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Like New: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
ISBN
9780393081923
Book Title
Great Big Book of Horrible Things : the 100 Worst Things People Have Done to Each Other
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Length
9.2 in
Publication Year
2011
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.9 in
Author
Matthew White
Genre
History
Topic
Military / General, World
Item Weight
43.7 Oz
Item Width
7.4 in
Number of Pages
688 Pages
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393081923
ISBN-13
9780393081923
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109005712

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Book Title
Great Big Book of Horrible Things : the 100 Worst Things People Have Done to Each Other
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Military / General, World
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Matthew White
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
43.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7.4 in

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2011-027510
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A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history--from an atrocitologist's point of view., Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in doing so he gives voice to the suffering of ordinary people that, inexorably, has defined every historical epoch. By turns droll, insightful, matter-of-fact, and ultimately sympathetic to those who died, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things gives readers a chance to reach their own conclusions while offering a stark reminder of the darkness of the human heart., A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history--from an atrocitologist's point of view. Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to 480 BCE's second Persian War, White moves chronologically through history to this century's war in the Congo and devotes chapters to each event, where he surrounds hard facts (time and place) and succinct takeaways (who usually gets the blame?) with lively military, social, and political histories. With the eye of a seasoned statistician, White assigns each entry a ranking based on body count, and in doing so he gives voice to the suffering of ordinary people that, inexorably, has defined every historical epoch. By turns droll, insightful, matter-of-fact, and ultimately sympathetic to those who died, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things gives readers a chance to reach their own conclusions while offering a stark reminder of the darkness of the human heart.
LC Classification Number
D24.W45 2012

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