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The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason

By: Fleming

Price: $12.50

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: July 2013

Seller ID: 296815

ISBN: 0393079465

Condition: Used - Very Good

Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners were among the principal scientists and physicians of their ages. No point is more important for understanding the strange and fascinating figures in this book than the prestige of alchemy among the learned men of the age.

Fleming follows some of these complexities and contradictions of the "Age of Lights" into the biographies of two of its e...
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Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade

By: James Reston

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Anchor: May 2002

Seller ID: 20274

ISBN: 0385495625

Condition: Used - Very Good

Acclaimed author James Reston, Jr.'s Warriors of God is the rich and engaging account of the Third Crusade (1187-1192), a conflict that would shape world history for centuries and which can still be felt in the Middle East and throughout the world today. James Reston, Jr. offers a gripping narrative of the epic battle that left Jerusalem in Muslim hands until the twentieth century, bringing an objective perspective to the gallantry, greed, and religious fervor that fueled the bloody clash between Christians and Muslims.

As he recounts this rousing story, Reston brings to lif...
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

By: Judt, Tony

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: September 2006

Seller ID: 325857

ISBN: 0143037757

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award
One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one inte...
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