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Product Description: Landscape paintings are as diverse as the landscapes painters live in. Northern Europe gave rise to both the wide, atmospheric spaces of Brueghel's morality tales and to the moody, dramatic depictions of nature found in Jacob Ruisdael's canvases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9783775711074 | Hatje Cantz Pub, February 1, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Landscape paintings are as diverse as the landscapes painters live in.

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A companion to the History Channel's popular series, the second and final installment of an epic history of Britain focuses on political and social change from England's first ventures into the New World through periods of colonial expansion, radical scientific advancement, industrial revolution, and two World Wars. Read by Timothy West.
By Simon Schama and Timothy West (narrator)
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9781559276375 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, November 1, 2001), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the nearly two centuries of battles waged by the British, both at home and abroad, on grounds of political or religious conviction, between Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, and colonialists and natives.

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Honoring the genius of Rembrandt, the author of Landscape and Memory first explores the painter's obsession with Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens--a fixation that profoundly influenced the evolution of his work and was not overcome until Rubens's death. Reprint. (view table of contents)
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9780679402565 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1999, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Honoring the genius of Rembrandt, the author first explores the painter's obsession with Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens--a fixation that profoundly influenced the evolution of his work and was not overcome until Rubens' death

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9780375709814 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2001), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Honoring the genius of Rembrandt, the author first explores the painter's obsession with Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens--a fixation that profoundly influenced the evolution of his work and was not overcome until Rubens' death

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A second installment in a three-part epic history of Britain chronicles the nearly two centuries of battles waged both home and abroad on grounds of political or religious conviction, between Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, and colonialists and natives. (view table of contents)
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9780786867523 | Miramax, October 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Britain chronicles battles waged by the British, both at home and abroad, details its role as a global power, and examines key events and personalities that shaped more than two centuries of history.

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Amazon.com Review: What do you get when you combine the resources and ethos of the BBC with the literary panache of one of the world's best narrative historians? The answer is Simon Schama's A History of Britain, the first volume of which accompanies the BBC-History Channel series of the same name...read more
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9781559276368 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

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A first installment in a two-part epic history of Britain chronicles the events that transpired from the birth of civilization through the conflict between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. (view table of contents)
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9780786866755 | 1 edition (Miramax, October 1, 2000), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive history of Britain chronicles battles waged by the British, both at home and abroad, details its role as a global power, and examines key events and personalities that shaped more than two centuries of history.

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Product Description: disasters world wide (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Lewis H. Lapham (editor) and Simon Schama (introduced by)
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9780312192648 | Thomas Dunne Books, December 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Provides a compilation of predictions about the world coming to an end by people throughout history, including writings from Plato, Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Jack London, Picasso, and other notables

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9780312252649 | Griffin, May 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: disasters world wide

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The author of Citizens presents an exhaustive, lively history of life in seventeenth-century Holland, the height of Dutch influence, culture, and affluence, accompanied by more than one hundred black-and-white reproductions and illustrations. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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9780394510750 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1987, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Describes the cultural and social milieu of seventeenth-century Holland, where, despite great material wealth and general prosperity, an 'anxiety of superabundance' permeated all aspects of the culture

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9780679781240 | Vintage Books, December 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author of Citizens presents an exhaustive, lively history of life in seventeenth-century Holland, the height of Dutch influence, culture, and affluence, accompanied by more than one hundred black-and-white reproductions and illustrations.
9780520061477, titled "Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age" | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Describes the cultural and social milieu of seventeenth-century Holland, where, despite great material wealth and general prosperity, an 'anxiety of superabundance' permeated all aspects of the culture

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Product Description: [This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Decade A New York Times Bestseller [Read by Frederick Davidson] From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution...read more
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9780786101559 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $85.95 | About this edition: [This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.
9780786101566 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: [This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.

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Product Description: This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the conventions of social or cultural history, Simon Schama investigates the astonishing case of a people's self-invention...read more
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9780786109364 | Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1997, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: This is the book that made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987.

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The author of The Embarrassment of Riches takes a fascinating journey through time and space to explore the rich treasury of myths that have transformed the landscape of Western culture. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT.
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9780679402558 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1995), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Explores the treasury of myths that have transformed the landscape of Western culture

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9780679735120 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1996), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: The author of The Embarrassment of Riches takes a fascinating journey through time and space to explore the rich treasury of myths that have transformed the landscape of Western culture.

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Product Description: For many years, French photographer Frederic Brenner has travelled the world, documenting the lives of Jews on five continents to create a visual anthology of the Jewish diaspora. This book chronicles the American portion of his odyssey, recording the extraodinary diversity of Jewish life in large cities and small communities in 32 states...read more
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9780810935228 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: For many years, French photographer Frederic Brenner has travelled the world, documenting the lives of Jews on five continents to create a visual anthology of the Jewish diaspora.

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A study of two true stories of violent death, each linked to a tragic Boston Brahmin family, explores the nature of history and how history is created
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9780679736134 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A study of two true stories of violent death, each linked to a tragic Boston Brahmin family, explores the nature of history and how history is created

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Studies the forces that led the Dutch on a course of revolution and the grave economic and political problems that befell the Dutch government in its efforts to preserve independence
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9780394485164 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1977, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780--1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics.

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9780679729495, titled "Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Studies the forces that led the Dutch on a course of revolution and the grave economic and political problems that befell the Dutch government in its efforts to preserve independence

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Blending fact and fiction, document and imaginative reconstruction, this study of two true stories of violent death--each linked to a tragic Boston Brahmin family--explores the nature of history and how history is created
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9780679402138 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Blending fact and fiction, document and imaginative reconstruction, this study of two true stories of violent death--each linked to a tragic Boston Brahmin family--explores the nature of history and how history is created

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Explores the roots and fruition of the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting strained economics frustrating their visions for France
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9780394559483 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1989), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Explores the roots and fruition of the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting strained economics frustrating their visions for France

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9780679726104 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1990), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Explores the French Revolution in terms of the vitality and infatuation with technology that motivated French citizenry toward change and the conflicting, strained economics frustrating their visions for France

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9781455137664 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 20, 2012), cover price $160.00

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