Michael Pye
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Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North Sea in the so-called "dark ages," the years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Europe's mastery over the oceans. Now the critically acclaimed Michael Pye reveals the cultural transformation sparked by those men and women: the ideas, technology, science, law, and moral codes that helped create our modern world. This is...
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Were Atlantis and Lemuria factual places? Who built the pyramids and for what purpose? How advanced was the technology of ancient cultures? All this and more is covered in Exposed, Uncovered, & Declassified: Lost Civilizations & Secrets of the Past-the latest in the all-original series that is already sparking lively debate. Erich von Däniken, best-selling author of Chariots of the Gods, examines the Egyptian pyramids, studying their astronomical...
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What are ghosts, spirits, and other apparitions? Why do they visit, and what do they want from us? Are OBEs, NDEs, and PDEs real? Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings tackles these questions and more, as some of the world's best-known paranormal experts come together in a tour de force of investigative journalism. Ghosts have been an integral part of the folklore of almost every culture; indeed, extant references to them...
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A revelatory history of Antwerp-from its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Fury-by the New York Times Notable author of The Edge of the World.
As Europe emerged from decades of religious warfare, the Age of Exploration began to flower in the middle of the 16th century. It was then that Antwerp grew from a modest port town into a city where the trade of the whole world would converge. As the city entered its "Golden Age," Antwerp became...
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Granta Books in association with Viking
Pub. Date
c1995
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English
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A 17th Century Dutch prostitute's success story in the New World. She is Gretje Reyniers, an orphan forced into prostitution by a series of unlucky events. She meets a sailor and together they sail to America where Gretje's skills in giving pleasure, combined with her sense of humor, turn her into one of the wealthiest and most colorful figures in the New Amsterdam colony. Part history, part love story. By the author of Maximum City: The Biography...
9) Taking lives
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A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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A man reinvents himself by killing and assuming the identity of his victims--along with their credit cards. Martin Arkenhout, a 17-year-old Dutch exchange student, gets the idea in Florida after mercy-killing a youth in a hit-and-run accident. The scheme unravels when he murders an art thief, trailed by an investigator.
10) Taking lives
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Illeana Scott is a special agent with the FBI, who has a strong record as a criminal profiler. Scott is called in by a former Quantico colleague to assist two Canadian police detectives, Paquette and Duval, who are on the trail of a serial killer who has been killing in and around Montreal for almost two decades. Art gallery owner James Costa saw the killer during an assault, and now finds himself working as a decoy for Scott. As Scott and Costa follow...