The King of iron, Los Reyes cursed II. Queen strangled, Los Reyes cursed III. The poisons of the crown, Los Reyes cursed IV. The Law of Men, The Curse V. Reyes The She-wolf of France, Los Reyes cursed VI. La Flor de Lis and the Lion, The Accursed Kings VII. How a king of France lost.

Bertil Lintner

Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under the Kim Clan

Philip Cornwel-Smith

Very Thai, 2nd Edition

Mordechai Arbell

Portugese Jews of Jamaica

This is the first comprehensive account of the Jewish population of Jamaica and its role in the economic and cultural life of the country. Beginning in the sixteenth century with the first Jewish settlers who arrived with the Portuguese, Arbell chronicles the Jews' fight for civil rights and freedoms and the ways in which their wide network of family connections enabled them to play a key role in international commerce. The work covers religious, cultural and economic aspects of Jewish settlement in Jamaica. The facts presented in each chapter have been authenticated by research in archives and libraries in the US, England, Jamaica and Israel. Citations from documents unearthed enhance the narrative and provide period authenticity, making the book lively reading. Over twenty illustrations provide a picture of the Caribbean in the periods being reviewed.

Salima Ikram

Beloved Beasts: Animal Mummies from Ancient Egypt

This catalog of the animal mummies in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is fully illustrated with color photographs and x-rays, and each mummy is described in detail.

Zahi Hawass

Secrets from the Sand: My Search for Egypt's Past

The world's best known Egyptologist uncovers the stories behind his many excavations. Zahi Hawass, familiar to millions from his many television appearances, provides stirring descriptions of his life's work accompanied by many previously unpublished photographs. He takes us from the famous monuments at Giza, where he supervised the restoration of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid and excavated the cemetery of the pyramid builders, to the Valley of the Golden Mummies in Bahariya Oasis. A storyteller par excellence, Dr. Hawass speculates about life in ancient Egypt based on a scientific analysis of excavations conducted by himself or under his supervision. He also spins tales of tomb robbers, explains how he negotiates with local Egyptians whose houses may lie directly above important sites, and describes in exciting detail the experience of entering an ancient tomb for the first time after thousands of years.

Aidan Dodson

Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation

A new account of the return to orthodoxy after Akhenaten's revolution

Aidan Dodson

Poisoned Legacy: The Decline and Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty

The first book to examine the turbulent period from the death of Rameses II to the accession of Rameses III

Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean

New sources and research illuminate the individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East

Zahi Hawass

Highlights of the Egyptian Museum

Zahi A. Hawass

The Mysteries of Abu Simbel: Ramtesses II and the Temples of the Rising Sun

A lush and illustrated guide to the temples of Abu Simbel

Robert A. Armour

Gods and Myths of Ancient Egypt

A lively retelling of stories from Egyptian mythology, complete with new photos and line drawings

Zahi Hawass, Naguib Kanawati

Decorated Burial Chambers of the Old Kingdom

One of the foremost experts on Old Kingdom tombs looks at the burial chamber, its significance, and its preparation, concluding that the "house of death is for life." The Egyptian tomb was not considered simply as a grave for burying the corpse of a dead person, but rather as a house of eternity in which the deceased would spend an everlasting life. The author also discusses the architectural designs and characteristics of burial chambers associated with the mastabas and rock-cut tombs, and studies the development of decoration on the walls of tombs.

Christopher Wood

The Bubble Economy: Japan's Extraordinary Speculative Boom of the '80s and the Dramatic Bust of the '90s

The Bubble Economy tells the story of the greatest failure of Japanese economic management since 1945. In the second half of the 1980s Japan's financial madness and arrogance centered on a booming stockmarket and rocketing land prices, which dragged the solid manufacturing economy into a whirlwind of outrageous speculation. Then the boom when spectacularly bust, leaving in its wake a withered stockmarket, crashing land prices, mountains of bad loans, an economy in recession, and a slew of political and financial scandals, graphically exposing the seedy underbelly of Japan's feudal finance system.The Bubble Economy reveals how Japan is spending the first half of the 1990s paying off these excesses in a process that threatens the world's economies with dire consequences, and questions many of the myths built up around Japanese management, pointing to levels of incompetence never before thought possible.

Paul Michel Munoz

Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula

At a period when sea navigation depended more on the skill and courage of sailors than on technology, men were nonetheless able to build maritime regional empires that stretched from Indochina to the Indonesian Archipelago.

Yingtai Long

Da Jiang Da Hai

Big River, Big Sea. Long Yingtai traveled all over China and the world, and looked in her own backyard, to collect the stories of the people who survived the bloody Chinese civil war. These are the untold stories of 1949, the year China was decidedly cut in two. In Traditional Chinese.

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Mark Ravinder Frost

Singapore: A Biography

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