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| | 1. |  | The Professor and the Madman
from HarperCollins
Price: $3.59
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"The Professor and the Madman" examines the relationship between Sir James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and Dr. William Minor, who contributed an extraordinary number of quotations to the OED. James Murray was a Scottish autodidact who became associated with the OED through... more info
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| | 3. |  | Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
from Allen Lane
Price: $121.38
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The sun never set on the British empire, was the popular saying. This book traces the evolution of that empire, the economic underpinnings and the evolution of mercantilism and trade barriers.
This book is a serious economic historical account of the events that lead to the rise of the British... more info
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| | 7. |  | The Wars of the Roses
from Ballantine Books
Price: $6.73
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because I could not put this book down. It was extremely engrossing and engaging in every detail. I was skeptical at first of how much it would engage me, but after the first few pages I was hooked. THIS is the period in which a TV series needs to be dedicated too, not just simply the Tudor period.... more info
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| | 9. |  | Gods and Fighting Men
from Nonsuch Publishing
Price: $28.66
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I'm glad this book has been kept in publication because it is a kind of historical record, although it would have been nice if Forgotten Books had shown more respect and spent more time keeping the typos down.
It seems the book is a compilation of stories, a bit willy-nilly. The problem I had... more info
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| | 10. |  | The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill
from Harper Perennial
Price: $7.14
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James C. Humes has put together a delightful potpourri of quotations and anecdotes of what I consider the man of the 20th Century.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born to aristocracy from a British upper class father and a wealthy American mother in Victorian England. Mr. Churchill... more info
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