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Price: Rs 1,086FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a chaos of read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,490FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days An analysis of Beethoven's seminal Ninth Symphony identifies it as a key cultural event that reflected major social upheavals, from the emergence of a dynamic Western world and changes in philosophical perspectives on individuality. |
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Price: Rs 1,659FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days A lost treasure trove (6,000 documents) from her grandmotherrs"s attic about Anne Frank and her family, now woven into a chronicle. An old lady dies in Basel, Switzerland. Her devoted daughter-in-law, Gertrude, steels herself to do what all families must in the aftermath of death-she heads upstairs read more... |
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Price: Rs 857Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,029FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days In this riveting, powerful narrative, Lynn Nicholas shows how children under the Nazis became mere objects available for use in the service of the totalitarian state. Nicholas recounts the euthanasia and eugenic selection, racist indoctrination, kidnapping and “Germanization,” mass executions, and read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,089FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days "A useful, important book that reminds us, at the right time, how hard [European unity] has been, and how much care must be taken to avoid the terrible old temptations." --Los Angeles TimesDark Continent provides an alternative history of the twentieth century, one in which the triumph of democracy read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,203FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years read more... |
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Price: Rs 914Eligible for FREE Shipping on orders over Rs 999 Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days “Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”—David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last SummerVienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,433FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days Mark Jenkins's engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the read more... |
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Price: Rs 1,031FREE Shipping Imported Edition, Delivered in more than 14 business days From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe’s peace settlement read more... |
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