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The Traveler's Atlas: A Global Guide to the Places You ...
Great concept, disappointing photos and descriptions: I am disappointed by this book. The paper quality does not do justice to the photos. Colors and defintion are washed out. Furthermore, while I only skimmed through the book I noticed several typos. I [... more]
$32.95
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Gobi: Tracking the Desert
Amazon.com Review: It's better to travel to Mongolia in summer than in winter. In summer the temperatures can hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit, but that's easier to survive than the -40 of January. Both are preferable to spring, though, when, John Man writes [... more]
$32.00
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Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words
Amazon.com Review: The invention of writing, the alphabet, and the Internet: these are three signal events in the history of human culture, joined by a fourth: Johann Gutenberg's introduction of movable type and the printed book to the West, the subject [... more]
$24.95
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The Gutenberg Revolution: The Story of a Genius and an ...
Great history of Gutenberg and his life and times: _The Gutenberg Revolution_ is a highly informative book, not just about the man, Johannes Gutenberg, but about his machine, his time, and his legacy. Several chapters are devoted to the history and [... more]
$16.50
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Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
Nice book!: This is a great book - My copy is soft cover - it would be better if I had purchased a hard copy verison if it was available - It is still a great book! Author: DK Publishing Author: John Man Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 523.6 [... more]
$12.95
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Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection
History's Most Lovable Bloodthirsty Tyrant: Mainstream historians may object to some of the claims in this book, but John Man has created quite a readable mix of travelogue and history. This is more a work of interpretation, rather than direct research, [... more]
$29.95
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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
Amazon.com Review: In the tradition of small books that try to explain a lot (think How the Irish Saved Civilization), John Man's Alpha Beta is an excellent survey on the history of letters. They may have played a more dramatic role in the advancement of [... more]
$24.95
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Atlas of the Year 1000
Amazon.com Review: The title is disingenuously precise. Around the turn of the last millennium, time bore a different complexion; indeed, it was expressed through a variety of calendars. The notion of a millennium would occupy a book in itself (and has: [... more]
$28.50
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Atlas of the Year 1000
Amazon.com Review: The title is disingenuously precise. Around the turn of the last millennium, time bore a different complexion; indeed, it was expressed through a variety of calendars. The notion of a millennium would occupy a book in itself (and has: [... more]
$19.95
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Gobi: Tracking the Desert
Window to a surprising corner of the world: The author's somewhat standard travelogue visit to Mongolia is escalated to excellence through two key things: the detail he provides about a little-documented country, and the insight that bridges Western [... more]
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The Survival of Jan Little
Compulsive Reading: In the 1950's Jan meets Harry Little - a jungle adventurer. Having always dreamed of living on a homestead, she accepts his offer of marriage & heads off into the jungles of Mexico with Harry & her daughter Rebecca. Jan is [... more]
$4.95
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Berlin blockade (Ballantine's illustrated history of the ...
Then Berlin wall existed: I read this book, here in Brazil.This book even being outdated, has some value and is a regular book.If we were in 1977, this book is good.Well, we are in 2007.Even with a diferent World, this book remains a regular book about [... more]
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