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"The Homeric epic of the Odyssey is, at one level, nothing but a string of maritime disasters besetting a group of Greek warriors just trying to get home after a successful war. Storms, maelstroms, sea monsters, angry gods sink one ship after anoth..."

"Berlin surely has the most turbulent history of any major European city of the 20th Century. These are both books and movies that help make sense of this amazing metropolis."

"A very broad topic, but in this selection we try to provide some interesting titles allowing readers to make connections between African history and African-American History--via the institution of slavery and slavery's afterlife in the modern world."

"They are all meaty, magisterial treatments of major historical figures!"