Life in a Medieval Village
HarperCollins Publishers, December 1990. Hardcover. More
HarperCollins Publishers, December 1990. Hardcover. More
Harper Perennial, September 1981. Trade Paperback. For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and town government."-- "Choice" "An excellently written account of what is known of the life of medieval..... More
Touchstone Books, April 1988. Trade Paperback. The reminiscences of Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Frank family in Amsterdam during the Second World War, presents a vivid story of life under Nazi occupation. The true story behind Anne Frank's days in hiding from the Nazis during World War II..... More
Quadrangle Books, January 1972. Cloth. Octavo. In heavily foxing/marginally darkened dustjacket with edgewear and small tears. Front flap is not clipped. Navy blue cloth. Tanned end pages. Previous owner's name inked FFEP. Darkened/dust stained textblock edges. [336 pp.]. More
Thomas Dunne Books, June 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "New York Times" bestselling authors Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen conclude their inventive trilogy with this remarkable answer to the great "what if" of the American Civil War: Could the South have indeed won? After his great victories at Gettysburg and..... More
Simon & Schuster, August 2018. Trade Paperback. The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg--"a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voic. More
Echo Point Books & Media, February 2014. Oversize Softcover. Once upon a time, there was a guy named Max Balchowsky who decided he wanted to beat Ferrari and Jaguar at their own game-road racing. The trouble was, he didn't have the cash for a factory racer. So he built his..... More
Pluto Press (UK), April 2020. Trade Paperback. "Looks back at the history of Posadism to explore why this largely discredited movement has elicited so much recent interest."--Art in America Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins, and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater..... More
Little, Brown and Company, April 2021. Hardcover. Dive into this "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the..... More
Back Bay Books, June 2022. Trade Paperback. Dive into this "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war--from the creator and host of the podcast Revisionist History. In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the..... More
Warner Books (NY), September 1999. Hardcover. Even at the dawn of the Age of Reason, humankind sought to discover the arcanum, the secret formula that could transform base metals into gold. But by the early 18th century, porcelain, the precious ceramic made in China for almost 1,000 years, had become..... More
Basic Books, September 2023. Hardcover. The epic rivalry between the ancient world's two great superpowers The Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to the Sahara, and from the Atlantic coast to the Euphrates, it imposed peace and prosperity on an unprecedented scale. Its only..... More
St. Martin's Press, February 2024. Hardcover. A hugely entertaining celebration of one of America's greatest politicians--a source of inspiration for our equally challenging times... Fiorello LaGuardia was one of the twentieth century's most colorful politicians--on the New York and national stage. He was also quintessentially American: the son of Italian..... More
Liveright, September 2015. Paper Back. Lauded by critics, How to Be a Victorian is an enchanting manual for the insatiably curious, the "the cheapest time-travel machine you'll find" (NPR). Readers have fallen in love with Ruth Goodman, an historian who believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2018. Hardcover. From Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, an invaluable guide to the development and exercise of leadership from Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The inspiration for the multipart HISTORY Channel series Abraham Lincoln and..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1995. Reprint. Hardcover. "No Ordinary Time" is a monumental work, a brilliantly conceived chronicle of one of the most vibrant and revolutionary periods in the history of the United States. With an extraordinary collection of details, Goodwin masterfully weaves together a striking number of story lines--..... More
Simon & Schuster, October 1995. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of "The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys" and "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream" comes a compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Presenting an aspect of American history that has..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2006. Trade Paperback. One of the most influential books of the past fifty years, Team of Rivals is Pulitzer Prize-winning author and esteemed presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's modern classic about the political genius of Abraham Lincoln, his unlikely presidency, and his cabinet of former political..... More
Oxford University Press, October 1978. Trade Paperback. This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today. More
Oxford University Press, October 1978. Trade Paperback. This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today. Trade paperback..... More
Vintage, February 2010. Trade Paperback. In this captivating double life, Adam Gopnik searches for the men behind the icons of emancipation and evolution. Born by cosmic coincidence on the same day in 1809 and separated by an ocean, Lincoln and Darwin coauthored our sense of history and our understanding of..... More
W.W. Norton, January 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. {5' x 7 & 1/2'} Third Revised Edition. Clean & sound. [312 pages]. More
Liveright, May 2021. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from..... More
Liveright, May 2021. Reprint. Hardcover. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed's On Juneteenth provides a historian's view of the country's long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since..... More
University of Virginia Press, March 1998. Trade Paperback. When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Among all aspects of Jefferson's renowned life, it was perhaps the most hotly contested topic. The publication of..... More