Nan A. Talese, October 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed "London: The Biography" with a book that once again plumbs the history of England and uncovers the continuities that link past and present. A dazzling, highly original exploration of English culture from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon..... More

Crown Publishing Group (NY), November 1988. Hardcover. Some damp-staining present; Sound binding; Clean pages. More

Fantagraphics Books, May 2026. Paper Back. Peter Bagge is not only one of the primary architects of the alternative comics scene that exploded in the 1980s and 1990s (alongside peers including Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Daniel Clowes), but also someone who helped fashion the aesthetics and attitudes of an..... More

Callaway, May 2019. Hardcover. NEW EDITION WITH EXPANDED TEXT, WITH A FOREWORD BY JON MEACHAM: The original edition of Obama: The Call of History (2017) was the first full-fledged pictorial history of President Barack Obama's two terms in office to be published as he stepped down. Now comes an updated..... More

S &s/Saga Press, October 2024. Paper Back. This classic ghost story from the author of The Last Unicorn follows Jonathan who's been living in a cemetery with a raven as his only friend amongst the newly dead until he discovers a pair of ghostly lovers bearing an extraordinary gift--the final..... More

University of Western Ontario, January 1995. Paper Back. Inscribed by Benner on inside first page: 'For Sylvie & Baya simpre trener valor Ron Benner'. No text on green spine. More

Pitchstone Publishing, November 2013. Trade Paperback. For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith--and are trained from an early age to spread..... More

Reaktion Books, July 2017. Hardcover. Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing complexity, technological accomplishments, and distinctive practices of the non-literate peoples known as Barbarians. We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as..... More

New York Review of Books, March 2025. Trade Paperback. In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilded Age. In 1904, after two decades of living and..... More

Yale University Press, May 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Realist Vision explores the claim to represent the world as it is. Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth..... More

St. Martin's Press, January 1983. Hardcover. Previous owner's blindstamp on half-title. More

University Of Chicago Press, August 1991. Paper Back. Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collè ge de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to "Power/Knowledge." In these lectures, Foucault examines the art or..... More