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Minerva Press (UK), January 1998. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Slanted spine. Text is without writing. But the verso of back cover has inked notes covering the page. [93 pp.]. More
Minerva Press (UK), January 1998. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Slanted spine. Text is without writing. But the verso of back cover has inked notes covering the page. [93 pp.]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2011. Hardcover. One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made..... More
Dorset Press, January 1984. Hardcover. Foxing. More
Scribner, February 1972. Hardcover. Foxing, More
HarperCollins Publishers, May 2000. Cloth. A stunning five-century study of civilization's cultural retreat. -- William Safire, New York Times Highly regarded here and abroad for some thirty works of cultural history and criticism, master historian Jacques Barzun has set down in one continuous narrative the sum of his discoveries and..... More
Random House Inc, June 2002. Hardcover. Non-authorial gift inscription on front free endpaper; else, near fine. More
University of California Press, May 1984. Hardcover. In this revisionist study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, Gruen considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place. The evidence discloses a preponderance of Greek rather than Roman ideas: a noteworthy readiness on the part of Roman policymakers to..... More
Taplinger Pub Co, November 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Haymarket Books, August 2017. Hardcover. Regarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, this book offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history. This book, released to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution..... More
Penguin Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, December 1960. Trade Paperback. The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the..... More
Penguin Classics, August 2022. Paper Back. A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped pave the way for modern social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and Say Her Name A Penguin Classic The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings..... More
Penguin Press, August 2022. Hardcover. A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and later as a CIA paramilitary..... More
Alfred A Knopf, January 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Missing dustjacket. Half cloth. Salmon cloth covered spine with gold lettering. Turqoise boards. Spine sun lightened. Black tinted top stain and black end pages. First/first. [453pp.]. More
New York University Press, November 1980. Cloth. {7' x 10 & 1/2'} In edgeworn/rubbed dustjacket with darkened edges. Flap is not clipped. Black cloth covered boards. Cobalt blue end pages. Dust stained top textblock edge. [334 pages]. More
Vintage, July 1975. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's..... More
Knopf, March 2022. Hardcover. From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land..... More
Pantheon, June 2022. Hardcover. A redistricting crisis is now upon us. This surprising, compelling book tells the history of how we got to this moment--from the Founding Fathers to today's high-tech manipulation of election districts--and shows us as well how to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one person..... More
Atria/One Signal Publishers, April 2022. Hardcover. "Kelly unearths the stories of the people-farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees--behind some of the labor movement's biggest successes." --The New York Times A revelatory and inclusive history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly. Freed..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2022. Hardcover. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as..... More
Crown, December 2020. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come--with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast "Both a thriller and a history book, Bag..... More
The New Home Library, 1943. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn heavily dust stained dustjacket. Brick red cloth covered boards with black lettering and decorative border. Dust stained textblock edges. Non-authorial gift inscription ffep. More
Crown, December 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The knockdown, drag-out, untold story of the other scandal that rocked Nixon's White House, and reset the rules for crooked presidents to come--with new reporting that expands on Rachel Maddow's Peabody Award-nominated podcast "Both a thriller and a history..... More
Minton, Balch & Company, 1931. Cloth. Octavo. Black heavily stained/soiled cloth with title plate printed with red & black ink affixed to front panel. Likewise, smaller title plate affixed to spine, heavily chipped and worn at top of plate. Hinge is cracked at gutter on front pastedown. Previous owner's name..... More
Charles Scribners Sons, 1930. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. Burgundy cloth covered boards with black lettering. Dustjacket is missing. Previous reader's name in ink ffep. [512 [pages]. More