Gabrielle Walker, Author, David King, Author . Harvest $14 (276p) ISBN 978-0-15-603318-3
In this excellent primer on arguably the most serious problem facing the world today, Walker (An Ocean of Air
) and King, the U.K.'s chief science adviser, present in concise layman's language “everything you wanted to know about...
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David King, Author, Tamara Deutscher, Author, James Ryan, Author Blackwell Publishers $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-631-14689-6
As an uncritically admiring life of the Russian revolutionary, King's biography is rather predictable. But the many rare photographs in this extended photo-essay make the book worthwhile. Pictures recreate Trotsky's boyhood, his years of Siberian...
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David King, Author . Harmony $23 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4752-9
Few lives are as sadly instructive as that of the dreamer who, by reaching for the stars, falls crashing to earth. Such is the tale of a 17th-century Swedish polymath and gifted eccentric, Olof Rudbeck. Univeristy of Kentucky historian King relates...
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David King, Author Harmony $27.50 (434p) ISBN 978-0-307-33716-0
Leaders from the world’s five major diplomatic forces—Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia and Russia—convened in Vienna in 1814 to found a new order for post-Napoleonic Europe. Historian King (Finding Atlantis
) calls it “
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David King. Norton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-24169-3
King (Death in the City of Light) affirms his reputation as a first-rate narrative historian in this well-researched analysis of Adolf Hitler’s trial for treason in the aftermath of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Initially Hitler was a marginal figure;...
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David King. Norton, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-63508-9
Historian King (The Trial of Adolf Hitler) delivers an entertaining, minute-by-minute account of the 1973 Swedish bank robbery and hostage crisis that gave rise to the term “Stockholm syndrome.” Opening with the moment gunman Jan-Erik Olsson entered
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